Read? Active vs. Passive Investing: Which suit you? Hmm .. Uncle8888 realized it after reading the above. LOL! Actually; Uncle8888 is also into passive investing after Point X and just repeating Active/Passive investing across market cycles to another Point X for next batch of Touchstones. Read? Round 56 SCI @ $1.63 Is The Next New Multi-bagger In The Making? (2) Index ETF like STI ETF is nothing more than outsourcing to fund manager to do review and re-balancing every quarter based on survivorship of index components where last dying stock is replaced by the highest in the Reserve List waiting to join the Index. Uncle8888's self indexing portfolio consists of Multi-baggers, Touchstones and Sardines.  Sardines are slowly replaced by the next batch of Sardines when opportunity rises while Multi-baggers and Touchstones are self-survival and retained for passive income. This self indexing portfolio after 2016 has then transformed into Passive Income Self Indexing during his retirement where the self index portfolio pays out 100% of its earning....