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20sFinances said:

Good luck getting participants. As I start to put money into these types of investments (and start writing about it), I will definitely be submitting posts!

We'd love to have you submit any of your recent passive investing posts using the Canadian PF Blog Carnival Workaround - http://canadianfinanceblog.com.....orkaround/

Thanks for your continued support!

 WHAT IS PASSIVE INVESTING?

Recently, I've been getting asked for some clarification about what constitutes passive investing and what does not. As such, here goes!

Overall, passive investing involves the use of passively managed (not actively managed – so avoiding individual stock buying/selling) investing instruments, such as index ETFs or mutual funds, in order to invest with the market.

Examples of passive investing include asset allocation, index investing, ETFs, portfolio rebalancing due to market fluctuations, asset class evaluation, controlling investor emotions, strategies for adding new funds to your investment portfolio (dollar cost/value averaging), etc. Passive investing does not include individual stock selection (even if they are dividend stocks), creating passive income, or market timing. A definition of passive investing can be found here at Investopedia if more description is needed. Thanks!