Small Rebalanced Portfolios Often Beat the Market over Long Horizons

Abstract The distribution of long-run compound returns to portfolio strategies is greatly affected by periodic rebalancing. Over time, buy-and-hold portfolios gradually lose diversification as extreme long-run skewness in individual stock returns leads to increasingly concentrated holdings. For long...

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Veröffentlicht in:Review of asset pricing studies 2023-06, Vol.13 (2), p.307-342
Hauptverfasser: Farago, Adam, Hjalmarsson, Erik
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract The distribution of long-run compound returns to portfolio strategies is greatly affected by periodic rebalancing. Over time, buy-and-hold portfolios gradually lose diversification as extreme long-run skewness in individual stock returns leads to increasingly concentrated holdings. For long investment horizons, small rebalanced portfolios holding only a fraction of all stocks therefore achieve better diversification than much larger marketwide buy-and-hold portfolios. Consequently, over long horizons, rebalanced portfolios tend to outperform buy-and-hold portfolios, and risk-averse investors prefer the former. Empirical results strongly support the theoretical predictions and add further evidence to the strong empirical performance of (small) equal-weighted portfolios. (JEL G10, G11) Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.
ISSN:2045-9920
2045-9939
DOI:10.1093/rapstu/raac020