It was an honor for us to have passive investing author, Jerry Tweddell, helping to pick this month's top articles, as his book, Winning with Index Mutual Funds, was one of the books that I have leveraged over the years to design my passive investing strategy.
Carnival of Passive Investing # 11 - October 2011
Thanks to everyone for participating. Congrats to this month's top 3 picks (shown below)!
1. Glen Craig presents, What is DRIP Investing and How Can it Grow Your Wealth?, posted at Free From Broke.We often hear how dividends can grow your wealth. One way this is done is through a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP). But, what is a DRIP, and how exactly can it grow your wealth? If you are new to investing, this is a great way to get started.
2. Suba presents, This little piggy wants to retire, posted at Wealth Informatics. A very clever investing tale, inspired by an old story.
3. The Wealthy Canadian presents, Becoming An Index Investor: The Strategy, posted at The Wealthy Canadian. This article discusses incorporating index funds and ETFs as part of one’s overall investment strategy. This post is part 1 of 3.
What is Passive Investing?
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% of 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.
Looking Ahead to Next Month's Edition
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 Workaround submission form that Canadian Finance Blog developed by clicking here. Just remember to scroll down the drop-down menu until you see "The Carnival of Passive Investing" before clicking, "submit."
Also, I am now beginning to put together the hosting schedule for 2012 since the 2011 is coming to a close. Currently, all months minus January and March (this carnival is only monthly) are open, so if you'd be interested in hosting, take a look at the hosting schedule and then send me an email to get on the schedule.