The millionaire teacher : the nine rules of wealth you should have learned in school / Andrew Hallam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallam, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments.

Finance, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Nine rules of wealth you should have learned in school

Place of Publication:

Singapore : John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The incredible story of how a schoolteacher built a million-dollar portfolio, and how you can too Most people wouldn't expect a schoolteacher to amass a million-dollar investment account. But Andrew Hallam did so, long before the typical retirement age. And now, with Millionaire Teacher, he wants to show you how to follow in his footsteps. With lively humor and the simple clarity you'd expect from a gifted educator, Hallam demonstrates how average people can build wealth in the stock market by shunning the investment products peddled by most financial advisors and avoiding the

Contents:

Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Rule 1: Spend Like You Want to Grow Rich; The Hippocratic Rule of Wealth; Can You See the Road When You're Driving?; One of the Savviest Guys I Ever Met-And His View on Buying Cars; Careful Home Purchases; Millionaire Handouts; How Did I Become a Millionaire?; Looking to the Future; Rule 2: Use the Greatest Investment Ally You Have; Compound Interest-The World's Most Powerful Financial Concept; The Bohemian Millionaire-The Best of Historical-Based Fiction

Gifting Money to YourselfWhen You Definitely Shouldn't Invest; How and Why Stocks Rise in Value; Rule 3: Small Percentages Pack Big Punches; With Training, the Average Fifth Grader Can Take on Wall Street; Financial Experts Backing the Irrefutable; What Causes Experts to Shake Their Heads; When the Best Funds Turn Malignant; Reality Check; Who's Arguing against Indexes?; Rule 4: Conquer the Enemy in the Mirror; When a 10 Percent Gain Isn't a 10 Percent Gain; It's Not Timing the Market that Matters; It's Time in the Market; On Stocks . . . What You Really Should Have Learned in School

Internet Madness and the Damage It CausedTaking Advantage of Fear and Greed; Opportunities after Chaos; Rule 5: Build Mountains of Money with a Responsible Portfolio; What Are Bonds?; Profiting from Panic-Stock Market Crash 2008-2009; Having a Foreign Affair; Introducing the Couch Potato Portfolio; Combinations of Stocks and Bonds Can Have Powerful Returns; Rule 6: Sample a ""Round-the-World"" Ticket to Indexing; Indexing in the United States-An American Father of Triplets; Indexing In Canada-A Landscaper Wins by Pruning Costs

Indexing in Singapore-A Couple Builds a Tiger's Portfolio in the Lion CityIndexing in Australia-Winning with an American Weapon; The Next Step; Rule 7: Peek Inside A Pilferer's Playbook; How Will Most Financial Advisers Fight You?; The Totem Pole View; Is Government Action Required?; Rule 8: Avoid Seduction; Confession Time; Investment Newsletters and Their Track Records; High-Yielding Bonds Called ""Junk""; Fast-Growing Markets Can Make Bad Investments; Gold Isn't an Investment; What You Need to Know about Investment Magazines; Hedge Funds-The Rich Stealing from the Rich

Rule 9: The 10% Stock-Picking Solution . . . If You Really Can't Help YourselfUsing Warren Buffett; Commit to the Stocks You Buy; Stocks with Staying Power; Selling Stocks; The Nine Rules of Wealth Checklist; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613282538

9780470830093

0470830093

9781283282536

1283282534

9780470830086

0470830085

OCLC:

759993968