Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio: Rebalancing Strategy

Data Source: from January 1992 to October 2024
Consolidated Returns as of 31 October 2024

Managing the Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio with a yearly rebalancing, you would have obtained a 7.91% compound annual return in the last 30 Years.

With a quarterly rebalancing, over the same period, the return would have been 7.33%.

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 Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio guaranteed the following returns.

According to the available data source, we assume we built the portfolio on January 1992.

Portfolio returns are calculated in USD, assuming:
  • No fees or capital gain taxes
  • the reinvestment of dividends, if existing
DYNAMIC 60/40 INCOME PORTFOLIO RETURNS
Period: January 1992 - 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
(~33Y)
No Rebalancing 30.11 (0) 7.03 (0) 7.01 (0) 7.91 (0) 7.95 (0)
Yearly Rebalancing 22.89 (1) 5.37 (5) 5.60 (10) 7.42 (30) 7.51 (33)
Half Yearly Rebalancing 22.84 (2) 5.29 (10) 5.55 (20) 7.33 (60) 7.43 (66)
Quarterly Rebalancing 23.08 (4) 5.39 (20) 5.61 (40) 7.46 (120) 7.56 (132)
5% Tolerance per asset 22.61 (0) 5.31 (1) 5.67 (3) 7.56 (13) 7.63 (13)
10% Tolerance per asset 24.49 (0) 5.47 (0) 5.87 (1) 7.84 (5) 7.89 (5)

In order to have complete information about the portfolio, please refer to the Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.

Performances as of Oct 31, 2024

Historical returns and stats of Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

DYNAMIC 60/40 INCOME PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCES
Period: January 1992 - October 2024
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Standard Deviation
Max Drawdown (%)
Rebalancing Strategy Return % Std Dev(%) Ret. / Std Dev MaxDD(%) Ret. / MaxDD
No Rebalancing 7.95 (0) 10.98 0.72 -47.86 0.17
Yearly Rebalancing 7.51 (33) 9.08 0.83 -41.44 0.18
Half Yearly Rebalancing 7.43 (66) 9.10 0.82 -41.83 0.18
Quarterly Rebalancing 7.56 (132) 9.13 0.83 -40.97 0.18
5% Tolerance per asset 7.63 (13) 9.18 0.83 -40.56 0.19
10% Tolerance per asset 7.89 (5) 9.58 0.82 -42.04 0.19
(*) Since Jan 1992 (~33 yrs) | Annualized Returns (and number of rebalances)

Drawdowns as of Oct 31, 2024

Historical Drawdowns of Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio, after implementing different rebalancing strategies.

DYNAMIC 60/40 INCOME PORTFOLIO DRAWDOWNS
Period: January 1992 - October 2024
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Rebalancing
Tolerance per asset
No Rebalancing Yearly Half Yearly Quarterly 5% 10%
-47.86
Jun 2007 - Feb 2011
-41.44
Jun 2007 - Sep 2010
-41.83
Jun 2007 - Sep 2010
-40.97
Jun 2007 - Apr 2010
-40.56
Jun 2007 - Apr 2010
-42.04
Jun 2007 - Apr 2010
-23.22
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-18.21
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-18.35
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-18.41
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-18.46
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-19.63
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
-18.80
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
-14.24
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
-14.24
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
-14.24
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
-14.78
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
-14.63
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
-12.07
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
-10.41
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
-10.27
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
-10.24
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
-10.85
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
-11.83
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
-8.89
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
-7.02
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-6.93
Jul 1998 - Jan 1999
-6.93
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-7.41
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
-8.27
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
5 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-22.17 -18.26 -18.33 -18.16 -18.41 -19.28
10 Worst Drawdowns - Average
-14.54 -11.98 -12.00 -12.05 -12.26 -12.78

For a deeper insight, please refer to the Dynamic 60/40 Income Portfolio: ETF allocation and returns page.