Federated Government Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Federated Government and Ab High Income is 0.54 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Federated Government 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.

Federated Government Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Federated Government Income and DJI is 0.05 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Federated Government Income and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Federated Government Income. 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 population.

Moving together with Federated Mutual Fund

  0.79FSGIX Federated Gov SecPairCorr
  0.98INISX Federated IntermediatePairCorr
  0.88FSILX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.89FSTIX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.83FSTYX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.89FTIAX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.99FTGSX Federated Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.96RRFAX Federated Real ReturnPairCorr
  0.96RRFIX Federated Real ReturnPairCorr
  1.0FTRBX Federated Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.99FTRFX Federated Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.99FTRGX Federated Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.98FTRLX Federated Total ReturnPairCorr

Moving against Federated Mutual Fund

  0.65QLSGX Federated Mdt SmallPairCorr
  0.6QLSCX Federated Mdt SmallPairCorr
  0.55QKACX Federated Mdt AllPairCorr
  0.44QKBGX Federated Mdt BalancedPairCorr
  0.43FSBCX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.42SBFIX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.42FSBKX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.42FSBLX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.42FSTBX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.36FSTRX Federated Mdt LargePairCorr
  0.34FSTKX Federated Mdt LargePairCorr
  0.33FSTLX Federated Mdt LargePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Federated Mutual Fund performing well and Federated Government 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 Federated Government'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.