Safe Dividend Investing

Ian Duncan MacDonald

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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October 10 · 21 min
Podcast 296 - BEWARE OF CROOKED INVESTMENT ADVISORS
Send us Fan Mail "A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED". Investment advisors love clients who never question what they are doing with their client's money, Many clients put their blind faith in an employee of a large financial institution who is being paid by that institution to transfer as much of the client's money as possible from the client's pocket to the bank's pocket. Learn in this week's podcast how this is done legally with fees, charges and commissions that you agreed to in the small print of the investment contract you signed with the the financial institution your advisor works for. You can also be the victim of a dozen legal illegal schemes such as conversions, embezzlements, misappropriations, churning and unauthorized trading. What red flags should you be looking for in your monthly statements. Ten warning signals are detailed in this podcast. Safety is found by taking back total control of your portfolio as a self-directed investor. 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
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October 3 · 19 min
Podcast 295- SAY NO TO BONDS, PREFERRED SHARES, ETFs AND MUTUAL FUNDS
Send us Fan Mail 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. However if an investment is unlikely to ever show a gain in its value that investment is no better than a bank savings account paying a negligible interest rate. If inflation is eating away at your savings by 3.5% every year, your portfolio is losing value annually unless you can realize a safe, growing return of more than 5% from your investing. This week I review why a portfolio of financially strong stocks paying high dividends beats bonds, mutual funds, preferred share and ETFs. It will keep your retirement savings ahead of inflation and grow your portfolio and income year after year. 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
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September 26 · 23 min
Podcast 294 - DOUBLING YOUR INVESTMENT MONEY
Send us Fan Mail Podcast 294 Canadian Top 10 High Scoring Stocks This 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 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 consider Investing their money in the stock market. To them the stock market is seen as a form of gambling where they could lose all their life savings and be left penniless. The banks may pay them as much as 0.01% for the use of their money which they will lend to borrowers at rates as high as 22%. Meanwhile their savings account is under attack from an average annual inflation rate of about 3.5% a year. In ten years they will be able to buy 30.50% less than what the money in your savings can now buy. There is a much better, safer place for your savings than in bank savings account. I say this as an investor who twenty-five years lost $300,000 of my life savings investing in supposedly safe mutual funds chosen by an investment advisor. That loss is made me realize my savings would not be safe until I learned how to wisely manage my savings. I am now sharing with you the benefit of my 25 years of research and experience in safe, effective money management. To illustrate how my better way of managing money can safely benefit you over many years, in this week's podcast I take the data of 10 financially strong high dividend stocks from my 2021 book on Canadian high dividend stocks and compare these historical results to their current 2026 results. All my information sources are instantly and freely available so that you can verify how easy it is for you to make wise choices. My retirement savings have grown over these 25 years by many multiples and provide me with a very generous, ever growing monthly income that exceeds my needs and wants. How confident are you that your retirement savings will be able to meet your needs and wants? 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
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September 20 · 25 min
MONEY, RISK AND TIME
Send us Fan Mail 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 consider Investing their money in the stock market. To them the stock market is seen as a form of gambling where they could lose all their life savings and be left penniless. The banks may pay them as much as 0.01% for the use of their money which they will lend to borrowers at rates as high as 22%. Meanwhile their savings account is under attack from an average annual inflation rate of about 3.5% a year. In ten years they will be able to buy 30.50% less than what the money in your savings can now buy. There is a much better, safer place for your savings than in bank savings account. I say this as an investor who twenty-five years lost $300,000 of my life savings investing in supposedly safe mutual funds chosen by an investment advisor. That loss is when I realized my savings would not be safe until I learned how to wisely manage my savings. I am now sharing with you the benefit of my 25 years of research and experience in safe, effective money management. To illustrate how my better way of managing money can safely benefit you over many years, in this week's podcast I take the data of 10 financially strong high dividend stocks from my 2021 book on US dividend stocks and compare the historical results to their current 2026 results. I use information sources that are instantly and freely available so you can verify how easy it is for you to make wise choices. My retirement savings have grown over these 25 years by many multiples and provide me with a very generous, ever growing monthly income that exceed my needs and wants. How confident are you that your retirement savings will be able to meet your needs and wants? Ian Duncan MacDonald 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
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September 13 · 18 min
WHY LAW FIMS INITIATE CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS
Send us Fan Mail Podcast 292 Why 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 of lawyers who initiate legal actions arose when a long-time listener to my podcast wrote, after listening to Podcast 288, "I am surprised you seem to recommend the REIT IIPR given their recent legal issues....I held the stock briefly in 2023 and 2024 only to sell it at a loss and join a large group of shareholders in a legal action against the company". My mention of IIPR in that podcast was to illustrate how a high dividend yield had resulted in its then low IDM risk score. The idea that unusually high dividends are due to an unusually high investment risk, like most generalities, ignores exceptions. In this podcast I do a thorough analysis of the IIPR risk. I found the stock had many strengths which is probably why the class actions were dismissed in August as having no merit. However it raises questions: Why did the law firm initiate a class action law suit? What role do those investors in the class-action lawsuit play? What percentage of the judgment would the plaintiff lawyer realize if its legal action were successful? Who pays if the lawsuit is unsuccessful. I was surprised to see the huge number of blue chip stocks that the IIPR law firm had initiated class action lawsuits against. The reward for investors participating in the class action lawsuit was not obvious. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who felt after participating in a class action lawsuit against a stock that they had greatly benefited. 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
