The phrase "asset in return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving exchanges or transactions where something of value is received in exchange for something else.
Example: "In this partnership, we expect to receive an asset in return for our investment in the project."
Alternatives: "consideration in exchange" or "benefit in return".
If, instead, it leases that machine, it also gains possession of an asset in return for a stream of outgoing payments; but current rules usually let the firm keep both the asset and the liability off its balance-sheet.
It also fits the FBI plant in the Newburgh case, Shahed Hussain, a convicted fraudster who became an FBI asset in return for Etch-a-Sketching away his legal problems and for $100,000 in expenses and wages.
But it's getting real assets in return for the cash it hands out.
On Friday, the Celtics continued to dismantle their current squad, jettison useful players and getting mostly future assets in return.
It requires the paramilitaries to confess their crimes and declare their assets, in return for which they would receive much-reduced sentences in open prisons.
The United States takes advantage of the dollar's position to borrow cheaply from the rest of the world, selling its assets in return for goods.
Under that plan the government will shoulder much of the risk of big losses on those toxic assets in return for a payment.
In London, the British Treasury said it would "protect financial institutions against exposure to exceptional future credit losses on certain portfolios of assets" in return for a fee.
Treasury officials said the cost of buying the corporate bonds would not add to the deficit because the government will be obtaining assets in return for its investment.
For its part, Cleveland has hardly remained silent in the matter, expressing in no uncertain terms that any trade involving the veteran center would have to fetch multiple young assets in return.
Based on standard repurchase agreements -- short-term loans commonly used by many firms for daily financing needs, in which borrowers temporarily exchange assets in return for cash up front -- Lehman took a particularly aggressive accounting approach to these transactions.
