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)