The State of Fashion 2025: Challenges at every turn
Although hard to predict, even in the best of times, the fashion industry is in for a particularly tumultuous and uncertain 2025. A long-feared cyclical slowdown has arrived. Consumers, affected by the recent period of high inflation, are increasingly price…
What Are Economies of Scale? How They Increase Profit Margins (2024)
As the old saying goes, sometimes you have to spend money to make money. This maxim can apply when you expand production, yet reduce the cost of making each individual unit—a phenomenon known as an economy of scale. Learn how…
Facts and figures: Economic empowerment
[1] UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, Leave No One Behind: A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment. Available at: [2] International Monetary Fund (2018). Pursuing Women’s Economic Empowerment. Available at: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Policy-Papers/Issues/2018/05/31/pp053118pursuing-womens-economic-empowerment [3]…
Some outside-the-box investment ideas for 2025
The year 2024 has been an event-filled one, to say the least. Despite turbulence across much of the world, equity investors have enjoyed a remarkable year. The S&P 500 Index is up about 25 per cent so far in 2024….