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

Currency hedging can be confusing for investors who use index funds and ETFs that hold foreign stocks or ...

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

It’s not easy to make a splash in the crowded ETF space these days. Many of the new ...

In this final post in the series on why international index funds performed so poorly in 2009, it’s ...

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

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

When people criticize the financial industry in Canada, the target of their wrath is usually high fees and ...

On Tuesday, February 16, Berkshire Hathaway will become part of the S&P 500, the most widely followed stock ...

Here is part two of my interview with Scott Burns, the newspaper columnist and Chief Investment Strategist at ...

Tom Bradley of Steadyhand Investment Funds wrote an insightful blog post yesterday about a television commercial for ING ...

I recently had a chance to interview Ken Kivenko, who runs Canadian Fund Watch and is allied with ...

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 ...

Q: I am ready to follow the Couch Potato and would like to use the US-listed Vanguard ETFs ...

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

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 ...