Sentences with phrase «as the couch potato of»

The Sealyham averages about 22 - 24 pounds, and are known as the couch potato of the terrier breed.

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Satyanand's transformation from couch potato to runner may have been slow and steady (and clearly mimicable for most people), but just because it wasn't the stuff of late night fitness equipment infomercials, doesn't mean it wasn't just as transformative.

Sure, there are pieces that wouldn't look out of place in West Elm, but then there are furnishings tailor - made for the middle - aged man cave, such as a massive black leather sofa with built - in surround sound, a power - reclining feature, phone - charging ports and Bluetooth connectivity to allow couch potatoes to play music from their smartphones.

There will still be a plethora of games, because try as we might to find more productive things to do, we'll still end up on the couch watching Ohio and Nevada duke it out in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

An experimental drug touted as «exercise in a pill» has dramatically increased endurance in couch potato mice, even after a lifetime of inactivity.

«If you compare a person who is 30 pounds overweight but physically active with someone who is thin but a coach potato, you'll find the thin couch potato has a higher risk of premature death and of some chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension,» Franke says.

For those who've spent most of their lives as a couch potato, but now wish to lose weight or manage improve diabetes management, Jelleyman suggests moderate - intensity interval training to start — after all, HIIT isn't for everyone.

And as mop - topped teenage couch potato Garth (again drawn from life — this time based on Dana's brother Brad), Carvey was teamed with Mike Myers in a flawless on - going parody of cheap cable - access television.

«I like to watch,» Chauncey says, who spends his whole life in front of a T.V., just as earth must be one big program to god, a couch potato himself, in the sense that all he does is observe the human struggle with the same indifference as the idiot gardener.

It's not a stretch to see the bespectacled Halliday, who Rylance invests with an affecting Wozniakian introversion, as another of the master director's onscreen surrogates — a gentle couch potato as obsessed with»80s touchstones as Spielberg and his film - brat contemporaries were with their own seminal, formative big - screen experiences.

Obviously, if we don't confront the problem of couch - potato, computer - tethered kids, a daunting array of health problems will result as they grow up.

I like the simple approach of the Couch Potato portfolio as I was not happy paying for high commissions and having a mix of mostly Canadian blue chip stocks and mutual funds.

I've only used the two Global Couch Potato returns, as they were closer to the median between the lowest and highest annualized rate of returns for balanced equity portfolios over the last 10 years:

On the other hand, if you're a true couch potato indexer and held a single «go - anywhere» ETF from a firm like iShares or Vanguard (see the upcoming issue of the magazine and its latest ETF All - Stars package), and use a discount brokerage, your total cost for selling everything might be as little as $ 10!

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.

First, the five model portfolios seem well designed on the equity side, with a good mix of Canadian, US, international and emerging markets, as well as REITs — very similar to what you'd see in my Complete Couch Potato.

Readers who have visited my Model Portfolios page will recognize this as the Über - Tuber, so named because I think of it as the ultimate Couch Potato portfolio:

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.

It uses the same indexes as the classic Couch Potato with the addition of the EAFE index as the proxy for international stocks.

The iShares DEX Universe Bond Index Fund (XBB), which makes up 30 % of the Complete Couch Potato, has returned 7.20 % on the year (all figures as of September 30).

«People look at things like the Couch Potato portfolio and think of it as a reliable product,» says Johnson.

Our Global Couch Potato includes broad exposure to Canadian, U.S. and international stocks in all sectors, as well as bonds of all maturities.

As interest in couch potato portfolios grows, consumers and advisers are realizing not everyone is capable of handling it on their own.

As a result, moving to ETFs can cut the annual cost of the Couch Potato Portfolio by about 50 %.

The portfolio I put together for that article became the Über - Tuber — as in «the ultimate Couch Potato» — which you'll find on my page of Model Portfolios.

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.

So if youâ $ ™ re Couch Potato investing in both your RRSP and non-RRSP accounts, it makes sense to think of both your RRSP and non-RRSP holdings as one big portfolio, and to put all your bond index funds in your RRSP, since theyâ $ ™ re going to benefit the most from being tax sheltered.

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.

We hoped that Couch Potato investing might strike a few of our more thoughtful readers as a smart way to invest â $» smarter, at least, than simply buying a bucket of Nortel stock, which was what everybody else seemed to be doing at the time.

Regular readers of MoneySense will recognize this as a classic «Couch Potato» approach to investing: Create a simple investible portfolio that can be held for the long term, is broadly diversified, highly tax - efficient and yet carries minimal investment management costs.

Is there a reason I should follow the Couch Potato as opposed to one of these similar strategies?

Up until I read about the buzz around Vanguard and it's lower MERs, I was planning on investing all of our money in the Complete Couch Potato portfolio as suggested in the 2011 Edition of the MoneySense Guide To The Perfect Portfolio: i.e. — Canadian equity 20 % iShares S&P / TSX Capped Composite (XIC) US equity 15 % Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI) International equity 15 % Vanguard Total International Stock (VXUS) Real estate investment trusts 10 % BMO Equal Weight REITs (ZRE) Real - return bonds 10 % iShares DEX Real - Return Bond (XRB) Canadian bonds 30 % iShares DEX Universe Bond (XBB)

This is the only potentially negative retirement personality type: While some might only be taking a temporary sabbatical from activities while they reassess their goals, there's a danger of fading away as a couch potato.

I thought about this recently as I calculated the returns of the Global Couch Potato since 2009.

If you invested $ 100 in the Classic Couch Potato portfolio on January 1, 1976, it would be worth $ 3,481.35 as of December 31, 2010.

As it happens, this has the added benefit of allowing us to look at longer - term returns for the Global Couch Potato, since the e-Series has been around much longer than most of the ETFs on the list.

But, as noted earlier, the record shows that Couch Potato investing has a very high probability of providing a higher return than 60 to 75 percent of all managed funds — and still more if you are paying significant fees for managing your portfolio of funds.

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.

Say, for instance, if I did go for Dollarama and instead of growing like crazy as it has been recently, it suddenly tanked, while I'd lose that portion of money, a good chunk of it would be in safer investments like that trusty Couch Potato.

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.

Today you can do a basic Couch Potato portfolio for an average annual cost of as little as 0.05 percent.

The best type of security to invest in is an INDEX FUND, which can be as few as one fund or several as long as they are arranged in a simple, easy to understand COUCH POTATO LIKE manner, which will minimize FEES and expenses (cost matters).

«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.

We flirted with the idea, even going so far as programming a couch - potato style DIY portfolio into the calculator, but ultimately decided against it, because the DIY option is hands - down the cheapest across almost all cases, and we didn't want to waste all of the time and effort we put into building the calculator for it to always and forever return a DIY portfolio as the result.

You can learn more about creating a Couch Potato portfolio on my website, but it can be as simple as a 50/50 mix of the U.S. total stock market and the U.S. total bond market.

Known as the «couch potato» of the terrier world, the Sealyham Terrier is a non-shedding, small dog that displays a relaxed attitude and makes an ideal companion for both city and country dwellers.

It is not a dog for a couch - potato owner as it requires lots of exercise.

Many owners of retired racing Greyhounds describe them as couch potatoes who prefer to sleep most of the day.

Outside of work, she enjoys hiking and biking, cooking, arts and crafts, as well being a couch potato.