Two of the biggest trends in investing these days are the popularity of one-fund portfolios and the focus ...

Investors using the TD e-Series mutual funds may have noticed an unusual episode at year-end. The TD International ...

Many international equity ETFs showed large tracking errors in 2009. For example, the iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund ...

One of the most difficult tasks in building a portfolio is finding asset classes that do not move ...

Just about everyone was happy to wave goodbye to 2020. By the spring it was shaping up to ...

I received an email recently from Scott, a reader with a great question about index funds and ETFs ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...