Vanguard Short-term Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Vanguard Short Term and Vanguard High Yield Porate is 0.52 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Vanguard Short-term 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.

Vanguard Short-term Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Vanguard Short Term Investment and DJI is -0.2 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Vanguard Short Term Investment and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Vanguard Mutual Fund

  0.95VBIRX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.91VFSUX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  1.0VFSIX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VBITX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VBISX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.88LALDX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.97VSCSX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.87LDLAX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.9LDLRX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.63PG Procter Gamble Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.67MMM 3M Company Fiscal Year End 28th of January 2025 PairCorr

Moving against Vanguard Mutual Fund

  0.55BA Boeing Fiscal Year End 29th of January 2025 PairCorr
  0.41JPM JPMorgan Chase Fiscal Year End 10th of January 2025 PairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Vanguard Mutual Fund performing well and Vanguard Short-term 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 Vanguard Short-term'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.