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Min/Max Rebalance

Contents

Introduction

Rebalance Logic

When To Use

Applicable Settings

 

Introduction

The Min/Max Rebalance allows you to bring accounts' models back into their tolerance bands but with fewer recommended trades than would be recommended if you completed a Full Rebalance on the accounts. This rebalance type allows you to sell down overweight models and assets and buy underweight models and assets to bring models back to tolerance by only trading where the account is outside the min and max ranges you have set for your models.

For more information on tolerance bands and min/max values for your models, see Core Model Concepts.

Notes

The Min/Max Rebalance works if you have min and max tolerances set on your models. Be sure to apply this rebalance only to accounts containing models with min and max values set.

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Rebalance Logic

The Min/Max Rebalance attempts to bring an account back to tolerance by selling securities in overweight models and buying securities in underweight models. When a particular tier of a model is out of tolerance, Advisor Rebalancing will start at the top of that tier and then recommend trades to all tiers below it to address the deviation.

The rebalance starts first with models over their max and sells those positions, then moves to models which are under their min tolerance and uses the proceeds from the sells to purchase those positions. The order of the buys and sells are based on default buy and sell order settings.

Unassigned positions are not automatically liquidated in a Min/Max Rebalance unless you choose that option. These positions are sold if an account needs to generate cash to purchase securities which haven't yet met their minimum. Unassigned positions are sold first before any positions in the model are sold.

For more information on system and account-level settings that affect this rebalance, see Applicable Settings.

Example

You set up Large Cap Technology, a Security Level model, and put a min and a max range on each security to allow some variation due to fluctuating prices:

Over time, a client's allocations in Large Cap Technology shifted to the following allocation: 

If you run the Min/Max Rebalance on this account, Advisor Rebalancing will suggest the following trades: 

Notes

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When To Use

The Min/Max Rebalance is the most commonly used default rebalance type. It can be used to bring accounts to tolerance, but generates fewer trades than the Full Rebalance. The Min/Max Rebalance minimizes turnover and fees in your clients' accounts.

The following are possible situations to use the Min/Max Rebalance: 

The Min/Max Rebalance is only appropriate for accounts with models that have min/max tolerances. Setting min/max tolerances is appropriate for models where some drift among the allocations within those models is acceptable, allowing you to maintain your investment philosophy while reducing the number of trades needed to maintain that philosophy.

In some cases, maintaining a more strict model allocation is appropriate. Consider this example: 

Example

You assign a client to your 70/30 Model where 70% of the account is in equities and 30% of the account is in fixed income. At the top level, you want to maintain those allocations strictly. For example, a drift to 75% equities and 25% fixed income would drastically change the portfolio and perhaps your expectations from your client, so adhering to the 70/30 ratio is important. In this case, you wouldn't set a min/max band for your top-level model.

At lower tiers in the model, you decide there can be more leeway in allocations. Within the 70% equities model, you set min and max tolerances around models containing large cap equities. For these models, you set the minimum and maximum bands because you don't mind variation within these models, so long as they stay within the tolerances you set.

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Applicable Settings

The Min/Max Rebalance adheres to many settings and rules at the account, security, and system level. The following settings may affect the Min/Max Rebalance:

Setting More Information

System Settings: Rebalance Settings

Cash rebalance option

Choose how Advisor rebalancing will use cash during the rebalance.

Default sell order

Define the order in which the rebalance will generate sells.

Default buy order

Define the order in which the rebalance will generate buys.

Improvement Percentage

This settling allows you to adjust how Advisor Rebalancing determines which trades to recommend. The larger the improvement percentage, the more trades the system can recommend as there is a wider range to meet. A smaller improvement percentage becomes more restrictive and could recommend few trades as there is a more narrow range to meet.

Use relative deviation/Use absolute deviation

Tells Advisor Rebalancing how to calculate deviation away from model targets when determining buy and sell order. Absolute deviation uses the absolute calculation of deviation. Relative deviation calculates deviation relative to the parent model's target.

System Settings: Min/Max Rebalance Settings

Sell unassigned securities

If selected, Advisor Rebalancing sells any unassigned securities during a Min/Max Rebalance, even if all models are within their targets.

Invest excess cash

If selected, Advisor Rebalancing uses excess cash to purchase additional securities, even if they are within model targets.

Use all available cash, including cash allocated to the model, before selling to generate cash

If selected, Advisor Rebalancing uses excess cash, including model cash, before selling securities to complete a buy.

Account Settings: Rebalance & Trade Settings

Sell Based on Tax Optimization

When Yes, Advisor Rebalancing temporarily ignores model ranks and rebalances to your investment targets at the lowest possible tax cost to the client. It will then ignore ranks and sell losses first, followed by securities with no tax consequences, and then finally, it will sell gains.

Minimum Trade Sizes

These can be set as either dollar amounts or percentages. Advisor Rebalancing applies the greater of these two and will prevent a trade if it doesn't meet these requirements. If the min/max range is smaller than the minimum trade size, Advisor Rebalancing violates the minimum trade size in order to get the model into tolerance.

Minimum Holding Sizes

These settings apply to all securities held in the account and a rebalance can cause a recommendation to liquidate a security if the resulting trade would cause the security to fall under the minimum holding size set at the account level.

Account on Hold

When Yes, this setting prevents any trading in an account. When an underlying account in a rebalancing group is on hold and the amount of an asset class it holds is above the max for the rebalancing group, the rebalancing group won't complete the rebalance in tolerance.

Security Restrictions

The rebalance adheres to account-specific restrictions like Range to Hold and any Buy/Sell Restrictions.

Securities

Restrictions

The rebalance adheres to security-specific restrictions like Hold Do Not Trade.

Custom Settings

The rebalance adheres to security-specific custom settings like Custom round lot or Custom trade price.

 

Best Practice

It is important to review any warnings under Rebalance Status Messages on the Rebalance Summary. These warnings let you know about any applicable account, security, or system-level settings.

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