here are some examples of popular all weather portfolios . many investors split their allocation , keeping the money dearest to them in an all weather model while using a more aggressive model for a bit of the assets they are more willing to expose to a bet on prosperity . .
these are portfolio's that derive their gains in good and bad times .
they tend to stand up better in the down side of the cycle .
out of all of them the golden butterfly had the best balance of risk vs reward , least amount of volatility and lowest amount of losing years since 1970
ray dalio's all weather portfolio
Asset Allocation
30% Total Stock Market
40% Long Term Bonds
15% Intermediate Bonds
7.5% Commodities
7.5% Gold
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the golden butterfly
Asset Allocation
20% Total Stock Market
20% Small Cap Value
20% Long Term Bonds
20% Short Term Bonds
20% Gold
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the pin wheel portfolio
Asset Allocation
15% Total Stock Market
10% Small Cap Value
15% International
10% Emerging Markets
15% Intermediate Bonds
10% Cash
15% REITs
10% Gold
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the desert portfolio
Asset Allocation
Stocks
30% Domestic Total Stock Market
Bonds
60% Intermediate Term
Real Assets
10% Gold
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the permanent portfolio
Asset Allocation
25% Total Stock Market
25% Long Term Bonds
25% Cash
25% Gold
pinwheel variations
15% Total US Stock Market ITOT
10% Small Cap Value IJS
15% Total World Stock Market VT
10% Emerging Markets SCHE
15% Intermediate US Treasuries just buy the underlying
10% T-Bills / Cash just buy the underlying and/or use an online bank
15% REIT SCHH
10% Gold physical or GLDM
Variant 1 - break up Total World Stock Market (VT is 56% USA, 44% ACWI ex-US)
23.4% Total US Stock Market ITOT
10% Small Cap Value IJS
6.6% All Country World Index ex-US CWI
10% Emerging Markets SCHE
15% Intermediate US Treasuries just buy the underlying
10% T-Bills / Cash just buy the underlying and/or use an online bank
15% REIT SCHH
10% Gold physical or GLDM
lastly THE BLACK SWAN ETF
SWANX
here are the details and comparisons of the models . tyler , who created portfolio charts is the founder of the golden butterfly and pinwheel portfolios
https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolios/