The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing: From Millionaire Teacher to Millionaire Expat

A "Must Read" for anyone living outside their home country… and those who want to invest efficiently

"The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing" provides an excellent road map anyone can follow in order to build his/her own portfolio leading to financial freedom. Although the book is directed to the expat, it provides a path for anyone who wants to learn more about efficient, effective and basic investing. Andrew's writing is very light, easy to understand and is filled with direction and encouragement, as to how to build wealth over the long term for anyone, expat or other. He writes in a clear and consice manner, and his content is backed up with plenty of facts and figures, that are easily verifiable, and adaptable to one's own situation. For example, most of the scenario's Andrew uses, is for a sample portfolio held for 25 years. Using a compound interest calculator found online, one can easily adapt his numbers to any time frame to suit your own situation. Andrew does an excellent job of contrasting the facts and figures with humour, fun and anecdotes, so as not to bore and weigh the reader down with data and tables. He makes very clear that there is no "get rich quick" solution, and strongly discourages following the latest financial fads, but instead, suggests choosing one of a variety of portfolios based on low cost index investing. As anyone who follows Andrew's blog will know, Andrew speaks out vehemently against the high priced and inflexible investment schemes that are regularly pushed on expats, earning the advisors, and the insurance companies, exorbitant commissions. Andrew continues with this theme in this book, showing with actual data how such high fees can virtually demolish retirement planning. Most likely, Andrew's outspokenness on this matter has cost the insurance companies a significant amount of busines; in fact, it wouldn't be surprising if those promoting these high cost products, write negative reviews, criticising Andrew's data in an attempt to undermine his credibility. Should that be the case, I would recommend that one buys his b...