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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 and FDX are used to illustrate the procedures. Rely on your own analysis and know exactly why the stock you chose was based on factual not hearsay information or stock tips.

I write my investment books for those who fear that they will lose their life savings by investing in the stock market My books show investors an easy, safe way to select financially strong, safe, growing companies who pay high dividends . I have been successfully investing this way for more than twenty years . My portfolio of strong dividend stocks not only provides me with a reliable, growing six figure income but over time has continued to increase the value of my portfolio by multiples multiples. This conflicts with what I was told by investment who told me my portfolio would gradually shrink as the years went by.

Unlike mutual funds and index funds - where investors have no control over their investment and only a vague idea as to what stocks are in the fund - a self-directed investor can fully understand and appreciate the value of each stock in the portfolio that they created. They can escape the mundane returns and high fees inherent in owning funds.

For more information on self-directed investing go to my website www.informus.ca or listen to the previous 248 weekly podcasts. The first 160 podcasts are devoted to answering questions from investors just like you. Some of the remainder give you an opportunity to practice choosing stocks and introduce new relevant topics

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and 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
imacd@informus.ca