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Being a landlord is not for the faint of heart. Missed rent payments, snow removal, and, if you're really...

First rule of real estate investment: it must be cash flow positive. Second rule of real estate investment: define...

Spending hours online, researching market rent, put more than $4,000 in my pocket.

One of my favourite financial authors, William Bernstein, used to recommend that investors ditch their financial advisor and handle...

The table below shows the tracking error of Canadian bond and commodity ETFs in 2010. To make sure you...

The table below shows the tracking error of U.S. and international equity ETFs in 2010. To make sure you...

An index fund’s tracking error is the difference between the return of the fund and the return of its...

How do you measure the performance of an index fund? That sounds like a simple question, but it’s one...

On Monday, I posted the 10-year performance record of the Global Couch Potato portfolio. From 2001 through 2010, if...