Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Rob Arnott, the creator of the Research ...

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 ...

This post is the second of three that will look at the potential risks that ETFs may pose ...

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

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

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

I never meant to make you cry And though I know I shouldn’t call It just reminds us ...

As index investing has gained popularity, it is also attracted its share of scorn. The latest example is ...

Dan Solin’s excellent new book, The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own (see my review here), devotes several chapters to ...

Here are the 2013 performance figures for my Model Portfolios. Last year was one of stark contrasts: huge ...

There comes a time in every Couch Potato’s life when he or she has to answer a nagging ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

I’ve always tried to stress that successful investing is about the right process, not the right products. But ...

Last January, I overhauled my model portfolios to make them simpler. Some of the older options included small-cap ...

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 ...