Alvin Hall

For the football player, see Alvin Hall (American football). For the U.S. Treasury Dept. official, see Alvin W. Hall.

Alvin Hall
Hall at a book signing
Born	1953 Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Financial adviser, journalist, broadcaster

Alvin D. Hall (born 1953) is an American financial adviser, author and media personality.

Early life

Hall was born in Tallahassee, Florida, one of seven children to a family of farmers, day workers and fishermen. He grew up in severe poverty. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts in English at Bowdoin College and a Master of Arts in American literature at the University of North Carolina.^{[citation needed]} After a period of unemployment and working as a college professor (teaching literature), he started to take an interest in finance.

Financial adviser

Hall started buying shares a little at a time and his ability to translate complex financial concepts into simple English through the use of slices of cake 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.^{[citation needed]}

He is the president of Cooperhall Press and designs and runs seminars for financial institutions around the world.^{[citation needed]}

He has written books and articles on saving and investing and debt management. He presented Your Money or Your Life on BBC2 and has made various television and radio appearances. He has also appeared on The Apprentice: You're Fired as a panelist on several occasions.

He also edits a money column in the UK's Reveal magazine. He has written Money Magic for the charitable organisation Quick Reads which encourages people to get back into the habit of reading.

He was involved in Jamie Oliver's programme, Jamie's Dream School. On the programme, Hall taught the pupils mathematics.

Art collector

Hall is a private art collector and his collection includes pieces by Carroll Dunham, Victoria Morton, Tina Barney, Lee Friedlander, Carrie Mae Weems and Mel Kendrick.

BBC Radio

Alvin Hall has presented several finance-related radio programmes for BBC Radio 4, which often broadcast in the period when Radio 4's personal finance programme Money Box is off-air.

Alvin Hall won the prestigious Wincott Award for business journalism for his 2006 documentary Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom in which he interviewed and profiled the entrepreneurial rap star Jay-Z.

2011

• Poorer Than Their Parents: four programmes in which Alvin Hall assesses whether today's youth will be worse off than their parents.

Episode 1: Jobs

Episode 2: Pensions

Episode 3: Inheritance

Episode 4: Housing

2010

• Alvin Hall's Generations of Money: Alvin Hall helps four different generations plan for an uncertain future and explores the economic bonds that tie them together

2009

• The Money Grab: Alvin Hall examines the continuous rise in executive pay.

2008

• Alvin Hall's World of Money: Alvin Hall asks where investors put their money during the time of a credit crunch.

Episode 1: Commodities

Episode 2: Wine

Episode 3: Art

Episode 4: Film

Episode 5: Property

2006

• Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom: Profile of the rap entrepreneur Jay-Z.
• Alvin Hall's Secret Collection: Alvin Hall gains access to remarkable private art collections.

Politics

Hall is a Democrat and supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US Primaries. It was his view that Obama would win the Primary to become the Democratic nominee, but that race would play an important part in the November 2008 General Election and that Obama would not reach the White House.

References

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2050922.stm
• Interview with asrecommended
• http://www.take3management.co.uk/alvin_hall.htm
• http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1077&id=814932004}
• http://www.bettermoneyadvice.co.uk/finance/AlvinHallOnThe%20CreditCrunch

External links

• Official site
• Alvin Hall On Small Spending
• BBC raw Quick Reads - Money Magic by Alvin Hall
• Alvin Hall's World of Money on Money box for BBC Radio 4