Earlier this week I described how several US and international equity index funds get their market exposure by ...

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

Not so long ago, ETFs were simple and transparent. But with the tremendous growth in the industry, ETFs ...

This is the final post in a series of three looking at the potential risks that ETFs may ...

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

The newly launched Vanguard Retirement Income ETF Portfolio (VRIF) is designed to pay its unitholders a consistent monthly ...

This post is the fourth in a series exploring the myths and misunderstandings about dividend investing. The goal ...

There comes a time in every Couch Potato’s life when he or she has to answer a nagging ...

Last Saturday’s Globe and Mail featured a story about a retired university professor who has enjoyed staggeringly good ...

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

Imagine that you’re the marketing director for MegaAlpha Investments and you want to advertise two of your mutual ...

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

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

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

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

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

When I wrote the MoneySense Guide to the Perfect Portfolio [now out of print], I waited until Chapter ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...