Canadian Couch Potato Archives - Page 28 of 53

Long-time readers will know that I’ve written before about Dimensional Fund Advisors, an innovative investment firm that builds low-cost,...

Sometimes I wonder why everyone isn’t getting better returns than a simple Couch Potato portfolio. Spend a little time...

Q: The Global Couch Potato has one-third of the equity allocation in Canadian stocks, but Canada makes up only...

Earlier this week I described the market timing strategy outlined in Mebane Faber’s book The Ivy Portfolio. I chose...

In recent years, the so-called Yale Model has been extremely popular with investors. The model is an attempt to...

If your portfolio loses 1% today and gains 1% tomorrow, are you back to even? Not quite, but you’re...

When we consider the risk in investing, we’re often thinking about volatility: that is, the sometimes dramatic movements in...

If you’ve researched the theoretical foundations of index investing, you’ve no doubt come across Modern Portfolio Theory and the...

I once went to an investment seminar at my local library. It was attended by a handful of folks...