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

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

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

For almost 20 years, the TD e-Series mutual funds have been one of the cheapest and easiest ways ...

Just about everyone was happy to wave goodbye to 2020. By the spring it was shaping up to ...

Here's part two of my interview with Jaime Purvis, Executive Vice-President, National Accounts, for Horizons ETFs. (See part ...

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

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

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

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

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

Your eyes open slowly, and the light stings your retinas. Your mouth is burning with thirst, your muscles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...