This blog discusses more on active management strategies. However, aside from honing and building the skill to manage an active portfolio, identifying individual stocks, when to sell and buy, a simple strategy for the average folk is what I hope to uncover.

And in some situations, a passive investing strategy may be more applicable than stock picking an active portfolio.

Andrew Hallam, of Millionaire Teacher fame, shared with us in this article on his fight with bone cancer at age 38 years old. Of particular interest is one of the main reasons he shifted to using a passive investing strategy:

When I was diagnosed with cancer, my wife and I had a relatively complex investing portfolio shaped by my investing enthusiasm. But she wasn’t interested in the stock market. If I did have a magic formula for investing (something I seriously doubt) she wasn’t keen on learning it.

Recognizing that ...