About

Welcome to Canadian Couch Potato. This blog is designed for Canadians who want to learn more about investing using index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In 2011, it was selected by The Globe and Mail as the best investing blog in Canada.

The Couch Potato strategy—also called index investing, or passive investing—is growing in popularity as more people become disillusioned with mutual funds and stock-picking strategies that try, usually in vain, to beat the market.

The blog’s author is Dan Bortolotti, a journalist who has written about personal finance for many Canadian magazines, including MoneySense (where he writes a regular column called Index Investor), Canadian MoneySaver, Financial Post, More, Chatelaine and Today’s Parent. His personal finance articles have earned three National Magazine Awards nominations since 2010. Dan completed the Canadian Securities Course in 2009.

If you’re a Canadian investor who is thinking about embracing the Couch Potato strategy—or if you’re already one of the enlightened—you’ll find all the information you need right here.

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