Portfolio Rebalancing Strategy

As markets go up and down over time, your asset allocation will deviate from the strategic plan we initially set in place. A portfolio rebalancing strategy brings your portfolio back in line with your strategic asset allocation.

A portfolio rebalancing strategy is important for managing risk, but it requires trading, and there are costs to trading. Our approach to rebalancing strikes a balance between managing the risk of a large deviation from your strategic asset allocation target and minimizing trading costs.

  • We set tolerance bands for each asset class.

  • We use a robust trading system to monitor compliance with tolerance bands on a daily basis.

  • To minimize costs and tax events, we will remedy strategic investment allocations that move outside the tolerance band without fully resetting the total portfolio.

  • When possible, we use portfolio cash flows to rebalance the portfolio back into alignment with your strategic asset allocation.

Beyond this strategic approach to portfolio rebalancing over time, we may also tactically rebalance your portfolio in periods of meaningful market dislocations. For example, when stock markets dropped meaningfully at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we opportunistically increased stock allocations for our clients to take advantage of falling prices that we thought to be exaggerated.

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