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Safe Dividend Investing
by Ian Duncan MacDonald
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.
Episodes
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WHY LAW FIMS INITIATE CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS
Send us Fan Mail Podcast 292 Why do law firms initiate hundreds of class action law suits? Do they earn millions of dollars in profits if the class-action law suit is successful? What happens when they are not successful? Researching the motivation of lawyers who initiate legal actions arose when…
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WHY CHINA'S BYD BEAT TESLA
Send us Fan Mail The largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the world is not Tesla, it is dwarfed by BYD, a Chinese company. Everyone seems to be very familiar with Tesla but they seem to know little about BYD. In this podcast I describe some of the remarkable achievements of BYD which involves...
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Podcast 290 - S&P 500 FUNDS ARE FLAWED
Send us Fan Mail I do not like mutual funds of any shape or size. Thus, when a friend asked me for help in selecting ETFs for his multi-million dollar portfolio, I was quick to let him know my feeling about funds. This week's podcast gets into my concerns about funds and it brings back memories…
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podcast 289 - WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT BANKS.
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #289 on August 22nd of 2026. Banks are critical to a country's health and success. Today we answer the following questions: Who are the 10 largest banks in North America? Who are the 10 safest banks in North America? Who are the 5...
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Podcast 288 - INVESTMENT RISKS IN EQUITY REITS AND MORTGAGE REITS
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #288 on August 15th of 2026. Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts invest in office buildings, apartments and stores and Investors make money from rents. Mortgage Real Estate investment Trusts make money from interest and pay much…
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Podcast 287 - STRONG STOCKS A SAFE EASY INCOME
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #287 on August 8th of 2026. Who determines if the stocks in a mutual fund, ETF or Index fund are safe? Could it be that fund managers deliberately bundle hundreds of stocks together to create an illusion of safety that they can hide...
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Podcast 286 - A SAFE PORT IN A STORM - BUYING A SECOND CITIZENSHIP & GOLD
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #286 on August 1st of 2026. The current threats by the US to invade Canada encouraged me to reissue a book with the new title of "The Fifty-First State - A Lost Alliance". I wrote this book 10 years ago when a devastating drought in…
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Podcast 285 - DREAMS OF RICHES, LAMBORGHINIS AND TRADING ON THE BEACH
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast #285 on July 25th of 2026. I keep hearing how 90% of speculative investors within a few years lose the money they have invested in stocks. Often, I have wondered if this is an exaggeration. Surely if the odds in stock speculating were...
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Podcast 284 - IS IBM'S REVENUE PROBLEM A WARNING OF THE NEXT MARKET CRASH?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 284 on July 18th of 2026. Many investors believe we are living through a stressful time. Although our investments may have reached all time highs the future of our stock portfolios no longer seem to be as safe and secure as they were…
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Podcast 283 - ALWAYS REVIEW CURRENT AND HISTORICAL OPERATING MARGINS?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 283 on July 11th of 2026. Many years ago, I was responsible for building a national commercial risk database of over 2,000,000 businesses to warn banks, insurance companies and trade suppliers of serious financial problems that their...
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Podcast 282 - DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HIGH VOLUMES OF SHARES TRADED
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 282 on July 4th of 2026. Many investors appear to be impressed by current high trading volumes of some stocks. Some companies trade more than 100,000,000 shares in a day. Surely this must be an indicator that the stock is in great...
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Podcast 281 - CASH RESERVES PREPARING FOR UNEXPECTED HIGH EXPENSES
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 281 on June 27th of 2026. This week's podcast is about safe investing. It recommends that you build a reserve fund of cash, or near cash, to be drawn upon in emergencies. Whether you like it or not you are going to be surprised by...
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Podcast 280 - NOW, IS THE TIME TO OPEN A SELF-DIRECTED INVESTMENT ACCOUNT
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 280on June 20th of 2026. This podcast is directed at those who frequently listen to my podcasts and even read my, and other writers' investment books. While these listeners may recognize that their income and wealth could be much...
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Podcast 279 - WILL MAJOR US FOOD STOCKS BE SAFE IN THE NEXT MARKET CRASH?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 279 on June 13th of 2026. In this week's podcast I question how many investors are prepared for the next stock market crash. They usually occur every five to ten years. The last one was in 2020 and the current economic conditions…
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Podcast 278 - MODIGLIANI WAS WRONG ABOUT DIVIDEND STOCKS
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 278 on June 6th of 2026. In this week's podcast I review the foolishness of blindly entrusting your retirement income to an investment advisor. It is your retirement not the investment advisor's.. Since you, not the investment…
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Podcast 277 - ANALYZINANG : TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE, HONEYWELL & PAGSECURO
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 277 on May 30th of 2026. In this week's podcast I analyze three stocks that were being promoted . They were "Take Two Interactive Software" (Stock Symbol TTWO) who are the creators of the long established video game "Grand Theft…
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Podcast 276 - WHY NVIDIA, MASTER CARD, VISA, COCA COLA, ETC. FALL SHORT
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 276 on May 23rd of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January...
