Nuveen High Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Nuveen High Income and Dreyfusstandish Global Fixed is 0.36 (i.e., Weak diversification). The correlation of Nuveen High 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.

Nuveen High Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Nuveen High Income and DJI is 0.03 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Nuveen High Income 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 Nuveen High Income. 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 gross domestic product.

Moving together with Nuveen Mutual Fund

  0.82VWEAX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.82VWEHX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.91BHYCX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.89BHYIX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.89BHYSX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.9BHYAX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.87FAHHX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.86FTAHX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.87AHTFX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.88AHTCX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.63VTISX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.63VTSNX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.63VTPSX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.76IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.66T ATT Inc Earnings Call TomorrowPairCorr
  0.72MMM 3M CompanyPairCorr
  0.76GE GE AerospacePairCorr

Moving against Nuveen Mutual Fund

  0.66MRK Merck CompanyPairCorr
  0.47AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.42MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Nuveen Mutual Fund performing well and Nuveen High 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 Nuveen High'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.