How to diversify your portfolio to avoid market risks (3/20)

This publication is part 3 of 20 in the series Diversify your portfolio.

Nous allons commencer tout d'abord à nous intéresser à l’approche utilisée par Harry Browne, Inventeur du célèbre Permanent Portfolio, avant d’examiner d’autres stratégies. Son idée est qu’à chaque type de cycle économique, il existe un type d’actif qui arrive à tirer son épingle du jeu.

Le Permanent Portfolio est un peu à la bourse ce que le pneu 4 saisons est à la voiture. Il permet de dégager des gains dans pratiquement n’importe quelle situation, ce qui veut dire pratiquement une rentabilité absolue et une faible volatility.

According to H. Browne, each economic season has its "means of survival":

- growth: owning shares

- recession: having cash

- inflation: owning precious metals

- deflation: owning bonds

Browne recommends placing 1/4 of your assets in each of these assets and rebalancing when a category exceeds 35% or falls below 15%. Or even simpler: rebalancing once a year. And that's it!

The Permanent Portfolio has proven itself since in 40 years it has only had 4 negative years. Frankly, for such a simple and inexpensive approach, it is an achievement.

This would give a return close to 10%, which is practically the same as stocks, with a relative standard deviation of only 7.5%, or more than half compared to the market. However, other backtests give lower returns, ranging from 5 to 8%, which is still not so bad given the low volatility and the few negative years.

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In order to implement this strategy, one can strictly adhere to the principles of the Permanent Portfolio. This is certainly the simplest and “laziest” way to put it into practice. The rules are clear: 25% in stocks, 25% in gold, 25% in long-term bonds and 25% in cash (or very short-term bonds).

Cette allocation est permanente, comme l’indique le nom du portefeuille. Il faut juste rééquilibrer les positions une fois par année afin que chaque type d’actif conserve la même proportion. Le plus simple c’est de se limiter à 4 ETFs, 1 par type d’actif, et le tour est joué. C’est de la gestion ultra- passive ! On verra plus loin quels ETFs peuvent faire l’affaire, et quels sont éventuellement les limites du système.

 

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