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 ...

Other professional investors use passive funds as low-cost defensive ballast. While stocks can offer long-term growth, having ...

One Word, Two Meanings Everybody knows that there are active funds, and there are passive funds. Those are the terms used across the industry--by investment consultants, financial advisors, the media, ...

Conflict tends to be the norm in discussions about active and passive investing approaches, but it shouldn't be. While a March 2019 article in The Wall Street Journal reinforces the idea that "few ...

For many writers, feedback that your copy is "too passive" can be frustrating. The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications ...

When you're thinking about active vs. passive investing, it's important to realize that there are benefits to each. Active investing requires someone to actively manage a fund or account, while ...

This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the verb). A sentence is in ...

People who give advice on copywriting often say, “Avoid using the passive voice.” This universal statement is not always correct but, more importantly, it is often confusing because most of us use ...

There are notable differences between active and passive funds, and understanding the difference is important to your investment process. There has been a lot of debate over whether active funds or ...

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 ...