Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from January 1971 to November 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 November 2024

Managing the Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 12.25% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 11.77%.

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 Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on January 1971.

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.
DAVIDE PISICCHIO DIAVOLA PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: January 1971 - November 2024
Annualized Returns
Swipe left to see all data
Return (%) and number of rebalances as of Nov 30, 2024
Rebalancing Strategy 1Y 5Y 10Y 30Y MAX
(~54Y)
No Rebalancing 38.03 (0) 18.28 (0) 16.39 (0) 12.25 (0) 11.29 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 35.37 (1) 16.58 (5) 14.90 (10) 11.96 (30) 11.20 (54)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 35.14 (2) 16.41 (10) 14.81 (20) 11.77 (60) 11.12 (108)
Quarterly Rebalancing 35.11 (4) 16.35 (20) 14.79 (40) 11.84 (120) 11.14 (216)
5% Tolerance per asset 36.77 (0) 16.79 (1) 15.17 (2) 12.10 (12) 11.33 (15)
10% Tolerance per asset 37.50 (0) 17.40 (0) 15.45 (0) 12.22 (3) 11.27 (3)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical returns and stats of Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

DAVIDE PISICCHIO DIAVOLA PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: January 1971 - November 2024
Swipe left to see all data
Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 11.29 (0) 18.14 0.62 -68.37 0.17
Yearly Rebalancing 11.20 (54) 16.88 0.66 -58.76 0.19
Half Yearly Rebalancing 11.12 (108) 16.87 0.66 -59.37 0.19
Quarterly Rebalancing 11.14 (216) 16.89 0.66 -58.73 0.19
5% Tolerance per asset 11.33 (15) 17.01 0.67 -59.30 0.19
10% Tolerance per asset 11.27 (3) 17.09 0.66 -57.97 0.19
(*) Since Jan 1971 (~54 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

DAVIDE PISICCHIO DIAVOLA PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1971 - November 2024
Swipe left to see all data
Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-68.37
Sep 2000 - Nov 2014
-58.76
Sep 2000 - Feb 2014
-59.37
Sep 2000 - May 2014
-58.73
Sep 2000 - Feb 2014
-59.30
Sep 2000 - Feb 2014
-57.97
Sep 2000 - May 2014
-48.76
Jan 1973 - Apr 1979
-48.78
Jan 1973 - Mar 1979
-49.17
Jan 1973 - Mar 1979
-49.28
Jan 1973 - Mar 1979
-48.76
Jan 1973 - Mar 1979
-48.76
Jan 1973 - Apr 1979
-35.55
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-34.82
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-34.20
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-33.93
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-34.02
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-35.55
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-33.59
Sep 1989 - May 1991
-32.49
Sep 1989 - May 1991
-32.36
Sep 1989 - Apr 1991
-32.42
Sep 1989 - Apr 1991
-32.04
Sep 1989 - May 1991
-33.59
Sep 1989 - May 1991
-21.12
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023
-17.74
Jun 1986 - Jul 1987
-17.65
Jun 1986 - Jul 1987
-17.67
Jun 1986 - Jul 1987
-18.36
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023
-19.56
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-41.48 -38.52 -38.55 -38.41 -38.49 -39.08
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-29.23 -27.35 -27.37 -27.30 -27.29 -28.02

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Davide Pisicchio Diavola Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.