Flaherty Crumrine Correlations

FFC Fund  USD 16.02  0.13  0.80%   
The current 90-days correlation between Flaherty Crumrine and John Hancock Preferred is 0.22 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Flaherty Crumrine 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.

Flaherty Crumrine Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between Flaherty Crumrine Preferred and DJI is 0.36 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Flaherty Crumrine Preferred 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 Flaherty Crumrine Preferred. Also, note that the market value of any fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in census.

Moving together with Flaherty Fund

  0.67CAF Morgan Stanley ChinaPairCorr
  0.9KF Korea ClosedPairCorr
  0.76FMY First Trust MortgagePairCorr
  0.75JOF Japan Smaller CapitaPairCorr
  0.7CHN China FundPairCorr
  0.74TDF Templeton Dragon ClosedPairCorr
  0.91UTF Cohen And SteersPairCorr
  0.89ARBOX Absolute ConvertiblePairCorr
  0.83DLDFX Destinations Low DurationPairCorr
  0.79VICSX Vanguard Intermediate-terPairCorr
  0.7PGLSX Global Multi StrategyPairCorr
  0.95HTD John Hancock TaxPairCorr
  0.88SGDLX Sprott Gold EquityPairCorr
  0.73GF New Germany ClosedPairCorr
  0.77HRBDX Harbor Bond FundPairCorr
  0.86RXRPX American Funds RetirementPairCorr
  0.68SAEMX Sa Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86ABNOX Ab Bond InflationPairCorr
  0.87DBIWX Dws Global MacroPairCorr
  0.78HWACX Hotchkis Wiley ValuePairCorr
  0.83BISMX Brandes InternationalPairCorr
  0.88GIOIX Guggenheim Macro OppPairCorr
  0.69USGDX Morgan Stanley GovernmentPairCorr
  0.82EBSIX Campbell Systematic MacroPairCorr
  0.84EMBAX Unconstrained EmergingPairCorr

Moving against Flaherty Fund

  0.52TWN Taiwan ClosedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Flaherty Fund performing well and Flaherty Crumrine 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 Flaherty Crumrine'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.