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Andrew Hallam

I’m a financial columnist for Canada’s national paper, The Globe and Mail, as well as for AssetBuilder, a financial service firm based in Texas. I’m also the author of <a href="https://milliona

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Biggest Losers Of Finance Are Living Up To Their Billing

#Financial Literacy #Andrew's Money

Roughly 15 months ago, I asked readers to compile a list of the worst stocks they could think of.  We were looking for crappy businesses: those…

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Did My Friend's Investment Advisor Add Value?

#Advisors #Investing

The best thing about keeping a financial blog is the interactions I’m able to have with informed readers. I’m going to ask for your…

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Financial Predictions That Never Look Silly

#Advisors

Not long ago, a man I worked with suggested that I should be careful about giving financial advice. And he was right. Everybody should be careful…

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Psst! Wanna Be a Better Investor? Then don't follow the stock market or the economy!

#Mindset #Investing

I’m going to let you in on a secret! It’s going to sound like a strange claim, but nobody who understands how the stock…

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Something to Think About… if you really can’t buy index funds - Part 3

#Index Funds #Investing

Market-Beating Guru Adds Another Strategy…With Index Funds This Time Financial literature is littered with scores of material claiming to show how average investors can beat…

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How Your High School Let You Down

#Children

As a high school teacher at a great school, I have to admit that I have one major beef with most high school curriculums: they teach…

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Something to think about… if you really can’t buy index funds – Part 2

#Index Funds #Investing

Plenty of people refuse to buy index funds. They feel that they can invest with individual stocks, and beat 90 percent of investment professionals—on their…

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Something to think about… if you really can’t buy index funds - Part 1

#Index Funds #Investing

My friend, Jeff, can’t buy index funds.  It has nothing to do with their lack of accessibility; he just can’t bring himself to do…

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The International Teachers Nine Steps to Financial Freedom For Americans

#Investing #Expat Investing

“The International Teacher’s Nine Steps to Financial Freedom”  has been  included as a chapter in a  book about wellness for teachers, but it does have…

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A narcotics accusation, a cryogenic chamber and a single stock: Reloaded

#Andrew's Money #Investing

Two years ago, I gave my readers a challenge: To pick a stock that they’d hold for the next 80 years. This is how I…

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