Educating Myself with the Passive Investing Carnival

I’m honored to host this week’s Carnival of Passive Investing. This is a topic I’m not very familiar with, the closest I probably get to this type of investing is through my mutual funds, but technically dividend investing doesn’t count. So on a mission to learn as much as I can about passive investing, I’m using this carnival as my jumping off point to learn a little about how I can get started:

My Top Picks

These three articles are great starting points with varying points of entry; a look at passive investing through real estate, target date funds (something I’ve been wanting to investigate myself), and how compounding interest works (not so sure this qualifies as “passive investing” but it’s a great edu-ma-cational article for edu-ma-cating myself):

• Harry Campbell presents Reader Question: Investing in Real Estate Without a Down Payment, What is an REIT? posted at Your Personal Finance Pro
• Roger Wohlner presents Vanguard Target Date Funds – A Look Under The Hood posted at The Chicago Financial Planner
• John presents Compounding Interest 101 | First Step to Financial Security posted at Fearless Men

Stocks, 007 James Bonds, and Securities

• Harry Campbell presents Investing in I Bonds: An Intro to I Bonds for Young Investors posted at Your Personal Finance Pro
• Young presents Why Is There No Competition For the TD E-Series? posted at Young And Thrifty
• Jacob @ My Personal Finance Journey presents Buying Government Securities Through Treasury Direct posted at My Personal Finance Journey
• Alex Peters presents Does the S&P Has a Seasonal Pattern? posted at TradingAcademy.com
• Michael presents Historical Stock Market Performance posted at Financial Ramblings
• John Schmoll presents Is Buy and Hold Stock Investing Dead? posted at Frugal Rules

Funds for Everyone

• Roger Wohlner presents Mutual Funds-Should You Pay Extra for Active Management? posted at The Chicago Financial Planner
• Miranda @ Excess Return presents What is an ETF and How Does it Work? posted at Excess Return
• The Archivist presents Foreign ETFs Provide Protection and Opportunity: BRICS Edition posted at The Market Archive
• Roger Wohlner presents Index Funds: Know What You Are Buying posted at The Chicago Financial Planner

Retirement, Real Estate, and the Rest

• Scott presents Adding an Annuity to Your Retirement Plan posted at One Smart Dollar
• Vlad Opras presents Mortgage Marketing | Senior Marketing® posted at Life Insurance Leads from Senior Marketing
• Pete presents How Blogging Improves My Trading posted at Intelligent Speculator

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