Highland Merger Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Highland Merger Arbitrage and Morningstar Municipal Bond is -0.02 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Highland Merger 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.

Highland Merger Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between Highland Merger Arbitrage and DJI is 0.37 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Highland Merger Arbitrage 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 Highland Merger Arbitrage. 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with HIGHLAND Mutual Fund

  1.0HMEAX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  1.0HMEZX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.86BCLPX Blckrk Lc CrPairCorr
  0.89BALPX Blckrk Lc CrPairCorr
  0.89BILPX Blkrk Lc CrPairCorr
  0.92MERIX Merger FundPairCorr
  0.88MERFX Merger FundPairCorr
  0.95VARAX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.95VARBX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.95VARCX First Trust MergerPairCorr
  0.96ARBCX The ArbitragePairCorr
  0.95ARBNX The ArbitragePairCorr
  0.62LSHUX Horizon Spin OffPairCorr
  0.62LSHAX Horizon Spin OffPairCorr
  0.63LSHEX Kinetics Spin OffPairCorr
  0.79HRBDX Harbor Bond FundPairCorr
  0.88EBSIX Campbell Systematic MacroPairCorr
  0.94EPDPX Europac InternationalPairCorr
  0.93HTD John Hancock TaxPairCorr
  0.79VICSX Vanguard Intermediate-terPairCorr
  0.89EMBAX Unconstrained EmergingPairCorr
  0.92UTF Cohen And SteersPairCorr
  0.8GF New Germany ClosedPairCorr
  0.9DLDFX Destinations Low DurationPairCorr
  0.86DBIWX Dws Global MacroPairCorr
  0.87MEERX Massmutual PremierPairCorr
  0.89SGDLX Sprott Gold EquityPairCorr
  0.77RXRPX American Funds RetirementPairCorr

Moving against HIGHLAND Mutual Fund

  0.52HSZCX Highland Small CapPairCorr
  0.51HSZYX Highland Small CapPairCorr
  0.51HSZAX Highland Small CapPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between HIGHLAND Mutual Fund performing well and Highland Merger 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 Highland Merger'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.