Inflation Protected Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Inflation Protected and Morningstar Global Income is 0.01 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Inflation Protected 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.

Inflation Protected Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Inflation Protected Bond Fund and DJI is 0.66 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Inflation Protected Bond Fund 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 Inflation Protected Bond Fund. 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 nation.

Moving together with Inflation Mutual Fund

  0.65VMPYX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.67VMPAX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.82WABIX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.63SSTHX Wells Fargo ShortPairCorr
  0.83WARAX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.72WARDX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.84WARCX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.63WSIAX Wells Fargo StrategicPairCorr
  0.64WSIDX Wells Fargo StrategicPairCorr
  0.65WSICX Wells Fargo StrategicPairCorr
  0.63WSINX Wells Fargo StrategicPairCorr
  0.63WSSCX Short Term MunicipalPairCorr
  0.68STRIX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.61STYIX Wells Fargo ShortPairCorr
  0.67SCTCX California Tax FreePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Inflation Mutual Fund performing well and Inflation Protected 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 Inflation Protected'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.