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
295 episodes
Podcast 295- SAY NO TO BONDS, PREFERRED SHARES, ETFs AND MUTUAL FUNDS
Bonds, Mutual Funds, Preferred Shares, Real Estate and ETFs are often promoted to investors who fear investing in the stock market. They are described as safer investments than stocks - whose share prices are controlled by speculative bidding. ...
Podcast 294 - DOUBLING YOUR INVESTMENT MONEY
Podcast 294Canadian Top 10 High Scoring StocksThis podcast is a continuation of Podcast 293 on the US Top 10 high scoring stocks, There are millions who have patiently saved their money for decades in ban...
MONEY, RISK AND TIME
Podcast 293 There are millions who have patiently saved their money for decades in bank savings accounts. Money they expect to help pay their living expenses when they are no longer be able to work. These savers would never co...
WHY LAW FIMS INITIATE CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS
Podcast 292Why do law firms initiate hundreds of class action law suits? Do they earn millions of dollars in profits if the class-action law suit is successful? What happens when they are not successful?Researching the motivation ...
WHY CHINA'S BYD BEAT TESLA
The largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the world is not Tesla, it is dwarfed by BYD, a Chinese company.Everyone seems to be very familiar with Tesla but they seem to know little about BYD. In this podcast I describe some of the rem...
Podcast 290 - S&P 500 FUNDS ARE FLAWED
I do not like mutual funds of any shape or size. Thus, when a friend asked me for help in selecting ETFs for his multi-million dollar portfolio, I was quick to let him know my feeling about funds. This week's podcast gets into my concerns about...
podcast 289 - WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT BANKS.
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #289 on August 22nd of 2026. Banks are critical to a country's health and success. Today we answer the following questions:Who are the 10 largest banks in North America?&nbs...
Podcast 288 - INVESTMENT RISKS IN EQUITY REITS AND MORTGAGE REITS
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #288 on August 15th of 2026. Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts invest in office buildings, apartments and stores and Investors make money from rents. Mortgage Real Estate invest...
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...
Podcast 282 - DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HIGH VOLUMES OF SHARES TRADED
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 282 on July 4th of 2026.Many investors appear to be impressed by current high trading volumes of some stocks. Some companies trade more than 100,000,000 shares in a day. Surely this m...
Podcast 281 - CASH RESERVES PREPARING FOR UNEXPECTED HIGH EXPENSES
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 281 on June 27th of 2026.This week's podcast is about safe investing. It recommends that you build a reserve fund of cash, or near cash, to be drawn upon in emergencies. Whether you l...
Podcast 280 - NOW, IS THE TIME TO OPEN A SELF-DIRECTED INVESTMENT ACCOUNT
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 280on June 20th of 2026.This podcast is directed at those who frequently listen to my podcasts and even read my, and other writers' investment books. While these listeners may recogni...
Podcast 279 - WILL MAJOR US FOOD STOCKS BE SAFE IN THE NEXT MARKET CRASH?
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 279 on June 13th of 2026.In this week's podcast I question how many investors are prepared for the next stock market crash. They usually occur every five to ten years. The last one wa...
Podcast 278 - MODIGLIANI WAS WRONG ABOUT DIVIDEND STOCKS
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 278 on June 6th of 2026.In this week's podcast I review the foolishness of blindly entrusting your retirement income to an investment advisor. It is your retirement not the investment...
Podcast 277 - ANALYZINANG : TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE, HONEYWELL & PAGSECURO
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 277 on May 30th of 2026.In this week's podcast I analyze three stocks that were being promoted . They were "Take Two Interactive Software" (Stock Symbol TTWO) who are the creators of ...
Podcast 276 - WHY NVIDIA, MASTER CARD, VISA, COCA COLA, ETC. FALL SHORT
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 276 on May 23rd 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 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...