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

In my last post I reviewed the returns of my model ETF portfolios in 2021. Now let's take ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1951, a Princeton University student wrote a thesis about the mutual fund industry. “Funds can make no ...

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

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

One of the most gratifying things about writing this blog is getting emails from young people who are ...

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 ...

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

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

If your investments include RRSPs, TFSAs and taxable accounts, asset location is an important consideration. The returns of ...

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 ...