Safe Dividend Investing

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.

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April 26, 2025 10 mins

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Welcome to Podcast 219 of Safe Dividend Investing on the 26th of April of 2025.

 Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.  

You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in that printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains, in easily understood language, how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this in...

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21  April 2025 

US INVASION PLANS FOR CANADA 

 My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald. Today’s podcast is a departure from my usual Saturday dividend podcasts. It explores the conflict currently going on between Canada and the United States. 

A few days ago a podcast listener was excited to discover in my novel, “USING DROUGHT USA” that I had predicted a situation where the president of the United States would initiate a plan t...

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Welcome to Podcast 217of Safe Dividend Investing on the 19th of April of 2025.

 Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.  

You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in that printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains, in easily understood language, how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this inf...

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SAFE DIVIDEND INVESTING'S 

US & CANADIAN INCOME TAX SUPPLEMENT

In response to listeners enquiries I explain in this short podcast the differences between what US dividend investors have to pay in income tax and the tax break that Canadian dividend investors can receive.

Ian Duncan MacDonald

www.informus.ca

imacd@informus.ca 

Podcast: Safe Dividend Investing

6 Dividend Investing Guides at amazon.com including:

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Welcome to Podcast 216 of Safe Dividend Investing on the 12th of April of 2025.

 Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.  

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Welcome to Podcast 215 of Safe Dividend Investing on 5th of April of 2025.

 Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.  

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Welcome to Podcast 214 of Safe Dividend Investing on 29 March 2025.

 Be sure to visit the transcript for this podcast to find the detailed information on each stock that was scored.  

You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in the printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains in easily understood language how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this information you can ma...

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Welcome to Podcast 213 of Safe Dividend Investing. Be sure to visit the transcript for this podcast to find the detailed information on each stock that was scored.  

You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in the printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains in easily understood language how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this information you can manually score any ...

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Welcome to Podcast 212 of Safe Dividend Investing. Be sure to visit the transcript for this podcast to find the detailed information on each stock that was scored.  

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Welcome to Podcast 211 of Safe Dividend Investing. Be sure to visit the transcript for this podcast to find the detailed information on each stock that was scored.  

You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in the printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains in easily understood language how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this information you can manually score any ...

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, where you will find Chapter 4 from my books. It explains in easily understood language how my IDM stock scoring system manually scores stocks. The IDM stock scoring software provided to book purchasers is derived from this chapter.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing ...

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review additional  information.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of  questions from my podcast listeners and readers of my publications. Since then the weekly podcasts have usually dealt with identifying the week's 10 dividend sto...

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the detailed information there on the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the detailed information there on the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the detailed information there on the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the detailed information there on the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the detailed information there on the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of  questions fr...

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review the 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed by 9 data elements.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of  questions fr...

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. You may want to go to the printed transcript, provided with this podcast, to review 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see these 10 stocks strengths and weaknesses revealed.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered hundreds of  questions from my podcast listeners...

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