Mainstay Short Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Mainstay Short Duration and Calvert Moderate Allocation is 0.65 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Mainstay Short 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.

Mainstay Short Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Mainstay Short Duration and DJI is 0.29 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Mainstay Short Duration and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Mainstay Short Duration. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with Mainstay Mutual Fund

  0.97VWEAX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.95VWEHX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.96BHYCX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.96BHYIX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.96BHYSX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.97BHYAX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.95FAHHX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.95FTAHX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.89AHTFX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.88AHTCX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.69NHS Neuberger Berman HighPairCorr
  0.71CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.79BAC Bank of AmericaPairCorr
  0.61JNJ Johnson JohnsonPairCorr
  0.86GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.79AXP American ExpressPairCorr
  0.71JPM JPMorgan ChasePairCorr
  0.71AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr

Moving against Mainstay Mutual Fund

  0.63BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.6VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.54T ATT IncPairCorr
  0.31KO Coca ColaPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Mainstay Mutual Fund performing well and Mainstay Short 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 Mainstay Short'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.