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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing.
In this podcast we review the second half of Chapter 6 from the investment book, "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing" by Ian Duncan MacDonald.  The following are just some of the questions that are answered:

(1) How is a stock like buying  a company?

(2) What is a big difference between betting in a casino and buying a stock?

(3) Why would you purchase no fewer than 20 stocks for your portfolio?

(4) What increases if you were to buy more than 20 stocks?

(5) How do you obtain "free" stock scoring software?

(6) How large does a company have to be to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange?

(7) Why is the price of a stock an important search selector?

(8) How do the stock options paid to a company's executives benefit shareholders?

(9) Why would an investor choose to buy a good $2 stock over a good $50 stock?

(10) What happens to a stock when a company stops paying dividends?

(11) What is an example of double taxation in the stock market?

(12) When is the best time to buy a good dividend stock?

We will continue with Chapter 7 next week.

  If you want to learn more about the benefits  of successfully managing your own stock portfolio versus paying high fees to investment advisors go to www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com to access a wealth of information.

Ian Duncan MacDonald's two investment books, "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing" and "Safer Better Dividend Investing" are available at amazon.com as are his three  suspense novels, "Duel", "Using Drought USA" and "Beware the Abandoned" in print and as e-books.

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
[email protected]

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In Chapter Six you are walked through the process of opening a self trading investment account with a major financial institution.  You will find answers to the following questions:

1. What do you have to do first, so you can open up a stock trading account without having to go into a financial institution's branch location?

2. Which bank is the safest bank in North America?

3. What identification number allows the financial institution to instantly verify who you are and your credit worthiness?

4, What secures money lent by a financial institution in a margin account?

5. Who should you share the password to your trading account with?

6. Should your search engine save your ID and password for quick, easy access to your trading account?

7. What is the first rule of investing?

8. How does a successful company share its success with shareholders?

9. What is the operating margin of a company?

10.  What mining company in 1996 went from pennies to $286.50 a share?

Describing verbally how to set up a trading account at a financial institution is difficult.  To make it easier to absorb, I would recommend you obtain a printed  copy of "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing". Next week we will continue with the last half of Chapter Six.

For information on my books, stock scoring, my videos and art work go to www.saferbetterdividendinvesting.com

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
[email protected]

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In this podcast of the  Second Half of Chapter Five, from my Investment Book, Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing,  you will find answers to the following questions

(1) What are many  professional collectors of paintings fixated on ?

(2) How difficult is it to sell art?

(3) What would a gallery charge for selling a painting consigned to it?

(4) How difficult is it to get an estimated price for a rare coin or stamp?

(5) How can you make money if no one is interested in  your poor quality, old silver coin?

(6) What investment, which could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, can incur less  than $10 in processing and handling charges and take less than a minute to  sell?

(7) What is the difference between an investment advisor and an investment adviser?

(8) In a registered tax-free investment account, what happens when you turn 71?

(9) What was the giant problem with mortgage backed securities in 2008?

(10) How high was the unemployment rate in Canada and the United States in 1934.

(11) What company headquartered in New York made a fortune during the Great Depression selling to Germany?

(12) How can you tell looking at a stock symbol that it is a preferred share?

(13) What price are almost all preferred shares issued at?

(14)  What percentage of preferred shares should you expect to show a capital gain?

(15) What company assets secure preferred shares?

The objective of my investment books is to give investors the confidence to build safe portfolios that will  generate steady, ever-increasing dividend income for them  while growing their portfolio by several multiples over the next ten years.  The stock scoring software I used to build the charts in my books is available on request to the book's readers.  The charts sort the h dividend stocks by price, score, dividend yield percent and alphabetically.  This makes it easy and fast to build a good portfolio.

To learn more about my two  investment books, my three novels and my 2,300 paintings, photographs and digital art, go http://saferbetterdividendinvesting.com. All books are immediately available as e-books from Amazon.com,  or as printed books.

INVESTING

Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing
Safer Better Dividend Investing

NOVELS

Duel
Beware The Abandoned
Using Drought USA

ART

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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
[email protected]

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In this podcast we get answers to such questions as:

How long does Warren Buffet hold a stock in an outstanding company?

Is a savings account a good investment?

How much do you have to deposit in a savings account to get a 2.5% return?

How much do have to invest to be accepted by a hedge fund?

Do bond companies have to pay bond rating companies to be risk rated?

How much should you be expected to pay in commission to buy a bond?

How much should you expect to pay to buy a mutual fund?

What expenses would you incur in operating  an apartment building?

Is it better to buy a house or to rent  a house?

For more information on investing visit www.saferbetterdividendinvesting.com.

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
[email protected]

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In Podcast 20 the remainder of Chapter 4 of Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing is revealed.  In it the following questions are answered:

1.  Why is the Risk Tolerance Form a full service investor completes a bureaucratic farce.

2. Why are the operating fees and transaction fees buried and difficult to understand?

3. Who loses if you sue a bank for the shrinkage in your portfolio?

4. What information do you need to supply to open up a self-directed investment account?

5. How do you know when you investment adviser is trying to trick you?

6. What was Ms. Innocence's biggest mistake?

7. What percentage of NFL  players are insolvent within 2 years of retiring and why?

8. How are self-directed investors protected from making investment mistakes?

For more information on my two investment books, Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing and Safer Better Dividend Investing go to my website, www.saferbetterdividendinvessting.com. 

