Safe Dividend Investing

Send us Fan Mail SAFE DIVIDEND INVESTING I believe, it is important in investing to keep things as simple as possible. Safe companies that you choose to invest in, should recognize that they must be constantly be returning money to improve their operations to generate greater sales. If they do not grow their revenues then inflation will eat up their profits. Unprofitable companies go out of busine...

Send us Fan Mail Safe Dividend Invest Tesla has been part of the S&P 500 since 2020. Does it deserve to be part of that elite group of stocks? What did they have to go through to be accepted by the S&P 500 where such giants as JP Morgan & Chase have been resident since 1975. Will Tesla still be there five years from now? How does Tesla's strength compare to a long established auto...

Send us Fan Mail "IS YOUR INVESTMENT ADVISOR A SALES REPRESENTATIVE? Does your investment advisor see his or her job as one of hand holding and advising you when your portfolio shrinks to buy more of this now cheap stock. When your portfolio grows you are then congratulated on listening to his advice and you are now advised to buy into this upward momentum. Is it possible that the advisor is...

Send us Fan Mail "A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED".  Investment advisors love clients who never question what they are doing with their client's money, Many clients put their blind faith in an employee of a large financial institution who is being paid by that institution to transfer as much of the client's money as possible from the client's pocket to the bank's...

Send us Fan Mail Bonds, Mutual Funds, Preferred Shares, Real Estate and ETFs are often promoted to investors who fear investing in the stock market. They are described as safer investments than stocks - whose share prices are controlled by speculative bidding. However if an investment is  unlikely to ever show a gain in its value that investment is no better than a bank savings account paying a ne...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast 294 Canadian Top 10 High Scoring Stocks This podcast is a continuation of Podcast 293 on the US Top 10 high scoring stocks,  There are millions who have patiently saved their money for decades in bank savings accounts. Money they expect to help pay their living expenses when they are no longer be able to work.  These savers would never consider Investing their money in the...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast 293  There are millions who have patiently saved their money for decades in bank savings accounts. Money they expect to help pay their living expenses when they are no longer be able to work.  These savers would never consider Investing their money in the stock market. To them the stock market is seen as a form of gambling where they could lose all their life savings and b...

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 a long-time listener to my podcast wrote, after listening to Podcast 288, "I am surprised you see...

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 far more than cars.  As a leading manufacturer of batteries they supply most of the other manufacturer...

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 of seeing my portfolio of supposedly safe mutual funds lose $300,000 over three years. As I explain...

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 largest banks in the world? (The largest 3 are in Asia, not in Europe or America). How can six Canad...

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 higher dividend yields than Equity REITs, often in the 15% to 16% range. These high yields obviously attrac...

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 behind? After my mutual fund lost $300,000 in three years. I sold that mutual fund and set out to lear...

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 the American Southwest was going to trigger the invasion of Canada to reroute the water in t...

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 that poor then people would cease speculating. Therefore, I was intrigued to come across an article by...

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 a few years ago. Was the 25% drop in the value of IBM shares in one day, earlier this week, an unusual...

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 commercial customers were encountering. Every business that offers the incentive of credit terms to th...

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 demand and that you could not possibly lose money by investing in such a popular stock. However as you wi...

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 unexpected large expenses critical to your health and well being.   If you do not have enough cash t...

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 greater if they were self-directed investors, they fear the idea of testing the waters and actually b...

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 make many investors now feel insecure about how their portfolios will weather the storm when it comes...

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 advisor is responsible for your retirement's, you can not naively assume that enough money wi...

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 Auto; The century old Honeywell International Inc and a relatively new stock PagSeguro...

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 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacD...

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 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacD...