Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
tant activement que passivement
English translation:
both actively and passively
French term
United Kingdom
Sensible solutions
Native in: English (Variant: Wessexois) 
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
tant activement que passivement
A qui le constituant donne tous les pouvoirs nécessaires de gérer et administrer avec la diligence requise tant activement que passivement tous biens et affaires et notamment :
(There follows a long list of all powers, e.g. opening and closing bank accounts, receiving money, paying professional advisors etc.)
"managing and administering both actively and passively" sounds odd to me
Could it mean "managing and administering both the assets and liabilities"?
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Conor McAuley
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Native in: English (Variants: Irish, British, Wales / Welsh, UK, Scottish)
Works in: French to English, English
both actively and passively
By choosing to do things and by choosing not to do things.
An investment is doing well -- leave the money where it is. (Passive -- no action taken.)
An investment is doing badly -- move the money. (Active -- action taken.)
By doing things and by not doing things.
"by choosing to take action and by choosing not to take action"
is the only way I can put it in the right register in a different way.
HTH.
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You see "gérer" > manage is more active, whereas "administrer" is more passive (unless it involves running a company of course), hence perhaps the need to stress the active and passive elements of the power of attorney.
I can't see that there's much more to it.
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philgoddard
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liz askew
: pretty straightforward:)
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SafeTex
: yes, there is no reason to complicate this
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Timothy Rake
: I tend to agree with AllegroTrans that it sounds awkward; personally, I think a better solution with the same essential meaning: "either actively or not"
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Fair enough, language perception is personal, and that's well and good
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Saeed Najmi
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Nils Andersson
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Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 6 more.
both actively 'hands-on' and passively 'hands-off'
Active and passive management are albeit questionable terms of financial art and, though justifiable in other instances and Romance lingos, doesn't equate with 'as principal and vicariously as agent'.
Why Would an Investor be Hands Off? Hands-off investing is a commonly applied strategy used to *passively* manage money when time is scarce for an investor.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french-to-english/finance-general/3592993-être-géré-passivement.html
http://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/trading-investing/hands-off-investor/
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