Highland Merger Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Highland Merger Arbitrage and Highland Longshort Healthcare is 0.1 (i.e., Average 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

Average diversification

The correlation between Highland Merger Arbitrage and DJI is 0.17 (i.e., Average 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

  0.98HMEAX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.97HMEZX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.63MERIX Merger FundPairCorr
  0.62MERFX Merger FundPairCorr
  0.63PFN Pimco Income StrategyPairCorr
  0.65MSTSX Morningstar UnconstrainedPairCorr

Moving against Highland Mutual Fund

  0.32VARCX First Trust MergerPairCorr
  0.31VARAX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.31VARBX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr

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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.