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
Podcast 270 - A REQUEST TO LISTENERS
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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 - 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". If you invest in Canadian stocks, my book "Canadian High Dividend Investing - 215 Scored Stocks" would be recommended.
For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca or do a search in Google or in Amazon for "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books". At Amazon you will find reviews by investors and sample chapters.
This podcast is an appeal to listeners to write to me about self-directed investing, financially strong companies and what surprises they have encountered in their investing.
These responses will be shared in future podcasts of Safe Dividend Investing.
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
imacd@informus.ca
PODCAST 270
11 April 2026
Safe Dividend Investing
Greetings to investors all around the world. Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #270, recorded on April 11th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald. I am the author of seven investment books. My latest book “Achieving Financial Independence Safely – 200 NYSE Exchange Stocks Analyzed and Scored” was available for delivery from Amazon on January 3rd. If you invest in Canadian stocks, my book “Canadian High Dividend Investing – 215 Scored Stocks” would be recommended.
To learn more about my investment books, please visit my website www.informus.ca. Alternatively, you can also do a search in Google or in Amazon for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books”. At Amazon you will find reviews by investors and sample chapters.
Over many years I have recorded almost a hundred hours of content in my podcasts. The transcripts that accompany the 270 podcasts exceed a million words. Now, it is my turn to learn from you.
First, I would want you to tell me why you have or have not chosen to be a self-directed investor. Second, why do you invest or do not invest in financially strong companies paying high dividends? Third, what words of wisdom would you pass on to first time buyers of stocks? Finally, what surprises have you encountered in your investing?
Please send your responses to
ianduncanmacdonald@hotmail.com
In my future podcasts I will share your written responses. .
To make it even better, if you are able to record your response and attach the audio file to the email with your transcript I will add your recording to my weekly podcast’s recording.
Could you also include in your transcript some information on where you reside and your background.
I look forward to receiving your emails.
That’s all for this week.