Taxable Municipal Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Taxable Municipal Bond and Virtus Seix Government is 0.19 (i.e., Average 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

Average diversification

The correlation between Taxable Municipal 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 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

  0.89NTFIX North Carolina TaxPairCorr
  0.72KYSMX Kentucky Tax FreePairCorr
  0.61NTSMX North Carolina TaxPairCorr
  0.91KYTFX Kentucky Tax FreePairCorr
  0.87TNTIX Tennessee Tax FreePairCorr
  0.89DUALX Alabama Tax FreePairCorr
  0.89DUMSX Mississippi Tax FreePairCorr
  0.69TTSMX Tennessee Tax FreePairCorr
  0.92VWETX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.9VWESX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.97VBLLX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.97VBLIX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.97SLDAX Siit Long DurationPairCorr
  0.96VLTCX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.96VLCIX Vanguard Long TermPairCorr
  0.99PLRIX Pimco Long TermPairCorr
  0.99PLRPX Pimco Long DurationPairCorr
  0.82XDSMX Dreyfus StrategicPairCorr
  0.79XNXJX Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.86NXJ Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.86XNBHX Neuberger Berman IntPairCorr
  0.72PAITX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.61PFO Flaherty CrumrinePairCorr
  0.81RESAX Rbc Bluebay EmergingPairCorr
  0.67ADVAX Api Efficient FrontierPairCorr

Moving against Taxable Mutual Fund

  0.93DXKSX Direxion Monthly 7PairCorr
  0.41RYCWX Inverse Dow 2xPairCorr

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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.