Alvin D. Hall (born 1953) is a financial adviser, author and media personality.
Hall was born in Tallahassee, Florida, one of seven children to a family of farmers, day workers and fishermen. He studied for a BA in English at Bowdoin College and an MA in American literature at the University of North Carolina. After a period of unemployment and working as a college professor (teaching literature) he started to take an interest in finance.
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Alvin D. Hall (born 1953) is a financial adviser, author and media personality.
Hall was born in Tallahassee, Florida, one of seven children to a family of farmers, day workers and fishermen. He studied for a BA in English at Bowdoin College and an MA in American literature at the University of North Carolina. After a period of unemployment and working as a college professor (teaching literature) he started to take an interest in finance.
Alvin started buying shares a little at a time and his ability to translate complex financial concepts into simple English led to him becoming director of course development at Leo Fleur, a company selling training materials for Wall Street examinations. In 1986 he became director of marketing for the Chicago-based Longman Financial Services Institute in creating and implementing marketing campaigns for training programmes and products and consequently was executive director of the New York Institute of Finance. He is now the president of Cooperhall...
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