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Dan Bortolotti has recently launched an entire blog devoted to Couch Potato Portfolios.

Financial writer Scott Burns started writing about Couch Potato portfolios back in 1987, so there are plenty of American resources available freely online.

These model potato portfolios were popularized by Scott Burns and are outlined on AssetBuilder.com.

I made a Rebalancing Spreadsheet for a few of the popular Couch Potato portfolios in the United States and Canada.

The Couch Potato portfolios I recommend use total - market index funds wherever possible, so I normally don't pay much attention to sector funds.

(One of the standard Couch Potato portfolios.)

Many MoneySense readers have had great success managing their Couch Potato portfolios on their own.

While working on the MoneySense Seven - Day Financial Makeover (see the October 2008 issue), I became a convert to index investing and moved all of my savings — including my RRSP and my children's RESPs — into what MoneySense calls Couch Potato portfolios.

Launched in 2008, the Streetwise Funds are one - stop Couch Potato portfolios.

The 2011 performance results are now in for my model Couch Potato portfolios.

That leads to a more practical question, considering that MoneySense has recommended cap - weighted index funds in our Couch Potato portfolios for over a decade.

However, we suspect that many MoneySense readers are largely self - directed investors who are acutely cost - conscious: perhaps they set up Couch Potato portfolios of ETFs that they buy themselves at a discount brokerage.

At the moment, lots of readers are encouraging us to devote more space in the Couch Potato portfolios to Canadian stocks because Canadians stocks have soared over the past five years.

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

I went with this option because I'm wondering right now if (in real life) I should be in ETFs and the other couch potato portfolios were all index / balanced funds.

Have you done any comparisons of returns compared to those in the MoneySense Couch Potato portfolios?

These one - stop Couch Potato portfolios are well - suited to first - time investors like the Medinas.

Take a look at the work of Craig Israelsen on this topic, then consider one of Scott Burns» couch potato portfolios.

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.

The index mutual funds and exchange - traded funds we recommend in the Couch Potato portfolios track the broad DEX Universe Bond Index, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 years.

Q: One of my coworkers and I recently started our own Couch Potato portfolios and we're wondering if it would be better to have some American bonds in the mix.

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

I decided to use one of the Couch Potato portfolios suggested by MoneySense.

One adviser recently told me that «the bond index funds you recommend in your Couch Potato portfolios will soon be a disaster.»

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

It's one reason why most Couch Potato portfolios are reset annually or less frequently.

Or perhaps a momentum fund using a methodology similiar to that studied in the current issue of your parent magazine, MoneySense --(which outperformed couch - potato portfolios quite substantially).

A: The traditional Couch Potato portfolios use plain - vanilla index funds and ETFs that cover the broad market, without specifically focusing on dividend - paying stocks.

sred: I track a couple of couch potato portfolios — for smaller portfolios, I use the TD e-Series Index Funds and for larger portfolios I use low - cost, broad - market index funds and more diversification by adding real - return bonds, REITs and emerging markets:

You can also check out earlier posts about the original couch potato portfolio and the Canadian version.

Later as our portfolio grew we switched to a more passive / cheaper couch potato portfolio.

Within the last year I started with the Couch potato portfolio of TD e-funds (25 % each of Canadian Bond Index, U.S. Index, International Index, Canadian Index), for both my RRSP & non registered investments.

I've actually been trying out the «couch potato portfolio.»

In fact, if your RRSP and TFSA contribution room is all used up, taxes are likely to be a bigger obstacle than fees in your Couch Potato portfolio.

His early research made the case for index investing, so he put four TD e-Series funds in his TFSA (the Global Couch Potato portfolio).

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.

Our Global Couch Potato Portfolio takes things a step further and expands your portfolio to span the world.

After all, if you're hiring someone to help you earn higher returns than you could get with a Couch Potato portfolio and they're not doing that, then you're not getting any value.

A Couch Potato portfolio composed of an equal mix of the four indexes, rebalanced annually, performed quite well over the years.

Our Classic Couch Potato Portfolio is a simple strategy that spans Canadian and U.S. markets.

But otherwise, hold steady and sit on your Couch Potato portfolio because the landscape could shift again as central banks hand the baton to governments to stimulate economies.

And yet the MoneySense Global Couch Potato portfolio doesn't reflect that breakdown at all.

We recommend setting up an RESP account at your bank's discount brokerage, and then buying low - cost exchange - traded funds or index mutual funds to build an RESP Couch Potato portfolio.

So, should you abandon your Couch Potato portfolio for one that's «smarter»?

He's managed his RRSP himself for several years by investing in the MoneySense Couch Potato Portfolio.

Q: I've had a Couch Potato portfolio with four ETFs for a number of years.

It's not surprising to find the balanced Couch Potato portfolio fell near the middle every time — that's exactly what you'd expect.

So why not include a couple of small - cap ETFs in a Couch Potato portfolio?

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.

If you doubt us, consider that our Global Couch Potato portfolio has generated returns higher than 7 % over the past 20 years.