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

Well, another year is in the books and it's time to review how investors fared if they used ...

Many international equity ETFs showed large tracking errors in 2009. For example, the iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund ...

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

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

This post is part of a series called Under the Hood, where l take a detailed look at ...

There comes a time in every Couch Potato’s life when he or she has to answer a nagging ...

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

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

As index investing has gained popularity, it is also attracted its share of scorn. The latest example is ...

Last Saturday’s Globe and Mail featured a story about a retired university professor who has enjoyed staggeringly good ...

Dan Solin’s excellent new book, The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own (see my review here), devotes several chapters to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...