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September 5 · 22 min
WHY CHINA'S BYD BEAT TESLA
Send us Fan Mail 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 remarkable achievements of BYD which involves far more than cars. As a leading manufacturer of batteries they supply most of the other manufacturers of electric vehicles and in addition manufacture computer chips for Apple, Samsung and other electronic manufacturers. With 900,000 employees they are China's largest private corporation. For 17 years, until 2025, a large percentage of shares were owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the American conglomerate, whose profit on their original investment of $230,000,000 is reported to have had a gain of 3,890% on that original investment. While the U.S. government is attempting to protect its domestic car manufacturers by blocking BYD cars from the American market. This seems futile since BYD already has an operation in the US and also in Canada. It shall be interesting to see how long the US 100% tariff stays in place once BYD ships its first 49,000 cars to Canada within the next year. 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
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August 29 · 18 min
Podcast 290 - S&P 500 FUNDS ARE FLAWED
Send us Fan Mail 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 funds and it brings back memories of seeing my portfolio of supposedly safe mutual funds lose $300,000 over three years. As I explain this week, with a fund you are blindly sold on putting your money into something that you have no control over, whose contents can change on a fund manager's whim and is almost impossible to determine its strength. You are much further ahead to build a portfolio of 20 financially strong diverse companies paying high dividends who for the last two decades have shown consistent growth in their share price and dividend payouts. Each of the managers of these 20 strong dividend stocks would have proven they know how to make a profit and grow a company. With a fund all you have is a big blob of stocks that are almost impossible to analyze today and may change at any moment. 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
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August 22 · 22 min
podcast 289 - WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT BANKS.
Send us Fan Mail 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? Who are the 10 safest banks in North America? Who are the 5 largest banks in the world? (The largest 3 are in Asia, not in Europe or America). How can six Canadian banks be the safest six banks in North America? What is the difference in banking systems between Canada and the USA that creates safer banks? Note: a A written transcript is always attached when podcasts they are loaded into the buzzsprout.com website for forwarding to other podcasters. 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
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August 15 · 19 min
Podcast 288 - INVESTMENT RISKS IN EQUITY REITS AND MORTGAGE REITS
Send us Fan Mail 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 investment Trusts make money from interest and pay much higher dividend yields than Equity REITs, often in the 15% to 16% range. These high yields obviously attract income-seeking investors. However, today we explore the heightened risks in mortgage REITs that you must consider. 200 million Americans own REITs either directly or through ETFs and pension funds. 5 trillion dollars is invested in them. Since being introduced in 1960 they have become a mainstream asset Let my other 287 podcasts and my 7 books help develop your investment confidence. 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
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August 8 · 18 min
Podcast 287 - STRONG STOCKS A SAFE EASY INCOME
Send us Fan Mail 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 together to create an illusion of safety that they can hide behind? After my mutual fund lost $300,000 in three years. I sold that mutual fund and set out to learn how to be a successful self-directed investor, relying on my common sense and the wealth of free information that is available on every stock traded on every stock exchange, That was 25 years ago. The portfolio of a few hundred thousand dollars I started with, in my fifties, grew by many multiples. The annual dividend income it generates, which I live on, has grown well into the six figures and is still growing every year. This growth keeps my income well ahead of inflation. I now have zero fear of ever being left penniless. It was not difficult to realize this growth and security. This podcast gives you an over view of how it can be accomplished. You do not have to be a financial genius but you do have to be patient and careful. Once your portfolio of 20 financially strong, high dividend paying stocks is created, you can go for years without ever having a need to make any changes to it. My other 286 podcasts and my books will develop your investment confidence. 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
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August 1 · 16 min
Podcast 286 - A SAFE PORT IN A STORM - BUYING A SECOND CITIZENSHIP & GOLD
Send us Fan Mail 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 wrote this book 10 years ago when a devastating drought in the American Southwest was going to trigger the invasion of Canada to reroute the water in the Great Lakes. Now, the threat of turning North America into a battle ground no longer appears to be just an excuse to give fiction writers something interesting to write about. In this podcast, I have a short excerpt from that book describing plans to repel the invasion but the main theme is showing you how to protect your life and your wealth by purchasing a second citizenship in a safe nation. If you were required to escape to a safe haven, it would also be wise to have converted part of your wealth to gold that could be drawn upon when you might not have access to income from your stock portfolio. 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
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July 25 · 16 min
Podcast 285 - DREAMS OF RICHES, LAMBORGHINIS AND TRADING ON THE BEACH
Send us Fan Mail 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 exaggeration. Surely if the odds in stock speculating were that poor then people would cease speculating. Therefore, I was intrigued to come across an article by a speculator who describes the misfortunes of six young speculative investors over six years. For over 20 years, the value of my boring portfolio of 20 stocks has grown, year-after-year, while providing me with the very generous ever rising dividend income that I live on. After reading his article, I wrote to its author and he replied. His response gave me some valuable insights into investing which I share with you. 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
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July 18 · 17 min
Podcast 284 - IS IBM'S REVENUE PROBLEM A WARNING OF THE NEXT MARKET CRASH?
