Canadian Couch Potato Archives - Page 11 of 53

Even fund managers are ignoring their own investment policies and taking on more risk than they need.

Holding foreign equity ETFs and index funds means you’re exposed to currency risk. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

The role of bonds is not to deliver income or high returns, but to manage risk.

Even when the Canadian dollar appreciates strongly, the high tracking error of currency-hedged funds often reduces any potential benefit.

iShares Advantaged ETFs are open for business again, but several have new names and all have new strategies.

There's a big difference between U.S.-listed and Canadian-listed ETFs when held in RRSPs.

Building a “portfolio optimizer” is useless. A roughly equal allocation of Canadian, U.S. and international stocks is best.

BMO Discount Bond ETF promises to eliminate the problem that has long plagued bond funds in non-registered accounts.

The robo-adviser business has extremely low margins and can only survive by building enormous scale.