You'd be
following rebalancing strategies to make sure you continue to adhere to your allocation.
You'd be
following rebalancing strategies to make sure you continue to adhere to your allocation.
Not exact matches
To check, we look at the
following three equal - weighted (50 - 50) combinations of the two
strategies,
rebalanced monthly:
Like traditional index
strategies, smart beta
strategies follow pre-set rules to determine the process for security selection, portfolio construction and
rebalancing.
However a well - diversified portfolio regularly
rebalanced is a
strategy that most investors can
follow.
Most investors should
follow a buy - and - hold
strategy that maintains their set asset allocation,
rebalancing when actual allocations depart substantially from their targets (although a modest dose of contrarianism can help sophisticated investors).
To review my previous articles, I backtested a value
strategy based on the
following criteria starting in 1/1/2002 which
rebalanced every 4 weeks and assumed.5 % slippage.
Since, the entire idea behind the Sleepy Mini Portfolio is to
follow a mechanical investment
strategy of committing savings to the portfolio regularly, we will add another $ 1,000 to the portfolio and
rebalance it to the original target allocation — 20 % bonds, 20 % Canadian stocks, 30 % US stocks and 30 % international stocks — using this
rebalancing spreadsheet.
If you would like to
follow the Couch Potato
strategy and
rebalance your portfolio once a year, you can do it by yourself too.