In the example at the beginning of this post, I illustrated rebalancing with only two asset classes, US stocks and bonds, but
the same rebalancing strategies apply to a portfolio with additional asset classes.
Unlike static procyclical indexing
strategies (which just go up and down with the market and always
rebalance back to the
same risk exposure) our countercyclical approach
rebalances in such a way that we will actually reduce exposure to certain asset classes when the risk of permanent loss increases late in the market cycle.