Gold To CAD Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from August 1953 to July 2025
Consolidated Returns as of 31 July 2025

Managing the Gold To CAD Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 7.16% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 7.16%.

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 Jul 31, 2025

Implementing different rebalancing strategies, the Gold To CAD Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on August 1953.

Portfolio returns are calculated in CAD, 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)
GOLD TO CAD PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: August 1953 - July 2025
Annualized Returns
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Return (%) and number of rebalances as of Jul 31, 2025
Rebalancing Strategy 1Y 5Y 10Y 30Y MAX
(~72Y)
No Rebalancing 34.51 (0) 11.01 (0) 11.81 (0) 7.16 (0) 6.86 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 34.51 (1) 11.01 (5) 11.81 (10) 7.16 (30) 6.86 (72)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 34.51 (2) 11.01 (10) 11.81 (20) 7.16 (60) 6.86 (144)
Quarterly Rebalancing 34.51 (4) 11.01 (20) 11.81 (40) 7.16 (120) 6.86 (288)
5% Tolerance per asset 34.51 (0) 11.01 (0) 11.81 (0) 7.16 (0) 6.86 (0)
10% Tolerance per asset 34.51 (0) 11.01 (0) 11.81 (0) 7.16 (0) 6.86 (0)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Gold To CAD Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Jul 31, 2025

Historical returns and stats of Gold To CAD Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

GOLD TO CAD PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: August 1953 - July 2025
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 6.86 (0) 16.77 0.41 -51.14 0.13
Yearly Rebalancing 6.86 (72) 16.77 0.41 -51.14 0.13
Half Yearly Rebalancing 6.86 (144) 16.77 0.41 -51.14 0.13
Quarterly Rebalancing 6.86 (288) 16.77 0.41 -51.14 0.13
5% Tolerance per asset 6.86 (0) 16.77 0.41 -51.14 0.13
10% Tolerance per asset 6.86 (0) 16.77 0.41 -51.14 0.13
(*) Since Aug 1953 (~72 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Jul 31, 2025

Historical Drawdowns of Gold To CAD Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

GOLD TO CAD PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: August 1953 - July 2025
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-51.14
Oct 1980 - Dec 2007
-51.14
Oct 1980 - Dec 2007
-51.14
Oct 1980 - Dec 2007
-51.14
Oct 1980 - Dec 2007
-51.14
Oct 1980 - Dec 2007
-51.14
Oct 1980 - Dec 2007
-44.39
Jan 1975 - Jan 1978
-44.39
Jan 1975 - Jan 1978
-44.39
Jan 1975 - Jan 1978
-44.39
Jan 1975 - Jan 1978
-44.39
Jan 1975 - Jan 1978
-44.39
Jan 1975 - Jan 1978
-29.03
Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
-29.03
Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
-29.03
Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
-29.03
Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
-29.03
Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
-29.03
Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
-23.68
Feb 1980 - Sep 1980
-23.68
Feb 1980 - Sep 1980
-23.68
Feb 1980 - Sep 1980
-23.68
Feb 1980 - Sep 1980
-23.68
Feb 1980 - Sep 1980
-23.68
Feb 1980 - Sep 1980
-22.52
Jun 1969 - Jan 1972
-22.52
Jun 1969 - Jan 1972
-22.52
Jun 1969 - Jan 1972
-22.52
Jun 1969 - Jan 1972
-22.52
Jun 1969 - Jan 1972
-22.52
Jun 1969 - Jan 1972
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-34.15 -34.15 -34.15 -34.15 -34.15 -34.15
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-26.30 -26.30 -26.30 -26.30 -26.30 -26.30

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Gold To CAD Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.