You may also be interested in my 3 suspense novels that keep you turning pages : Duel, Beware the Abandoned and Using Drought USA.  There is also a link to 2,300 of my paintings, photographs and digital art.

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
[email protected]

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The title for Chapter Four is "Why Self-Directed Investing?"

In this podcast, we explore:

* Who is a financial adviser's first loyalty to?
*Why do investors not question their investment advisers?
*What are the problems with commissioned sales forces?
* Why can't you trust a Vice President?
* How much should I expect to pay a financial adviser?
* Is a financial adviser worth $1,000 an hour?
* Why does my financial adviser seem to have no time to see me?
* Who is actually investing my money?
* Is there a difference between a priest and a financial adviser?
* What are some hard questions to ask investment advisers?
* What problems are there in transferring my portfolio from one bank to another bank.
*Why should I carefully read every bank document I am asked to sign?
* How could it take 3 months to set up a self-directed trading account?

This is the first half of Chapter 4.  I will complete the chapter next week. 

If you want more insight into investing, go to my website, "www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com".  You will find how to access my Power Point investment videos on YouTube.com, information on my investment books and  how to access my stock scoring software.  If you are interested in art there is also a link to my 2,300 paintings, photos and digital art on www.FineArtAmerica.com."

IAN

July 14, 2021

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
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Podcast 18:
 
Chapter Three of "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing", deals with the perils of the sudden acquisition of unexpected wealth. It covers the following topics:

* Do not impulsively entrust your money to an investment advisor
* Learn how to research investments, so you can be an informed  investor
* Accept that no one can accurately predict the future
* Your financial situation can go from good to precarious  in a moment
* Never give anyone total control over your investments.
* Know exactly what you are invested in, why you are invested in it and what it is costing you
* There is no such thing as a free lunch.  Whoever is paying, is benefitting.
*  Your investments must never stop growing.  You could be retired for decades.
* Pay your taxes

Both Books, Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing and Safer Better Dividend Investing are available in both print and as e-books.  By entering, Ian Duncan MacDonald, in the Amazon search window all of Ian's book's will appear. The e-books are instantly available if you have an account with Amazon.  Two new books are being written for release later this year.

Free stock scoring software is available to purchasers of these books.  After buying the book s email [email protected]  requesting the software, and it will be emailed to you within 24 hours.  If it has not been received in 24 hours, presume that the email has not been received.  You can then phone 929-800-2397 and request the software. 

Visit Ian's website www.saferbetterdividendinvesting.com for more information on his books, stock scoring and his art.

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
[email protected]

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In this podcast we listen to Chapter 2 of my investment book, Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing.  This chapter answers such questions as:

* Why should you have 20 stocks in your portfolio?
* Why do stock speculators speculate?
* Is stock speculating like being on a treadmill that never stops?
*  How do you deal with stock market crashes?
* Can companies have stable characters that last for decades?
* What are "pump and dump" investment frauds?
*Do Speculators live happier lives?

My book, Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing, is available from amazon.com.  Enter in my whole name, Ian Duncan MacDonald, into the amazon.com  search engine and all my books will appear.  The book was written to take away the mystery and fear in controlling your own investments.  There are charts in the book that identify many good  safe dividend stocks. The charts are sorted by desirability score,  share price, dividend yield percent and alphabetically.  These charts can save days of searching for good dividend stocks to add to your portfolio.

For more information on investing, go to my website, www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com.

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
[email protected]

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My first investment book was written in 2019.  At that time I had been a self-directed investor for more than 15 years.  During  which I had been able to recover far more than the $300,000 I had lost in the mutual fund my investment advisor had put my money into in 1996. Thanks to my background in commercial risk systems I had been able to create a stock scoring program and an investment system that allowed me to pick stocks that provided me with a dividend income greater than what I had earned as a Senior Vice President in a large international corporation.  The  portfolio had also  steadily grown to three times the size it was when I took charge of my own investing in 2000.  It is still growing.

After showing an 80-year-old friend how to recover hundreds of thousands lost by her investment advisor,  as well as doubling her income, I realized that I could help thousands of people to overcome their fears and ignorance of investing just like I had helped her.  Her biggest fear had been that of out-living her savings.  I talked to her recently.  She was relaxed, very much in control of her investments,  and was buying new furniture that two years ago she had never thought she would ever be able to afford.

  I am  a writer, so I  wrote an easy-to-read book about safe,  effective  investing.  It was  for those who had been curious but intimidated by the very idea of investing in stocks.  Since then,  I  have written a second investment book  for US investors.  A third investment book will soon be released.

Much to my surprise, my investment books are being read all around the world.  I thought now would be a good time to transfer the printed books to a podcast format to help as many people as possible.  This series of  podcasts starts with Chapter One of the first book, Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing.  If you want a printed copy, it and all my books are available from the Amazon website in both print format and e-book format.  If you search under my full name you will find the 2 investment books and my 3 novels. 

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
New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
[email protected]

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In Podcast 15 Ian MacDonald answers questions.

  The first question was from a grandson creating a portfolio for his grandparents.
The second question concerned financially stressed companies paying dividends.
The third was how big a portfolio do you need to generate $120,000 a year in dividend income.
The final question asked when  do you sell a stock.

If you have questions, you would like Ian to answer send an email to [email protected].  For  information on his books and stock scoring software go to www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com.

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
[email protected]