In 2018, Ian Duncan MacDonald was asked to write a book in simple language that explained to those who may never have invested before, how to achieve financial independence safely by investing in financially strong companies paying high dividends. This was followed by 7 investment guide books and 3 novels (All are immediately available from Amazon.com) SCROLL DOWN TO THE NOVEL SECTION TO REVIEW HIS LATEST NOVEL "THE FIFTY - FIRST STATE - A LOST ALLIANCE" It is a suspense and action thriller. The US prepares to invade Canada IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING IS HIS LAST INVESTMENT GUIDE BOOK "ACHIEVING FINANCIAL INDEPENCE SAFELY - 200 NYSE STOCKS ANALYZED & SCORED"

ACHIEVEING FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE SAFELY - 200 NYSE STOCKS ANALYZED AND SCORED Do you seek a reliable, generous dividend income that will grow for the rest of your life - even during market crashes and recessions. This book will show you how financial independence can be achieved.
Of the 200 stocks analyzed and scored in this book, 176 have been identified as being financially strong enough and paying a high enough of a dividend for you to consider in selecting what you see as the 20 best for your safe, diversified portfolio. Each stock has a page of detailed risk and historical trend information to direct you in your selection. Since you select the 20 stocks, you will know exactly why you chose each stock. The growth in your portfolio is going to take place steadily and safely over many months and years. 20 stocks gives safe diversity and are easily managed.
My approach to investing evolved from decades of analyzing commercial risks for banks, insurers and trade suppliers. I learned a corporation's success is based on their executives' experience plus their ability to analyze opportunities and make wise decisions. When you invest in a stock you are really investing in its executives. To help you in your selection of the best stocks I built stock scoring software. It is supplied free of charge to buyers of my books (see below). All my 7 investment guides are useful time capsules providing insight into the trend of your current stock choices.
This guide released in 2023 provides scores, historical data prices and dividend payouts on a page for each Canadian stock back to 1999. This 323 page guide displays 215 scored and analyzed stocks traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. All stocks exceeded a dividend yield of 3.5% or more. In simple language readers are carefully walked through each step of identifying the best stocks and the best portfolio management practices.
Sample chapters of all the books can be viewed at: https://amazon.com - simply enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books" in their search window. Then choose which book you are interested in.
 Amazon Review of Canadian High Dividend Investing: 5.0 out of 5 stars a verified purchase. "LIFE CHANGING INFORMATION""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 provides 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. Sample chapters are available at https://amazon.com enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books" in the Amazon search window.

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% or more. Preferred shares were excluded. Sample chapters and reviews are available at https://amazon.com enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books" in the Amazon search window.

American High Dividend Handbook

This 483 page guide scores 286 stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. All 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, go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books" in their search window.

Safer Better Dividend Investing

127 IMPORTANT INVESTMENT QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED in this 390 page guide to 628 scored stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange with dividend yields greater than 6% and on the Toronto Stock Exchange with dividend yields greater than 3.5%. The stock listings are sorted alphabetically, by score, by share price and by dividend yield percent for quick access. Readers are carefully walked through each step in finding and acquiring the best stocks for their portfolio. For sample chapters, go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books" 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 guide for new investors. It was released in 2019. It contains strong warnings about the predatory practices you could encounter with investment advisors. The fleecing of an 80 year-old-widow's million dollar portfolio by two major banks is detailed. All the 654 scored stocks listed were paying a dividend yield of 3.5% or more. 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. For sample chapters go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald Books" in their search window.

THE ORIGINAL STOCK SCORING SOFTWARE ENTRY SCREEN CREATED IN 2010 Available free to book buyers.

SCORING DATA APPLIED

This is a screen shot of the Bank of Montreal from a 2023 stock listing. (BMO is traded on both the NYSE and the TSX). You can see information taken from the stock scoring software screen plus 24 years of stock prices and dividend payouts to determine trends and corporate habits. Their stock price and dividend payouts have grown consistently. Note the hi-lites for the market crash years of 2000, 2008 and 2020. You can see how long it took the share price to recover and how the dividend payouts never declined Note: An AI program was created by an Australian in May of 2026 using Ian Duncan MacDonald's stock scoring matrix. It demonstrates how Artificial Intelligence has now made it fast and easy for a self-directed investor to build a strong, safe, generous stock portfolios within a few minutes. Dozen stocks can be scored in a minute or two. Book buyers can have this scoring system emailed back to them by sending an email to imacd@informus.ca
COMMENTS FROM THE 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."

