Safe Dividend Investing

<p>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.</p>

Podcast 250 - ACCUMULATING NOT SPENDING MAKES YOU WEALTHY

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 250 (November 22, 2025) It is interesting to investigate what motivates investors to invest in the stock market. Do they believe that once their portfolio achieves a specific dollar amount the they will the be "wealthy". Will they recognize that spending money unnecessarily and thoughtlessly can quickly destroy the wealth they may have spent years accumulating. The reality is that if you spend all you earn, you are not getting wealth...

11-22
17:54

UPS & FDX WHICH IS BEST FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO?

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 249- (November 15, 2025) When you ask someone's advice in choosing a stock are you subconsciously looking for someone, other than yourself, to blame if the stock loses money? You are perfectly capable of doing some simple, easy analysis to determine the strength and potential of a stock. In this podcast I walk you through the process. It is not difficult and takes minutes not hours to do. Two stock multi billion dollar companies UPS ...

11-16
20:25

Podcast 248 - NVIDIA, META, TESLA, ALPHABET AND THE COMING MARKET CRASH

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 248- (November 8, 2025) This week's podcast was motivated by a question from one of my book readers. He asked why I was so sure there would be a market crash in the next two years. I am old enough to remember very clearly the hype and hectic days prior to the dot com stock market crash in 2000. The internet was then going to be the next big thing. Investors would all get rich if they invested in companies that had dot com...

11-08
16:52

Podcast 247 - A SUDDEN SHARE PRICE DROP REQUIRES THOROUGH ANALYSIS

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 247- (November 1, 2025) This week's podcast is in response to a question from one of my listeners. He was concerned that one of his, what he thought was a strong stock, had lost fifty percent of its share price value almost overnight. Yes, even strong stocks can have sudden unexpected drops in their share price. This does not mean that you need to panic and immediately discard the stock. It means that you have to look closely a...

11-01
17:32

Podcast 246 - BUFFETT MAKES INVESTMENT MISTAKES TOO

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 246- (25 October 2025) As I continue to score and analyze stocks for my next investment book the loss at The Kraft Heinz Company (stock symbol KHC) caught my interest. KHC was a merger formed in 2015 and will cease to exist in 2026 when it is again split into two companies. It is currently the 5th largest food company in the world. When Warren Buffett, who is recognized to be the most successful stock investor in the worl...

10-25
16:20

Podcast 245 - WHY DOES FIDELITY THINK INVESTING MY WAY IS CRAZY?

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 245- (18 October 2025) This week is a departure from my usual podcast content. It responds to a Fidelity investment advisor with whom one of my readers discussed my approach to investing. The Fidelity advisor stated that Ian Duncan MacDonald's investment ideas were the craziest ideas she had ever heard of. What makes this email particularly Interesting to me is that the reader has a PhD in Applied Statistics ...

10-19
13:04

Podcast 244 - 3 Bermuda NYSE Stocks Worth Considering - DHT - FLNG & SFL

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 244- (11 October 2025) While preparing for a trip to Bermuda, Ian Duncan MacDonald noticed that three Bermuda registered companies would be appearing in his new investment book. The book analyzes and scores 200 strong, high dividend stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. That three companies from such a small island would be appearing in the book intrigued Ian so he immediately analyzed and scored them. The three ...

10-11
16:26

Podcast241- Which of the following 3 Stocks is the highest Risk? - LTC - LXP or LYB

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 241- (27 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulatin...

09-30
21:07

Podcast 240 - Practice Analyzing these 3 Stocks For a Safe High Dividend Portfolio -KRT_KW _KEN.

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 240- (20 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulatin...

09-30
20:33

Podcast 242- Practice Analyzing 3 Stocks - This week: MNR - MACY'S INC -TIGO

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 242- (4 October 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Both his books and his podcasts are written for those who fear investing in the stock market because they are convinced they will lose their life savings. Often they keep their savings in bank savings accounts or bonds that fail to even match the average ...

09-20
20:27

Podcast 243 - NHI -NSA -NXRT - WHICH OF THESE 3 STOCKS IS BEST FOR A PORTFOLIO?

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 243 (11 October 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Both his books and his podcasts are written for those who fear investing in the stock market because they are convinced they will lose their life savings. Often they keep their savings in bank savings accounts or bonds that fail to even match the average ...

09-17
20:27

Podcast 239 - ANALYZE & SCORE 3 STOCKS ALONG WITH ME -INSW -JACK & JAKK

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 239- (13 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulatin...

09-13
20:43

Podcast 238 - Which of these 3 High Dividend Stocks would you add to your Portfolio?

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 238- (6 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating...

09-02
21:54

Podcast 237 - Which stock would you choose? EMN? DEA? or EIX? for your portfolio?

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 237- (30 August 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating. ...

08-29
21:58

Podcast 236 - BUILD A STRONG SAFE STOCK PORTFOLIO - THIS WEEK DKL, DXL AND DHT

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 236 - (23 August 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating....

08-22
21:12

Podcast 235 - Scoring for Book: CABLE ONE - CAL-MAINE FOODS - CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 235- (16 August 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating. ...

08-13
22:13

Podcast 234 - Learn by Scoring HIGH DIVIDEND STOCKS -BCE, Best Buy and Betterware de Mexico

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 234 - (9 August 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating. ...

08-09
19:05

PODCAST 233 - FIRST 3 OF 200 STRONG HIGH DIVIDEND STOCKS - ALX, ARE and ARLP

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 232. Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It will take several months to complete. It is being written for those investors who fear making investment decisions. Many of them fear losing savings, which they may have spent a ...

08-01
23:43

Podcast 232- AMERICAN, UNITED AND DELTA AIRLINES - ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 232. This week's podcast is a departure from the format of the last 40 podcasts. Today I am doing a comparison between three major US airlines : American Airlines Group Inc (AAL), United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) and Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL). There are many large publicly traded companies on stock markets from which we buy merchandise and services . At times you can be puzzled by their policies and behavior...

07-26
21:03

Podcast 231 - This week's 10 big gainers, high dividend stocks scored - CAL-MAINE FOODS - HESS MIDSTREAM - IGM FINANCIAL

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 231 While identifying, recording, analyzing and scoring this week's 10 US and Canadian financially strong, high dividend stocks for the podcast, I found the following interesting: The most expensive stock was < Cal-Maine Foods>at < $105.94>and <Brookfield Renewable > was the least expensive at <$27.20> The stock with the highest dividend yield percent was < Millicom International > with a <7.54 ...

07-26
15:59

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