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.
Episodes
275 episodes
Podcast 275 - WILL AI MAKE INVESTMENT ADVISORS OBSOLETE WITHIN 10 YEARS?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 275 on May 16th 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 - ...
Podcast 274 - WHY I WILL NOT BE INVESTING IN NVIDIA AND OTHER AI STOCKS
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 274 on May 9th 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 - 2...
Podcast 273 - SO, YOU WANNA GET RICH QUICK?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 273 on May 2nd 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 - 2...
Podcast 272 - CHOOSE YOUR DIVIDEND PAYING STOCKS CAREFULLY
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 272 on April 25th 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 ...
Podcast 271 - PROOF - STOCK SCORING CREATES GREAT WEALTH
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 271 on April 18th 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 ...
Podcast 270 - A REQUEST TO LISTENERS
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 270 on April 11th 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 ...
Podcast 269 - A 10 BILLION DOLLAR PORTFOLIO MANAGER'S APPROACH TO INVESTING
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 269 on April 4th 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 -...
Podcast 268 - ARE HIGH DIVIDEND PAYING STOCKS MONEY TRAPS?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 268 on March 28th 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 ...
Podcast 267 - PROTECT YOUR PORTFOLIO NOW FROM INFLATION AND A RECESSION
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 ...
Podcaslt 266 - WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD TO MANAGE YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?
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 ...
Podcast 41 --BENEFIT OF MUTUAL FUNDS OVER RATED - BUY BACKS ARE A SCAM
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...
Stock Scoring Makes Building a Strong Dividend Portfolio Easy
October 20, 2021This podcast covers the final five chapters of my first investment book, "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing". In it, we explore how 9 information elements are graded to pr...
Podcast 265 - CAN INVESMENT ADVISORS BE TRUSTED?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 265 on March 7th 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 -...
Podcast 264 - SCORE STOCKS & BUILD A CONSTANTLY RISING RETIREMENT PORTOLIO
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 264 on February 28th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safe...
Podcast 263 - ARE YOUR BANK DEPOSITS AND BANK SHARES STILL SAFE?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 263 on February 21st of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safel...
Podcast 262 - HOW TO GET SCAMMERS TO GIVE YOU BACK YOUR MONEY
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 262 on February 14th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safel...
Podcast 261 - IS THE 4% STOCK PORTFOLIO LIQUIDATION RULE NONSENSE?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 261 on February 7th 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...
Podcast 260 - ANALYSIS OF A PUMP AND DUMP INVESTMENT SCHEME
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 259 on January 24th 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...
Podcast 259 - COMPARING 4 AI STOCKS (ADOBE, ALPHABET, MICROSOFT & META) TO A $323 STOCK WITH A 9.65% DIVIDEND YIELD
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 259 on January 24th 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...
Podcast 258 - WORKING CLASS VERSUS WEALTHY CLASS ATTITUDES TO MONEY
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 Safel...
Podcast 257 - THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF HIGH SHARE PRICES
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 Finan...
Podcast 256 - WOULD A STOCK WITH A 20% DIVIDEND YIELD BE SAFE?
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, Achievin...
Podcast 255 - MICROSOFT IS NOT ALL THAT WONDERFUL.
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 255, on December 27th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I finally finished the editing and formatting of my latest book,...
Podcast 254 - WHAT DO AI STOCKS HAVE IN COMMON WITH ELECTRICITY : NVIDIA, GOOGLE, META, MICROSOFT, ALIBABA, COREWEAVE, ADOBE
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 254, on December 20th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I continue to working away on my latest book which will be...
Podcast 253 -Excerpt from New Book - 180 HIGH DIVIDEND ANALYZED NYSE STOCKS
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 253, on December 13th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I am still working away my latest book to be called “Achievin...