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You can check this for yourself by writing down the trailing return of a Couch Potato Building Block portfolio and then comparing it against the «Category Average» figures on the Morningstar website.

Not exact matches

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.

Instead of having received a big inheritance recently, let's say it arrived several years ago and you used it to build a Couch Potato portfolio with a mix 60 % stocks and 40 % bonds.

The Couch Potato Portfolio is an investment strategy that keeps costs low by building a diversified portfolio of index funds.

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.

ETFs, or exchange - traded funds, have long been the cheap, boring building blocks of MoneySense's Couch Potato portfolios.

If you're thinking about using ShareOwner's service to build a Couch Potato portfolio, I'll make a couple of suggestions.

Dan is the contributing editor at MoneySense and author of the Canadian Couch Potato blog and is a big fan of the low cost and simplicity of portfolios built on a relatively small number of exchange - traded funds (ETFs)

After all, banks already offered index mutual funds with fees in that neighbourhood, and the TD e-Series Funds are dramatically cheaper: you can build the Global Couch Potato for a total cost of just 0.37 %.

That's why I'm uneasy when I receive e-mails from readers who tell me how pleased they are with the results of Couch Potato portfolios they've built in the last couple of years.

An investor can now build a Couch Potato portfolio with an annual management fee of just 0.12 %, less than half what it cost just a few years ago.

Methodology: None of the products we use to build our Couch Potato portfolios has been around for 20 years.

A Couch Potato investor can build a very efficient portfolio using a combination of Canadian and U.S. - listed ETFs, but cross-border shopping involves a little savvy.

Then he evaluates the pros and cons of the two main types of building blocks for the Couch Potato: index mutual funds and ETFs.

This includes a list of 21 ETFs that can form the building blocks of virtually any Couch Potato portfolio.

You can see a good example of one in «Build your own Couch Potato Portfolio,» to the left.

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.