It’s not easy to make a splash in the crowded ETF space these days. Many of the new ...

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

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

Asset allocation ETFs were revolutionary when they appeared in 2018, but they were hardly the first products that ...

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

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

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

Last week, Advisor.ca published a debate under the heading “Faceoff: Index, friend or foe?” The arguments against passive ...

The numbers are in and no one is shooting the messenger this year. If 2018 was disappointment—returns were negative ...

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

There are countless books laying out the case for index investing, but as far as I know there ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...