Reading 40

Portfolio Monitoring and Rebalancing

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Monitoring

  • Investor circumstances
    • Investment policy statement
    • Strategic asset allocation
    • Individual portfolio holdings
  • Market and economic changes
    • Strategic asset allocation
    • Tactical asset allocation
    • Style/sector exposure changes
    • Individual portfolio holdings
  • Portfolio
    • Holdings
    • Strategic asset allocation

IPS Changes

  • Investor circumstances/wealth
  • Liquidity requirements
  • Time horizons
  • Tax circumstances
  • Laws and regulations
  • Unique circumstances

Market and Economic Changes

  • Asset risk attributes
  • Market cycles
  • Central bank policy
  • Yield curve and inflation

Portfolio Changes

  • Events and trends affect the prospects of individual holdings and asset classes
  • Changes in asset values that create unintended divergences from strategic asset allocation

Portfolio Rebalancing

  • Benefits
    • Tracks optimal strategic asset allocation
    • Counteracts drift towards higher risk assets
    • Maintains desired risk exposures
  • Costs
    • Transaction costs
    • Tax costs
  • Disciplines
    • Calendar rebalancing
    • Percentage-of-portfolio rebalancing

Factors Affecting Optimal Corridor Width

factors affecting optimal corridor width

Perold-Sharpe Analysis

relative return performance of different strategies in various markets

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