The newly launched Vanguard Retirement Income ETF Portfolio (VRIF) is designed to pay its unitholders a consistent monthly ...

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

Earlier this week I described how several US and international equity index funds get their market exposure by ...

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

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

Jason, a reader of this blog, recently wrote to ask why an investor would want to invest in ...

Today we take it for granted that virtually all mutual funds and stock pickers are trying to earn ...

Last week, Advisor.ca published a debate under the heading “Faceoff: Index, friend or foe?” The arguments against passive ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...