Jim Millar, founder of Financial Fitness emigrated from Northern Ireland to SouthAfrica during October 1979. Since the early 1980’s, his work has earned himsuccess in the field of Financial Education.
During 1982, Jim began a project in co-operation withthe Johannesburg Stock Exchange to develop a revolutionary way of effectivelyteaching private investors how to win in the stock market. The resultingtraining course was a world first in combining correspondence education withtelephone help lines and simulated brokerage accounts.
In 1988, Jim took those stock market training methodsto the USA and redesigned the course to suit the American markets. As part ofthis work he developed a simple, yet extremely powerful way for a noviceinvestor to pick stocks like a professional. Jim successfully taught thisapproach to almost 4000 American investors.
During 1992 Jim wrote and published a book on thestock market. It summarises everything he has found to work for privateinvestors and the book was an instant hit with his students. Through thatsuccess he co-founded a new form of discount stock brokerage, Investors EdgeIncorporated. This firm established itself as the first national discountbrokerage that began its client relationship with an Investment TrainingProgram.
While in the USA, Jim gained invaluable knowledge ofthe financial services industry by consulting to one of Chicago’s oldestmortgage brokers - Commonwealth Mortgage Corporation - and America’s mostdynamic financial planning company - Primerica.
During 1994 he completed Financial Fitness - The Easy Way in response to the disturbing personaldebt trends in the United States. Jim has found this work to be amongst hismost satisfying, as he has known for years that people are trapped in debtdependency.
Numerous consumer magazines, financial publicationsand radio stations have interviewed Jim. He has appeared on GMSA, CarteBlanche, Options and the Money programme. Financial Fitness Consulting providedresearch for the Money Programme on SABC3 and has contributed to the EdgarsClub magazine, SA Smart Investor and Mens Health. Jim is has also writtencolumns for Money Marketing.
Financial Fitness Consulting was formed during April1996 for the express purpose of offering Financial Fitness - The Easy Way tothe hard working public of South Africa. The company makes extensive use ofmodern technology to provide over 28,000 students with highly effective and personalised education.