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Tax-smart rebalancing

We try to take a strategic approach when rebalancing your accounts in order to maintain your goal and account asset allocations.


Let's say that due to general market movement, different asset classes within your portfolio have appreciated at different rates. This would generally result in your asset allocation "drifting" from your original mix of stocks and bonds. In these cases, we'd rebalance these accounts to restore the original asset allocation.


Whenever we rebalance Personalized Portfolios accounts, we make an effort to be tax efficient. However, in cases where we're managing multiple Personalized Portfolios accounts with different tax registrations using asset location, we’re able to enhance our ability to manage the impact of taxes when rebalancing. Asset location allows us to manage each account in a coordinated fashion, giving us the flexibility to decide which accounts to rebalance. Because different accounts may be allocated in different ways, depending on their tax registration, we have the ability to maintain the desired goal asset allocation while managing the impact of taxes.



Tax-smart rebalancing enables more tax-efficient investing


By looking at each account independently, we can maintain the integrity of the goal-level asset allocation while working to reduce the impact of taxes when rebalancing.

Graphic is designed to illustrate how tax-smart rebalancing works. It shows three different accounts, each with a different asset allocation. However, although each account is managed independently but in coordinated fashion, they all play a role in maintaining the overall goal-level asset allocation. It's our ability to maintain a unique asset allocation for each account assigned to a goal that allows for tax-smart rebalancing, which seeks to provide tax benefits while working to ensure you're appropriately invested for your goal.

Maintain goal asset allocation
The intent of rebalancing is to maintain an asset allocation that's appropriate for your goal. Whether we make trades in a single account, or all your Personalized Portfolios accounts, our focus is on maintaining the right mix of investments.


Manage accounts independently
For clients whose accounts are being managed using household tax-smart strategies, we have the flexibility to create a unique asset allocation for each account assigned to a goal. Because accounts don't have to be adjusted in lockstep, we can potentially realize some gains in the accounts where those gains would have a reduced tax impact.


Reduce the tax impact of rebalancing
While our primary focus is on maintaining an appropriate asset allocation for your goal, our ability to choose which accounts to rebalance in the process of maintaining your goal asset allocation can potentially reduce the impact of taxes.