Category: Terms Explained

PERMA: Five Building Blocks Of Happiness

Positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement. What each part of the PERMA model asks of you, and how to start using it....

Reading A Mutual Fund Fact Sheet

Every month a fund house publishes a short document that says how your fund is doing and what it holds. What the fact sheet tells you, section by section....

Big Data And The Security It Needs

Big data is the huge volume of information that floods a business every day. It is useful, and it has to be handled safely....

Import Substitution Industrialisation

A theory that asks a young country to shelter its new industries until they can stand up to imports. What it is and how it works....

What Is A Bunny Market?

Bull and bear markets get all the attention. A bunny market is the quieter one that hops up and down without going anywhere....

What Insider Trading Actually Is

A term people use loosely for any unfair advantage. It has a narrow definition, two dates, and an argument inside it that is more interesting than the crime....

The Concept Of Prejudice

A word we use loosely every day has a precise definition, a date of birth, and an argument inside it that is still running....

What Are Super Lice?

A term the medical community is divided about, and the ordinary biological process that sits underneath the alarming name....

What Is A Business Venture?

Where a venture comes from, who funds it at each stage, and the one document that should exist before any of it starts....