The highest priority of each portfolio is minimizing
large portfolio drawdowns.
This lowers the probability of
large portfolio drawdowns.
Avoiding
large portfolio drawdowns should be one of your preeminent investing principles.
A risk management plan that avoids
large portfolio drawdowns is the most underrated concept in investing.
Not exact matches
In addition, some investors have
large portfolios combined with a personal risk tolerance to accept
larger drawdowns.
Since we are dealing with funding charities, as opposed to funding our own living expenses, it seems that the
portfolio can tolerate an occasional
large drawdown.
On the other hand, this
portfolio is also designed to minimize exposure to
large drawdowns and the risk of permanent loss.
The Moderate Countercyclical
portfolio is designed for the investor who can stomach fairly
large drawdowns, but is looking for less volatility than stocks while also trying to generate better returns than a static 60/40
portfolio which is virtually guaranteed to expose you to low bond returns and high stock market risk in the coming 20 years.
Last summer I wrote a series of posts about the Permanent
Portfolio, another strategy that promises to protect investors from
large drawdowns.
A maximum
drawdown plan is the first step in planning to avoid losing a
large chunk of your
portfolio.
Ashley also doesn't like seeing a
large drawdown in her
portfolio.
This reduces
portfolio volatility and allows us to avoid
large drawdowns that destroy long term returns.
However, when you pair these
portfolios with the shorted sells of the
largest stocks of the lowest rank, you obtain a time robust strategy with a risk / reward ratio of about 1/3 with annualized gains of 30 % and maximum
drawdowns of about 11 %.