Collective Investment Schemes (CISs): mutual funds and unit trusts are a lure over many investors because of low barriers to entry, easy exit, diversification and efficiency considerations. An investor stands to gain many benefits and the risks are comparatively lower, for the simple reason that there is more diversification.
Every...
Full-time entrepreneurship is perhaps the ultimate career sacrifice anyone can make. It elicits a complex set of emotions ranging from deep elation and an enthusiastic attitude to gnawing uncertainty and an almost morbid fear about the future. The risk is abandoning a stable and secure source of livelihood and...
Each year, a day in March is celebrated as the Commonwealth Day to bring limelight to this family of 54 independent countries with a combined population of over 2.5billion people, aspiring to shared principles and values of freedom and prosperity.
This year the day falls on March 14 but as...
The United Nations’ (UN) International Women’s Day of 2022 is marked in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction through the theme of ‘Gender equity today for a sustainable tomorrow’.
Certainly, the UN recognises the critical role gender equity plays in the sustainable future of human existence....
It is very prudent to place special emphasis on girl-child education as a necessary tool for development of the nation, because women were born special in the affairs of handling and adhering to the morals of good governance.
The constitution of Ghana guarantees equal rights for women and men, yet...
Welcome to 2022, where the average person has between five to eight social media accounts. These social media accounts are used by both individuals and businesses to promote their brands, increase online presence, and engage customers and potential customers.
I have an account on LinkedIn, Quora, Medium, Reddit, and YouTube...
Data protection and privacy matters are becoming a challenge at all levels as we lean toward digitalisation
Our newfound world of connected devices and people is exciting; so much so that most of us are more than willing to easily share any information about ourselves, work and family...
I call it the Online Court of Customer Dissatisfaction (OCCD). It is the place customers drag a business to, when things have not gone as per the customer’s expectation. In this court, the plaintiff is also the judge and jury—and anything said is accepted by the gallery of observers....
There are two main competencies needed for the effectiveness of workplace; technical skills and human skills, also referred to as hard and soft skills. Technical skills have been overshadowing human skills for quite some time and although most businesses, companies and organizations have now come to know and understand...
The marketing aspect
By way of giving more credence to my last three articles published in this paper, the focus of this article is to provide more options for the various avenues for marketing your work as a writer for impeccable sales. The marketing ideas shared are not restricted to...