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2011

ONLINE
BBC Radio 4

Follow Alvin's blog on cash-is-cool.com. Alvin will be offering exclusive monthly insight into how best to manage your money; as well as offering advice in response to readers' financial dilemmas. The third and latest blog discusses inflation, a guide to understanding and coping.

ONLINE
Black Enterprise

Preview B.E. Business Report
Black Enterprise, October 14, 2011
Alvin Hall outlines strategies for getting your startup off the ground.

Press
Money Multimedia

Check out Fidelity UK magazine's top picks for Money Multimedia highlighting Alvin's radio show Poorer Than Their Parents and his book Plan Now, Retire Happy.

RADIO
BBC Radio 4

Just in: Listen to Alvin as he speaks on WNYC's The Takeaway regarding his new radio series and its relation to the recent the riots in England.

RADIO
BBC Radio 4

Listen to Alvin in his latest four part series on BBC4 Radio. In Poorer Than Their Parents, Alvin assesses whether today’s youth will be the first for generations to be worse off than their parents. The four programs cover employment (July 23rd), pensions (July 30th), inheritance (Aug 6th), and housing (Aug 12th).

BOOKS
The Stock Market Explained

Stay tuned for Alvin’s new book releasing early 2012: The Stock Market Explained: Your Guide to Successful Investing.

ONLINE
Euronext

Watch as Alvin presents a brief history of the New York Stock Exchange in a virtual tour as Discovery Education celebrates Financial Literacy Week. Take Stock in Your Future airs April 14, 2011 from 12-1pm.

FORUM
Alvin was recently interviewed in March by Alexis Jeffreys, an editor at Time Inc.

Alvin was recently interviewed in March by Alexis Jeffreys, an editor at Time Inc., at the Black Employees at Time (BEAT) lunch on the basics of personal finance and day to day money management.

Photograph by Kenneth B. Goldberg

FORUM
Conference

Listen to Alvin in a panel discussion at the 39th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, the annual conference of the African American Student Union at Harvard Business School, March 4-5th, 2011.  Alvin joins other business leaders and educators in a discussion on Your Wealth: Building and Maintaining Your Nest Egg.

FORUM
The Studio Museum of Harlem

See Alvin at The Studio Museum of Harlem on January 20, 2011, 7-9pm, where he joins a panel discussion titled The Fine Art of Collecting: All About Photography, designed to educate a new generation of art connoisseurs and provide them with access to world-class curators, conservators, appraisers, galleries and renowned collections. 

RADIO
TTR

Listen to Alvin on Transformation Talk Radio as Dr. Jeffrey Hull interview’s Alvin about planning for emotional and financial prosperity in 2011, broadcast on January 17, 2011.

Television

Alvin on BBCAlvin’s Guide to Good Business is now broadcast on the following in-flight entertainment:
Air Canada
American Airlines
British Airways
Qatar Airways
Singapore Airlines
Virgin Airlines

Publishing
Getting Started In Mutual Funds

Check out Alvin’s recently published book:
Getting Started in Mutual Funds

2010

Television

Black Enterprise Business ReportWatch Alvin as he appears on Wealth for Life on the Black Enterprise Business Report. Alvin advises parents that’s it’s never too early to discuss money with their children, aired on December 20, 2010.

Alvin has also been featured on 16 Money Experts Who Want to Make You Rich on blackenterprise.com

Forum
2010 Skoll World Forum on Social EntrepreSilver Docs Documentary Film Festivalneurship

See Alvin as he moderates a post-screening conversation with the filmmakers of Freakonomics, part of the Silver Docs Documentary Film Festival, June 21-27, 2010.

Television
BBC 4

Listen to Alvin on his new radio series Generations of Money on BBC Radio 4 .

Radio
NPR.org

Listen to Alvin as he appears regularly on Michel Martin’s Tell Me More on NPR.

Forum
2010 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

Listen in on Alvin during a panel discussion at the 2010 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Listen to the podcast: Compelling Action: Social change media in the age of information overload

Event
NYSE Euronext’s financial Literacy program

Watch Alvin help ring in the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as he was recently appointed to the NYSE Financial Literacy Advisory Committee assisting in the development of NYSE Euronext’s financial Literacy programs.

Event
Alvin's Guide ToGood Business

See Alvin at the World Book Day reception #10 Downing Street on March 2010 in the company of other influential authors.

Television
Alvin's Guide ToGood Business

photo by Ashley Morris

Watch Alvin's most recent television series broadcast on BBC World News and Rockhopper TV: Alvin’s Guide to Good Business

Publishing

Check out Alvin’s recently published books: Plan Now, Retire Happy (UK) and Your Money or Your Life (US) and Money Magic (UK), part of the Quick Reads series, a major adult literacy initiative.
Learn more about Quick Reads:  Download PDF

Publishing
Show Me The Money

Alvin’s children’s book, Show Me the Money is now published in 20 different languages and sold worldwide. Check out the US and UK version.