Davide Pisicchio Four Seasons Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from January 1994 to November 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 November 2024

Managing the Davide Pisicchio Four Seasons Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 8.85% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 7.73%.

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 Four Seasons Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on January 1994.

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 FOUR SEASONS PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: January 1994 - 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
(~31Y)
No Rebalancing 33.30 (0) 13.07 (0) 11.12 (0) 8.85 (0) 8.34 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 21.79 (1) 8.26 (5) 7.49 (10) 7.94 (30) 7.47 (31)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 21.23 (2) 8.08 (10) 7.42 (20) 7.73 (60) 7.26 (62)
Quarterly Rebalancing 21.12 (4) 8.11 (20) 7.49 (40) 7.85 (120) 7.38 (124)
5% Tolerance per asset 21.70 (1) 8.19 (3) 7.49 (5) 7.91 (22) 7.44 (22)
10% Tolerance per asset 23.63 (0) 8.82 (1) 7.92 (2) 8.22 (8) 7.74 (8)

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

Performances as of Nov 30, 2024

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

DAVIDE PISICCHIO FOUR SEASONS PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: January 1994 - November 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 8.34 (0) 9.48 0.88 -29.57 0.28
Yearly Rebalancing 7.47 (31) 7.07 1.06 -15.31 0.49
Half Yearly Rebalancing 7.26 (62) 7.00 1.04 -16.36 0.44
Quarterly Rebalancing 7.38 (124) 7.04 1.05 -14.99 0.49
5% Tolerance per asset 7.44 (22) 7.12 1.04 -15.59 0.48
10% Tolerance per asset 7.74 (8) 7.37 1.05 -15.95 0.49
(*) Since Jan 1994 (~31 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Nov 30, 2024

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

DAVIDE PISICCHIO FOUR SEASONS PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1994 - November 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-29.57
Sep 2000 - Mar 2010
-15.31
Sep 2000 - May 2005
-16.36
Sep 2000 - Jun 2005
-14.99
Sep 2000 - May 2005
-15.59
Sep 2000 - May 2005
-15.95
Sep 2000 - May 2005
-13.29
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-12.21
Nov 2007 - Nov 2009
-13.43
Nov 2007 - Dec 2009
-13.51
Nov 2007 - Dec 2009
-13.03
Nov 2007 - Nov 2009
-11.82
Nov 2007 - Nov 2009
-12.58
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
-10.88
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
-10.82
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
-10.79
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
-10.88
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
-10.93
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
-11.72
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-9.09
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-8.55
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-8.55
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-9.09
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-9.93
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-8.38
Feb 1994 - Jun 1995
-8.38
Feb 1994 - Jul 1995
-8.38
Feb 1994 - Jun 1995
-8.43
Feb 1994 - Jul 1995
-8.38
Feb 1994 - Jun 1995
-8.38
Feb 1994 - Jun 1995
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-15.11 -11.17 -11.51 -11.25 -11.40 -11.40
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-10.84 -8.22 -8.27 -8.13 -8.35 -8.47

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