Canadian Couch Potato Archives - Page 39 of 53

In a series of posts earlier this month, I tried to demystify the swap-based ETFs launched by Horizons last...

In 1951, a Princeton University student wrote a thesis about the mutual fund industry. “Funds can make no claim...

I’ve been holding back on making comments about Vanguard’s arrival in Canada, because I wanted some time to collect...

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

Last fall, Horizons Exchange Traded Funds launched two innovative new ETFs. Rather than simply holding the stocks in the...

Joel Greenblatt has a sense of humour—I’ll grant him that. In The Big Secret for the Small Investor (Wiley,...

Monday’s post comparing one of my model ETF portfolios to one created by Dimensional Fund Advisors attracted a lot...

Last September, I wrote a piece for Canadian MoneySaver called An ETF Portfolio With Added Dimension. The article looked...

On Monday, I took issue with the argument that cap-weighted bond indexes are fatally flawed. Rob Arnott, the creator...