Earlier this week I discussed the promise of fundamental indexing. This strategy takes aim at the shortcomings of ...

Well, another year is in the books and it's time to review how investors fared if they used ...

Currency hedging can be confusing for investors who use index funds and ETFs that hold foreign stocks or ...

Asset allocation ETFs were revolutionary when they appeared in 2018, but they were hardly the first products that ...

In my last post I reviewed the returns of my model ETF portfolios in 2021. Now let's take ...

I would have been kicked out of journalism school for writing this: “The culprit behind the epidemic of ...

I recently had a chance to interview Ken Kivenko, who runs Canadian Fund Watch and is allied with ...

This week I was dismissive about the Dynamic Funds that swept this year’s Canadian Investment Awards. I argued ...

This post is the sixth (and last) in a series exploring the myths and misunderstandings about dividend investing ...

Here are the 2013 performance figures for my Model Portfolios. Last year was one of stark contrasts: huge ...

You don’t need a lot of mathematical horsepower to be a Couch Potato investor. Indeed, simplicity is one ...

In 1951, a Princeton University student wrote a thesis about the mutual fund industry. “Funds can make no ...

John Lawrence Reynolds' newest book, The Skeptical Investor, argues that Canadians were badly served by their advisors during ...

Should financial advisors be banned from collecting commissions on mutual funds? That’s been hotly debated for years, and ...

Q: My wife and I have been using the Couch Potato strategy for a few years now, but ...

If your investments include RRSPs, TFSAs and taxable accounts, asset location is an important consideration. The returns of ...

Last week’s post about Monte Carlo simulations in financial planning sparked some interesting comments, so I thought a ...

Q: I am ready to follow the Couch Potato and would like to use the US-listed Vanguard ETFs ...

In the last couple of weeks I’ve received two questions from readers who were trying to figure out ...

I’ve always tried to stress that successful investing is about the right process, not the right products. But ...

I used to own one of those one-piece cutlery tools designed for hiking and camping—the kind with a ...

Last January, I overhauled my model portfolios to make them simpler. Some of the older options included small-cap ...

If you’re a parent, how can you set your child on the road to investing success? One popular ...

The latest episode of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast features an interview with Dr. Stephen Wendel, Head of ...

For DIY investors, asset allocation ETFs may be the greatest gift to come along in decades. It’s never ...

It’s easy enough to build an index fund portfolio with your desired mix of stocks and bonds. But ...

It’s been a while since the last new article appeared on the Canadian Couch Potato blog, and over ...

The TD e-Series index mutual funds remain a useful alternative to the asset allocation ETFs that take centre ...

In Episode 4 of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast, I answered the following question from a listener named ...

In my last few posts, I introduced the newly launched Vanguard Retirement Income ETF Portfolio (VRIF), explained where ...