300 WEEKLY PODCASTS

THE "SAFE DIVIDEND INVESTING" PODCAST

Answers to hundreds of questions from investors are answered in the 3oo free eekly podcasts. Ian analyzes the strongest high dividend stocks and provides warnings on stocks to avoid. Written transcripts of each podcast are supplied. The podcasts run between 12 minutes and 25 minutes in length. Transcripts are first placed with Buzzsprout.com who distribute the podcasts to dozens of major podcasters. Not every podcaster picks up the written transcripts however they are always available at Buzzsprout.com

THREE NOVELS

BEWARE THE ABANDONED All novels are available at amazon.com

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". (Note: The second book in this series is being worked 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 .The Sanctuary (a capitalist, non-religious sect) select him to be trained to accumulate great wealth. The Sanctuary searches the world's slums for the brightest and and most creative abandoned children - those who have learned how to survive as successful thieves, pickpockets and beggars. The eventual financial success of these children allows this sect to finance the search for more abandoned children to grow the Sanctuary's wealth. How John Cross realizes his wealth is of little concern to The Sanctuary. What is critical to the Sanctuary is keeping this money maker ahead of the mob and the FBI who are hunting him. Murders in Paris, Las Vegas and Delaware were just obstacles in John's 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.

THE FIFTY-FIRST STATE - A LOST ALLIANCE

THE FIFTY-FIRST STATE – A LOST ALLIANCE, the newest novel by Ian Duncan MacDonald Ever since the American Revolution in 1776 the United States has coveted annexing Canada. Colonists loyal to the British crown left the newly founded thirteen states and moved to the safety of Canada. A few years later, in 1812, they fought a war to repulse an attempted invasion by the United States of America. Annexation interests are constantly fanned into a flame by US politicians whenever the American Southwest states (California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico) suffer prolonged droughts. US politicians look for opportunities to win the votes of the 80,000,000 constituents in the Southwest. They often tempt US voters with a permanent solution to an ever-shrinking supply of fresh water. Politicians propose redirecting Great Lakes water to the Southwest. The Great Lakes are the largest pool of fresh water in the world. These lakes form a thousand mile long border between the Canadian province of Ontario and seven US states. This novel is set in an election year. The Southwest is suffering its worst drought ever. The president believes that immediately invading Ontario to gain access to the Great Lakes water will capture the votes in the South-West. The separatist leaning provinces of Alberta and Quebec will first be bribed to step aside and let the US have its way with Ontario.
DUEL
DUEL is an action/thriller novel that explores an explosive confrontation between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States when China dares to lease a long, 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 would dare to threaten US security. The US has always viewed the Caribbean as their private lake, closed to foreign powers. They do not tolerate foreign meddling in their territory. Assassination, political intrigue, corrupt politicians, new technologies, romance, monkeys and an evacuation in anticipation of a nuclear confrontation make this novel a page turner. For sample chapters, the prices for the e-books and print formats go to https://amazon.com and enter "Ian Duncan MacDonald" in their search window. Then choose the book.

CONTACT Ian Duncan MacDonald president INFORMUS INC 2 Vista Humber Drive Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 imacd@informus.ca www.informus.ca Toronto Tel. 416-245-4994 IAN'S BACKGROUND

Upon graduation from McMaster University, Ian took the first entry job he was offered. It was with with Dun & Bradstreet, a New York based company that employed 8,000 in hundreds of offices around the world. His entry level position was as a commercial credit reporter. This initial training has served him well. Within a year he was into management and within a few more years he had become a senior executive in the company. He attributes whatever business success he achieved to that initial reporter training in interviewing, researching, analyzing, writing and meeting deadlines. Without realizing it, he had received an in-depth education in commercial success and failure. Being ambitious, he left D&B and soon joined Creditel, a D&B competitor. Here he expanded his business risk knowledge and added a deep understanding of commercial credit management and collections. Soon, as a Senior Vice President he was responsible for building the most profitable of the company's two divisions. Creditel was acquired by Equifax, another large international risk information company. At Equifax he spent nine years as a Vice President before forming his own publishing company, Informus Inc, in 2005. Analyzing the birth, life, and death of companies had been his passion for decades. His responsibilities had included building commercial risk scoring systems that predicted the rise and fall of millions of businesses. It was only after an investment advisor lost $300,000 of his life savings that he recognized that it was critical that he learn how to become a successful self-directed investor. He quickly saw that investing in the shares of companies was just another form of commercial risk. He was able to apply his decades of commercial risk experience and business knowledge to successfully creating a strong, generous stock portfolio and building stock scoring software that made stock analysis easy. ART For all his life Ian MacDonald has been an artist. To view more than 2,300 of his paintings, drawings, digital art and photographs use the following link to visit his Fine Art America websites. https://ian-macdonald.pixels.com or https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ian-macdonald