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Does This Thing Work?
This week I received an email from a reader of MoneySense magazine, where I write regularly about the Couch Potato strategy. Kate was concerned that i [...]
Another Reason to Distrust the Fund Industry
I recently had a chance to interview Ken Kivenko, who runs Canadian Fund Watch and is allied with the Small Investor Protection Association. Ken is a [...]
Review: The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio
Alexander Green retired at age 43 after having made his fortune as an investment adviser, market analyst and portfolio manager. He thinks the efficien [...]
Review: Lifecycle Investing
Most investors understand that you should have more exposure to stocks when you’re young and gradually allocate more to bonds and cash as you approach [...]
Should You Use Index Funds or ETFs?
[Note: A more up-to-date discussion of this idea, including a spreadsheet to help you with the math, can be found here.] This week I got an email from [...]
Not All Indexes Are Created Equal
The recently launched BMO Equal Weight REITs (ZRE), which invests in Canadian real estate investment trusts, will go head-to-head with the iShares S& [...]
Build Your Own Pension-Fund Portfolio
It’s always interesting to know what the smart money is doing. And I’m not talking about the investment managers who appear on BNN to “talk their book [...]
Tips for Trading ETFs
I happened to have Google Finance open on my computer last week when the “flash crash” happened. While the market's whipsaw on May 6 affected almost a [...]
Indexing’s Dirty Little Secret
“Most actively managed mutual funds underperform the market.” Couch Potato investors sing this refrain all the time in defense of ETFs and index funds [...]
International Tracking Error: Part 3
In this final post in the series on why international index funds performed so poorly in 2009, it’s time to look at currency hedging. Currency hedging [...]
