| 词条 | Alvin Hall |
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| name = Alvin Hall | image = Alvin Hall booksigning.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Hall at a book signing | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|6|27}} | birth_place = Crawfordville, Florida, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | 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. Early lifeHall was born June 27, 1952,[1] in Crawfordville, Florida, one of seven children to a family of farmers, day workers and fishermen. Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Midweek[2] 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.[3] 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|date=March 2011}} After a period of unemployment and working as a college professor (teaching literature), he started to take an interest in finance. In 2016, February 27 was declared Alvin Hall Day to celebrate his success and imfluence on his hometown.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} He is gay.[4] Financial adviserHall started buying shares a few at a time. 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|date=March 2011}} He is the president of Cooperhall Press and designs and runs seminars for financial institutions around the world.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}} 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. He has also appeared on 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.[5] Art collectorHall is an art collector whose pieces include works by Carroll Dunham, Victoria Morton, Tina Barney, Lee Friedlander, Carrie Mae Weems and Mel Kendrick.[6] [7]BBC RadioHall 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. Hall won the Wincott Award for business journalism[8] for his 2006 documentary Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom in which he interviewed and profiled the entrepreneurial rap star Jay-Z. 2011
Episode 1: Jobs Episode 2: Pensions Episode 3: Inheritance Episode 4: Housing2010
Episode 1: Commodities Episode 2: Wine Episode 3: Art Episode 4: Film Episode 5: Property2006
Tribute to Alistair Cooke
References1. ^U.S. Public Records Index Vol. 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. 2. ^Midweek, Wednesday, 28 March 2012. 3. ^Jamie's Dream School, 16 March 2011. 4. ^{{cite web |title=Being black in the US vs the UK: There's a big difference {{!}} Alvin Hall |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zlIUeQt5XU |date=9 July 2018}} 5. ^Jamie's Dream School - Alvin Hall 6. ^{{Cite episode|title=Episode listing | series = Alvin Hall's Art World | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079gjt/episodes/guide | credits = Presenters: Alvin Hall | station = BBC Radio 4 | airdate = 2007-04-23 }} 7. ^"Artnet Interview with Alvin Hall", ArtNet 8. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.wincott.co.uk/bpj.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006124941/http://www.wincott.co.uk/bpj.htm |archive-date=2011-10-06 |dead-url=yes |df= }} 9. ^"In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps", The Documentary, BBC World Service, 18 November 2012. External links
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