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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 recognize that their income and wealth could be much greater if they were self-directed investors, they fear the idea of testing the waters and actually building a self-directed investment account.

Anything you have never done before can initially be intimidating - especially if it involves money. However, major banks have made creating a self-directed investment account easy and quick. They put you in total control of your self-directed account.

All the money you may now be paying a financial advisor can be saved. Over several years this can add up to tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars that is better invested making you money.

Don't you want to know exactly what you are invested in and why you are invested in it? It will not be like investing in a mutual fund where you have only a vague idea of what your money is invested in and without having direct access to it. With a self-directed investment account, you are in total control.

For those who keep their life savings in a bank saving account where it is making one percent in interest, you could be averaging an annual 7% dividend return each year plus a gain of 10% of more in the share price of the strong stocks you add to your portfolio. That dividend income keeps coming in even during the inevitable market crashes that you wait. relax while you watch your share prices recover.

What motivated me to become a self-directed investor was seeing the mutual funds my investment advisor put my money into lose $300,000 in three years. I feared for my retirement and did not buy his explanation that this is just the way things are in the stock market. That was over 20 years ago.

The value of my portfolio and the dividend income has never stopped growing. You do not have to be a genius to reap the benefits of your own portfolio. Now is a good time to become an independent investor?

IAN .

Ian Duncan MacDonald
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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 was in 2020 and the current economic conditions make many investors now feel insecure about how their portfolios will weather the storm when it comes.

My objective is to show investors how to find and select the stocks of financially strong companies with long histories of ever increasing shares price and ever growing high dividends. The kind of dependable, growing stocks that you want to hold for a lifetime. Stocks whose dividend payouts will not decline during the next stock market crash.

Many investment advisors recommend the stocks of major US food manufacturers as safe stocks to hold if you feel insecure as to how your portfolio will fare during the next market crash. I think you will find my analysis of the five highest US food manufacturing dividend payers raises questions about US food manufacturing stocks whose shares trade in the tens of millions each day.

IAN .

Ian Duncan MacDonald
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President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
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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 advisor's..

Since you, not the investment advisor is responsible for your retirement's, you can not naively assume that enough money will be there to maintain the life style you have enjoyed over the decades before retired. You must have a clear picture of what you are invested in and why you are invested in it. Make sure your investments are safe and generating far better investment growth in your portfolio's value.

Follow my successful self-directed investment journey after my investment advisor lost $300,000 of my life saving over 20 years ago. All the free information I needed to make good investment decisions is immediately accessible on many good investment data websites.

My objective is to show investors how to find and select the the stocks of financially strong companies with long histories of ever increasing shares price and ever growing high dividends. The kind of dependable, growing stocks that they will want to hold for a lifetime.

IAN .

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
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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 the long established video game "Grand Theft Auto; The century old Honeywell International Inc and a relatively new stock PagSeguro Digital Limited. The promoter for was very aggressive in his selling of their shares of Take Two. However, a quick analysis of the stock made me wonder why? It is interesting to compare it to Honeywell and PagSeguro. I wonder how much effort the analysts' who recommended buys for these three stocks put into their research.

My objective is to show investors how to find and select the the stocks of financially strong companies with long histories of both ever increasing shares price and high dividends. The kind of dependable, growing stocks that they will want to hold for a lifetime.

IAN .

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
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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 - 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 the website you will find a free AI system to analyze and score your proposed stock purchases. A strong portfolio can be built within a few minutes. When I first saw this AI program in action, it made that me realize investment advisors could be replaced by AI technology within ten years.

In this week's podcast I discuss why Nvidia, this week's hot AI stock, and Peter Druker's five highest scoring stocks NYSE stocks ( Master Card, Visa, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and Coca Cola) do not qualify for my stock portfolio. For safe diversity I want my million dollar portfolio to contain 20 diverse stocks to provide me with a safe income exceeding $60,00 annually with the expectation that their rising share prices and dividend payouts will last my life time. How I will choose these 20 and where to find them is detailed.

IAN

Ian Duncan MacDonald
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2 Vista Humber Drive
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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 - 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

To build a strong, generous portfolio Start using the free AI system provided in this podcast to analyze and score your proposed stock purchases s in seconds. Visit the attached transcript where the free AI system is provided. When I saw this software in action, it made it seem very possible that investment advisors could be replaced by technology within ten years.

It is a minority of a financial institution’s employees that create distrust with their investor clients. Many investors with substantial savings would rather keep the money in a bank savings account, where it loses 3.5% of its value each year to inflation, than entrusting it to a financial advisor.

For investment advisor to stay relevant it would have to start with better screening of the investment advisors. A client wonders who is this stranger that says they are an investment advisor and want to help me? Can I trust them? In this podcast I suggest several ways that investors could possible again learn to trust advisors and the institutions they work for. Is it possible for the industry to change?

IAN

Ian Duncan MacDonald
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2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
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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 - 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 weeks episode I explain why the secret to achieving financial independence is learning how to measure the degree of risk in stocks so you can choose those with the greatest numerical chance to constantly grow your portfolio's share price annually by 10% while enjoying a dividend yield percent exceeding 6%. This objective immediately rules out investing in AI stocks like Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Advanced Micro Devices.

The purpose of a company is to make a profit not to provide a gambling platform for speculators trying to time when shares will dramatically climb so they can quickly sell them at a huge profit and then repeat this game over and over again for the rest of their lives - or until all their investment money is lost.

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
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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 - 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 we hear from Eddie in Vancouver who writes about how he came to be a self directed investor and why he ceased to be a stock speculator chasing after the next big score.

It is important to do your own research when you are looking for financially strong stocks with long histories of rising share prices and dividend payouts. The stock scoring software that comes with my books helps you in making good stock buying decisions. Over the 273 issues of the weekly "Safe Dividend Investing" podcasts you can get many insights into building a safe strong generous portfolio.

What investment insights do you have to share with listeners? Send them to imacd@informus.ca

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
imacd@informus.ca