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Active vs. Passive Investors: You Might Be Surprised by Which One Outperforms

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If you want to be a more active investor than that, and aim for even higher returns, you might engage in both active and passive investing. Want to aim for more? Devote a significant portion of your money to index funds, and the rest to carefully selected individual stocks -- or whatever you believe in most.

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The 2 Best High-Yield Energy Stocks in Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF

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It is designed to broadly represent the economy, so this makes sense and makes an S&P 500-based ETF a good pick for passive investors. However, if you are a dividend investor, Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF could offer a similar solution with an income twist. That said, there's one problem.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

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What lase pointed out in his paper was that passive had to transact during periods in which there was index rebalancing. 00:20:33 And so in that period they ceased to be passive investors, they became active investors, and that became an opportunity for outperformance. There is no such thing as passive investing.

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Author Lawrence McDonald Chats With "Motley Fool Money"

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Jamie Dimon's letter this week from JP Morgan Chase also addressed that idea of how big those passive investors are and what that means for the market, what it means for things like proxy statements that all of these decisions are being made mostly automatically now versus active investors trading in and out of the market.

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