The intent of this methodology is to adjust your stock holdings back to your long-term allocation targets, not to increase or decrease them beyond those targets.

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If a portfolio has a target of 50% in stocks and 50% in bonds and market movements result in different allocation, a rebalancing would correct this mismatch back to its 50-50 target.

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