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

Monday's post discussed the inner workings of the two swap-based ETFs launched by Horizons in late 2010. Many ...

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 ...

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

ETFs are on the hot seat these days. On Wednesday, a US Senate subcommittee held a hearing to ...

Whenever people ask me where they can learn more about Couch Potato investing, I need to answer carefully ...

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

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

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

The mutual fund industry loves to sell past performance, and it's not above massaging the data to make ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...