Back in February, writing about the newly launched Vanguard’s asset allocation ETFs, I asked why it had taken ...

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

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

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

This post is part of a series called Under the Hood, where l take a detailed look at ...

For almost 20 years, the TD e-Series mutual funds have been one of the cheapest and easiest ways ...

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

Q. Have you ever done any calculations into the optimal time to purchase index funds or ETFs based ...

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

I never meant to make you cry And though I know I shouldn’t call It just reminds us ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...