All Country World Bonds Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from January 1985 to October 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 31 October 2024

Managing the All Country World Bonds Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 5.85% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 5.44%.

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 Oct 31, 2024

Implementing different rebalancing strategies, the All Country World Bonds Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on January 1985.

Portfolio returns are calculated in USD, assuming:
  • No fees or capital gain taxes
  • the reinvestment of dividends, if existing
ALL COUNTRY WORLD BONDS PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: January 1985 - October 2024
Annualized Returns
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Return (%) and number of rebalances as of Oct 31, 2024
Rebalancing Strategy 1Y 5Y 10Y 30Y MAX
(~40Y)
No Rebalancing 12.82 (0) -0.16 (0) 1.96 (0) 5.85 (0) 6.92 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 11.22 (1) -0.20 (5) 1.81 (10) 5.47 (30) 6.64 (40)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 11.21 (2) -0.18 (10) 1.82 (20) 5.44 (60) 6.61 (80)
Quarterly Rebalancing 11.23 (4) -0.14 (20) 1.84 (40) 5.46 (120) 6.63 (160)
5% Tolerance per asset 11.20 (0) -0.22 (0) 1.80 (0) 5.48 (4) 6.64 (4)
10% Tolerance per asset 11.82 (0) -0.20 (0) 1.86 (0) 5.58 (1) 6.72 (1)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the All Country World Bonds Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Oct 31, 2024

Historical returns and stats of All Country World Bonds Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

ALL COUNTRY WORLD BONDS PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: January 1985 - October 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 6.92 (0) 5.63 1.23 -19.94 0.35
Yearly Rebalancing 6.64 (40) 4.91 1.35 -17.60 0.38
Half Yearly Rebalancing 6.61 (80) 4.91 1.35 -17.62 0.38
Quarterly Rebalancing 6.63 (160) 4.92 1.35 -17.64 0.38
5% Tolerance per asset 6.64 (4) 4.97 1.34 -17.62 0.38
10% Tolerance per asset 6.72 (1) 5.16 1.30 -18.50 0.36
(*) Since Jan 1985 (~40 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Oct 31, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of All Country World Bonds Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

ALL COUNTRY WORLD BONDS PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1985 - October 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-19.94
Jan 2021 - In progress
-17.60
Jan 2021 - In progress
-17.62
Jan 2021 - In progress
-17.64
Jan 2021 - In progress
-17.62
Jan 2021 - In progress
-18.50
Jan 2021 - In progress
-12.42
Mar 2008 - May 2009
-8.82
Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
-8.83
Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
-8.92
Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
-9.32
Mar 2008 - Apr 2009
-9.97
Mar 2008 - May 2009
-6.97
Feb 1994 - May 1995
-6.85
Feb 1994 - May 1995
-6.85
Feb 1994 - May 1995
-6.86
Feb 1994 - May 1995
-6.97
Feb 1994 - May 1995
-6.97
Feb 1994 - May 1995
-6.94
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
-5.71
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-5.71
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-5.71
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-5.69
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
-5.77
May 2013 - May 2014
-6.73
May 2013 - May 2014
-5.16
May 2013 - May 2014
-5.18
May 2013 - May 2014
-5.20
May 2013 - May 2014
-5.16
May 2013 - May 2014
-5.69
Mar 1987 - Jan 1988
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-10.60 -8.83 -8.84 -8.87 -8.95 -9.38
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-7.40 -6.08 -6.08 -6.10 -6.17 -6.63

For a deeper insight, please refer to the All Country World Bonds Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.