By staying neutral and direct, you take away their ability to manipulate the situation. They’ll squirm under the spotlight ...

We've all been there. That seemingly innocuous comment, wrapped in a thin veneer of politeness or even humor, that leaves you ...

One significant decision you’ll need to make is whether you want to follow an active or a passive investment strategy. Passive investing (also called “buy and hold”) is much less hands-on.

The active versus passive debate is a long-standing one, in which active bond managers have had more success than their equity counterparts, according to Morningstar. An analysis of its 38 equity ...

Actively managed funds continued to lag behind their passive counterparts in 2024, with less than half of them outperforming comparable index funds, according to Morningstar’s latest US Active ...

From grade school onwards most everybody is taught that sentences in the active voice are the end-all and be-all of English, and that sentences in the passive voice should be avoided like the plague.

That’s right. Despite building his wealth through active stock investing, Buffett advises the average investor to pursue a passive approach. In my view, for most people, the best thing to do is ...

Despite headlines dominated by the Fed, election rhetoric and geopolitical strife, a confluence of indicators suggest that we are in a stock pickers’ market. First, macro signals are more ...

the passive voice serves an important function in information packaging. Here’s another example of how it does this: Where active voice would separate key ideas, passive voice can unite them.

Microsoft Word 2010 can help punch up your document's prose by alerting you when you use passive voice in a sentence. If you write "the goal was achieved" instead of the more active "we achieved ...