The phrase "reduce the assets" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in situations where you are referring to reducing the total amount of assets a person or organization owns. For example: "The company had to reduce its assets in order to stay afloat during the economic downturn."
Tighter regulation would drastically reduce the assets in money-market mutual funds and even put many out of business.
"Although spending at this level will reduce the assets more quickly, the goal of our foundation is to make investments whose payback to society is very high rather than to pay out the minimum to make the endowment last as long as possible," Mr. Gates wrote in his first letter as a full-time philanthropist.
But if the Fed has to reduce the assets on its balance sheet to forestall an inflation threat it could be very disruptive to credit markets.
But he never instructed the major money center banks like Citigroup to immediately and massively reduce the assets on their balance sheet, no matter the price obtained.
"This would reduce the asset side of the balance sheet and any associated funding on the liability side of the balance," the report said.
The substantially lower ROE in Japan for mainstream RE technologies such as large-scale ground-mounted solar, wind power, and larger-scale biomass installations is mainly caused by the higher total investment costs, which reduce the asset turnover rate, and further depressed by the substantially higher operating costs which reduce the ROS.
SunEdison, scrambling to make the deal work as its share price crumbled, said it would cut the price paid for Vivint and reduce the asset sale to TerraForm Power.
All purchased equipment, as well as the build-out costs, will be expensed, which will reduce the asset base of the company.
The traders thought that reducing the assets was too costly, the report says.
It reduced the assets needed by operating via mail and the Internet and started taking a toll via customer subscriptions.
On the one hand, the turmoil in financial markets has reduced the assets of many prominent givers, both foundations and individuals.
