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Safe Dividend Investing

Safe Dividend Investing

De: 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 267 - PROTECT YOUR PORTFOLIO NOW FROM INFLATION AND A RECESSION

    Podcast 267 - PROTECT YOUR PORTFOLIO NOW FROM INFLATION AND A RECESSION
    Mar 21 2026

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    Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 267 on March 21st of 2026.

    My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the 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". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

    Geopolitical risk have now become the biggest threat to the stock market. It has created supply chain instability and has polarized countries into being either friends or enemies. Close behind this risk and being used as weapons to subjugate perceived enemy countries are tariffs, sanctions, export controls and restricted access to new technologies.

    Supply chains have been thrown into disarray and long-established global alliances are being shredded. The flames of retaliatory trade wars between nations are being fanned.

    In this week's podcast I discuss how to build a stock portfolio that will allow you to safely navigate these turbulent times and protect you from both the threat of inflation and a recession.

    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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    17 m
  • Podcaslt 266 - WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD TO MANAGE YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?

    Podcaslt 266 - WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD TO MANAGE YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?
    Mar 14 2026

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    Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 266 on March 14th of 2026.

    My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the 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". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

    In this week's podcast I review what options exist when you are no longer able to manage your stock portfolio.

    In my March 7th podcast I was once again not very complimentary of investment advisors. Being a self-directed investor is seen as being a better, safer and more cost-efficient method of investing than placing your portfolio in the hands of an investment advisor. However, what happens when your advanced age eventually makes self-directed management of your investment portfolio no longer possible?

    One of the listeners to that podcast responded with a good question. He asked, if you cannot trust investment advisors employed by large financial institutions to manage your stock portfolio then who would you trust to handle your stock portfolio?

    Until this listener raised this question with me, I had never considered what I would do if my wife and my children predeceased me and I needed someone to manage my affairs if I became incapacitated. I know from experience that I do not trust investment advisors employed by a large financial institution. As well, the lawyers and accountants I have dealt with knew little about commercial risk and judging the potential of stocks.

    What professional would I then not hesitate to entrust the management of my stock portfolio to? I explain in this podcast that I would choose a trustee in bankruptcy and why I would do so. This would be a fiduciary role independent from their bankruptcy work.



    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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    19 m
  • Podcast 41 --BENEFIT OF MUTUAL FUNDS OVER RATED - BUY BACKS ARE A SCAM

    Podcast 41 --BENEFIT OF MUTUAL FUNDS OVER RATED - BUY BACKS ARE A SCAM
    Mar 13 2026

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    12 March 2026 -

    While going back through all 265 Podcasts to find which podcast has had the most listeners, I found two Podcasts that for some reason had never been broadcast. One of them was Podcast #41 recorded December 8 or 2021.

    Podcast #41 has some good insights into the problems with mutual funds and buybacks.

    Unfortunately it did not have a transcript with it.

    I made them available to listeners today.

    IAN

    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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    18 m
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