You work. You actively haul bricks. You actively correct lens optics on telescopes in space. You actively work, so you actively earn income, on which you're actively taxed at ordinary income rates by the kindly, loving people of the IRS.
Specifically, when you're active, the IRS views you as taxable fodder if you work 500+ hours in the year. The key concept maps to passive income, which is just income derived from investments, i.e., things like dividend income, bond interest, and rent payments. Those would be passive income elements, even if you had to work really hard to collect the money.
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Finance a la shmoop.. what are active investing and active management? Active
doing something, active as in trying to beat the market by trading stocks active [People riding a bike on stock market appears on board]
as in humans making decisions often with the help of computers trying to beat
their index or the overall market ie the S&P 500 that's what we mean by the
market active; investing.. active; management okay
passive just passive.. active is what hedge funds and mutual funds and any
kind of funds that have a strategy do they actively try to invest money such
that the performance of their portfolio does better than whatever index or
benchmark it's measured against and notice were not talking about after-tax [Man discussing active investments]
performance here because remember every time you trade in a taxable account
while the attacks men cometh but we won't go there right now..... Your benchmark
compare is versus the S&P 500 and you manage a broadly based mutual fund the
passive investing cousin in this investment is an index fund think ticker
SPY, that's the biggest S&P 500 index fund well index funds are not actively
managed they are passively managed they just sit there and get tweaked a little [Pile of money grows larger overnight]
bit each year or really each quarter to kind of mirror the S&P 500 or whatever
their index is supposed to mirror but they just kind of sit there there's no
human trying to beat the market they are the market index funds are the
market and yeah 99% of actively managed funds don't beat the market over any
extended period of year like five or ten years very few ever beat the market and
essentially none of them beat the market after taxes so then why would someone
invest in an actively managed mutual fund when they're paying taxes and
they're thinking about an index fund as a comparable well basically they're one [Mutual funds on a table and a lollipop appears]
of these so yeah don't be one of these guys
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