Picking Stocks Very Carefully - Losing It All - Diversification for Safe Growth and Income

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 142 on November 16th of 2023.
Today, I will be answering 3 interesting investment questions.
QUESTION (1)
How have you achieved a balance in your investments?
QUESTION (2)
Why do so many who quickly show signs of wealth lose that wealth so quickly?
QUESTION (3)
What criteria do you look at in choosing stocks for your portfolio.
(A transcript of this Podcast is available.)
SIX INVESTMENT BOOKS BY IAN DUNCAN MACDONALD, 2 BOOKS ISSUED IN THE LAST YEAR, ALL BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM KINDLE BOOKS)
(1) CANADIAN HIGH DIVIDEND INVESTING -Released August 26, 2023
In this 325-page book, learn how to select, purchase and build a portfolio of 20 Canadian strong dividend stocks. Summary records of 215 stocks are sorted in multiple ways and each stock's unique page provides detailed scoring data and 24 years of share price and dividend payout trend data.

(2) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE'S 106 BEST HIGH DIVIDEND STOCKS -Released December 2022.
In this 334-page book there is a 2-page report for each company scoring 11 data elements. It also lists 23 years of historical share price and dividend payouts so that investors can judge the stock's reliability. Released December, 2022.

(3) AMERICA HIGH DIVIDEND HAND BOOK
&
(4) CANADIAN HIGH DIVIDEND HANDBOOK

in these two books, pages of charts are sorted four ways by stock score, share price, dividend yield percent and alphabetically. A page for each stock provides eleven facts which created each stock's total score. Both books list all common stocks that were paying dividend yield percentages of 3.5% or more on the New York Exchanges and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

(5) SAFER BETTER DIVIDEND INVESTING:
All 628 stocks paying dividends of 6% or more on the NYSE and the NASDAQ, are scored and sorted by score, price, dividend % and alpha. Plus 199 high dividend Canadian stocks. The answers to 128 questions asked by investors are provided. This instructional reference book will make building a better investment portfolio faster and easier.
(6) INCOME AND WEALTH FROM SELF-DIRECTED INVESTING

In this, his first investment book, in easy to understand language, Ian MacDonald reveals the serious concerns you should have about entrusting your money to investment advisors. Step-by-step he shows you how you can realize an annual 6% income while your portfolio continues to grow year-after-year. 654 stocks paying dividend yields over 3.5% or more on the Toronto Stock Exchange are scored and listed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE 6 BOOKS, HIS 3 NOVELS, PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIGITAL ART VISIT www.informus.ca and also www.artgalarian.com

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author, Artist, Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M9P 3R7
Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
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