The phrase "a proportion of assets" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the distribution or allocation of financial resources or investments within a portfolio or organization.
Example: "The company decided to allocate a proportion of assets to sustainable investments to align with its environmental goals."
Alternatives: "a share of assets" or "a fraction of assets".
The new Basel 3 rules will have the effect of doubling the amount of core equity that a typical big bank holds as a proportion of its assets.
7. HAVING A HOME BIAS Most investors have too high a proportion of their assets invested in their own country and too little in rapidly growing overseas markets.
Lawyers said that the tactic would be cheaper and potentially more lucrative for forces facing large budget cuts because they secure a proportion of the assets they seize.
The Fed also said it was planning even tougher requirements for eight systemically important banks, which may include a higher leverage ratio, a way of measuring how much equity banks have as a proportion of total assets.
These will force insurers to value first assets and then liabilities at market value (instead of their historic cost), which means, for instance, future guarantees will have to be priced properly.Paradoxically, insurers in the oldest and most developed markets made the most basic mistakes, putting far too high a proportion of their assets in equities.
Yet firms seem oddly unconfident, choosing to hold a high proportion of assets in an essentially unproductive form rather than investing more assertively in future expansion.Their bosses have been doing the sorts of things that cash-rich firms do: pampering their own shareholders and trying to win over others.
They also need to hold a substantial proportion of assets that are rediscountable at the Bank of England in case of need, and the Bank of England limits their holding of assets other than public sector debt to a maximum of 20 times their capital resources.
