Send us a text 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 Scored" became available on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". It is my only book in the display with a green cover. Until February 10th, i...

Send us a text 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 - Analyzed and Scored”. Early next week it will be forwarded to Amazon/Kindle. As soon as it is available, I will be informing all those who sent emails to me at imacd@informus.ca requesting w...

Send us a text 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 - Analyzed and Scored”. I am now down to the editing and formatting. However, I did add a new chapter to recognize the tremendous impact that AI stocks are having upon the stock market....

Send us a text 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 - Analyzed and Scored”. I hope to complete it within the next ten days. The book will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfolio of financially strong, high divid...

Send us a text 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 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. It has taken me far longer than I had expected. It will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfoli...

Send us a text 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 Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. Over the last 7 months It has taken up much more of my time than I had expected. However, the end is in sight, and I thi...

Send us a text 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 recognize that spending money unnecessarily and thoughtlessly can quickly destroy the wealth they may have spent years accumulating. The reality is that if you spend all you earn, you are not getting wealth...

Send us a text 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 analysis to determine the strength and potential of a stock. In this podcast I walk you through the process. It is not difficult and takes minutes not hours to do. Two stock multi billion dollar companies UPS ...

Send us a text 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 hectic days prior to the dot com stock market crash in 2000. The internet was then going to be the next big thing. Investors would all get rich if they invested in companies that had dot com...

Send us a text 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. Yes, even strong stocks can have sudden unexpected drops in their share price. This does not mean that you need to panic and immediately discard the stock. It means that you have to look closely a...

Send us a text 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 when it is again split into two companies. It is currently the 5th largest food company in the world. When Warren Buffett, who is recognized to be the most successful stock investor in the worl...

Send us a text 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 MacDonald's investment ideas were the craziest ideas she had ever heard of. What makes this email particularly Interesting to me is that the reader has a PhD in Applied Statistics ...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 244- (11 October 2025) While preparing for a trip to Bermuda, Ian Duncan MacDonald noticed that three Bermuda registered companies would be appearing in his new investment book. The book analyzes and scores 200 strong, high dividend stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. That three companies from such a small island would be appearing in the book intrigued Ian so he immediately analyzed and scored them. The three ...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 240- (20 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulatin...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 241- (27 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulatin...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 242- (4 October 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Both his books and his podcasts are written for those who fear investing in the stock market because they are convinced they will lose their life savings. Often they keep their savings in bank savings accounts or bonds that fail to even match the average ...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 243 (11 October 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Both his books and his podcasts are written for those who fear investing in the stock market because they are convinced they will lose their life savings. Often they keep their savings in bank savings accounts or bonds that fail to even match the average ...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 239- (13 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulatin...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 238- (6 September 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating...

Send us a text Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 237- (30 August 2025) Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savings, they may have spent a lifetime accumulating. ...