All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from August 1974 to November 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 November 2024

Managing the All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 8.23% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 7.87%.

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 All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on August 1974.

Portfolio returns are calculated in EUR, assuming:
  • No fees or capital gain taxes
  • the reinvestment of dividends, if existing
  • the adjustment for actual currency exchange rates (simulation derived from original US returns)
  • the currency hedging (simulation taking into account the interest rate differentials of the countries). It is also assumed that hedged instruments have an additional expense ratio of 0.25% (yearly), compared to the US original instrument.
ALL COUNTRY WORLD 80/20 TO EUR BOND HEDGED PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: August 1974 - 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
(~50Y)
No Rebalancing 29.64 (0) 11.52 (0) 10.22 (0) 8.23 (0) 10.23 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 25.76 (1) 9.65 (5) 8.86 (10) 7.99 (30) 10.12 (50)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 25.58 (2) 9.60 (10) 8.85 (20) 7.87 (60) 10.07 (100)
Quarterly Rebalancing 25.52 (4) 9.64 (20) 8.90 (40) 7.95 (120) 10.12 (201)
5% Tolerance per asset 25.88 (1) 9.78 (2) 9.00 (3) 8.04 (11) 10.24 (18)
10% Tolerance per asset 27.62 (0) 10.25 (0) 9.38 (1) 8.17 (3) 10.20 (3)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical returns and stats of All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

ALL COUNTRY WORLD 80/20 TO EUR BOND HEDGED PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: August 1974 - November 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 10.23 (0) 14.81 0.69 -48.53 0.21
Yearly Rebalancing 10.12 (50) 13.76 0.74 -41.73 0.24
Half Yearly Rebalancing 10.07 (100) 13.74 0.73 -42.29 0.24
Quarterly Rebalancing 10.12 (201) 13.76 0.74 -41.78 0.24
5% Tolerance per asset 10.24 (18) 13.86 0.74 -42.22 0.24
10% Tolerance per asset 10.20 (3) 14.13 0.72 -42.80 0.24
(*) Since Aug 1974 (~50 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

ALL COUNTRY WORLD 80/20 TO EUR BOND HEDGED PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: August 1974 - November 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-48.53
Sep 2000 - Mar 2013
-41.73
Sep 2000 - Apr 2007
-42.29
Sep 2000 - May 2007
-41.78
Sep 2000 - Apr 2007
-42.22
Sep 2000 - Apr 2007
-42.80
Sep 2000 - May 2007
-38.00
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
-39.94
Jun 2007 - Feb 2012
-40.75
Jun 2007 - Jul 2012
-40.90
Jun 2007 - Jul 2012
-40.67
Jun 2007 - Mar 2012
-39.68
Jun 2007 - Feb 2012
-29.49
Sep 1987 - Jan 1989
-35.25
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
-35.47
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
-35.61
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
-35.26
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
-38.00
Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
-17.86
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-27.49
Sep 1987 - Sep 1988
-26.62
Sep 1987 - Jul 1988
-26.08
Sep 1987 - Jul 1988
-26.07
Sep 1987 - Jul 1988
-29.49
Sep 1987 - Jan 1989
-17.25
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-15.37
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-15.17
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-15.17
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-16.05
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-15.61
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-30.23 -31.96 -32.06 -31.91 -32.05 -33.12
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-21.49 -22.67 -22.70 -22.61 -22.74 -23.24

For a deeper insight, please refer to the All Country World 80/20 To EUR Bond Hedged Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.