<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1719139/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 252, on December 6th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I am still trying to finish my latest 340-page book book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. It has taken me far longer than I had expected.  It will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfolio of financially strong, high dividend, income stocks. My plan is to have a preliminary release of the book at a greatly reduced price. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release, please email me at <a href='mailto:imacd@informus.ca'>imacd@informus.ca</a>.My objective with my podcasts and investment books is to motivate you to pursue financial independence as a self-directed dividend investor. Please, visit my website <a href='http://www.informus.ca/'>www.informus.ca</a> if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.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

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 252, on December 6th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I am still trying to finish my latest 340-page book book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. It has taken me far longer than I had expected. It will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfolio of financially strong, high dividend, income stocks. My plan is to have a preliminary release of the book at a greatly reduced price. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release, please email me at imacd@informus.ca. My objective with my podcasts and investment books is to motivate you to pursue financial independence as a self-directed dividend investor. Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing. 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

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1719139/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us a text</a>Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 252, on December 6th of 2025.&nbsp; My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.&nbsp;I am still trying to finish my latest 340-page book book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. It has taken me far longer than I had expected.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfolio of financially strong, high dividend, income stocks. My plan is to have a preliminary release of the book at a greatly reduced price. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release, please email me at <a href="mailto:imacd@informus.ca" rel="noopener noreferrer">imacd@informus.ca</a>.My objective with my podcasts and investment books is to motivate you to pursue financial independence as a self-directed dividend investor. Please, visit my website <a href="http://www.informus.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.informus.ca</a> if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.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

Podcast 252 - AN EXTRACT - 1ST CHAPTER OF ACHIEVING FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE

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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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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