The Power of the 3BAL Portfolio
[Spoiler: This was an April Fool's joke!] Simple is beautiful, but in investing it ultimately loses its appeal. Since the beginning of 2018, all three of Canada’s top ETF providers have launched famil [...]
An Even Better Reason to Fix Your Portfolio
So your portfolio is a disaster. Your RRSP is full of high-cost mutual funds, sprinkled with some random stocks and a bunch of exotic ETFs that seemed like a good idea at the time. You know it’s time [...]
Couch Potato Portfolio Returns for 2015
With 2015 now in the books, it’s time to look back on the year that was. It was another year of surprises: after the gurus continued to predict higher interest rates, the Bank of Canada shocked almost [...]
Canadian Couch Potato Threatened By Legal Action
[Note: This post was an April Fool's joke!] I regret to announce that this blog is in jeopardy of being shut down due to pending legal action. On the afternoon of Friday, March 29, I received a letter [...]
Couch Potato Portfolio Returns for 2012
I think we can safely say we are now almost four years into the most disrespected bull market in history, to borrow a phrase from Alexander Green. In a recent roundtable in The Wall Street Journal, th [...]
