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Safe Dividend Investing

Safe Dividend Investing

Von: Ian Duncan MacDonald
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In 2000, I lost $300,000 in mutual funds that an investment advisor had put my lifesavings into.... I lost it because I had entrusted it to an industry that does not educate investors nor encourage them to look closely at what that industry is doing with their money..... I set out to find a better, safer way to invest..... My podcasts relate to what I learned in creating a generous, reliable income and in growing my wealth.... A few of the more important lessons I learned and explore are:.... (1) It is critical that you become a self-directed investor.....(2) If you can not easily measure the risk and potential in an investment, then do not invest in it. This excludes from your portfolio bundled investment devices, like mutual funds, ETFs and Index funds,..... (3) Financially strong companies who have paid “good dividends” for decades will continue to stay strong and continue to pay good dividends because it is both part of their "character" and in their executives selfish interest.....(4) Diversification is critical. Investing equally in the best 20 strong dividend stocks is the ideal.....A portfolio of 20 limits your risk in any one stock to 5% of your wealth..... No matter how strong you think a stock is, do not fall in love with it..... I have lived very well off my steady dividend income for 18 years, through two market crashes and one pandemic. I have watched my portfolio’s capital more than triple from where I started, despite taking out a generous dividend income every year to live on... In charts, for my second investment book,(Safer Better Dividend Investing), I spent months scoring all 628 dividend stocks paying dividends of 6% or greater traded on the TSX, NYSE and the NASDAQ. I discovered dozens of stocks that can provide not only a generous dividend income but outstanding capital growth.....Financial independence is realizable for careful, patient, dividend investors.

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  • Podcast 258 - WORKING CLASS VERSUS WEALTHY CLASS ATTITUDES TO MONEY

    Podcast 258 - WORKING CLASS VERSUS WEALTHY CLASS ATTITUDES TO MONEY
    Jan 17 2026

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    Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 258, on January 17th of 2026.

    My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

    Being a miners son and having worked my way through university as a mine laborer I found it interesting this week to read an author's views about the attitudes towards money of the wage earning working class to that of high-net-worth attitude of the wealthy class. Having also been well compensated senior executive in large corporations and now living off my investments I felt qualified to add my views on the differences. Is the billionaire with his investment portfolios really happier because of his investments or do they weigh him down?

    A similar question was raised by another author who suggests your objective should be to strive to spend all you have accumulated and to die with a net worth of zero. I find there is something sad to imagine seeing joy in the eyes of the soon to be departed because he has achieved his ambition of reducing his wealth to zero. You may find my views on such an ambition interesting.

    My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification, persistence and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving financial independence for the rest of your life.

    Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
    President of Informus Inc
    2 Vista Humber Drive
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada, M9P 3R7
    Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
    New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
    imacd@informus.ca
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    15 Min.
  • Podcast 257 - THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF HIGH SHARE PRICES

    Podcast 257 - THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF HIGH SHARE PRICES
    Jan 11 2026

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    Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 257, on January 10th of 2026. Happy New Year!

    My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

    This week I answer a question from one of our listeners who wants to understand why some of the largest of the financially strong companies who appeared in my previous books do not appear in the current book. I relate what I learned in building a national commercial risk data base of 2,200,000 businesses and why I am not surprised that the high share prices of companies is often temporary. The stocks who quickly climb from a share price of a few dollars to hundreds of dollars are at the fickle mercy of speculators. I illustrate why I trust my future income and wealth to dividend payouts rather than share prices.

    My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification, persistence and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving financial independence for the rest of your life.

    Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
    President of Informus Inc
    2 Vista Humber Drive
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada, M9P 3R7
    Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
    New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
    imacd@informus.ca
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    20 Min.
  • Podcast 256 - WOULD A STOCK WITH A 20% DIVIDEND YIELD BE SAFE?

    Podcast 256 - WOULD A STOCK WITH A 20% DIVIDEND YIELD BE SAFE?
    Jan 3 2026

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    Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 256, on January 3rd of 2026. Happy New Year!

    My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. Today my seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". It is my only book in the display with a green cover. Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

    In 2025 the book required hundreds of hours of my time. It feels good to now have the freedom to investigate investment questions I have wondered about. For example, how many U.S. stocks pay dividend yields over 20% and would I consider adding any of them to my portfolio?

    My research identified 27 stocks out of thousands traded in the USA who pay a dividend over 20%. One paid an incredible 400% dividend. I also immediately identified one that appears in my latest book. It is one that I might have consider for my portfolio. In this week's analysis of these two stocks may get some insights in the consideration of high dividend stocks.

    My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification, persistence and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving financial independence for the rest of your life.

    Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

    Ian Duncan MacDonald

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
    President of Informus Inc
    2 Vista Humber Drive
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada, M9P 3R7
    Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
    New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
    imacd@informus.ca
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    13 Min.
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