Mainstay Income Correlations

MTODX Fund  USD 21.02  0.09  0.43%   
The current 90-days correlation between Mainstay Income Builder and Davis Financial Fund is 0.65 (i.e., 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

Poor diversification

The correlation between Mainstay Income Builder and DJI is 0.75 (i.e., 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 unemployment.

Moving together with Mainstay Mutual Fund

  0.69MKINX Mainstay Tax FreePairCorr
  0.73MMHEX Mainstay Mackay HighPairCorr
  0.64MMHVX Mainstay High YieldPairCorr
  0.65MNODX Mainstay Mackay NewPairCorr
  0.61MNOVX Mainstay New YorkPairCorr
  0.76EPLIX Mainstay Epoch EquityPairCorr
  0.77EPLDX Mainstay Epoch EquityPairCorr
  0.99EPSRX Mainstay Epoch GlobalPairCorr
  0.91EPSIX Mainstay Epoch GlobalPairCorr
  0.73VCRVX Mainstay Cbre GlobalPairCorr
  0.78VCRQX Mainstay Cbre GlobalPairCorr
  0.64MBERX Mainstay BalancedPairCorr
  0.78MSYEX Mainstay Mackay UncoPairCorr
  0.79MSYDX Mainstay UnconstrainedPairCorr
  0.63MBINX Mainstay BalancedPairCorr
  0.77ICELX Mainstay Epoch InterPairCorr
  0.77MTFEX Mainstay Mackay StrategicPairCorr
  0.78MTFDX Mainstay Mackay StrategicPairCorr
  0.66MTFHX Mainstay Mackay StrategicPairCorr
  0.74MTFFX Mainstay Mackay StrategicPairCorr
  0.91MTINX Mainstay Income BuilderPairCorr
  0.77MTMNX Mainstay Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.77MTRDX Mainstay Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.86MCSSX Mainstay Mon StockPairCorr
  0.73MCYAX Mainstay CandriamPairCorr

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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.