Ian Duncan MacDonald's winning strategy for investors

STOP SPECULATING! No One Can Accurately Presdict Future Share Prices. "Sucess come to those who invest equally in the 20 financially strongest, diversified stocks with the longest histories of rising high dividend payouts and rising share prices." LET IAN'S BOOKS, PODCASTS, AND STOCK SCORING SOFTWARE ASSIST YOU The books are easy to understand - no jargon. You are walked through the process of identifying 20 stocks most likely to provide a reliable 6% plus dividend income (even during the inevitable market crashes and recessions). Your portfolio will grow most years by 12% which will keep your dividend income well ahead of inflation. CONTACT INFORMATION IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE

SIX INVESTMENT GUIDES

All the American stocks listed are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The Canadian stocks are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. A few are traded on both exchanges. It is important that you always rescore and verify the information on each stock before buying it. Canadian stocks help diversify American stock portfolios and provide unexpected bonuses. Their is currently about a 30% differenccce between the US and Canadian dollar. This can make Canadian stocks inexpensive to buy.

Canadian High Dividend Investeing

This 323 page guide was released in August of 2023. Each of the 215 stocks scored and analyzed has its own 8.5' X 11" page. Twenty-four years of price and dividend payouts are provided for each stock. All these stocks are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more, when the data was researched. The stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick reference when building your portfolio. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio. 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 . Note that some book sellers are charging more than double the Amazon prices for Ian's books.

New York Stock Exchange's 106 Best High Dividend Stocks

This 334 page guide to 106 scored stocks traded on the NYSE was released in December of 2022 Twenty-three years of price and dividend payouts are provided for each stock. All these stocks are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more, when the data was researched. The stocks are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick reference when building your portfolio. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio.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 . Note that some book sellers are chargiAmazon prices for Ian's books.

Canadian High Dividend Handbook

This 269 page guide to Canadian scored stocks traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange was released in 2021.All 185 scored stocks were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more when the data was researched. Peferred 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 stockfs or their portfolio. 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 . Note that some book sellers are charging more than double the Amazon prices for Ian's books.

American High Dividend Handbook

his 483 page guide to scored stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange was released in 2021.All 286 selected stocks were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more when the data was researched. 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 stockfs or their portfolio.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 . Note that some book sellers are charging more than double the Amazon prices for Ian's books.

Safer Better Dividend Investing

his 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 bookwas released in 2020.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 stockfs or their portfolio. Answers to 127 questions of interest to many investors are provided.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.

Income and Wealth from Self-Directed Investing

his 326 page guide to Canadian scored stocks was Ian's first investment book. it was released in 2019 as a warning, motivated by the predatory practices of investment advisors employed by two national banks. All the 654 scored stocks listed were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more when the data was researched. 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 stockfs or 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

In all six investment books, readers are invited to send an email request for the free stock scoring software. It will be emailed back within 24 hours. Although readers are shown how to calculate the scores manually, it is much faster to enter the data and have your PC do the calculation.

SCORING ENTRY SCREEN

This is a view of how the stock scoring entry screeen. All the information entered into the nine window is available from the many sources that provide free data on stocks.The data being entered includes, current share price, share price 4 years ago, the stock's, book value, analyst buy recommendations, dividend yield percent, operating margin and price-to-earnings ratio. You are shown where to find this data and why each factor is important for stock scoring.

SCORING DATA APPLIED

This is a screen shot of the page from his latest book for 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 has 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. It also shows how dividend payouts remained steady. Each of the 216 stocks in his two latest books have such a page.
A FEW COMMENTS FROM THE INVESTMENT BOOK READERS
"...In January of 2023 Ian asked several of his books' readers what impact his books had had upon their investing. These are a few of the replies he received." "...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 stock gave me a range of dividend percent ranging from 5 to over 10%." "...My dividend portfilio 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

143 Weekly Podcasts

Listening to the answeres to the hundreds of questions from investors will help give you the confidence to manage your own portfolio, broaden your investment knowledge and confirm your suspicions. You will quickly recognize that you are not alone in seeking useful investment information. These tweny minute podcasts are available every Thursday from almost all podcasters. Search for "Safe Dividend Investing Ian MacDonald" and they should instantly appear.

THREE NOVELS

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 231 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. They search the world slums for the brightest and and most creative orphans. John's financial success allows the sect to search for more abandoned children to grow their wealth. How John Cross realizes this wealth is of no concern to The Sanctuary. What is critical to them, is keeping their money maker ahead of his pursuers - the mob and the FBI. The murders in Paris, Las Vegas and Delaware were just John's removal of obstacles in the path to wealth. Will his latest romantic interest also become an obstacle? The FBI and the mob are closing in fast on his hideaway in a small beach town on the Delaware coast. 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 .

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 South West United States. He is sure the 80,000,000 Americans in the watere deprived states will reward him with their votes. Rob Lyons is sent, by State Department, to obtain support of the invasion of Ontario from separtist Canadians in Quebec and Alberta in exchange for US help 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, 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.

Duel

This is a 290 page action packed novel set in Washington, Canada and the Caribbean. DUEL explores a confrontation between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States when China dares to lease an old, abandoned, British naval base on a 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 you are interested in . Note that some book sellers are charging more than double the Amazon prices for Ian's books.

CONTACT Informus Inc Publishing Ian Duncan MacDonald 2 Vista Humber Drive Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 imacd@informus.ca website for books: www.informus.ca website for art: www.artgalrian.com Toronto Tel. 416-245-4994 New York Tel. 929-800-2397 Growing up in the Northern nickel mining city of Sudbury, in his early childhood years, Ian developed a passion for art. His first abstract oil paintings called "Falling" (in his artgalrian.com website) was painted at ten years of age.


Discouraged by his parents from pursuing a career as an artist, "because artists were a dime a dozen". He set out to be a high school history teacher. However, in his graduating year at McMaster University, he got a taste of teaching and realized it was not for him..


He took the first job he was offered and within a few years became a senior executive in the commercial risk information industry with Dun & Bradstreet, then Creditel and finally Equifax. Analyzing the birth, life, and death of companies has been his passion for decades. His jobs involved building systems that predicted the rise and fall of millions of businesses. It was only after he took over the management of his investments in 2000 that he realized that investing in the shares of companies was just another form of commercial risk where he could apply his decades of experience and knowledge.

Upon achieving financial independence, he now had the freeedom to fully pursue his need for artistic expression. In recent years, he has published 6 investment books, 3 novels and created over 143 twenty minute "SAFE DIVIDEND INVESTING" podcasts. 2,300 of his paintings, photographs and digitital images are on display at fineartamerica.com.


As president of his publishing company, Informus Inc., he enjoys the creative marketing challanges of his books and art, plus the interaction with his readers and viewers.