What is the Ray Dalio “All Weather Portfolio” for individual investors?

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I imagine you landed on this page because you read the Ray Dalio interview in the Tony Robbins book, Money: Master the Game, and you’re trying to remember what percentage (%) of stocks, treasury bonds, gold, and commodities are in the All Weather Portfolio – adapted for individual investors.

Here are my notes:

The investment hypothesis behind the All Weather Strategy is that the economy has different seasons. Those seasons are tied to the debt cycle. Ray put together a 30-minute animated film that explains these four seasons:

  1. Leveraging – Credit freely available. Borrowing increases. Spending & incomes rise.
  2. Deleveraging – Credit dries up. Debt repayments rise. Spending & incomes fall.
  3. Deflation – Creditors restructure debts. Asset values drop. Employment drops.
  4. Inflation – Central bank prints money to purchase government bonds & fuel stimulus. Spending increases.

Against the backdrop of the four economic seasons, here is the investment mix of the All Weather portfolio adapted to individual investors:

30% Stocks Addresses leveraging season
15% Intermediate-term Treasury Bonds (7-10 yr) Addresses seasons of deleveraging & deflation
40% Long-term Treasury Bonds (20 – 25 yr)
7.5% Gold Addresses inflation season
7.5% Commodities

The idea is to rebalance this portfolio annually so that investments fall back into this mix at least one a year.

According to Money: Master the Game, this asset allocation, when back tested all the way from 1927 until 2013, has resulted in sizable growth with less volatility.

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