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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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Mutual Fund Fees are Under the Gun

#Advisors #Investing

In this May 7, 2010 article in the New York Times, we see mutual funds in the spotlight again. The big focus relates to the question…

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Stay On the Rails

#Advisors #Financial Literacy #Travel

What do most financial advisors and African/Middle Eastern carpet salesmen have in common? A few years ago I took a train from  Algiers, Morocco (a…

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Building Your Wealth Instead of Driving It Into the Ground

#Financial Literacy #Lifestyle

Read what a 47 year-old millionaire mechanic has to say about building wealth Imagine operating a good old fashioned barber shop.  You charge about $10 for…

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The Elements of Investing book review

#Financial Literacy

I get a kick out of this.  Try finding a book (any book) on finance that makes this claim: Statistically speaking, the odds are that you…

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Losing Stocks Continue Their Winning Ways

#Financial Literacy #Andrew's Money

How are the biggest losers doing? Readers, I asked you to create a portfolio of stocks that you thought would be hopeless. You put together 23…

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I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours!

#Andrew's Money

Do you remember what investing in the late 90s was like?  You could put $5000 into a tech stock, and at the end of the month…

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Who’s Great at Picking Terrible Stocks?

#Financial Literacy #Andrew's Money

Nobody tries picking a losing stock on purpose, but despite your best (and sometimes greediest) intentions, we find ourselves occasionally face down on the pavement, courtesy…

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No joke—I think I just cracked a rib running!

#Mindset

Smoothly picking up speed, I glided down the running track earlier today, approaching a pace that I figured was equivalent to a 6 minute mile. That…

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The Biggest Losers Beat The Olympians Out of the Blocks

#Financial Literacy #Andrew's Money

Readers:  Thank you for putting together the worst portfolio you could think of. I asked you to put together a collection of stocks that you thought…

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The Losers are Winning!

#Financial Literacy #Andrew's Money

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I’ve asked readers to give me the names of the worst stocks they know.…

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