Earlier this week I discussed the promise of fundamental indexing. This strategy takes aim at the shortcomings of ...

This is the final post in a series of three looking at the potential risks that ETFs may ...

Are asset allocation ETFs cheap, well-diversified and convenient? Absolutely. Are they optimally tax-efficient? Perhaps not, though any tax ...

Two of the biggest trends in investing these days are the popularity of one-fund portfolios and the focus ...

It’s been a stressful few months for investors using the popular swap-based ETFs from Horizons. These funds have ...

Here's part two of my interview with Tim Pickering, president of Auspice Capital Advisors, who manages both the ...

This has been a scary few months in the markets, and nervous investors may be tempted to second-guess ...

You don’t need a lot of mathematical horsepower to be a Couch Potato investor. Indeed, simplicity is one ...

I know very few people who began their investing lives as Couch Potatoes. Most started out in mutual ...

Advocates of active management admit that only a minority of mutual funds will outperform their benchmarks, but they ...

Is it possible for a portfolio to be too diversified? There are certainly a lot of articles making ...

This post is the fourth in a series exploring the myths and misunderstandings about dividend investing. The goal ...

Q: My wife and I have been using the Couch Potato strategy for a few years now, but ...

Last week’s post about Monte Carlo simulations in financial planning sparked some interesting comments, so I thought a ...

If your investments include RRSPs, TFSAs and taxable accounts, asset location is an important consideration. The returns of ...

John Lawrence Reynolds' newest book, The Skeptical Investor, argues that Canadians were badly served by their advisors during ...

Should financial advisors be banned from collecting commissions on mutual funds? That’s been hotly debated for years, and ...

When I wrote the MoneySense Guide to the Perfect Portfolio [now out of print], I waited until Chapter ...

In the last couple of weeks I’ve received two questions from readers who were trying to figure out ...

I used to own one of those one-piece cutlery tools designed for hiking and camping—the kind with a ...

Last January, I overhauled my model portfolios to make them simpler. Some of the older options included small-cap ...

I’ve always tried to stress that successful investing is about the right process, not the right products. But ...

If you’re a parent, how can you set your child on the road to investing success? One popular ...

The latest episode of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast features an interview with Dr. Stephen Wendel, Head of ...

For DIY investors, asset allocation ETFs may be the greatest gift to come along in decades. It’s never ...

It’s been a while since the last new article appeared on the Canadian Couch Potato blog, and over ...

It’s easy enough to build an index fund portfolio with your desired mix of stocks and bonds. But ...

The TD e-Series index mutual funds remain a useful alternative to the asset allocation ETFs that take centre ...

In Episode 4 of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast, I answered the following question from a listener named ...

In my last few posts, I introduced the newly launched Vanguard Retirement Income ETF Portfolio (VRIF), explained where ...