Alvin Hall

Alvin Hall
Hall at a book signing
Born	(1952-06-27) June 27, 1952 (age 64) Crawfordville, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Financial adviser, journalist, broadcaster
Website	http://alvinhall.com/

Alvin D. Hall (born June 27, 1952) is an American financial adviser, author and media personality.

Alvin D. Hall was born on June 27, 1952, in Crawfordville, Florida, one of seven children to a family of farmers, day workers and fishermen. Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Midweek he said that his grandmother had told him he was "everything she had", something that helped him get through difficult financial decisions; she was also a great saver and gave him 50 dollars when he was heading to Yale university. 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. After a period of unemployment and working as a college professor (teaching literature), he started to take an interest in finance.

In 2016, February 27th was adopted as Alvin Hall Day to celebrate Alvin's success and his imprint on his hometown.

Hall started buying shares a few 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.

He is the president of Cooperhall Press and designs and runs seminars for financial institutions around the world.

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 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.