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A new investor asked if you could go bankrupt investing in stocks.

  I used to be very much involved in bankruptcies when I was running collection agencies and credit reporting agencies. It is a good question.

  While you may lose all your savings if you are not a careful investor, you would not go bankrupt.  The company you have put your money into may go bankrupt, but you should not.  There are warning signs to warn you when a company is getting in to trouble.  They do not go bankrupt overnight.  You have more than enough time to take your money out.

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

. If you have question you would like me to address please send me an email at [email protected]

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
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You will never find an investment advisor to recommend a 100% dividend portfolio.

 Such a portfolio makes them redundant.

  A financially strong company paying a high dividend is making it obvious that they are profitable, have excess cash and have ever intention of paying an ever rising dividend for years to come just as they have always paid dividends.  With such stocks you not only gain the benefits of a regular monthly dividend,  but you also see your share price rise steadily in the years to come.  It is interesting to compare  dividend portfolios to the typical portfolios that advisors recommend.

For more information about dividend investing go to my website, www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com.  You can also communicate with me through the links in that website.

Ian Duncan MacDonald
imacd@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]

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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
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Why is 100% of my stock portfolio made up of financially strong stocks paying high dividends? Because I see it as the safest way to invest in the stock market.  Not only can you easily receive a reliable dividend income of 6% of the portfolio even during recessions but because you choose financially strong stocks your portfolio will grow by several multiples over the years.  Since the stocks are stable they require few changes to the portfolio in a year. 

This podcast will give you insights into why this style of investing works.

If you have any questions or requests for future podcasts please send me a message

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author of "Safer Better Dividend Investing"
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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
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Today's podcast was initiated by an arrogant investment advisor who wrote an article that denigrated self-directed investors.  i suspect that since he only has relationships with investors who invest through investment advisors that he has little understanding of self-directed investors.  I responded to his comments with an article that listed the problem the investment industry has with investment advisors without authorization helping themselves to their client's money. Every day I receive reports on these thefts of investment money..  

The investment industry largely self-regulates itself.  There are problems with this.  To me there should be an objective third party that investors can file their complaints against investment advisors with,  However, real protection would only come when the public becomes financially literate and understand how the investment industry works.  They need to understand that for maximum safety they can easily establish themselves as self-directed investors where no one touches their money but them.  Ultimately, I would like to see self-directed  investment courses taught at the high school level to prepare students for future investing.

While I have many investment topics I am interested in, what is more important is what investment topics interest you.  Please do not hesitate in sending an email to [email protected] with your suggestions.

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
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One of the readers of my investment book, "Safer Better Dividend Investing" asked me if "rebalancing" and "exit strategies" had been considered in my stock scoring system.  I explain how I designed the system for my portfolio that would provide me with a steady dividend income of 6% while generating a capital gain in the portfolio of 9% or more.  It has worked better than I anticipated.  My income greatly exceeds my needs and the portfolio has more than doubled over the last 16 years.  In ten minutes the podcast summarizes years of work.

To gain a more detailed understanding of my approach to investing  please go to my website, www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com.  I only wish that someone had made such information available to me when I began investing twenty years ago.  It would have saved me and made me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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
New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
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 While Ian Duncan MacDonald is the author of two investment books, “Safer Better Dividend Investing” and “Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing”,   He is also the author of three novels.  Today he wants to introduce you to his  novel, “DUEL”. 

 For the last 5 days of April, 2021 a free eBook version of DUEL will be available at amazon.ca/DUEL-Rob-Lyons-1-ebook/dp/B07K6ZMF4

In this podcast Ian will be reading Chapter 2 of DUEL.  To set the scene,  in Chapter 1 we learn that Rob Lyons, an analyst at the State Department, is being sent to the island of Saint Matts to investigate a televised interview by Texas Senator Rick Wilcox.  That morning Wilcox stated that the People’s Republic of China had secretly leased a long abandoned British naval base on the island. 

The Caribbean is the United States private lake. European nations have recognized this for more than a hundred years.   The idea that an Asian power would dare establish a naval base in the Caribbean is outrageous. The senator has called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on this traitorous island. 

For two decades there has been competitive rumblings and posturing between the United States and China.  Within the a few years, China is expected to become the richest most powerful nation in the world.  How will the United States adapt to losing the dominant primary position it has held for 100 years?

The novel deals with a confrontation between the two powerful nations that explodes on the tiny, peaceful, impoverished Caribbean Island of Saint Matts.

For decades, the Chinese have been supplying aid to the Caribbean. They filled an aid vacuum once filled by the United States when they feared the spread of Soviet communism.

Politicians in Washington, St. Matts and China play important roles in this duel.  Rob Lyons becomes caught up in the whirlwind of assassination, power, and romance that swirls around him.

In Chapter two the scene opens in the Senator’s office just hours after his televised interview.

For more information on Ian MacDonald, his books and his art go to his website
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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
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The biggest enemy to successful investing are three very human mental influences, that can obstruct logical investment decisions.  They are, “Getting on the Bandwagon”, “The Fear of Missing Out” and “ Fear of Loss”.

For more information on my two investment books, "Income and Wealth From Self-Directed Investing" and "Safer Better Dividend Investing" to to my website www.SaferBetterDividendInvesting.com.  Here you will find videos on investing and summaries of the two books.

If there are topics you would be interested in my discussing in a podcast be sure to write me at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you.

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
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Podcast #6 continues with a discussion of alternative investments that we started in Podcast #5.  Home ownership can be a long term investment that pays off when you eventually retire. Owning rental properties is not an easy way to make money .  REITS can be very rewarding,  Hedge Funds have reputation for being risky. Collectibles require patience and good contacts.  Preferred Shares are not a good investment for individuals.  Investing in financially strong stocks paying high dividends have many benefits when compared to these alternative investments.

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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The first investment you probably made was in a savings account,  In this, the 5th podcast we compare how a savings account, a bond, a debenture, a mutual fund and an exchange traded fund compare to a self-directed portfolio containing the shares of 20 financially strong stocks paying dividends of 6% or more. 

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]