In episode 24 of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast, I’m joined by Preet Banerjee, the Renaissance man of personal finance. After a stint as an investment advisor, which ended in disillusionment, Preet [...]
It’s been a while since our last CCP podcast, but we’re back with an all-new episode. This time I’ve devoted the whole show to answering questions from listeners and readers. Here are some issues we [...]
In episode 22 of the podcast, I revisit smart beta, one of the most significant trends in the ETF marketplace. To help explain what smart beta is, and the challenges faced by investors who use these s [...]
In my final podcast episode of 2018, I’m joined by Larry Swedroe, who has long been one of my favourite authors on investing and financial planning. Larry and I discuss his latest book, Your Complete [...]
I’ve always tried to stress that successful investing is about the right process, not the right products. But good products certainly help. In the latest episode of the podcast, my guest is Todd Schla [...]
There’s a common theme in all three segments of Episode 19 of the podcast: the risk-return trade-off between stocks and bonds. This is hardly an original idea, but it remains one of the most important [...]
On episode 18 of the podcast, I’m joined by The Globe and Mail’s Rob Carrick, who I think is the top personal finance journalist in Canada. When I made my living as a financial writer, it was always d [...]
Episode 17 of the podcast strays from my usual focus on index investing. That’s because it’s almost impossible to talk about investing today without acknowledging the role of real estate. One of the m [...]
In Episode 16 of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast, I’m joined by Ben Carlson, the author of A Wealth of Common Sense and creator of the excellent blog of the same name. Ben is also Director of Instit [...]
The latest episode of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast focuses on the relationship between cost and complexity in your investment plan. You can often lower fees in your portfolio with a few simple ch [...]