Medium-duration Bond Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Medium Duration Bond and Barings Emerging Markets is -0.02 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Medium-duration Bond 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.

Medium-duration Bond Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Medium Duration Bond Instituti and DJI is 0.18 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Medium Duration Bond Instituti and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Medium Duration Bond Institutional. 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 manufacturing.

Moving together with Medium-duration Mutual Fund

  0.72GEMYX Emerging Markets EquityPairCorr
  0.72GEMZX Emerging Markets EquityPairCorr
  0.68GFIZX Conservative AllocationPairCorr
  0.78GFSYX Strategic AlternativesPairCorr
  0.78GFSZX Strategic AlternativesPairCorr
  0.99GGBEX Global Bond FundPairCorr
  0.99GGBFX Global Bond FundPairCorr
  0.89GIEYX International EquityPairCorr
  0.89GIEZX International EquityPairCorr
  0.9GIIYX International EquityPairCorr
  0.97GLDYX Low Duration BondPairCorr
  0.96GLDZX Low Duration BondPairCorr
  1.0GMDZX Medium Duration BondPairCorr
  0.99GMBYX Guidestone FundsPairCorr
  0.99GMBZX Guidestone FundsPairCorr

Moving against Medium-duration Mutual Fund

  0.63GEIYX Guidestone Growth EquityPairCorr
  0.61GGEYX Guidestone Fds GrowthPairCorr
  0.61GGEZX Growth Equity InvestorPairCorr
  0.54GEIZX Guidestone Growth EquityPairCorr
  0.47GEQYX Equity Index InstituPairCorr
  0.47GEQZX Equity Index InvestorPairCorr
  0.68GSCZX Small Cap EquityPairCorr
  0.6GSCYX Small Cap EquityPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Medium-duration Mutual Fund performing well and Medium-duration Bond 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 Medium-duration Bond'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.