Not exact matches
But if you can make the robo - advisor
model work (and work safety) Hamza says, these «
couch potato of portfolios» could be a great addition to the financial services industry because they would ensure your portfolio is diversified.
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:
The recent performance
of my
model portfolios has been excellent: in 2013, the humble Global
Couch Potato returned more than 15 %, and over the last five years, a balanced index portfolio could easily have achieved 10 % annualized returns.
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.
The Canadian
Couch Potato ETF
model portfolios, which are globally diversified total market index fund portfolios, have a weighted average MER
of around 0.15 %.
That's when he sold off all
of his 25 Canadian dividend - paying stocks, worth around $ 100,000, and put all his money in just two ETFs, based on the Canadian
Couch Potato model.
Pape goes on to explain how he set up a
model Couch Potato portfolio in January 2008 and tracked it to the end
of April 2011.
Lamenting his
model portfolio's 1 % annualized return from 2008 to mid-2011, Pape says: «This is the reality
of couch potato investing — timing counts for a lot.