1.5x Equity Accumulation Portfolio
Specification
Policy
Rebalancing Interval | Quarterly |
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Weights Algorithm | Constant Weights |
Assets
Benchmark
1.5x Global Equity |
Description
Much of the research around accumulation suggest that an investor who is willing to utilize leverage would want ~1.5x exposure to equity. This data seems to assume an investor with a 100% equity portfolio. Therefore, I’ve built a more diversified portfolio that targets roughly a 1.5x beta to global equity and then allows a mean-variance optimizer to add diversifiers with the goal of maximizing diversification. Since equities tend to have low sensitivity to unexpected inflation over long time horizons, I added a constraint to keep the portfolio’s expected inflation beta greater than 0 to avoid taking on large amounts of inflation risk as the means for outperforming.
The result seems to be that we can achieve a similar return over the long-term to a 1.5x levered exposure to market-cap-weighted global equity, but with a lower max drawdown and standard deviation.
Policy Report
Backtest Report
From to (8y 24d)
Returns (annualized)
Portfolio | 12.16% |
Benchmark | 11.53% |
Risk (annualized)
Portfolio | 23.02% |
Benchmark | 28.27% |
Sharpe (annualized)
Portfolio | 0.52 |
Benchmark | 0.45 |
Excess Return (annualized)
0.63% |
Tracking Error (annualized)
14.49% |
Information Ratio
0.04 |
Statistic | Portfolio | Benchmark |
---|---|---|
Downside Volatility | 24.53% | 30.32% |
Sortino Ratio | 0.48 | 0.42 |
Calmar Ratio | 0.30 | 0.25 |
Ulcer Index | 14.40 | 14.47 |
Max Drawdown | 40.24% | 49.95% |
VaR (99% Confidence) | $-5,353 | $-6,575 |
VaR (99.9% Confidence) | $-7,111 | $-8,734 |
Beta to Benchmark | 0.70 | N/A |
Value at Risk (VaR) is calculated off a $10,000 portfolio value.
Growth Charts
Historical Weights
Return Distribution
Excess Kurtosis
8.24 |
Skew
-0.49 |
Data Table
Factor | Portfolio | Benchmark |
---|---|---|
Credit Factor | 0.1513 | 0.1513 |
Duration Factor | 0.9053 | 0.9053 |
Emerging (Developed) Factor | -0.0381 | -0.0381 |
Inflation Factor | 0.4934 | 0.4934 |
Market Factor | 1.2385 | 1.2385 |
Size Factor | 0.1307 | 0.1307 |
Style Factor | 0.0576 | 0.0576 |
U.S. Tilt (Non U.S.) | -0.1683 | -0.1683 |
Yield Curve Factor | 0.0115 | 0.0115 |
Adjusted R2
Portfolio | 0.92 |
Benchmark | 0.99 |
Intercept
Portfolio | -0.00 |
Benchmark | -0.00 |