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

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

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

One of the most difficult tasks in building a portfolio is finding asset classes that do not move ...

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

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

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

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

I recently had a chance to interview Ken Kivenko, who runs Canadian Fund Watch and is allied with ...

Whenever people ask me where they can learn more about Couch Potato investing, I need to answer carefully ...

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

“Most actively managed mutual funds underperform the market.” Couch Potato investors sing this refrain all the time in ...

Should financial advisors be banned from collecting commissions on mutual funds? That’s been hotly debated for years, and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...