Send us Fan Mail 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 longer seem to be as safe and secure as they were a few years ago. Was the 25% drop in the value of IBM shares in one day, earlier this week, an unusual exception, or could International Business Machines be the first sign of a coming stock market crash? One that is bring triggered by inflated AI stock prices and the world wide turmoil caused by oil insecurity, wars and threatened invasions? International Business Machines: "Wall Street views the century-old tech giant as a prominent enterprise AI players, heavily focused on integrating artificial intelligence into hybrid cloud solutions, consulting services included along with data management". In this podcast I review IBM's historical and current situation while suggesting an investment strategy that can help you weather the storm of a the next stock market crash. 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
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July 11 · 17 min
Podcast 283 - ALWAYS REVIEW CURRENT AND HISTORICAL OPERATING MARGINS?
Send us Fan Mail 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 suppliers of serious financial problems that their commercial customers were encountering. Every business that offers the incentive of credit terms to their customers to make a sale is gambling their repayment terms will be met. If not, it can lead to not only destroying their profits but can lead to business failure. In this podcast, I share a few insights about the birth and death of businesses that I learned from building this commercial risk database. It can help you to achieve the decades of financial independence from your stock portfolio that I have achieved. One of the most critical things I have learned in choosing stocks and monitoring the stocks in my portfolios is to pay close attention to a company's operating margin. Today I explain this in detail with particular attention to recently listed penny stocks and how to separate fact from fiction in a stock promoters rhetoric. If you do some very basic research you too can build a strong, safe portfolio. 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
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July 4 · 17 min
Podcast 282 - DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HIGH VOLUMES OF SHARES TRADED
Send us Fan Mail 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 must be an indicator that the stock is in great demand and that you could not possibly lose money by investing in such a popular stock. However as you will see in this podcast high share trading values can be misleading You must look at other important indicators of strength like profitability, share prices over a dozen or more years, ever increasing dividend prices, book values and so on. This week we consider the buying of shares in major airlines. With the rapid acceleration of oil prices this year, because of the Iranian war, it has made travel very expensive. When higher costs are combined with attacks on immigrants, it is little wonder that the travel industry has seen revenues shrink by billions of dollars. No one is going to travel to countries that make them feel unwanted or in danger. Although things appear to be improving it may take years before things are back to where they were in 2025. 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
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June 27 · 15 min
Podcast 281 - CASH RESERVES PREPARING FOR UNEXPECTED HIGH EXPENSES
Send us Fan Mail 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 like it or not you are going to be surprised by unexpected large expenses critical to your health and well being. If you do not have enough cash to cover such unfortunate surprises then you are going to have to quickly borrow money, usually through a credit card. Credit card interest charges very high interest rates if you are unable to pay off your balance each month. With a little bit of planning you can save yourself thousands of dollars in interest charges by creating a reserve fund, Growing a portfolio that provides you with independence requires not only requires carefully selecting financially strong stocks paying generous reliable dividends but also carefully managing your expenditures. Your path in life is not predestined. You control your investment decisions. 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
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June 21 · 16 min
Podcast 280 - NOW, IS THE TIME TO OPEN A SELF-DIRECTED INVESTMENT ACCOUNT
Send us Fan Mail 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 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
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June 13 · 19 min
Podcast 279 - WILL MAJOR US FOOD STOCKS BE SAFE IN THE NEXT MARKET CRASH?
Send us Fan Mail 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 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
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June 6 · 18 min
Podcast 278 - MODIGLIANI WAS WRONG ABOUT DIVIDEND STOCKS
Send us Fan Mail 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 Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994 imacd@informus.ca
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May 30 · 17 min
Podcast 277 - ANALYZINANG : TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE, HONEYWELL & PAGSECURO
Send us Fan Mail 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 Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994 imacd@informus.ca
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