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Is Your Portfolio Just a Pile of Parts?
Is there difference between a diversified portfolio and a collection of investments? That’s an insightful question Chris Turnbull asks in his new book [...]
Deep Thoughts on Diversification
Just shy of two years ago—in October 2011—I wrote a post that laid out the year-to-date returns for the Complete Couch Potato portfolio. If you can re [...]
Will Mutual Fund Advisors Soon Be Selling ETFs?
There are many reasons why relatively few Canadian investors use ETFs compared with actively managed mutual funds. There’s about $900 billion in mutua [...]
ETF Choices Are Less Important Than You Think
The comments following my recent post about new ETFs from Vanguard were another reminder of just how often investors get overly focused on products. I [...]
Inside the New Vanguard ETFs
Vanguard Canada launched some new ETFs this week, and I spoke with managing director Atul Tiwari about the funds. Let’s take a closer look. Cross-Cana [...]
How to Argue With a Couch Potato
Last week, Advisor.ca published a debate under the heading “Faceoff: Index, friend or foe?” The arguments against passive investing should be helpful [...]
Is Your Bond Fund Really Losing Money?
When the yield on 10-year federal bonds spiked earlier this year—from 1.88% on May 16 all the way to 2.55% on July 5—the value of broad-based bond ETF [...]
More Power in Passive Portfolios
Rick Ferri and Alex Benke recently collaborated on an interesting white paper called A Case for Index Fund Portfolios, which I introduced in my previo [...]
Putting the Portfolio Odds in Your Favour
It’s well known that the majority of actively managed mutual funds underperform comparable index funds over any period longer than a few years. In fac [...]
Seeing Diversification in Action
Why should you add multiple asset classes to your portfolio? That seems like a simple question, but it’s one many investors would answer with only a v [...]
