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Back on March 25, I wrote a post called The Bond Dilemma that described how nervous fixed-income investors were...

This will be my only post of the week, as I am currently on a family vacation in New...

This week I beat a group of seniors and took $200 from them. No, I’m not a purse-snatching hooligan...

Rob Carrick’s column in The Globe and Mail this Saturday looked at the three dividend ETFs listed on the...

Canadian Couch Potato has finally joined the Twitter universe! I’d like to encourage readers to add this blog to...

In a recent post, I shared a reader’s story about how difficult it was for her to open a...

Earlier this week I argued that savings accounts and GICs are still the best vehicles for short-term savings, because...

I occasionally hear from readers who want to know which ETF or index fund portfolio would be a suitable...

In Monday’s post, I had some fun at the expense of Paul Farrell, the MarketWatch columnist who champions index...