Sentences with phrase «as a couch potato investor»

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If you are a Couch Potato investor, you don't actually need to benchmark your portfolio, since you are effectively replicating the benchmark with your strategy: index funds set out to deliver the same return as the indexes.

But, as Canadian Couch Potato pointed out, a lower cost alternative to the iShares S&P / TSX ETF (XIU) is likely not the first thing that many investors would wish for.

An investor building a small Global Couch Potato portfolio could use VXC in place of separate US and international holdings: that would reduce trading costs and complexity, as well as adding a bit more diversification with a slice of emerging markets.

We also hear from several other MoneySense and Canadian Couch Potato readers: my thanks to all of them for sharing their experiences as DIY index investors.

As for Couch Potato investors, index investing expert Dan Bortolotti's advice is simple: stick to your asset allocation and rebalance every six to 12 months.

I am seriously considering moving my entire portfolio into exchange - traded funds (ETFs) to lessen the management fees and follow a plan similar to the MoneySense Couch Potato strategy, which requires minimum time commitment and management, as I am a novice investor.

I don't see either of these as a significant offering for Couch Potato investors, since you can already get both markets with a single fund.

Interestingly, after we recorded that (but before it went live), Dan Bortolotti (of Canadian Couch Potato) gave the final talk of the Canadian Personal Finance Conference, where a major theme was the failings of investor behaviour, and how he's grown more pessimistic over the years as to how many people should be taking a DIY route to investing.

For many Canadians, Kirzner, now 73, is thought of as the grandfather of «Couch Potato» investing, or as Kirzner refers to it, the «Easy Chair» — defined as that comfortable spot where investors like to sit and stay put for many years while the good returns roll in.

«The strategy can reduce a typical investor's costs by as much as 90 %, while at the same time beating the vast majority of mutual funds and professionally managed accounts,» writes Dan Bortolotti in his exceptional blog, Canadian Couch Potato.

It provides tools and templates, along with suggestions and rules - of - thumb to help prevent analysis paralysis and get you started as a «Couch Potato» investor now.

As many people here know, I'm an index investor and I use the couch potato strategy.