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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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Do You Want to Beat the Market?

#Financial Literacy #Investing

When I mentioned casually to another blogger that I had beaten the market over the past 10 years, he replied (with a great deal of wisdom,…

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Local and Expatriate Investing in Singapore - Part I

#Expat Investing #Index Funds

Over the past 3 years, I’ve spent thousands of dollars of my own money distributing books to teachers at Singapore American School, on the merits…

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Having a Foreign Affair - Part III

#Travel #Lifestyle

If you’re considering re-locating overseas for the adventure or for the financial benefits, the odds are good that if you have children enrolling in an…

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Having a Foreign Affair in SE Asia - Part II

#Travel #Lifestyle

When Linsey McMullen makes decisions about what courses she wants to take for the following school year, the 17 year old Indianapolis born American is similar…

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Having a Foreign Affair

#Travel #Lifestyle

Kate rolls out of bed, and there’s a smell of fresh coffee in the air. Walking down the hallway into her open living room, a…

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Can you beat Rafael Nadal AND Roger Federer?

#Financial Literacy

You’re playing tennis with an invisible opponent.  It doesn’t matter whether you’re good at the game or not, because you’ve been given…

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Indecent Exposure?

#Children #Financial Literacy

I’ve always been an advocate of financial education. One of the reasons we had the financial crisis of 2008/2009 is because too many people…

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Big Gain Dilemma?

#Financial Literacy #Andrew's Money

4UK657GQ837E At the beginning of June of 2010, I unloaded some bonds and bought some stocks. Over a couple of drinks last week, while sitting on…

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Wayne Rooney's Kin and Singapore Airlines

#Investing

Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder… …so bear with me if you don’t agree that Wayne Rooney [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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I Just Found $35,000 - So What Did I Do With It?

#Andrew's Money #Investing

Earlier this summer I found $35,000. It was in a brown envelope, in a ditch, about a mile from my parent’s place. OK, I…

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