You got it all wrong about passive income.
There are two stages for investment, accumulation and distribution.
During the accumulation, you are to take the
passive income and capital gains to be reinvested FULLY for it to compound. Compound interest as Einstein said it is the 8th wonder of the world. This means all passive income and other gains from selling should be used as opportunity fund to purchase more investment to raise your total accumulated wealth. These passive income is not for spending otherwise you will not be able to compound your gains. Typically during this period depending on your investment horizon you would be in more risky investments. Typical ratio will be 50% to 80% stocks/UT, the rest in fixed income.
During the distribution, you are to convert your accumulated wealth generated during the accumulation stage and
convert to yield investments, where you will be now time to enjoy your hard work and draw down your investments as cost of living. At these time your passive income will be most useful to you to spend and not for accumulate more wealth. Typically at these time you would want to be invested in safer securities with lower fluctuations. Typical ratio will be 0%-30% stocks/UT and majority in fixed income.
For most people, once the accumulation stage enable them to go to the distribution stage, they they can finally retire and stop working and enjoy their passive income. This is what we call
financial freedom. Of course all of it depends on the risk profile as I have mentioned above.
So it is not advisable to go after passive income during your 'young' age is it? I'm now not referring to UT investment. So accumulation stage should start from your 20s to 50s?
Because by investing in stock, you get dividends. That would be passive income for the investors. Once again, I know it depend on risk appetite. But be aware that high dividend stocks tend to have lower risk. I would say that investing in a scale 8-9 UT funds (HSAO, HSAQ etc etc) are riskier than investing in high dividend stocks. And one can always start investing in dividends stocks (start distribution stage) rather than investing in UT (accumulation stage). Lots of assumption we can make here. i.e: dividends received can be reinvested back to the stock. But take note that usually 1 year of dividends received for the same stock can never be sufficient to be reinvested to even buy 1 lot of stock. Hence, accumulation stage is not valid.