A Winning Investment Strategy!

“Dividend stocks can be incredibly powerful because they compound.: You can get increased dividend payouts from carefully chosen dividend stocks with long histories of constantly increasing payouts. When you reinvest this new dividend income in more shares you increase the number of dividend paying shares. You are then earning returns on your returns, which boosts your income and the value of your portfolio. In carefully selecting stocks you are dealing with two types of facts: 1. Political facts 2. Technical fact Political facts are “true” only because many people believe they are true. Technical truths are true for physical or measurable reasons. A political fact becomes true when speculators convince enough people that the share price of a stock is worth more or less than its current price. That truth is derived from a group’s consensus as to a business’ future. Dividends are technical truths. A set amount per share is agreed to be paid by the directors of a company to shareholders. What others might think about the dividend paid has no impact on what is paid. Dividends are technical truths because they are actual cash payments from a business’ profits which resulted when expenses were subtracted from revenues. Wouldn’t you prefer to secure your retirement on the technical truths of a company’s long history of factual reporting of dividends paid rather than the fluctuating prices in the "political truths" by a consensus of speculative investors?”….Ian Duncan MacDonald This website is devoted to showing you how to build a financially strong generous portfolio. THE FOLLOWING 6 INVESTMENT BOOKS, 187 WEEKLY PODCASTS, AND THE FREE STOCK SCORING SOFTWARE WILL GROW YOUR WEALTH AND INCOME All Contact Information is at the Bottom of the Page (imacd@informus.ca)

SIX US & CANADIAN INVESTMENT GUIDES

Canadian High Dividend Investing

This 323 page guide displays each of the 215 scored and analyzed stocks on its own 8.5' X 11" page. The strengths of each high dividend stock are easily identified. Twenty-four years of share price and dividend payouts confirms the trend of each these stocks traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. All were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more. For quick easy reference the 215 stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent. In simple language readers are carefully walked through each step of identifying the best stocks and the best portfolio management practices. For a sample chapters of this book, go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book you are interested in. Amazon Review:5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing InformationReviewed in Canada on December 9, 2023Verified Purchase."Easy to understand, gives it to you in the simplest of terms, making you wonder, “why didn't I know this all of these years” - very simple to follow. This book changed me. I can't go back to thinking about money or my time spent in any other way. My values have changed. You know when they tell the poor and middle class to think like the rich? Well, this book is a plan of action - how to set what you know - or newly learn into motion. Buy it. Trust me. Best decision I made. Jeez, I really can't believe how simple it is. I wish I knew this in my 20s. This book is not about getting rich, it’s about generating wealth - exactly what I've been looking for.

New York Stock Exchange's 106 Best High Dividend Stocks

This 334 page guide to 106 high scoring, high dividend paying stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange contains 23 years of share price and dividend payouts for each stock. All stocks were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more. For quick reference and portfolio building all stock listings are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio.Sample chapters are available at https://amazon.com enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window and choose the book you are interested in .

Canadian High Dividend Handbook

This is a 269 page guide to Canadian high dividend scored stocks traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.All 185 scored stocks were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% . Preferred shares were excluded. The stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick access when building your portfolio. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio. For sample chapters and prices for the ebooks and print formats go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book you are interested in.

American High Dividend Handbook

This 483 page is a guide to scored stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. All 286 selected stocks were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more.The stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick, easy, building of your portfolio. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks.For a sample chapters, the prices for the ebooks and print formats go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book you are interested in .

Safer Better Dividend Investing

This 390 page guide to Canadian and American scored 628 stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange with dividend yields greater than 6% and 199 stocks traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange with dividend yields greater than 3.5%. The stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick access when building your portfolio. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio. Answers to 127 questions of interest to many investors are provided. For sample chapters, go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book you are interested in .

Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing

This 326 page guide to Canadian scored stocks was Ian's first investment book. It was released in 2019 as a warning to investors about the predatory practices of investment advisors. All the 654 scored stocks listed were paying a dividend yield of 3.5%. 56.04% of the stocks were preferred shares.The stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick access when building your portfolio. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio. For sample chapters, the prices for the ebooks and print formats go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book you are interested in . Note that some book sellers are charging more than double the Amazon prices for Ian's books.

