Tactical Permanent Portfolio

Details

The Tactical Permanent Portfolio strategy was developed by the teams at ReSolve Asset Management and profiled on GestaltU.

It takes Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio and adds some tactical nuance.

The portfolio, on average, allocates 24% to equities, 48% to bonds, and 28% to cash and gold.

Average Asset Allocation & Recommended ETFs

Weight
Ticker
ETF Name
Sector
48%
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Bond, U.S., Intermediate-Term
24%
SPY
SPDR S&P 500 ETF
Equity, U.S., Large Cap
14%
GLD
SPDR Gold Trust
Commodity, Gold
14%
BIL
SPDR Blmbg Barclays 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Bond, U.S., Ultra Short-Term

Performance Metrics

All Data
Annual Return
8.4%
Sharpe Ratio
0.58
10 Year Annual Return
4.7%
Volatility (annualized)
6.7%
Max Drawdown
-11.1%
Positive Periods
68.0%
Dot Com Annual Return
9.5%
Great Financial Crisis Return
8.4%
Trade Frequency
Monthly
Ulcer Performance Index
1.5

Strategy Rules

This strategy trades once per month.

  1. On the last trading day of the month, select from SPY, IEF, and GLD the assets that are above their 10-month moving average.
  2. Determine the initial allocation using risk parity across the remaining assets.
  3. Apply a 7% volatility filter to the calculated asset allocation based on a 2-month lookback.
    • Add cash if the volatility is above 7%

How to Invest in the Tactical Permanent Portfolio Portfolio

M1 Finance is the recommended platform to invest in this portfolio.  Find out why.

Tactical Permanent Portfolio Rolling Returns

Low
Average
High
1-Year
-7.6%
8.7%
34.2%
3-Year
0.6%
8.5%
22.1%
5-Year
2.4%
8.5%
18.8%
10-Year
4.0%
8.8%
13.9%

Charts

Portfolio vs. 60/40 vs. S&P 500

All Data
Portfolio
60/40
S&P 500
Annual Return
8.4%
9.3%
10.3%
10Y Annual Return
4.7%
7.9%
12.2%
Sharpe Ratio
0.58
0.51
0.43
Max Drawdown
-11.1%
-29.7%
-50.97%
Volatility (annualized)
6.7%
9.9%
15.4%
Dot Com Annual Return
9.5%
-4.2%
-14.60%
Great Financial Crisis Annual Return
8.4%
-0.3%
-5.66%
Positive Periods
68.0%
65.8%
63.3%

**S&P 500 backtest to 1972 and 60/40 backtest to 1970

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