Rebalancing, the successful investment strategy Discover 26 February 2015 , No hay comentarios Is it worth rebalancing or not? It is usually said that a regular rebalance let investors deal better with the market volatility, avoiding the worst effects of sudden negative movements. Rebalancing means capital preservation as the focus of every investment strategy. In T-Advisor, we apply systematic rebalances every second month for our model portfolios in order to avoid possible losses and improve the performance. Let’s take an example with our Germany stocks model portfolio. Main figures say that 1-year-return is 34.45%, which is a very nice performance. But this result was only possible to reach with the right tools to select the assets and the regular rebalances. First of all, the portfolio has 10 different assets to diversify the investment. But let’s have a look if we compare the portfolio evolution with the reference indexes. How? With our smart benchmark. In T-Advisor, you can clone all model portfolios to include them in your investments. If we do it now, we obtain the following results: As we have just done the cloning, there is no YTD figure. Smart benchmark is our composite figure that takes into account the proportion of your assets in every benchmark, as we already explained in this blog. Figures say that our portfolio overperformances the smart benchmark. But the system also offers a simulation for the last month: The portfolio has always overperformanced the smart benchmark since last rebalancing on February, the 9th. If we look it in another way: DAX has on February, 25th, 2014, a level of 9,699.35 points. On October, 15th, the worst day in the year, the level was 8,571.95. To sum up: -11.62%. What happened with our Germany portfolio in the same period? – 10.37%. And what about yesterday? If we compare the whole year, DAX has grown 15.53%, while our Germany portfolio has done 34.45%. As you can see, it’s worth doing a rebalance. In our case, our system works to find the best assets filtered by our scoring criteria. Every two months, we analyze the assets that work and don’t to create a new successful mix. Our methodology let us say that none of our ETF model portfolios, for instance, has never negative 1-year-returns.