Tax Exempt Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Tax Exempt Bond and Franklin Federal Tax Free is 0.98 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of Tax Exempt 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.

Tax Exempt Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Tax Exempt Bond and DJI is 0.12 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Tax Exempt Bond and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Tax Mutual Fund

  0.72AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.66AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.73RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.67FPPPX American Funds PresePairCorr
  0.71AMEFX Income FundPairCorr
  0.98AMHIX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.91TEBCX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.98TECCX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  1.0TEAFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.73FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.99TECFX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.99TEFEX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.72RNRPX American Funds RetirementPairCorr
  0.76AMUSX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.86TEPCX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.87TEPAX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.88TEPFX American Funds TaxPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Tax Mutual Fund performing well and Tax Exempt 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 Tax Exempt'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.