It may make sense, for instance, to reduce the stock portion of your portfolio and possibly invest more in bonds or cash.
In 2007 the Ministry decided to raise the stock portion to 60 %.
Yesterday, it moved to make the extremely complex stock portion of its offer more attractive.
By that time, the value of the stock portion of the deal had increased to $43.5 billion.
The study indicates that the increase in the stock portion of Americans' portfolios was modest.
But others are also impressed with its ingenuity in diluting the stock portion of his company's portfolio.
Those who did not do so will receive only the stock portion, worth just $38 a share.
The stock portion of the portfolio is divided among natural gas, electric utility and telecommunications stocks.
Microsoft's share price has dropped over the past week, reducing the value of the stock portion.
In June 2009, the ministry decided to raise the stock portion to 60 percent.
