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Book Reviews

Canadian Couch Potato

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

I’ve never been shy about criticizing actively managed mutual funds, but I’m starting to think this debate is getting...

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Canadian Couch Potato

Review: The House That Bogle Built

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

Review: The House That Bogle Built

Canadian Couch Potato

Letting You In On a Big Secret

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

Letting You In On a Big Secret

Canadian Couch Potato

Where Do Returns Come From?

You don’t need a lot of mathematical horsepower to be a Couch Potato investor. Indeed, simplicity is one of...

Where Do Returns Come From?

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The Making of a Couch Potato

I know very few people who began their investing lives as Couch Potatoes. Most started out in mutual funds...

The Making of a Couch Potato

Canadian Couch Potato

Can Your Funds Outperform Over a Lifetime?

Advocates of active management admit that only a minority of mutual funds will outperform their benchmarks, but they argue...

Can Your Funds Outperform Over a Lifetime?

Canadian Couch Potato

Beating the Market Is a New Idea

Today we take it for granted that virtually all mutual funds and stock pickers are trying to earn higher...

Beating the Market Is a New Idea

Canadian Couch Potato

Review: Lifecycle Investing

Most investors understand that you should have more exposure to stocks when you’re young and gradually allocate more to...

Review: Lifecycle Investing

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Blog reviews: Hell’s angels

Market got you hot and bothered? Read these observers and chill out.

Blog reviews: Hell’s angels

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