Alvin Donald Hall (born June 27, 1952) is an American
financial adviser, author, and
media personality.
Financial adviser
Hall studied for a
Bachelor of Arts in English at
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...
.
After a period working as a college professor (teaching literature), he moved to New York and started working in finance.
In 1990, Hall briefly lectured British stockbrokers in London in preparation for the
NASD exams in the United States.
Hall has written books and articles on saving and investing as well as debt management. He presented ''Your Money or Your Life'' on BBC2 and has made various television and radio appearances, including as a panellist on ''
Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment
''Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment'' is a BBC television comedy series presented by Dave Gorman which was broadcast in 2002. The studio-based show was interspersed with footage of Gorman literally taking the advice of horoscopes for ...
'' and ''
The Apprentice: You're Fired''.
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
Jamie's Dream School is a seven-part British television documentary series made by Fresh One Productions, first aired on Channel 4. In it, Jamie Oliver enrols a group of teenagers with fewer than five GCSEs into his "Dream School" – a school ...
''. On the programme, Hall taught the pupils
mathematics
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.
Art collector
Hall is an art collector whose pieces include works by
Carroll Dunham,
Victoria Morton,
,
Lee Friedlander,
Carrie Mae Weems and
Mel Kendrick
Mel Kendrick (born July 28, 1949), is an Contemporary art, American artist, known primarily for his sculpture, sculptural work in wood, bronze, rubber, paper and, most recently, cast concrete. Kendrick's work reflects a deep fascination with proce ...
.
["Artnet Interview with Alvin Hall"]
''ArtNet''
BBC Radio
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
''Money Box'' is a weekly personal finance radio programme on BBC Radio 4, produced by BBC News, currently presented by Paul Lewis. The programme is broadcast live each Saturday in the half-hour slot just after midday. It is repeated on Sunday ev ...
'' is off-air.
Hall won the
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
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and founder of Manhattan-based conglomerate talent and entertainment agency Roc Nation. He is regarded as one of ...
.
References
External links
Official siteAlvin Hall On Small SpendingBBC raw Quick Reads - Money Magic by Alvin HallAlvin Hall's World of Money
on Money box for BBC Radio 4
"Your money or your wife? Ask Alvin Hall"
BBC, 18 June 2002.
''Interview with asrecommended''
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1952 births
African-American television personalities
American finance and investment writers
Wakulla High School alumni
Bowdoin College alumni
African-American LGBT people
Living people
Writers from Tallahassee, Florida
People from Crawfordville, Florida
African-American non-fiction writers
American non-fiction writers
American gay writers
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
21st-century American LGBT people
African-American male writers
American male non-fiction writers