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The Making of a Couch Potato
I know very few people who began their investing lives as Couch Potatoes. Most started out in mutual funds or as stock pickers and, somewhere along th [...]
Can Your Funds Outperform Over a Lifetime?
Advocates of active management admit that only a minority of mutual funds will outperform their benchmarks, but they argue there is still a significan [...]
Beating the Market Is a New Idea
Today we take it for granted that virtually all mutual funds and stock pickers are trying to earn higher returns than the overall market — or at least [...]
A DRIP in the Bucket
One of the downsides of using ETFs—as opposed to index mutual funds—is that dividends and interest are not automatically reinvested. Instead, they are [...]
Does Rebalancing Boost Returns?
Rebalancing your portfolio has two potential benefits. The first is that it helps control risk by keeping your asset allocation more or less consisten [...]
How to Lower Your Rebalancing Costs
Last week I looked at why you should rebalance your portfolio, and considered the question of how often to do it. The frequency with which you rebalan [...]
How Often Should You Rebalance?
In my previous post, I looked at the reasons why investors should occasionally rebalance their portfolios. When a portfolio contains both fixed-income [...]
Why Rebalance Your Portfolio?
An important part of the indexing strategy is that you occasionally rebalance your portfolio back to its target asset allocation. I get a lot of quest [...]
The U Portfolio
I recently received the following article from an investment advisor in western Canada. It contains a proven strategy for achieving outstanding return [...]
Under the Hood: Vanguard Total International Stock (VXUS)
This post is part of a series called Under the Hood, where l take a detailed look at specific ETFs or index funds. The fund: Vanguard Total Internatio [...]
