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

Currency hedging can be confusing for investors who use index funds and ETFs that hold foreign stocks or ...

Are asset allocation ETFs cheap, well-diversified and convenient? Absolutely. Are they optimally tax-efficient? Perhaps not, though any tax ...

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

In this final post in the series on why international index funds performed so poorly in 2009, it’s ...

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

The mutual fund industry loves to sell past performance, and it's not above massaging the data to make ...

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

This post is the sixth (and last) in a series exploring the myths and misunderstandings about dividend investing ...

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

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

Here are the 2013 performance figures for my Model Portfolios. Last year was one of stark contrasts: huge ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...