Safe Dividend Investing
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.
Safe Dividend Investing
Latest Episodes
Podcast 287 - STRONG STOCKS A SAFE EASY INCOME
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #287 on August 8th of 2026. Who determines if the stocks in a mutual fund, ETF or Index fund are safe? Could it be that fund managers deliberately bundle hundreds of stocks t...
Podcast 286 - A SAFE PORT IN A STORM - BUYING A SECOND CITIZENSHIP & GOLD
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #286 on August 1st of 2026.The current threats by the US to invade Canada encouraged me to reissue a book with the new title of "The Fifty-First State - A Lost Alliance". I...
Podcast 285 - DREAMS OF RICHES, LAMBORGHINIS AND TRADING ON THE BEACH
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #285 on July 25th of 2026.I keep hearing how 90% of speculative investors within a few years lose the money they have invested in stocks. Often, I have wondered if this is an exaggerati...
Podcast 284 - IS IBM'S REVENUE PROBLEM A WARNING OF THE NEXT MARKET CRASH?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 284 on July 18th of 2026.Many investors believe we are living through a stressful time. Although our investments may have reached all time highs the future of our stock portfolios no ...
Podcast 283 - ALWAYS REVIEW CURRENT AND HISTORICAL OPERATING MARGINS?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 283 on July 11th of 2026.Many years ago, I was responsible for building a national commercial risk database of over 2,000,000 businesses to warn banks, insurance companies and trade s...
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