Here Is The Most Easy To Use Portfolio Rebalance Tool

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What is rebalancing?

Rebalancing is when you bring you asset allocation back into your desired asset allocation mix.

If you want a 90% stock allocation and 10% bond allocation in your portfolio you may experience that your stock portion of your portfolio increases over time. This is because stocks have historically generated a higher rate of return than bonds and will likely continue to do so in the future.

Over time you may see your stock allocation go from 90% of your portfolio to 95% of your portfolio. Your bond portion of your portfolio will consequently shrink to 5% of your portfolio. The bonds may not have lost any value – it is just that your stocks have increased in value in comparison to your bonds. With your portfolio now consisting of 95% stocks and 5% bonds, the volatility of your portfolio has increased from its initial risk level. This is where rebalancing comes into play If you want to decrease the risk of your portfolio.

Rebalancing helps you because your portfolio will drift out of its initial asset allocation over time. Using a rebalance tool makes sure that your portfolio stays within the desired asset allocation.

The video below explains in a little more detail what rebalancing means.

What are som advantages to rebalancin?

There are many advantages to rebalancing regularly

• Rebalancing automates your investment decisions, making your immune to biases that might otherwise hurt you.
• Rebalancing sells assets that have gone up in value and buys assets that have gone down in value. This is preciselywhat you want to happen. By rebalacing regulary you are essentially buying low and selling high.
• Rebalancing lowers the riskof your portfolio.
• Rebalancing could net you more money.

The only two disadvantages to rebalancing your portfolio are:

1. Rebalancing costs a little bit of money in commissions to make the trades to bring balance to the portfolio. This is negligible in comparison to the value rebalancing provides. Many brokers also offer free-of-charge trades on many mutual funds and ETFs.
2. Rebalancing takes a little bit of time – it may be an hour or two every year.

With Portfolio Einstein’s rebalancing tool you can hopefully cut down on the time it takes 🙂

There can be tax consequences when you rebalance especially if you sell an asset class in order to buy another, so have that in mind.

To avoid a possible tax event consider instead buying more of the asset classes that have decreased in value. That way you don’t have to sell any assets but you can still reach your required target allocation.

Consider your total portfolio allocation across accounts. You could hold only stocks in one account and only bonds in another account. You decide what makes sense but seeing all your assets as one investment portfolio could save you transaction fees and taxes. It could also help you with establishing a correct asset location (placing asset classes where it makes the most sense tax-wise).

Get the rebalacing tool here

Google Sheets:Rebalancing Tool

Important! Make sure you make a copy of it to your drive or else you won’t be able to edit it to your own needs!

Here is how you do that:

From within Google sheets:

Select “File > Make a copy” from the upper left corner.

Here’s another video that explains in a little more detail what rebalancing means.

Suggestions for your next steps

If you have already committed to a portfolio then maybe you need help maintaining the portfolio. In this case you will find our rebalance worksheet useful.

Rebalancing your portfolio lowers your risk and may provide higher returns in the long run. It is completely FREE.

You can find the rebalance worksheet in our article Here Is The Most Easy To Use Portfolio Rebalance Tool.