FREE STOCK SCORING SOFTWARE

Purchasers of any of these six investment books, are invited to send an email requesting the free stock scoring software. It will be emailed back within 24 hours. Although readers are shown how to calculate the scores manually in the book, it is faster to enter the data and have the program do the calculation. After using the books to identify stocks that they wish to acquire, investors are advised before purchasing any stock to rescore it and confirm there have been no significant changes in its strength since the books was published.

SCORING ENTRY SCREEN

This is a view of the stock scoring entry screen. All the information to be entered is easily available. The data to be entered and measured includes, current share price, share price 4 years ago, the stock's book value, analyst buy recommendations, dividend yield percent, operating margin, volume of shares traded and price-to-earnings ratio. You are shown in each book where to find this data and given a detailed expanation of why each factor is important in arriving at a score for the stock. Any stock traded on any exchange can be scored. The objective of the scoring system is to identify stocks that will achieve both a high dividend income (a 7% average is achievable) plus an average increase in the stock's share price (12% can be realized most years).. Scoring allows you determine the credibility of stock tips and recommendations. It makes building a strong portfolio of the safest, best stocks easy and fast. The higher the score the safer and more attractive is the stock.

SCORING DATA APPLIED

This is a screen shot of the display of a stock from the latest book, the Bank of Montreal (BMO is traded on both the NYSE and the TSX) . It shows the information taken from the stock scoring software screen plus 24 years of stock prices and dividend payouts. You can easily see that the stock price and dividend payouts have grown consistently. Note the hi-lite for the market crash years of 2000, 2008 and 2020. This gives you an indication as to how long it took share prices to recover and how theb dividend payouts fared. Each of the 216 stocks in the two latest books have a page like this.
REVIEWS FROM THE INVESTMENT BOOK READERS
"...Your advice has really put me on a good path financially. I'm just on autopilot investing weekly in my brokerage accounts and letting my Roth IRA dividend portfolio grow ." "...I have taken your advice from 2021, as you may be aware.Before retiring early (which I finally did some weeks ago) (I am still doing a little extra work two days a week) I wanted to see how much I would yield from my dividends. I ended up making about $77K which of course would then be taxed 15%, so I am certainly able to live off the proceeds. So I decided to do just that. Find attached my recent scores in all 10 variables along with the final score for my 20 stocks. I was very pleased with my dividends. All stocks gave me a range of dividend percent ranging from 5 to over 10%." "...My dividend portfolio went down approximately 4.9% but my dividends were up 10.95%. A good portion of my last year’s price reduction has been offset by growth this year - to the tune of about half. I think too many people think about years in isolation - that is last year was bad. They think in absolutes like I lost $$$$ not paper losses. " "...I have been using a passive investment system since I read two of your books. I am now retired and live only on the dividend income with no need to draw from the principle. The last few years the stock prices have been down, but it is no longer a concern as I own good quality stocks that have a long history of paying consistent dividends." "...I have benefitted from your books, so a big THANK YOU. 2022 has been okay for me, I'm down about 4% so no worries, the dividends just keep on rolling and the market will recover one day. " " I've downloaded your previous books and found them very useful. I'm from the UK and the concepts have helped me to pick the stocks I want to invest in. Your stock scoring software has helped me a lot."

PODCASTS

187+ Weekly PODCASTS

In these weekly podcasts Ian MacDonald answers from 1 to 6 questions received from investors . The answers will help give you the confidence to build your own strong portfolio, broaden your investment knowledge and confirm your suspicions about the investment industry. You will quickly recognize that you are not alone in seeking useful investment information. The knowledge you gain will help you make wiser investment decisions and steer you clear of Investment mistakes and scams. These twenty-minute podcasts are available from almost all podcasters. Search for "Podcasts Safe Dividend Investing Ian Duncan MacDonald" and they should instantly appear.

