Canadian Finance Blog

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:00 AM PDT

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing! I’m honoured that Jacob allowed Canadian Finance Blog to be the first site this carnival has travelled to since it’s first three editions were published at his blog, My Personal Finance Journey.

With posts needing to be narrowed down to the theme of passive investing, I had to omit some great articles that unfortunately didn’t fit the theme. For example there were a few posts on dividend stocks… while the dividends may be passive income, picking stocks is not passive investing. I did let a few “on the bubble” posts through, like DRIPs since it’s passive reinvesting and an energy retrofit that invests in the value of your home. Otherwise, I tried to stick to Jacob’s vision of having this carnival truly target passive investing.

Editor’s Picks

To sweeten the pot this month, My Personal Finance Journey is giving away a $25 Wal-Mart gift card to the #1 editor’s pick. So congratulations to Monevator, who submitted a detailed post on lowering your ETF costs by reducing the bid-offer spread.

1. The Investor presents How the bid-offer spread inflates your ETF costs posted at Monevator.

2. Tushar Mathur presents Why Passive Investing Beats Active Investing posted at Everything Finance.

3. Jon Elder presents ETFs 101, What You Need to Know posted at Free Money Wisdom.

And More…

Dan Bortolotti presents Where Do Returns Come From? posted at Canadian Couch Potato.

Wise Bread presents While Waiting for Rates – IBonds posted at Wisebread.

Echo presents How To Invest Your Money: Part Three – Finding Your Strategy posted at Boomer & Echo.

Jim Yih presents Understanding Index Linked GIC Products posted at Retire Happy Blog.

Jessica presents Treasury ETFs posted at MomVesting.

DSO presents Boost Your Retirement Savings with DRIPs posted at Dividend Stocks.

Craig/FFB presents Betterment.com: Investing in Stocks and Bonds Made Easy – Review posted at Free From Broke.

Mike Piper presents Picking Mutual Funds: Don't Just Look at the Winners posted at Oblivious Investor.

Rob Bennett presents Valuation-Informed Indexing #33: The Market Is Backward-Looking | ValueWalk.com posted at ValueWalk.com.

Sustainable PF presents Our ecoEnergy Retrofit posted at Sustainable Personal Finance.

That’s it for this month’s edition of the Carnival of Passive Investing. Bloggers, be sure to submit your passive investing posts for April’s carnival, which will be hosted at A Rich Life!