Terence P. O’Halloran
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. [Life and Pensions]
Associate Member of the Institute of Financial Planners
Chartered Financial Planner
Terence P. O’Halloran is an Independent Financial Adviser with over 30 years experience in the industry. To read some of Terry’s personal comments about events in the Insurance Industry why not visit his personal site at www.terryohalloran.com
He established his practice in Lincoln in 1970 and it has steadily grown since then. See http://www.ohalloran.org.uk for further information.
Early in his career he realised that there was a serious need for anglicised technical books that were both easy to read and understand.
His first venture – ‘You Sign a Little Cheque We Sign a Big One’ – was so successful that very quickly this was updated to ‘You Sign’.
Soon other professionals began to experience and benefit from the writings of Terence O’Halloran and it was not long before he undertook his biggest venture ‘Mountains Out Of Molehills’ for communicating technical concepts.
Terence has always made full use of his experience and this can be seen by his prolific use of actual cases. With ‘Mountains Out Of Molehills’ a partnerships was formed with the illustrator Bob Lole and so was born the family of Lole’s Moles – characters used throughout the book to make the reading and understanding much easier.
More recent publications are – “Trusts’ – A Practical Guide” and “‘Stakeholder Pensions’ – A Practical Guide” is latest book “If Only Politicians Had Brains” is another hit with the readers.
Terry joined forces with Andy Lopata and Stephen Harvard Davis to produce a book about exchanging business expertise rather than business cards. “Building a Business on Bacon and Eggs” puts together the architecture for setting up a Breakfast Club, or indeed a full day Study Group, and whether you want to have 150 in a room sharing business cards or fifteen to twenty people in a room sharing ideas and expertise (experts are all around you running other businesses) “Building a Business on Bacon and Eggs” will get you started. It will also keep you going.
For the cost of a breakfast, you can save literally hundreds of pounds that would have been spent on seminars with people talking ‘at you’ rather than conversing ‘with you.’ The book is a gold mine.
Terence O’Halloran’s latest book is born of forty years of experience and two and a half years of in-depth study of his own and other people’s data which led him to trade mark the classic market,TM a fifteen year period which exhibits the same trends and traits no matter what the surrounding political or economic situation happens to be.
“Hindsight – The Foresight Saga” is a road map for investment. It is an analysis of the inter-relationship between property values, bankers and the stock market. It does discuss gilts as well, indeed the whole marketplace is put under the microscope and case studies are used to illustrate just how close the late 1970s and early 1990s are with the mid to late noughties.
Similarities and trends have to be ‘seen to be believed.’ This is a graphic exposé of things you probably know but don’t know why you know them. Read the book and at least you can share the enthusiasm and observations of a financial analyst who has been through three classic marketsTM and is about to embark on his fourth. Mature simplicity comes from understanding why things happen and then doing things in tune with the rhythm of the market.