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Rebalancing is realigning the weightings of portfolio of assets, so a person may buy or sell their assets in their portfolio to maintain level of asset allocation. In order to comprehend the concept better, let’s take an example.

Your asset location consists of 50% bonds and 50% stocks. Over time if the stocks that you have invested in start to perform well, it would result in an increase in the stock weightings up to 70%. It will be up to you if you want sell some of your stocks and get back to the allocation of 50/50.

Understanding Rebalancing

Every year the market value of all the securities on your portfolio bring a different return that result in a change of weighting. You might have set an asset allocation strategy that would be perfect for you, but at the end of the year, you would see that the portfolio has changed due to different returns.

In layman terms, portfolio rebalancing is checking each asset allocation in order to minimize risk. So if your investment strategy has changed, you should rebalance to adjust the security in the portfolio in order to fulfill a new asset allocation.

One important fact that every investor should know is that past performances don’t determine the future. This means the assets that brought you gains last year may lead to loss in the coming year.

How to Rebalance the Portfolio 

Now that you have learnt what rebalancing and asset allocation is, you should learn how you are supposed to rebalance the portfolio:

Record

Keep a record of the total cost of security at the time you decide on your asset allocation strategy and the total cost of the portfolio because this will provide you a basis for comparison in the future.

Compare

Review the value of each asset and the value of the portfolio. Make sure that you calculate the weightings of the fund by dividing value of asset class by the total current portfolio value. Compare this with the current findings and see if there are any changes.

Adjust

If your portfolio has exposure to risk due to the changes in the asset class weightings, take the value of portfolio and multiply the weightings assigned to each asset class. The findings will be the amount that you should be investing in order to maintain the original asset allocation.

Further Reading

  • Global rebalancing: crisis and the East–South turn – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
  • Can portfolio rebalancing explain the dynamics of equity returns, equity flows, and exchange rates? – pubs.aeaweb.org [PDF]
  • Spatially rebalancing the UK economy: towards a new policy model? – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
  • Rebalancing the Euro area: the costs of internal devaluation – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
  • Rebalancing the spatial economy: the challenge for regional theory – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
  • The great British 'rebalancing'act: The construction and implementation of an economic imperative for exceptional times – journals.sagepub.com [PDF]
  • Rebalancing Growth in Asia – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
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