Within this sector another distinction can be made between operations of either an active or passive nature.
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This resistance can range from fairly subtle, such as avoidance or passive aggressive behavior, all the way to outright defiance, hostility, and sabotage.
It depends on whether the real estate is active or passive.
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Because many shareholders own their shares through a mutual fund, a pension plan, or other investment pool actively managed by a third party, they are indirect or passive owners.
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It also provides the context to finally answer the question that has burned ever since index or passive strategies came into existence: Which is better, active or passive management?
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It's not a time to pause or to be passive or to wait around for our problems to somehow fix themselves.
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Make sure you are balancing your communication style so that it is not too aggressive or too passive aggressive.
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"It's a curriculum in which the learner is completely absent, or just a passive consumer of information or knowledge, " he said.
One was Paqu, or "Passive Aggressive Queen of the Universe, " the much-married mother of Blake Lively's character who never met a Southern California trend she didn't embrace.
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There is always debate among investors as to whether style investing using index funds or a style-based asset class fund is an active management strategy or a passive one.
This hits interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, rents, income from a passive trade or business, and realized capital gains other than passive.
It is critical to not be on the sidelines or take a passive approach to the opportunities and threats.
The passive activity loss rules require us to divide our trade or business activities into passive and non-passive buckets.
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Income can be derived from salary, bonus, hourly, self-employed, passive or investment sources.
This factor is important given the new mobilization of groups such as the indigenous ones that were previously politically passive or excluded.
Have you been penalized for being too passive or too aggressive?
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The stereoscopic level (which can be adjusted) also seemed decent even if you move around the room, though still not nearly as good as passive or active 3D with glasses.
In enacting the exception, Congress explained that Subpart F is intended to apply to income of a foreign subsidiary that is either passive or easily moveable, and the lack of an exception caused the Congress to be concerned that the Subpart F provisions applied to income that is neither passive nor easily moveable.
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Although taxes for investment properties have been traditionally softer than for other types of investing, second homes seem to be a gray spot for the IRS. All rental losses are passive losses or hobby losses, and these can only be used against--written-off against--income from other passive activities like other rentals, a private partnership you don't help operate or an S-corporation.
You can also reap profits, or rents, as well as tax benefits, as a passive, absentee landowner or a speculator.
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John Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard Investment Group, champions the passive, or index, approach to investment.
The entire planet comes together, whether as active participants, passive viewers or those of us, who, by osmosis, get caught up in the international frenzy.
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Sure we all wanted these folks to go to jail but there did seem to be some justice in these settlements, or at least a passive acceptance.
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Losses in the passive bucket can only be used to the extent of profits and gains in the passive bucket or when an activity is totally disposed of.
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But the law also imposes for the first time ever a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on passive, or unearned, income, such as capital gains and dividends, for people in that same tax bracket.
In conclusion, this is no time for a passive, reactive or paralyzed American foreign policy.
As studies have long shown, most mutual-fund investors are best off sticking with cheaper passive index funds or exchange-traded funds.
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Retirees who want to withdraw 5% or more will need a more consistent and higher return profile for their investments than passive investments in the stock market or bond market can provide when starting valuations are high.
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