Responding to a recent article on mutual funds by Rob Carrick, a Globe and Mail reader rehashed a ...

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

Here's part two of my interview with Tim Pickering, president of Auspice Capital Advisors, who manages both the ...

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

Jason, a reader of this blog, recently wrote to ask why an investor would want to invest in ...

On Monday I wrote about managed futures, a strategy that can add a layer of diversification to a ...

Call off the hounds: I have finally updated my model Couch Potato portfolios for 2015. Full details appear ...

Today we take it for granted that virtually all mutual funds and stock pickers are trying to earn ...

Tom Bradley of Steadyhand Investment Funds wrote an insightful blog post yesterday about a television commercial for ING ...

Here is part two of my interview with Scott Burns, the newspaper columnist and Chief Investment Strategist at ...

Here are the 2014 returns for my Model Portfolios. The data below are from the funds' websites whenever ...

Whenever people ask me where they can learn more about Couch Potato investing, I need to answer carefully ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...