Mainstay Income Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Mainstay Income Builder and Mainstay Sp 500 is 0.82 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Mainstay Income 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.

Mainstay Income Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Mainstay Income Builder and DJI is 0.82 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Mainstay Income Builder and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Mainstay Income Builder. 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 board of governors.

Moving together with Mainstay Mutual Fund

  0.74MMRDX Mainstay ModeratePairCorr
  0.94EPSRX Mainstay Epoch GlobalPairCorr
  0.94EPSIX Mainstay Epoch GlobalPairCorr
  0.72VCRVX Mainstay Cbre GlobalPairCorr
  0.72VCRQX Mainstay Cbre GlobalPairCorr
  1.0MTODX Mainstay Income BuilderPairCorr
  0.81MCKNX Mainstay ConservativePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Mainstay Mutual Fund performing well and Mainstay Income 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 Mainstay Income'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.