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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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What investment fees are fair, and what’s unfair?

#Financial Literacy

Larry McDonald wrote up an interesting post about Nora Dunn, a woman travelling the world, but using financial planners at Investor’s Group. Interestingly, she got…

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How To Select A Financial Advisor

#Advisors #Financial Literacy

Because we weren’t taught much about money in school, most of us run around naked as adults, before embracing the first person who hands us…

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Investors--You Should Listen to a Dying Wall Street Man

#Financial Literacy

With the conflicts of interest and ignorance within the money management industry, one Wall Street veteran with brain cancer wants to stand up and be heard……

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Retiring in Comfort—Without Ever Experiencing a Canadian Winter Again

#Retirement #Lifestyle #Travel

I haven’t had to scrape frost off my car’s windshield for more than 8 years. I haven’t had to shovel a snowy path…

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How British Expatriates Can Invest Using ETFs

#Expat Investing

Author’s Note:  Many of the comments below will no longer apply to this updated post.  Because of U.S. estate tax rules, I created the…

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The Millionaire Teacher — The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School…But Didn’t

#Financial Literacy #Children

Many schools do a great job teaching their students. Where I teach high school English, at Singapore American School [http://www.sas.edu.sg/],  we have…

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WARNING! Beware Of Expatriate Investment Salesmen

#Advisors #Expat Investing

Beware the traveling salespeople. They’re looking to make money from naiveté.  And too many expatriate Brits in Singapore are getting crushed. When paying too much…

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Gotta love failures

#Mindset #Lifestyle

Last week a friend of mine, Ursula Pong, a beautiful (inside and out) 50 year old PE teacher at my school asked me to try something…

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Working with cobras or laptops?

#Lifestyle

Kevin, at  InvestItWisely.com wrote an interesting post about his college experiences—-feeling that perhaps, college was a waste of time.… read the post [http://www.…

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Financial Newsletters And Empty Promises

#Financial Literacy

The best advice I could give someone getting into stock picking is to think for themselves, and avoid advertisements of financial ‘gurus’ who want to share…

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