Monday, June 7, 2021

WSJ: Why Investors May Not Want to Regularly Rebalance Their Portfolio

 By SIMON CONSTABLE 

It’s an investor’s mantra: Rebalance your portfolio regularly. But it may be worth rethinking that mantra. 

The case for rebalancing is pretty straightforward. Over time, assets whose prices rise account for a growing proportion of a portfolio’s overall value, and those whose prices fall amount to a shrinking share of the portfolio. Rebalancing, by selling securities that have risen in value and buying assets whose value has declined, restores the investor’s desired weighting of various assets within the portfolio. Read more here.


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