Safe Dividend Investing

Send us Fan Mail 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 we...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Sh...

Send us Fan Mail 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 o...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast we investigate how to pick the 20  best, financially strong, high dividend stocks for your portfolio from the 14,500 stocks available in North America. First you need to establish a self-directed stock trading account with a financial institution.  Once that is set up, you need to use your service's research tools to select 50 stocks that come close to meeting...

Send us Fan Mail Scoring stocks is critical to picking financially strong dividend stocks that will pay good dividends through recessions and pandemics.  Through the last two recessions, I sold nothing (which means I lost nothing) and waited them out.  While the portfolio's value dropped tremendously, the dividends rolled in like clockwork.  I have lived off my dividends for 16 years and watc...

Send us Fan Mail 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%...

Send us Fan Mail 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 giv...