Short Duration Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Short Duration Inflation and Fidelity Managed Retirement is -0.23 (i.e., Very good diversification). The correlation of Short Duration is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

Short Duration Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Short Duration Inflation and DJI is 0.14 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Short Duration Inflation and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Short Duration Inflation. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in manufacturing.

Moving together with Short Mutual Fund

  0.85CDBCX Diversified BondPairCorr
  0.8TWTIX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr
  0.86ACDOX American Century DivPairCorr
  0.64AGGWX Global Gold Fund Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.98AIAHX Inflation Adjusted BondPairCorr
  0.96AIADX Inflation Adjusted BondPairCorr
  0.98VTAPX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  1.0VTSPX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.99TRPZX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.99TRLDX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.79FSTZX Fidelity Series 0PairCorr
  0.99TRBFX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  1.0TIIWX Tiaa-cref Inflation-linkedPairCorr
  0.98TIKPX Tiaa-cref Inflation-linkedPairCorr
  0.98TIIHX Tiaa Cref InflationPairCorr
  0.99TIKRX Tiaa-cref Inflation-linkedPairCorr
  0.87GAAKX Gmo Alternative AlloPairCorr
  0.87GAAGX Gmo Alternative AlloPairCorr
  0.91GPBFX Gmo E PlusPairCorr
  0.82PQTAX Pimco Trends ManagedPairCorr
  0.85PQTNX Pimco Trends ManagedPairCorr
  0.86PQTIX Aa Pimco TrPairCorr
  0.65WARCX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.92VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.89PSNSX Pimco Stocksplus SmallPairCorr
  0.9MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr
  0.88JNJ Johnson JohnsonPairCorr
  0.85GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.9CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.71DD Dupont De NemoursPairCorr
  0.7BAC Bank of America Aggressive PushPairCorr

Moving against Short Mutual Fund

  0.55IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.52KO Coca ColaPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Short Mutual Fund performing well and Short Duration Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Short Duration's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.