Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from January 1975 to November 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 November 2024

Managing the Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 9.13% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 7.42%.

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 Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on January 1975.

Portfolio returns are calculated in USD, assuming:
  • No fees or capital gain taxes
  • the reinvestment of dividends, if existing
TIM MAURER SIMPLE MONEY PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: January 1975 - 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 27.24 (0) 9.49 (0) 8.55 (0) 9.13 (0) 11.67 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 15.36 (1) 5.40 (5) 5.42 (10) 7.50 (30) 10.30 (50)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 15.30 (2) 5.66 (10) 5.54 (20) 7.42 (60) 10.25 (100)
Quarterly Rebalancing 15.30 (4) 5.98 (20) 5.69 (40) 7.53 (120) 10.27 (200)
5% Tolerance per asset 15.58 (1) 5.96 (4) 5.65 (5) 7.66 (21) 10.45 (34)
10% Tolerance per asset 17.87 (0) 6.01 (0) 5.83 (1) 7.52 (4) 10.29 (7)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical returns and stats of Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

TIM MAURER SIMPLE MONEY PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: January 1975 - November 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 11.67 (0) 14.44 0.81 -50.53 0.23
Yearly Rebalancing 10.30 (50) 9.77 1.05 -32.39 0.32
Half Yearly Rebalancing 10.25 (100) 9.74 1.05 -33.41 0.31
Quarterly Rebalancing 10.27 (200) 9.77 1.05 -34.29 0.30
5% Tolerance per asset 10.45 (34) 9.86 1.06 -33.86 0.31
10% Tolerance per asset 10.29 (7) 10.13 1.02 -34.70 0.30
(*) Since Jan 1975 (~50 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Nov 30, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

TIM MAURER SIMPLE MONEY PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1975 - November 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-50.53
Jun 2007 - Dec 2012
-32.39
Nov 2007 - Oct 2010
-33.41
Nov 2007 - Dec 2010
-34.29
Nov 2007 - Dec 2010
-33.86
Nov 2007 - Dec 2010
-34.70
Nov 2007 - Dec 2010
-29.82
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-18.44
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
-18.69
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
-18.70
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
-18.81
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
-19.18
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
-23.11
Sep 1987 - Oct 1988
-17.06
Sep 1987 - Sep 1988
-15.37
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-14.69
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-15.25
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-15.83
Sep 1987 - Sep 1988
-22.66
Sep 1989 - Dec 1991
-14.55
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-14.55
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-14.55
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-15.08
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-14.94
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
-21.60
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
-11.99
Jan 1990 - Feb 1991
-12.34
Jan 1990 - Feb 1991
-12.61
Jan 1990 - Feb 1991
-12.25
Jan 1990 - Feb 1991
-13.15
Jan 1990 - Mar 1991
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-29.54 -18.89 -18.87 -18.97 -19.05 -19.56
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-23.23 -14.29 -14.24 -14.26 -14.35 -15.05

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.