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In 2000, after an investment advisor lost $300,000 of  my life savings in a mutual fund,  I set out to find a safer, better way to invest the money that remained.  The solution was to first become a self-directed investor. Next, it was to build a portfolio of the  20 best, financially strong companies that paid  dividends of 6% or more.  There are 628 stocks paying dividends of 6% or more on the NYSE and the NASDAQ,

 To help me select the best 20 companies out of the 14,500 stocks available in North America I built stock scoring software for myself.  In this podcast we explore the first three of nine important information items that go into this score.  The three we review today are the stock's current price, its historical price and the recommendations by stock analysts. 

I have lived very well off my dividend income for 16 years as I watched my portfolio more than triple despite my taking a good monthly income out of it.  You too can achieve financial independence as self-directed investor.  My quest is to help as many investors as I can to achieve this objective.

For investment insights and warnings visit my website www.informus.ca.

Ian Duncan MacDonald
[email protected] 

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 2000  I Iost $300,000 in mutual funds that an investment advisor had put my money into. I lost it because I had entrusted my life savings 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.

 Podcast #1  is an initial overview of what I learned to give me a generous, reliable  income and grow my wealth.  What have I learned about investing?

(1) It is important to 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 in their executives selfish interest.

(4)  Diversification is critical.  Investing equally in the best 20  strong dividend stocks is the ideal.  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 16 years, through two market crashes and one pandemic. I have watched my portfolio’s capital more than triple from what I started with.

 In 2020, for  charts in a new investment book I was writing (Safer Better Dividend Investing),  I spent months scoring all 628 dividend  stocks paying dividends of 6% or greater traded on the NYSE and the NASDAQ.  It revealed dozens of stocks that can provide not only generous dividend income but outstanding capital growth.  Financial independence is realizable for careful, patient investors.

If you want to learn how to invest safely, listen to my podcasts and visit my website, http://www.informus.ca

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]