On Monday I wrote about managed futures, a strategy that can add a layer of diversification to a ...

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

This post is part of a series called Under the Hood, where l take a detailed look at ...

Responding to a recent article on mutual funds by Rob Carrick, a Globe and Mail reader rehashed a ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...