Buying Happiness: Using Money as a Tool to Maximize Your Lifestyle

Welcome back to Don’t Retire... Graduate! Today’s guest came ready for a debate and didn’t disappoint. Andrew Hallam, best-selling author and educator, is here to talk about his latest book, Balance, and investment techniques and ideologies that don’t necessarily match ours. If you’re interested in learning about index funds, passive asset management, and the true meaning of success in retirement (whether you’re retiring early or not), you won’t want to miss this episode. 

In this episode we’ll talk about:

• The cost and opportunity cost associated with Ivy league education.
• Recognizing a financial advisor that is great and one that just wants to sell you something
• The role psychology plays in financial services
• Debating controversial topics in personal finance: passive versus active portfolio management, index funds versus value index
• The traditional definition of retirement, why it is unhealthy, and how to do it better
• FIRE community and the FIRE movement, and the life satisfaction research that suggests it may not be the best goal
• The four legs of the success table: money, relationships, health, and purpose

https://andrewhallam.com/balance/

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About Andrew Hallam:

Andrew Hallam is the international best-selling author of Balance: How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health and Wealth; Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School and Millionaire Expat: How To Build Wealth Living Overseas. Profiled on such media as CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal, he's also the first person to have a #1 selling finance book on Amazon USA, Amazon Canada and Amazon UAE. He has written columns for The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, MoneySense, Swissquote and AssetBuilder. Since 2016 he has spoken at businesses and international schools in over 30 different countries.

Links:

https://andrewhallam.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/445218675653782 https://www.facebook.com/millionaireteacher
https://twitter.com/aphallam
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-hallam-44b81627/

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