Taxable Municipal Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Taxable Municipal Bond and Tennessee Tax Free Income is 0.52 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Taxable Municipal 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.

Taxable Municipal Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Taxable Municipal Bond and DJI is 0.08 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Taxable Municipal Bond 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 Taxable Municipal Bond. 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 Taxable Mutual Fund

  0.67NTFIX North Carolina TaxPairCorr
  0.93KYSMX Kentucky Tax FreePairCorr
  0.89NTSMX North Carolina TaxPairCorr
  0.72KYTFX Kentucky Tax FreePairCorr
  0.9DPIGX Intermediate GovernmentPairCorr
  0.69DUMSX Mississippi Tax FreePairCorr
  0.89TTSMX Tennessee Tax FreePairCorr
  0.96VWETX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.96VWESX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.98VBLAX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.98VBLLX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.98VBLIX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.97SLDAX Siit Long DurationPairCorr
  0.94VLTCX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.94VLCIX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.99PLRIX Pimco Long TermPairCorr
  0.99PLRPX Pimco Long DurationPairCorr
  0.83VDMCX Virtus Kar DevelopingPairCorr
  0.62FAJJX FajjxPairCorr
  0.83SSTHX Wells Fargo ShortPairCorr
  0.86HILIX Hartford InternaPairCorr
  0.64COMVX Comstock Capital ValuePairCorr
  0.98PRICX Prudential GovernmentPairCorr
  0.87SWISX Schwab InternationalPairCorr
  0.99JADKX John Hancock VariablePairCorr
  0.86DVRCX Mfs Global AlternativePairCorr

Moving against Taxable Mutual Fund

  0.73SMPIX Semiconductor UltrasectorPairCorr
  0.7SMPSX Semiconductor UltrasectorPairCorr
  0.62RGNCX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr
  0.61RSNYX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr
  0.61RSNRX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Taxable Mutual Fund performing well and Taxable Municipal 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 Taxable Municipal'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.