Q: I’m reading that a smart investor only uses “passive” funds — what does that mean? A: A short answer is that “passive” investment funds use computers and algorithms to pick their contents. They ...

Whether you’re an active or passive investor, you can take advantage of a “dollar-cost” averaging technique. While it might not seem obvious, financial investing is mainly driven by the individual ...

Passive income is about making your money work for you and typically involves an initial investment of time, effort or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Host of the Retire Sooner podcast and CFP™ practitioner. Is one of the most popular investing strategies quietly distorting the ...

As a member of probably the last generation to grow up with a rotary dial phone in the house, I can still recall when there was clear distinction between phones and computers. Phones were utilitarian ...

We’ll define both and show you the differences, including which types of income qualify as active and which are passive. Both incomes are required throughout your lifetime, but combining the power of ...

Active investing may sound like a better approach than passive investing. After all, we’re prone to see active things as more powerful, dynamic and capable. Active and passive investing each have some ...

It’s not a pretty picture: Most funds failed to survive and outperform over longer time frames. The report also breaks down the distribution of active funds’ excess returns versus index funds over the ...

Historically, most exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been passive. But that’s starting to change, with more and more active ETFs coming to market. The growth in active ETFs is largely the result of ...

In a competitive industry, Active Passive does n't differentiate itself enough, leading to an Average Parent Pillar rating. A strength of Active Passive is that its product shelf of open-end and ...