THREE NOVELS also by Ian Duncan MacDonald

Beware The Abandoned

A reader wrote, "....I just finished this thriller book, Beware the Abandoned. I could not stop reading it. Last night I finished it and went to bed at 4 a.m. What a great book. You really have done your research and it is almost scary how much you know and how you planned his escape. PLEASE, PLEASE, I need a second book. We now need to know how John C. is going to carry on" This is a 219 page action packed story about John Cross, an abandoned child who was fighting for survival on the mean streets of Los Angeles, when The Sanctuary (a capitalist, non-religious sect) selected him to be trained to accumulate great wealth. The sect search the world's slums for the brightest and and most creative who have learned how to survive as successful thieves, pickpockets and beggars.. John's financial success will allow the sect to search for more abandoned children to grow their wealth. How John Cross realizes his wealth is of little concern to The Sanctuary. What is critical is keeping this money maker ahead of the mob and the FBI who are hunting him. The murders in Paris, Las Vegas and Delaware were just John removing obstacles in pursuit of wealth. Will his latest romantic interest also become an obstacle to be permanently removed? The FBI and the mob are closing in fast on his hideaway in a small beach town on the Delaware coast. For sample chapters, go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window.

Using Drought USA

This 204 page action/thriller novel is set in Washington, California and Canada. It is an election year. The President is engineering an invasion of Canada to channel water from Lake Superior to the parched Southwest United States. He is sure the 80,000,000 Americans in the water deprived states will then reward him with their votes. Rob Lyons is sent, by the State Department, to obtain support of the invasion of Ontario from separtist Canadians in Quebec and Alberta. The United States in exchange will support these two provinces in forming two independent republics. A greedy lobbyist in Washington leaks the President's secret invasion plan to the Canadian government. Rob Lyons becomes a hunted fugitive. For sample chapters, go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book .

Duel

This is a 290 page action packed novel set in Washington, Canada and the Caribbean. It explores a confrontation between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States. It occurs when China dares to lease an old, abandoned, British naval base on the small Caribbean island of Saint Matts. Rob Lyons, a State Department analyst, is sent to Saint Matts to determine why the Chinese dare to threaten US security. Assassination, political intrigue, corrupt politicians, new technologies, romance, monkeys, lawyers, and the threat of a nuclear war make it a page turner. For sample chapters, the prices for the ebooks and print formats go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book.

CONTACT Informus Inc Publishing Ian Duncan MacDonald 2 Vista Humber Drive Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 imacd@informus.ca Toronto Tel. 416-245-4994 New York Tel. 929-800-2397 IAN'S BACKGROUND Growing up in a northern nickel mining town with few opportunities for university graduates, Ian set out to be a teacher. However, in his graduating year at McMaster University, he got a taste of teaching and did not want to be locked in a classroom for the rest of his life.


He took the first entry job he was offered. It was with the large international commercial rating company Dun & Bradstreet as a commercial credit reporter. Within a few years he had become a senior executive in the company. Being ambitious, he left after nine years and soon joined Creditel for the next nineteen years. Here he became a Senior Vice President. Creditel was acquired by Equifax . At Equifax he spent nine years as a Vice President before leaving and creating Informus Inc. Analyzing the birth, life, and death of companies has been his passion for over 50 years. His responsibilities included building systems that predicted the rise and fall of millions of businesses. It was only after an investment advisor had lost $300,000 of his life savings that Ian chose to become a self-directed investor. He quickly realized that investing in the shares of companies was just another form of commercial risk to which he could apply his decades of risk experience and knowledge.


As president of Informus Inc., he enjoys the creative challanges of writing, publishing and promoting his books and his art. He finds the daily interaction with his readers, viewers and listeners both stimulating and interesting. A video of Ian being interviewed about his background is available at Youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7n4v26uoE ART If you have an interest in art you may want to visit Ian's gallery of over 2,300 paintings, photos and digital art at www.fineartamerica/profiles/ian-macdonald Paintings from his collection, like the following, can be purchased at discounted rates by contacting him directly. First, review what is available in his gallery at Fine Art America and then contact him with your selection. ianduncanmacdonald@hotmail.com or tel : 416-245-4994