This is the final post in a series of three looking at the potential risks that ETFs may ...

The ongoing popularity of asset allocation ETFs is undoubtedly a good thing—maybe even revolutionary. Canadians have enthusiastically embraced ...

Well, another year is in the books and it's time to review how investors fared if they used ...

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

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

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

You’ve got an RRSP with your employer, another with a discount brokerage, and your spouse has a couple ...

Is it possible for a portfolio to be too diversified? There are certainly a lot of articles making ...

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

Advocates of active management admit that only a minority of mutual funds will outperform their benchmarks, but they ...

This has been a scary few months in the markets, and nervous investors may be tempted to second-guess ...

I know very few people who began their investing lives as Couch Potatoes. Most started out in mutual ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...