Welcome to the fourth edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing! I’m honoured that Jacob allowed Canadian Finance Blog to be the first site this carnival has travelled to since it’s first three editions were published at his blog, My Personal Finance Journey.
With posts needing to be narrowed down to the theme of passive investing, I had to omit some great articles that unfortunately didn’t fit the theme. For example there were a few posts on dividend stocks… while the dividends may be passive income, picking stocks is not passive investing. I did let a few “on the bubble” posts through, like DRIPs since it’s passive reinvesting and an energy retrofit that invests in the value of your home. Otherwise, I tried to stick to Jacob’s vision of having this carnival truly target passive investing.
Editor’s Picks
To sweeten the pot this month, My Personal Finance Journey is giving away a $25 Wal-Mart gift card to the #1 editor’s pick. So congratulations to Monevator, who submitted a detailed post on lowering your ETF costs by reducing the bid-offer spread.
1. The Investor presents How the bid-offer spread inflates your ETF costs posted at Monevator.
2. Tushar Mathur presents Why Passive Investing Beats Active Investing posted at Everything Finance.
3. Jon Elder presents ETFs 101, What You Need to Know posted at Free Money Wisdom.
And More…
Dan Bortolotti presents Where Do Returns Come From? posted at Canadian Couch Potato.
Wise Bread presents While Waiting for Rates – IBonds posted at Wisebread.
Echo presents How To Invest Your Money: Part Three – Finding Your Strategy posted at Boomer & Echo.
Jim Yih presents Understanding Index Linked GIC Products posted at Retire Happy Blog.
Jessica presents Treasury ETFs posted at MomVesting.
DSO presents Boost Your Retirement Savings with DRIPs posted at Dividend Stocks.
Craig/FFB presents Betterment.com: Investing in Stocks and Bonds Made Easy – Review posted at Free From Broke.
Mike Piper presents Picking Mutual Funds: Don’t Just Look at the Winners posted at Oblivious Investor.
Rob Bennett presents Valuation-Informed Indexing #33: The Market Is Backward-Looking | ValueWalk.com posted at ValueWalk.com.
Sustainable PF presents Our ecoEnergy Retrofit posted at Sustainable Personal Finance.
That’s it for this month’s edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing. Bloggers, be sure to submit your passive investing posts for April’s carnival, which will be hosted at A Rich Life!
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Glad we made the cut! Thanks for including us Tom. Today I posted the results of the retrofit. We got a whoppin’ $3,195 in rebates back from the ON government!
Thanks much for inclusion of “The Market Is Backward-Looking,” Tom.
Your intro raises a question that I think all Passive Investing enthusiasts need to think long and hard about: What exactly IS Passive Investing?
I’m grateful to be included in this group of smart and good people and I certainly am “passive” in that I advocate investing in index funds rather than picking stocks. But I know that there are some passive investing enthusiasts who don’t think I belong because I advocate long-term market timing (but certainly not short-term market timing).
My belief is that Passive Investing is a relatively new phenomenon and that it is too early to be drawing hard and strong lines as to what is in and what is out. Passive Investing is research-based investing and, as the research teaches us different things, we are as a community going to be changing our beliefs about all sorts of things.
There do need to be lines, to be sure. Day Trading is not Passive Investing. Following hot stock tips is not Passive Investing. I just think we need to be careful to draw the lines in ways that do not cause us to cut off learning experiences that can help us take Passive Investing to even better and more enriching places in the future.
Anyway, I AM glad to be included. I don’t agree with everything that all passive investors say but there are more points re which I am in agreement than there are re which I am in disagreement. There’s lots of smart material prepared by lots of helpful people linked to above and it cheers me to see my name showing up in that group.
Rob
Thanks for including us in the carnival Tom!
Thanks for including my post.
Many thanks for including me, Tom. Lots of great resources here for passive investors.
Thanks for the inclusion!
Thanks for hosting and including my article!
Thanks Tom for the informative post and the links.
Thanks so much for hosting the carnival and also for sticking to the theme of passive investing! Quality over quantity!