The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing by Andrew Hallam and Scott Burns
Published 2014 · 416 pages · 104,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing to read?
The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing scores 34 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 40 out of 100
- Financial vocabulary carries the book — domicile, expense ratio, UCITS, wrap platform, front-loaded commission — and Hallam defines terms once before using them freely.
- Sentence structure: 32 out of 100
- Plain declarative sentences, frequent bullet lists and worked tables. Written to be scanned as much as read.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Compounding, survivorship bias and fee drag are abstract enough to defeat intuition, which is exactly Hallam's point, but he converts each into arithmetic the reader can follow.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Country-by-country brokerage instructions, tax residency rules, model portfolios and fee comparisons are packed in at reference-book density, and much of it is only relevant to a particular reader's passport.
How The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing is regarded
The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing holds a literary regard score of 46 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.