Aim Ways Shield Strategy Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

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

Managing the Aim Ways Shield Strategy Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 10.83% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 8.91%.

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 Aim Ways Shield Strategy 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
AIM WAYS SHIELD STRATEGY 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 35.71 (0) 15.84 (0) 13.64 (0) 10.83 (0) 11.00 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 27.92 (1) 9.93 (5) 8.87 (10) 9.21 (30) 9.66 (40)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 27.30 (2) 9.73 (10) 8.84 (20) 8.91 (60) 9.47 (80)
Quarterly Rebalancing 27.09 (4) 9.66 (20) 8.83 (40) 8.99 (120) 9.58 (160)
5% Tolerance per asset 27.45 (0) 9.77 (2) 8.93 (3) 9.25 (19) 9.71 (22)
10% Tolerance per asset 29.21 (0) 10.42 (1) 9.34 (2) 9.71 (6) 10.11 (7)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Aim Ways Shield Strategy Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Oct 31, 2024

Historical returns and stats of Aim Ways Shield Strategy Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

AIM WAYS SHIELD STRATEGY 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 11.00 (0) 13.43 0.82 -55.46 0.20
Yearly Rebalancing 9.66 (40) 8.72 1.11 -19.36 0.50
Half Yearly Rebalancing 9.47 (80) 8.60 1.10 -20.82 0.45
Quarterly Rebalancing 9.58 (160) 8.63 1.11 -19.77 0.48
5% Tolerance per asset 9.71 (22) 8.73 1.11 -20.22 0.48
10% Tolerance per asset 10.11 (7) 9.20 1.10 -20.15 0.50
(*) Since Jan 1985 (~40 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Oct 31, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of Aim Ways Shield Strategy Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

AIM WAYS SHIELD STRATEGY PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1985 - October 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-55.46
Apr 2000 - Jan 2012
-19.36
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-20.82
Sep 2000 - Dec 2003
-19.77
Jun 2008 - Nov 2009
-20.22
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-20.15
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-27.69
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-18.97
Sep 2000 - Nov 2003
-19.28
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-19.41
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-19.58
Sep 2000 - Dec 2003
-19.62
Nov 2007 - Nov 2009
-14.12
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-18.89
Nov 2007 - Sep 2009
-19.26
Nov 2007 - Nov 2009
-19.18
Sep 2000 - Nov 2003
-19.24
Jun 2008 - Sep 2009
-17.91
Sep 2000 - Aug 2003
-13.24
Feb 2020 - May 2020
-13.14
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-11.23
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-10.49
Sep 1987 - Jan 1989
-10.38
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-14.12
Sep 1987 - Apr 1989
-12.24
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
-7.66
Jul 1998 - Oct 1998
-7.65
Feb 2020 - May 2020
-7.65
Feb 2020 - May 2020
-8.01
Feb 2020 - May 2020
-9.01
Feb 2020 - May 2020
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-24.55 -15.61 -15.65 -15.30 -15.49 -16.16
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-16.30 -10.99 -10.91 -10.67 -10.86 -11.63

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Aim Ways Shield Strategy Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.