Safe Dividend Investing

By: 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 211 SCORES: VERIZON, BCE, ALTRIA, TC ENERGY, MAGNA, CROWN CASTLE

    PODCAST 211 SCORES: VERIZON, BCE, ALTRIA, TC ENERGY, MAGNA, CROWN CASTLE
    Mar 8 2025

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    Welcome to Podcast 211 of Safe Dividend Investing. Be sure to visit the transcript for this podcast to find the detailed information on each stock that was scored.

    You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in the printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains in easily understood language how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this information you can manually score any stock you encounter. The IDM stock scoring software that I provide to those who purchase my books is derived from this chapter. The software just makes scoring stocks faster and easier.

    The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of questions about stocks that I had received from my podcast listeners and the readers of my other publications. Starting with Podcast 191 the the weekly podcasts have usually dealt with identifying the week's 10 dividend stocks whose recent exceptional share price growth on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges may have made them worth considering as possible portfolio acquisitions. It is also an opportunity for me to bring to the listeners attention information that I think may assist them in creating and managing their self-directed stock portfolio.

    At www.informus.ca for information you can learn more about my six investment guide books.

    IAN
    imacd@informus.ca

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Author, Artist, 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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    9 mins
  • Podcast 210 - WILL YAHOO FINANCE MAKE CHOOSING YOUR STOCKS EASIER?

    Podcast 210 - WILL YAHOO FINANCE MAKE CHOOSING YOUR STOCKS EASIER?
    Mar 1 2025

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    Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, where you will find Chapter 4 from my books. It explains in easily understood language how my IDM stock scoring system manually scores stocks. The IDM stock scoring software provided to book purchasers is derived from this chapter.

    The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of questions from my podcast listeners and readers of my publications. Since then the weekly podcasts have usually dealt with identifying the week's 10 dividend stocks whose recent exceptional share price growth on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges may have made them worth considering as possible portfolio acquisitions. It also is my opportunity to bring to the listeners attention information that I think may assist them in creating and managing their self-directed stock portfolio.

    Visit www.informus.ca for information and reviews on my six investment guide books and stock scoring software.

    IAN
    imacd@informus.ca

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Author, Artist, 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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    14 mins
  • PODCAST209 - IS THIS THE ULTIMATE FINANCIALLY STRONG STOCK?

    PODCAST209 - IS THIS THE ULTIMATE FINANCIALLY STRONG STOCK?
    Feb 22 2025

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    Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review additional information.

    The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of questions from my podcast listeners and readers of my publications. Since then the weekly podcasts have usually dealt with identifying the week's 10 dividend stocks whose recent exceptional share price growth on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges may worth have made them worth considering as possible portfolio acquisitions.

    This week we analyze what I believe is the financially strongest stock, out of thousands, that I have scored in the last 10 years.

    Visit www.informus.ca for information and reviews on my six investment guide books and stock scoring software.

    IAN
    imacd@informus.ca

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Author, Artist, 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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    22 mins

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