Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from July 1987 to September 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 30 September 2024

Managing the Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 6.05% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 6.00%.

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 Sep 30, 2024

Implementing different rebalancing strategies, the Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on July 1987.

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.
VANGUARD LIFESTRATEGY CONSERVATIVE GROWTH TO EUR PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: July 1987 - September 2024
Annualized Returns
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Return (%) and number of rebalances as of Sep 30, 2024
Rebalancing Strategy 1Y 5Y 10Y 30Y MAX
(~37Y)
No Rebalancing 18.38 (0) 5.89 (0) 5.79 (0) 6.05 (0) 6.20 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 15.18 (1) 4.10 (5) 4.81 (10) 6.15 (30) 6.35 (37)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 15.29 (2) 4.04 (10) 4.81 (20) 6.00 (60) 6.23 (75)
Quarterly Rebalancing 15.15 (4) 4.07 (20) 4.87 (40) 6.09 (120) 6.33 (149)
5% Tolerance per asset 16.33 (1) 4.49 (2) 5.12 (3) 6.35 (11) 6.52 (12)
10% Tolerance per asset 17.17 (0) 4.82 (0) 5.66 (1) 6.57 (3) 6.63 (3)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Sep 30, 2024

Historical returns and stats of Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

VANGUARD LIFESTRATEGY CONSERVATIVE GROWTH TO EUR PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: July 1987 - September 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 6.20 (0) 6.83 0.91 -17.26 0.36
Yearly Rebalancing 6.35 (37) 6.72 0.94 -17.16 0.37
Half Yearly Rebalancing 6.23 (75) 6.69 0.93 -18.44 0.34
Quarterly Rebalancing 6.33 (149) 6.70 0.94 -18.66 0.34
5% Tolerance per asset 6.52 (12) 6.81 0.96 -17.78 0.37
10% Tolerance per asset 6.63 (3) 6.82 0.97 -22.21 0.30
(*) Since Jul 1987 (~37 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Sep 30, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

VANGUARD LIFESTRATEGY CONSERVATIVE GROWTH TO EUR PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: July 1987 - September 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-17.26
Sep 2000 - May 2005
-17.16
Nov 2007 - Dec 2009
-18.44
Nov 2007 - Mar 2010
-18.66
Nov 2007 - Mar 2010
-17.78
Nov 2007 - Feb 2010
-22.21
Nov 2007 - Aug 2010
-16.19
Nov 2007 - Mar 2010
-14.45
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-14.41
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-14.36
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-14.42
Jan 2022 - Jun 2024
-14.35
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
-14.27
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
-13.08
Sep 2000 - Nov 2004
-14.23
Sep 2000 - Dec 2004
-13.21
Sep 2000 - Oct 2004
-12.84
Sep 1989 - Apr 1991
-12.84
Sep 1989 - Apr 1991
-12.84
Sep 1989 - Apr 1991
-12.81
Sep 1989 - Mar 1991
-12.81
Sep 1989 - Mar 1991
-12.87
Sep 1989 - Mar 1991
-11.98
Sep 2000 - Feb 2004
-11.44
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-11.44
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-11.44
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-11.44
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-10.63
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-11.44
Sep 1987 - Jun 1988
-8.51
Feb 1994 - Aug 1995
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-14.40 -13.79 -14.27 -13.95 -13.69 -13.87
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-10.80 -10.31 -10.46 -10.30 -10.39 -10.36

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Vanguard LifeStrategy Conservative Growth To EUR Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.