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)