Articles: Wealth Management

Non-Literary Linguistics: Five of the Best Uses of ‘Literally’

July 20, 2010

Literally – a word that should be used with care

Markets and the Moon

July 12, 2010

How high the markets, how high the moon?

Employee handbooks: the revolution cometh?

March 5, 2010

When was the last time you, as an employee, consulted your company’s handbook of rules and procedures? Did you ever even read it in the first place?
If you’re an employer, when did you last bother to look at said tome? Or, heaven forbid, update it?
And between both employers and employees, is there some subtle PR [...]

A Stylish Professional is a Successful Professional

February 23, 2010

Every now and then Blade encounters the “it was random” argument. This is used to explain vignettes in books and films, motifs in paintings and even counterpoint in music. It goes something like this: “So-and-so did not deliberately use such-and-such a word, or colour, or chord – it was an accident.”
Blade has little truck with [...]

Should employers charge for work experience?

February 17, 2010

Blade is intrigued by the idea that employers should charge for work experience.
Granted, it would bring in a little extra income. And in these perilous times, businesses need to be as left-field as Ryan Giggs (and as creative, too) to find new ways of bringing in revenue.
But to charge for work experience is also to [...]

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