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 ...

It’s been a stressful few months for investors using the popular swap-based ETFs from Horizons. These funds have ...

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

The recently launched BMO Equal Weight REITs (ZRE), which invests in Canadian real estate investment trusts, will go head-to-head ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Just how well are mutual fund investors faring in Canada? That question isn’t as straightforward as it may ...

Think about all the elements you need to be a successful index investor. First, you need to choose ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...