Is Gold a Hedge Against Inflation?
In series of posts last week, I looked at Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio, which includes a hefty 25% allocation...
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Peering Into the Permanent Portfolio: Part 2
Here’s the second part of my interview with Craig Rowland, the blogger behind Crawling Road and a champion of...
Peering into the Permanent Portfolio: Part 1
On Monday I introduced the Permanent Portfolio, an investment strategy created in the early 1980s by Harry Browne. It...
Introducing the Permanent Portfolio
When Scott Burns created the original Couch Potato portfolio back in 1982, he suggested that investors put half their...
Meet the New Funds, Same As the Old Funds
Vanguard Canada has yet to launch a single investment fund, but at least now we know what’s coming. On...
Golden Advice That Suits Any Investor
I receive a lot of press releases, but few are as useful as the one that hit my inbox...
Does Your Portfolio Need a Makeover?
Broad diversification is one of the pillars of the Couch Potato strategy. But getting exposure to thousands of stocks...
Why More Choice Can Be Bad For Investors
We’re accustomed to thinking of choice as a good thing. But behavioural economists now understand that too many options...
iShares ETFs: Looking Back, Looking Forward
This past spring, a number of Canadian iShares ETFs celebrated their 10th birthday. The country’s largest ETF provider now...