TAA.For The Masses
Strategy Library
Crash protectionby Wouter Keller & JW Keuning

Hybrid Asset Allocation

A single TIPS trigger guards a top-4 rotation.

Higher overfitting risk: these models have many parameters chosen with hindsight. Expect live results to trail the backtest.

Holding now

Signal from Aug 2026 close
  • BIL100%
  • BILT-Bills100.0%

Trailing returns

Through Sep 25, 2026 · 3Y+ annualised

1M

+0.2%

YTD

+18.6%

1Y

+22.1%

3Y

+12.7%

5Y

+10.0%

10Y

+12.0%

Growth of $100

Backtest from Aug 1, 2003 to Sep 25, 2026 (23.0 years)

Hybrid Asset Allocation+612%
60/40+534%
S&P 500+1062%

Growth of $100, rebased to the start of the selected range. Month-end prices, dividends reinvested, no taxes or trading costs.

Risk & return, full backtest

CAGR

+8.9%

Volatility

10.5%

Max drawdown

-14.3%

Sharpe

0.71

Sortino

1.01

Calmar

0.62

Best year

+24.2%

Worst year

-4.3%

Drawdowns

Percent below the prior peak, vs the S&P 500

Calendar-year returns

Faded bars are partial years · 66% of months positive

Strategy Lab

Stress-test the implementation: trade on the signal day's close or later, split the portfolio into tranches that rebalance on different days (reduces timing luck), or swap a fund for a same-asset-class alternative.

The idea

HAA uses TIPS momentum as its trigger. When TIPS momentum is positive it holds the top four of eight global assets, swapping any with negative momentum for the better of T-bills and IEF. When TIPS momentum is negative it goes fully to the better of T-bills and IEF.

The rules

  1. 1Trigger asset: TIP, scored by the average of 1, 3, 6, 12-month returns.
  2. 2Positive → top 4 of SPY, IWM, VEA, VWO, VNQ, DBC, IEF, TLT; any with a negative score → best of BIL/IEF.
  3. 3Negative → 100% the best of BIL/IEF.

Funds used

  • BIL T-Bills
  • DBC Commodities
  • IEF 7-10Y Treasuries
  • IWM US Small Cap
  • SPY S&P 500
  • TIP TIPS
  • TLT 20+Y Treasuries
  • VEA Intl Developed
  • VNQ US REITs
  • VWO Emerging Markets

Early history uses proxy funds: EEM, EFA, IEF, IYR, SHY.

Recent allocations

Decided at each month-end, held the following month

  • Aug 2026
  • Jul 2026
  • Jun 2026
  • May 2026
  • Apr 2026
  • Mar 2026
  • Feb 2026
  • Jan 2026
  • Dec 2025
  • Nov 2025
  • Oct 2025
  • Sep 2025

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