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Podcast 275 - WILL AI MAKE INVESTMENT ADVISORS OBSOLETE WITHIN 10 YEARS?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 275 on May 16th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January...
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Podcast 274 - WHY I WILL NOT BE INVESTING IN NVIDIA AND OTHER AI STOCKS
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 274 on May 9th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January…
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Podcast 273 - SO, YOU WANNA GET RICH QUICK?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 273 on May 2nd of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January…
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Podcast 272 - CHOOSE YOUR DIVIDEND PAYING STOCKS CAREFULLY
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 272 on April 25th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 271 - PROOF - STOCK SCORING CREATES GREAT WEALTH
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 271 on April 18th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 270 - A REQUEST TO LISTENERS
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 270 on April 11th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 269 - A 10 BILLION DOLLAR PORTFOLIO MANAGER'S APPROACH TO INVESTING
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 269 on April 4th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January...
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Podcast 268 - ARE HIGH DIVIDEND PAYING STOCKS MONEY TRAPS?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 268 on March 28th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 267 - PROTECT YOUR PORTFOLIO NOW FROM INFLATION AND A RECESSION
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 267 on March 21st of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcaslt 266 - WHEN YOU ARE TOO OLD TO MANAGE YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 266 on March 14th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 41 --BENEFIT OF MUTUAL FUNDS OVER RATED - BUY BACKS ARE A SCAM
Send us Fan Mail 12 March 2026 - While going back through all 265 Podcasts to find which podcast has had the most listeners, I found two Podcasts that for some reason had never been broadcast. One of them was Podcast #41 recorded December 8 or 2021. Podcast #41 has some good insights into the...
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Stock Scoring Makes Building a Strong Dividend Portfolio Easy
Send us Fan Mail October 20, 2021 This podcast covers the final five chapters of my first investment book, "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing". In it, we explore how 9 information elements are graded to provide a public company's total stock score. The higher the score, the safer and...
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Podcast 265 - CAN INVESMENT ADVISORS BE TRUSTED?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 265 on March 7th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January...
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Podcast 264 - SCORE STOCKS & BUILD A CONSTANTLY RISING RETIREMENT PORTOLIO
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 264 on February 28th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available...
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Podcast 263 - ARE YOUR BANK DEPOSITS AND BANK SHARES STILL SAFE?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 263 on February 21st of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available...
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Podcast 262 - HOW TO GET SCAMMERS TO GIVE YOU BACK YOUR MONEY
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 262 on February 14th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available...
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Podcast 261 - IS THE 4% STOCK PORTFOLIO LIQUIDATION RULE NONSENSE?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 261 on February 7th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 260 - ANALYSIS OF A PUMP AND DUMP INVESTMENT SCHEME
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 259 on January 24th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 259 - COMPARING 4 AI STOCKS (ADOBE, ALPHABET, MICROSOFT & META) TO A $323 STOCK WITH A 9.65% DIVIDEND YIELD
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 259 on January 24th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available…
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Podcast 258 - WORKING CLASS VERSUS WEALTHY CLASS ATTITUDES TO MONEY
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 258, on January 17th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available...
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Podcast 257 - THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF HIGH SHARE PRICES
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 257, on January 10th of 2026. Happy New Year! My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored"…
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Podcast 256 - WOULD A STOCK WITH A 20% DIVIDEND YIELD BE SAFE?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 256, on January 3rd of 2026. Happy New Year! My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. Today my seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and…
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Podcast 255 - MICROSOFT IS NOT ALL THAT WONDERFUL.
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 255, on December 27th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I finally finished the editing and formatting of my latest book, “Achieving Financial Independence Safely. 200 NYSE Stocks -...
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Podcast 254 - WHAT DO AI STOCKS HAVE IN COMMON WITH ELECTRICITY : NVIDIA, GOOGLE, META, MICROSOFT, ALIBABA, COREWEAVE, ADOBE
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 254, on December 20th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I continue to working away on my latest book which will be called “Achieving Financial Independence Safely. 200 NYSE Stocks -...
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Podcast 253 -Excerpt from New Book - 180 HIGH DIVIDEND ANALYZED NYSE STOCKS
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 253, on December 13th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. I am still working away my latest book to be called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks -...
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Podcast 252 - AN EXTRACT - 1ST CHAPTER OF ACHIEVING FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Podcast 251 -WARREN BUFFETT ON BITCOINS, BUBBLES AND VALUE INVESTING
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 251, on November 29th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. Today is a very quick podcast. I am trying to finish up my latest book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial...
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Podcast 250 - ACCUMULATING NOT SPENDING MAKES YOU WEALTHY
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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UPS & FDX WHICH IS BEST FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Podcast 248 - NVIDIA, META, TESLA, ALPHABET AND THE COMING MARKET CRASH
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Podcast 247 - A SUDDEN SHARE PRICE DROP REQUIRES THOROUGH ANALYSIS
Send us Fan Mail 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....
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Podcast 246 - BUFFETT MAKES INVESTMENT MISTAKES TOO
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Podcast 245 - WHY DOES FIDELITY THINK INVESTING MY WAY IS CRAZY?
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
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Ian Duncan MacDonald
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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,...
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