Ian Duncan MacDonald

Safe Dividend Investing

Business EN ↓ 282 episodes

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...

Author

Ian Duncan MacDonald

Episodes

134 - WHY AMERICANS AVOID STOCKS - CAN STOCK INVESTORS STILL GET RICH? 21.09.2023 23:20

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 134 on September 21stof 2023. Today, I will be answering 4 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Why do most Americans not invest in the stock market? QUESTION (2) How do you recover your losses in the stock market after selling your shares at a low price? QUESTION (3) What causes a stock price to fall when buying pre...

133 - Protected From Losses - Enbridge's Billion Dollar Purchases - Beware of Buybacks 13.09.2023 22:44

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 133 on September 14th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Does investing only in dividend stocks protect you from losses? QUESTION (2) In view of Enbridge's recent billion dollar acquisitions would you add Enbridge to your portfolio? QUESTION (3) Are stock buy backs good or...

132 -Are Nividia and Marvell Technology Good Stocks? Mutual fund Penalties? Good Product with Poor Management? 06.09.2023 21:27

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 132 on September 7th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Are there penalties for holding mutual funds for less than a year? QUESTION (2) Why would analysts recommend buying shares in Nividia, Marvell Technology, Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, and The Chef's Warehouse? QUESTI...

131 - Dividend Stocks Benefits and Liabilities - Why Speculate - Why Bank's Push Full-Service Investment Accounts 30.08.2023 20:30

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 131 on August 30th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) What are the benefits and liabilities of investing in dividend stocks? QUESTION (2) Why do speculators keep speculating if they keep on losing money in their stock choices? QUESTION (3) Why does my bank try so hard to persu...

130 - Is Good Stock Selection Just Luck? - Why Do Advisors Like Commissions?- Cruise Industry Investing -No Free Lunch in Investing 23.08.2023 20:38

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 130 on August 24th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 5 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) What are the client appreciation events that financial advisors hold for their customers all about? QUESTION (2) In 2020 you expected to see bankruptcies in the cruise ship industry. What happened? QUESTION (3) Is there su...

129 - MONEY MAKING PENNY STOCKS - LAZY FINANCIAL ADVISORS - IGNORING CORPORATE DEBT 16.08.2023 24:54

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 129 on August 17th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Can you make money investing in penny stocks? QUESTION (2) What questions should I ask a financial advisor before giving them control of my assets? QUESTION (3) Why does your stock scoring software not include corporate debt...

128 - Investment Advisors' Are Old Technology - Risks of a One Stock Portfolio - The high cost of savings accounts 09.08.2023 24:28

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 128 on August 10th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 5 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) How can investment institutions convince jobseekers to become financial advisors? QUESTION (2) What are the risks of only investing in one stock? QUESTION (3) Why do people prefer to save their money instead of investing i...

#127 - Predicting Stock Price Increases & Are Stock Analyst Recommendations Important? 02.08.2023 20:02

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 127 on August 3rd of 2023. Today, I will be answering 2 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) How do you know before you buy a stock that it will increase in value? QUESTION (2) Why include analyst buy recommendations in a stock scoring matrix? FIVE INVESTMENT BOOKS BY IAN DUNCAN MACDONALD (ALL BOOKS ARE AVAILAB...

#126 - Starting too Invest? Selling Stocks At A Loss? Good Canadian Dividend Stocks? 26.07.2023 20:28

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 126 on July 27th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) How could someone start investing in the stock market? QUESTION (2) When you sell a stock at a loss, what mistake have you made? QUESTION (3) What are some good Canadian dividend stocks that have the potential to increase their...

#125 Should Older People Invest in the Stock Market? How to Pick Stocks Safely. Neutralizing Stock Market Crashes. 19.07.2023 21:50

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 125 on July 20th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) How do you determine what shares to add or delete to your portfolio? QUESTION (2) Can older people invest safely in the stock market? QUESTION (3) Is it safe to invest in the stock market when we do not know when the stock market w...

#124 - Shyster Stock Promoters- Corporations Are Not Democratic - Preferred Shares Disappoint 12.07.2023 25:00

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 124 on July 13th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 7 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Is i ethical to invest in startups that you know are stocks being set up to go bankrupt as soon as the promoters have fleeced naive investors QUESTION (2) What is the reason for the recent popularity of dividend yielding stocks? Is...

#123 - A 10 Year Investment Prediction - Penny Stocks Potential - Not Selling Big Gain Stocks 05.07.2023 24:18

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 123 on July 6th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 9 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Does a company's success increase their stock value? QUESTION (2) Why has Tesla's market share in the United States decreased? QUESTION (3) How can I get a safe 5% return on my investments? QUESTION (4) Why do you sell st...

