Linked returns that account for trades, rebalancings, and
asset class weight changes won't start until March» 17, because there won't anything to link until Febrary's returns are in.
They note that periodic rebalancing to
fixed asset class weights tends to perform well in trendless markets exhibiting mean reversion but suffers during extended trends.
The regular static models use a set mix
of asset class weightings, that rarely change (on average, a minor change is made every three years), and never change based on forecasts of where a particular asset class may be heading short -, medium -, or long - term.
There's not much wrong with this, as it is disclosed, but when your mutual funds can significantly change
asset class weightings at random, it makes using asset allocation techniques much less effective.
Next, if you're comparing performance to another not - T4 $ Model, then you should know that the chances that their returns have been linked to account for past investment vehicle changes, rebalancings, and
asset class weight changes are slim to none, and Slim left town.
Instead of using static weights for different asset classes to approximate a certain degree of risk, we measure risk itself and adopt a fluid approach to
asset class weights to ensure your portfolio truly reflects your desired risk exposure.
Asset class weightings can either be fixed or dynamic; at Scalable Capital we favour dynamic.
So both
the asset class weights and the funding vehicles are subject to change monthly.
This one dynamic actively - managed asset allocation model uses exactly the same shell (and investment strategy), but the difference is
the asset class weights are subject to change monthly based on market timing forecasts.
The dynamic models have
all asset class weightings subject to change monthly based on market timing forecasts, when everything is updated.
If ETFs were better where it actually counted; performance, then our ETF Models would be constantly creaming everything else (because
the asset class weights are the same).
First, you'll need to calculate
the asset class weights.
The only difference between the five models are
the Asset Class Weightings in column O.
Take the corresponding ticker symbol, then tell Scottrade to buy that mutual fund, in the amount that you'll arrive at when you multiply
the Asset Class Weight percentage in column O by the total amount of money you're working with ($ 100,000 in this example).
Step 2) Although we think you're going to get the best investment returns with
the asset class weights that came with the allocator models, you can easily modify them.