When you hear “rebalancing” in an investment context, one may immediately think of trimming back stocks that have outperformed and taking the opportunity to reallocate these funds to stocks that have pulled back. This helps to mitigate concentration risk, or the risk that you have too much of a given holding. What is also important when rebalancing is to assess current market conditions, and not just individual positions. Rebalancing is certainly a time to reposition back to the target asset allocation, but it is also a time to take a big picture view and assess other market conditions at play and see what opportunities are available.