10-year Treasury Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from January 1871 to November 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 November 2024

Managing the 10-year Treasury Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 5.06% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 5.06%.

How do returns and drawdowns change, implementing different rebalancing strategies?

Rebalancing Strategies

In order to keep risk under control, you should rebalance assets quotes from time to time, so to keep them at the original percentage of the asset allocation.

Rebalancing can be performed in several ways.

At fixed time intervals:
  • Yearly: Jan 1st
  • Half Yearly: Jan 1st, Jul 1st
  • Quarterly: Jan 1st, Apr 1st, Jul 1st, Oct 1st
When a component (at least one) diverges from its original weight beyond a certain threshold (e.g. 5% or 10%).

Portfolio Returns as of Nov 30, 2024

Implementing different rebalancing strategies, the 10-year Treasury Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on January 1871.

Portfolio returns are calculated in USD, assuming:
  • No fees or capital gain taxes
  • the reinvestment of dividends, if existing
10-YEAR TREASURY PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: January 1871 - November 2024
Annualized Returns
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Return (%) and number of rebalances as of Nov 30, 2024
Rebalancing Strategy 1Y 5Y 10Y 30Y MAX
(~154Y)
No Rebalancing 5.50 (0) -1.20 (0) 0.88 (0) 5.06 (0) 4.52 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 5.50 (1) -1.20 (5) 0.88 (10) 5.06 (30) 4.52 (154)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 5.50 (2) -1.20 (10) 0.88 (20) 5.06 (60) 4.52 (308)
Quarterly Rebalancing 5.50 (4) -1.20 (20) 0.88 (40) 5.06 (120) 4.52 (616)
5% Tolerance per asset 5.50 (0) -1.20 (0) 0.88 (0) 5.06 (0) 4.52 (0)
10% Tolerance per asset 5.50 (0) -1.20 (0) 0.88 (0) 5.06 (0) 4.52 (0)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the 10-year Treasury Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical returns and stats of 10-year Treasury Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

10-YEAR TREASURY PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: January 1871 - November 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 4.52 (0) 5.46 0.83 -23.19 0.20
Yearly Rebalancing 4.52 (154) 5.46 0.83 -23.19 0.20
Half Yearly Rebalancing 4.52 (308) 5.46 0.83 -23.19 0.20
Quarterly Rebalancing 4.52 (616) 5.46 0.83 -23.19 0.20
5% Tolerance per asset 4.52 (0) 5.46 0.83 -23.19 0.20
10% Tolerance per asset 4.52 (0) 5.46 0.83 -23.19 0.20
(*) Since Jan 1871 (~154 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of 10-year Treasury Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

10-YEAR TREASURY PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1871 - November 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-23.19
Aug 2020 - In progress
-23.19
Aug 2020 - In progress
-23.19
Aug 2020 - In progress
-23.19
Aug 2020 - In progress
-23.19
Aug 2020 - In progress
-23.19
Aug 2020 - In progress
-15.76
Jul 1979 - May 1980
-15.76
Jul 1979 - May 1980
-15.76
Jul 1979 - May 1980
-15.76
Jul 1979 - May 1980
-15.76
Jul 1979 - May 1980
-15.76
Jul 1979 - May 1980
-14.57
Jul 1980 - Nov 1981
-14.57
Jul 1980 - Nov 1981
-14.57
Jul 1980 - Nov 1981
-14.57
Jul 1980 - Nov 1981
-14.57
Jul 1980 - Nov 1981
-14.57
Jul 1980 - Nov 1981
-10.87
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-10.87
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-10.87
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-10.87
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-10.87
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-10.87
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-10.14
Nov 1993 - May 1995
-10.14
Nov 1993 - May 1995
-10.14
Nov 1993 - May 1995
-10.14
Nov 1993 - May 1995
-10.14
Nov 1993 - May 1995
-10.14
Nov 1993 - May 1995
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-14.91 -14.91 -14.91 -14.91 -14.91 -14.91
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-11.63 -11.63 -11.63 -11.63 -11.63 -11.63

For a deeper insight, please refer to the 10-year Treasury Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.