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

Here's part two of my interview with Tim Pickering, president of Auspice Capital Advisors, who manages both the ...

Last fall, Horizons Exchange Traded Funds launched two innovative new ETFs. Rather than simply holding the stocks in ...

In the brief time they’ve been around, asset allocation ETFs have transformed the way DIY index investors manage ...

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

In my last post, I introduced the new Vanguard Retirement Income ETF Portfolio (VRIF), an asset allocation ETF ...

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

You don’t need a lot of mathematical horsepower to be a Couch Potato investor. Indeed, simplicity is one ...

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

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

Dan Solin’s excellent new book, The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own (see my review here), devotes several chapters to ...

Joel Greenblatt has a sense of humour—I’ll grant him that. In The Big Secret for the Small Investor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...