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Safe Dividend Investing

Safe Dividend Investing

著者： 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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  • Podcaslt 266 - WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD TO MANAGE YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?

    Podcaslt 266 - WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD TO MANAGE YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?
    2026/03/14

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    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 - 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". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

    In this week's podcast I review what options exist when you are no longer able to manage your stock portfolio.

    In my March 7th podcast I was once again not very complimentary of investment advisors. Being a self-directed investor is seen as being a better, safer and more cost-efficient method of investing than placing your portfolio in the hands of an investment advisor. However, what happens when your advanced age eventually makes self-directed management of your investment portfolio no longer possible?

    One of the listeners to that podcast responded with a good question. He asked, if you cannot trust investment advisors employed by large financial institutions to manage your stock portfolio then who would you trust to handle your stock portfolio?

    Until this listener raised this question with me, I had never considered what I would do if my wife and my children predeceased me and I needed someone to manage my affairs if I became incapacitated. I know from experience that I do not trust investment advisors employed by a large financial institution. As well, the lawyers and accountants I have dealt with knew little about commercial risk and judging the potential of stocks.

    What professional would I then not hesitate to entrust the management of my stock portfolio to? I explain in this podcast that I would choose a trustee in bankruptcy and why I would do so. This would be a fiduciary role independent from their bankruptcy work.



    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
    New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
    imacd@informus.ca
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    19 分
  • Podcast 41 --BENEFIT OF MUTUAL FUNDS OVER RATED - BUY BACKS ARE A SCAM

    Podcast 41 --BENEFIT OF MUTUAL FUNDS OVER RATED - BUY BACKS ARE A SCAM
    2026/03/13

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    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 or 2021.

    Podcast #41 has some good insights into the problems with mutual funds and buybacks.

    Unfortunately it did not have a transcript with it.

    I made them available to listeners today.

    IAN

    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
    New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
    imacd@informus.ca
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    18 分
  • Stock Scoring Makes Building a Strong Dividend Portfolio Easy

    Stock Scoring Makes Building a Strong Dividend Portfolio Easy
    2026/03/12

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    October 20, 2021

    This 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 provide a public company's total stock score.

    The higher the score, the safer and higher the dividend payments and the more likely the stock will show a capital gain of 9 percent or more in a year. The highest possible score would be 100 and the lowest would be zero. Out of the thousands of scores I have calculated, the highest score has been a 78 and the lowest has been a 7.

    Being able to score and then sort by score, stocks traded on any stock exchange makes it easier for you to build a strong portfolio, The fact that the stocks in the charts in my books are sorted in descending order by score, price, dividend percent and alphabetically greatly speeds up the process.

    The following questions are answered in this podcast:

    (1) If a stock had a share price of $100 how many points would this contribute to its total score?

    (2) If it was a stock that had not existed 4 years ago, how many points would it contribute to the total score?

    (3) If five analysts recommended the stock, how many points would this contribute?

    (4) If a stock was paying dividend yield percent of 8%, how many points would that contribute?

    (5) If a stock's operating margin exceeded 85%, how many points would that add to the score.

    (6) If the number of shares trading on average in a day was 9,000 how many points would be added to the score?

    (7) If the stock were a high-flying technical stock with a price to earnings ratio of 350.1x how many points would such a high P/E ratio generate?

    (8) What must you always do after you have identified the 20 stocks in the book you want for your portfolio, and you are now ready to buy?

    (9) Why are preferred shares not recommended for your portfolio?

    (10) What industry has the highest scores?

    In these 32 podcasts I wanted to cover the content of at least one of my investment books to give those with an interest in investing an idea of what was involved in choosing stocks and building a portfolio. More importantly I wanted you to realize that with the tools I provide that you are perfectly capable of building a strong dividend portfolio on your own. If an 80-year-old Miss Innocence can build a strong dividend portfolio, that has grown by hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last 3 years while providing her with a generous income, you also can do it.

    Next week, I will begin reviewing questions brought to my attention by investors over the last three years. Some questions in 2020 were projections about stocks being impacted by COVID-19.

    If you have any questions, please email them to imacd@informus.ca. I am usually sitting at my desk working on the "American High Dividend Handbook" and I will likely see your message flash across my screen. It will give me a break from the tedious job of building hundreds of charts. That book should be available next month.

    For information on my novels, investment books and art, visit my website:
    www.saferbetterdividendinvesting.com

    Ian Duncan MacDonald
    Informus Inc (Publishing Division)
    2 Vista Humber Drive
    Toronto, Ontario
    M9P 3R7
    NY Tel : 929-800-2397
    Toronto Tel: 416-24

    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
    New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
    imacd@informus.ca
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    21 分
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