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

ETFs are on the hot seat these days. On Wednesday, a US Senate subcommittee held a hearing to ...

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

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

Earlier this week I discussed the promise of fundamental indexing. This strategy takes aim at the shortcomings of ...

Currency hedging can be confusing for investors who use index funds and ETFs that hold foreign stocks or ...

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

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

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

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

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

Think about all the elements you need to be a successful index investor. First, you need to choose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...