Hallam will educate you on how to index invest, more commonly known
as the Couch Potato Strategy.
Not exact matches
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.
To do that, we recommend using an indexing
strategy such
as the
Couch Potato (see page 44 for a recommended portfolio), or a low - cost balanced mutual fund (see page 42 for some recommended funds).
That is the situation I am currently in and, although I haven't been burned by Questrade, I am new to discount brokerages and would prefer to have a little hand - holding if I need it
as I set up my
couch potato strategy.
Also known
as a buy - and - hold or
couch potato strategy, passive investing requires good initial research and patience.
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.
If you want an even safer alternative, splitting your retirement savings between an annuity and a low - cost balanced portfolio, such
as the MoneySense Global
Couch Potato strategy, can increase your protection against longevity risk.
So long
as an investing
strategy follows those two rules, we applaud it, even if it doesnâ $ ™ t follow one of our
Couch Potato templates.
Is there a reason I should follow the
Couch Potato as opposed to one of these similar
strategies?
And when investing makes you nervous, you're liable to abandon your
strategy, which is just about the worst thing you can do
as a
Couch Potato.
«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.
As many people here know, I'm an index investor and I use the
couch potato strategy.