The 17th (April 2012) edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing is now live on ETF Base at the link below. A big thanks to ETF Base for hosting!
Carnival of Passive Investing # 17 - April 2012
Thanks to everyone for participating. Congrats to this month's top 2 picks (shown below)!
LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT MONTH'S EDITION - May 2012
Thanks to our participants and host, ETF Base. The College Investor will be our host of the next (May 2012 - # 18) edition, scheduled to go live on April 30th, 2012. Be sure to get your articles in now (see instructions below)!
Since Blog Carnival has ONCE AGAIN started to not work at all recently (most everyone that I know has had technical difficulties), you can use the Blog Carnival HQ submission form clicking here.
Also, I am now putting the final touches on the hosting schedule for 2012. Currently, all months have been claimed except for December 2012, so if you'd be interested in hosting on at the end of this year/beginning of 2013, take a look at the hosting schedule and then send me an email to get on the schedule.
The 16th (March 2012) edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing is now live on Free From Broke at the link below. A big thanks to Glen (the owner of Free From Broke) for hosting!
Carnival of Passive Investing # 16 - March 2012
Thanks to everyone for participating. Congrats to this month's top 2 picks (shown below)!
1. Jacob presents The Permanent Portfolio by Harry Browne – Component Returns Correlation Analysis and My Future Plans posted at My Personal Finance Journey - This post describes Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio asset allocation strategy as a way to obtain market-beating returns, which aims to provide safety and stability to the money you deem that you cannot afford to lose. This post also presents a correlation coefficient matrix analysis of the returns of the various components of the Permanent Portfolio, as well as Jacob's future plans for using the Permanent Portfolio in his asset allocation strategy.
2. Echo presents How Index Funds Compare To Equity Mutual Funds posted at Boomer & Echo - In this post, Echo compared the 10-year performance of high cost Canadian equity mutual funds to the equivalent low-cost index funds. Here are the results. LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT MONTH'S EDITION - april 2012
Thanks to our participants and host, Free From Broke. ETF Base will be our host of the next (April 2012 - # 17) edition, scheduled to go live on April 30th, 2012. Be sure to get your articles in now (see instructions below)!
Since Blog Carnival has ONCE AGAIN started to not work at all recently (most everyone that I know has had technical difficulties), you can use the Blog Carnival HQ submission form clicking here.
Also, I am now putting the final touches on the hosting schedule for 2012. Currently, all months have been claimed except for December 2012, so if you'd be interested in hosting on at the end of this year/beginning of 2013, take a look at the hosting schedule and then send me an email to get on the schedule.
The 15th (February 2012) edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing is now live on My Personal Finance Journey at the link below. A big thanks to Jacob (the owner of My Personal Finance Journey) for hosting!
Carnival of Passive Investing # 15 - February 2012
Thanks to everyone for participating. Congrats to this month's top 4 picks (shown below)!
4. Money Counselor presents Stock Sell Signal? posted at Money Counselor, saying, "BlackRock co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Larry Fink is a billionaire. Does that mean he’s a great stock price prognosticator? Evidently, no."
LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT MONTH'S EDITION - March 2012
Thanks to our participants and host, My Personal Finance Journey. Free From Broke will be our host of the next (March 2012 - # 16) edition, scheduled to go live on March 31st, 2012. Be sure to get your articles in now (see instructions below)!
Since Blog Carnival has ONCE AGAIN started to not work at all recently (most everyone that I know has had technical difficulties), you can use the Blog Carnival HQ submission form clicking here.
Also, I am now putting the final touches on the hosting schedule for 2012. Currently, all months have been claimed except for December 2012, so if you'd be interested in hosting on at the end of this year/beginning of 2013, take a look at the hosting schedule and then send me an email to get on the schedule.
The 14th (January 2012) edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing is now live on Afford Anything at the link below. A big thanks to Paula (the owner of Afford Anything) for hosting!
Carnival of Passive Investing # 14 - January 2012
This month, we were very honored to have passive investing author, Mark Hebner (author of the book, Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors, and the founder/president of Index Funds Advisors, Inc.), helping to judge and rank the top 3 posts.
Thanks to everyone for participating. Congrats to this month's top 3 picks (shown below)!
#1: What Boxing Taught Me About Personal Finance, by the blog, My University Money. “Every ‘tough guy’ out there thinks they can fight, and every guy at the water cooler who has read the business section thinks he’s Warren Buffett – so they both have stupid male egos in common,” the author says. #2: Saving, Investing and Gambling from the blog, Arbor Asset Allocation Model Portfolio. This article discusses — you guessed it! — the difference between “investing” and “gambling.” #3: What Are Dividends? Why Should You Care? The blog, Simply Investing, asks a simple question – “What’s a dividend?” – and explains it in commonsense, easy-to-understand language. This post explains why dividends are a great way for the truly lazy – er, I mean, passive — to kick back and earn some nice returns. WHAT IS PASSIVE INVESTING?
Each month, there seems to continue to be quite a bit of confusion about what constitutes passive investing and what DOES NOT (i.e. - which posts will be included in the carnival or screened out). There's really nothing wrong with this confusion, as indeed, one of the original goals of this Carnival was to help spread the word about this specific niche of investing styles. As such, we want to make sure that everyone knows what passive investing is in order to keep the articles published in the editions of The Carnival of Passive Investing focused.
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. By using this method and avoiding individual stock selection, we are able to beat 70% or more of the investing "professionals" out there.
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 PICKING (even if they are dividend stocks), CREATING PASSIVE INCOME, OR MARKET TIMING. A definition of passive investing can be found here as well.
LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT MONTH'S EDITION - February 2012!
Thanks to our participants and host, Afford Anything. I (My Personal Finance Journey) will be our host of the next (February 2012 - # 15) edition, scheduled to go live on February 28th, 2012. Be sure to get your articles in now (see instructions below)!
Since Blog Carnival has ONCE AGAIN started to not work at all recently (most everyone that I know has had technical difficulties), you can use the Blog Carnival HQ submission form clicking here.
Also, I am now putting the final touches on the hosting schedule for 2012. Currently, all months have been claimed except for December 2012, so if you'd be interested in hosting on at the end of this year/beginning of 2013, take a look at the hosting schedule and then send me an email to get on the schedule.
