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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 will be there to maintain the life style you have enjoyed over the decades before retired. You must have a clear picture of what you are invested in and why you are invested in it. Make sure your investments are safe and generating far better investment growth in your portfolio's value.

Follow my successful self-directed investment journey after my investment advisor lost $300,000 of my life saving over 20 years ago. All the free information I needed to make good investment decisions is immediately accessible on many good investment data websites.

My objective is to show investors how to find and select the the stocks of financially strong companies with long histories of ever increasing shares price and ever growing high dividends. The kind of dependable, growing stocks that they will want to hold for a lifetime.

IAN .

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
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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 Digital Limited. The promoter for was very aggressive in his selling of their shares of Take Two. However, a quick analysis of the stock made me wonder why? It is interesting to compare it to Honeywell and PagSeguro. I wonder how much effort the analysts' who recommended buys for these three stocks put into their research.

My objective is to show investors how to find and select the the stocks of financially strong companies with long histories of both ever increasing shares price and high dividends. The kind of dependable, growing stocks that they will want to hold for a lifetime.

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
imacd@informus.ca

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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 MacDonald books".

For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca. In the website you will find a free AI system to analyze and score your proposed stock purchases. A strong portfolio can be built within a few minutes. When I first saw this AI program in action, it made that me realize investment advisors could be replaced by AI technology within ten years.

In this week's podcast I discuss why Nvidia, this week's hot AI stock, and Peter Druker's five highest scoring stocks NYSE stocks ( Master Card, Visa, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and Coca Cola) do not qualify for my stock portfolio. For safe diversity I want my million dollar portfolio to contain 20 diverse stocks to provide me with a safe income exceeding $60,00 annually with the expectation that their rising share prices and dividend payouts will last my life time. How I will choose these 20 and where to find them is detailed.

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
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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 MacDonald books". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

To build a strong, generous portfolio Start using the free AI system provided in this podcast to analyze and score your proposed stock purchases s in seconds. Visit the attached transcript where the free AI system is provided. When I saw this software in action, it made it seem very possible that investment advisors could be replaced by technology within ten years.

It is a minority of a financial institution’s employees that create distrust with their investor clients. Many investors with substantial savings would rather keep the money in a bank savings account, where it loses 3.5% of its value each year to inflation, than entrusting it to a financial advisor.

For investment advisor to stay relevant it would have to start with better screening of the investment advisors. A client wonders who is this stranger that says they are an investment advisor and want to help me? Can I trust them? In this podcast I suggest several ways that investors could possible again learn to trust advisors and the institutions they work for. Is it possible for the industry to change?

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
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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 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

In this weeks episode I explain why the secret to achieving financial independence is learning how to measure the degree of risk in stocks so you can choose those with the greatest numerical chance to constantly grow your portfolio's share price annually by 10% while enjoying a dividend yield percent exceeding 6%. This objective immediately rules out investing in AI stocks like Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Advanced Micro Devices.

The purpose of a company is to make a profit not to provide a gambling platform for speculators trying to time when shares will dramatically climb so they can quickly sell them at a huge profit and then repeat this game over and over again for the rest of their lives - or until all their investment money is lost.

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
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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 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

In this week's podcast we hear from Eddie in Vancouver who writes about how he came to be a self directed investor and why he ceased to be a stock speculator chasing after the next big score.

It is important to do your own research when you are looking for financially strong stocks with long histories of rising share prices and dividend payouts. The stock scoring software that comes with my books helps you in making good stock buying decisions. Over the 273 issues of the weekly "Safe Dividend Investing" podcasts you can get many insights into building a safe strong generous portfolio.

What investment insights do you have to share with listeners? Send them to imacd@informus.ca

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
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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 January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

In this week's podcast I investigate how to safely maximize the income realized from dividends. If investors who did well over six years by investing in the top 20 highest scoring stocks in my my 2020 book "Safer Better Dividend Investing" would their dividend income not have been much higher if they had instead invested in the 20 stocks listed in the book that had the highest dividend yield percentages? I was surprised by what my research revealed.

It is important to do your own research when you are looking for financially strong stocks with long histories of rising share prices and dividend payouts. The stock scoring software that comes with my books helps you in making stock buying decisions. Over the 272 issues of the weekly "Safe Dividend Investing" podcasts you can get many insights into building a safe strong generous portfolio.

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
imacd@informus.ca

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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 January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca

In this week's podcast I explore stock scoring. This is objectively measuring the benefits and risks of mathematically comparing one stock with another. There are about 14,000 stocks in North America that you could purchase. Is it possible to select and score all these stocks and narrow you stock purchase down to 20 that are going to give you the best return on your investment over six years?

To prove that stock scoring works I go back to 2020 when I released my book, "Safer Better Dividend Investing". How did the 20 highest scoring stocks identified in that book do over the last six years. You may be surprised.

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
imacd@informus.ca