#122 - HOW TO GET RICH IN THE STOCK MARKET WITHOUT INVESTING IN IT 28.06.2023 21:06

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 122 on June 29th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 7 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) If everyone invests in stocks would this mean that everyone would potentially become rich or just a few? QUESTION (2) The share prices of my dividend paying stocks are currently below what I paid for them. Will I still get paid the...

# 121- Not Investing in Google, Amazon, Apple & Nvidia - The 6 Trillion Dollar Companies 21.06.2023 19:47

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 121 on June 22nd of 2023. Today, I will be answering one interesting investment question. QUESTION (1) Why Won't You Invest in Any of the World's Trillion-Dollar Companies? For more insights into how to choose stocks that will provide you with both a reliable, ever-growing income and constant growth in the value of your po...

#120 Searching For Ethics in Stocks, Dangers of Margins, Losing Your Financial Advisor 14.06.2023 26:36

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 120 on June 15th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 7 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Should dividend income be reinvested in the same stock the dividend came from, or should it be invested in a higher yielding stock? QUESTION (2) IS using margin to increase purchasing power a good way to build my high dividend p...

# 119 - THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR - PRICE IS ONLY ONE CONSIDERATION - SPECULATING IS UNNECESSARY 08.06.2023 23:57

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 119 on June 8th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) How long should you hold onto a stock whose share price does not increase significantly? QUESTION (2) When buying shares for your portfolio do you need to consider more than the stock's price? QUESTION (3) How much debt shoul...

#118 - Selling Rising Dividend Stocks - Sudden Price Drops - Brokers Protected from Clients 31.05.2023 21:06

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 118 on June 1st of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Should you sell dividend stocks as soon as your share price shows a good increase, because eventually they will stop paying dividends? QUESTION (2 ) One of my stocks has had a sudden drop in price. Should I sell it? QUESTION (3) Have...

#117 - Is The Investment Industry Parasitic? 20 Best Diversified Dividend Stocks. 24.05.2023 22:24

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 117 on May 25th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Why Invest in 20 Shares, Why not 2 or 200? QUESTION (2 ) Why are Operating Margins Important? QUESTION (3) Why is Self-Directed Investing Better? For more insights into how to choose stocks that will provide you with both a relia...

(#116) Investing $1,000,000 for a safe Income / Future of Airline Stocks / Overcoming a Deep Stock Loss 18.05.2023 22:24

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 116 on May 18th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) How do you overcome a deep loss in stocks and start investing again? QUESTION (2 ) How did your May 14, 2020, forecast for US airline stocks turn out? QUESTION (3) How would you invest $1 million dollars to generate a good, safe i...

PODCAST 115 Preparing For the Next Stock Market Crash, Bankrupt Companies and the Necessity of Scoring Stocks 10.05.2023 22:12

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 11 , on May 11th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Why are you constantly pushing stock scoring as a necessity in building a strong investment portfolio? QUESTION (2 ) Are we heading towards a stock market crash. How can we prepare for a crash? QUESTION (3) When a company goes...

Podcast 114 Safe Dividend investing - Competing with Hedge Funds & Retirement Strategy 03.05.2023 23:51

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 114 , on May 4th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 8 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1) Can an individual investor compete with a hedge fund? QUESTION (2 ) How does Warren Buffett know if he has picked good stocks for Berkshire Hathaway? QUESTION (3) How can I create a successful investment strategy for my retiremen...

Podcast 113 How to Select the Right Stock. How to invest $250,000. Are Advisors necessary? 26.04.2023 27:53

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 112 , on April 30th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 5 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1 ) I am struggling to pick more stocks, I now have TD, BNS, BCE, FTS, CWB and MFC plus a few ETFs. I stay away from oil and gas so that rules out stocks like ENB. Can you give me some ideas of insights by identifying which compan...

Podcast 112 - Overcoming a Fear of Investing. What Should I Ask an Annuity Salesperson. 19.04.2023 20:24

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 112 , on April 30th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1 )..How do I overcome my fear of investing in the stock market? QUESTION (2 ) ..What should I ask someone trying to sell me an annuity? QUESTION (3)..Can I make more money as a self-directed investor than working through an in...

Podcast 111 - Will Investors Lose Another 2 Trillion Dollars in Cryptocurrency This Year? 12.04.2023 20:48

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 111 , on April 13th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1 )...How much should you invest in cryptocurrency compared to investments such as bonds and stocks? QUESTION (2 ) ...Are companies that pay out high dividends more risky than other companies? QUESTION (3)...Is Broadcom Inc, stoc...

Podcast 110 Can Investment Advisors Give Good Advice? Is Now A Good Time to Invest? 06.04.2023 22:26

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 110 , on April 6th of 2023. Today, I will be answering 5 interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1 )....How do you find a good investment advisor who will give you unbiased advice that is in your best interest? QUESTION (2 ) ... What does a stock with a very low Price-to-Earnings ratio tell you about how investors feel about suc...