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January 31st, 2010InvestingWine has provided some fantastic returns for investors over the last couple of years, and has out performed the stock market for three decades giving investors a return of up to 30%! But there are some things you should know before you consider before investing in wine.
1) Make sure you go with a company that can offer free advice and has good understanding of the market, the most important thing when building a wine portfolio is spread the investment across different wines any company that is not able to give free advice would probably be best to avoid.
2) Make sure they offer free storage in bonded warehouses, any good wine merchant offering wine as an investment should offer free storage included in the price for the duration of your planned investment (usually 5 years max) any company that wishes to charge you extra for this service is short changing you on your investment.
3) Keep your portfolio within the Bordeaux wines if you are not an expert as this is where 90% of the investment market gravitates towards, anything outside of this could leave you open to unnecessary risk.
4) Make sure that the company that arranges and stores the wine for you allows you to visit the bonded warehouses to see your wine in person, any company that does not allow you to do this I would avoid.
5) Make sure the company arraigning the investment has the ownership of the wine in your name rather than being like a fund, this way it gives you the security of owning a tangible assets and insulates you from any financial troubles they may have as an organisation.
6) Make sure you have an exit strategy, although you can sell your wine at any time it usually best not to hold onto it any longer than 5 years, make sure you know when you are going to cash in and plan accordingly.
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January 29th, 2010Technical-WritingIf you have the ability to understand and pen down down a few essential words for someone else to speak and you can do it efficiently, then speech writing is your cup of tea. The thing with speech writing jobs is that, all you have to do is to make sure that your words are in unison with the thoughts of the speaker for whom you are writing. It is often suggested that the techniques fir writing a speech are imbibed in very single speaker; but in case this is absent, a good speech can be prepared with a specific writer for the purpose.
The only fact with writing a customised speech is that, the writer needs to discuss and talk to the main speaker and write dominant ideas that correlate essentially with the thoughts. It cannot be such that a person think of different thoughts, but speaks different thoughts because if the speech writer. The role of speech writer is not to eliminate the need for originality, but it is introduced to ensure that there is no disturbance or difficulty in translating these into words to speak.
Some very essential tips your could look into for a speech writing jobs
- Get in touch with the speaker to understand the other point of view and perspective to reflect it in the speech.
- Interact with the speaker to understand the common words and phrases used by the speaker to incorporate it in the speech.
- Use proper tense and punctuation and also appropriate words.
- It is necessary to understand the audience for which the speech is p[prepared and also analyze the other speakers to speak in the similar forum to further customize the speech.
Apart from these valuable points, remember that speech writing jobs depend on your ability to relate to another persons’ ideas and not your original ones, to a large extent.
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January 27th, 2010InvestingWine has been giving investors a healthy return on investment for a long time, it has out performed the stock market for three consecutive decades and can achieve a return of investment of up to 30%, there are however a few steps you will need to make before getting into the world of fine wine investment.
Step 1. Find a reputable wholesale wine merchant that knows the investment market – it is important that they can offer free advice and have an inside out knowledge of different wines suitable for investment.
Step 2. Make sure that your merchant offers free storage for the duration of your investment in bonded warehouses which you are aloud to visit at any time during your ownership of the wine.
Step 3. When choosing the types of wines to invest in try and keep in within the Bordeaux variety unless your an experienced expert, as 90% of the investment market is in these types of wine, there is suitable liquidity and growth potential.
Step 4. Make sure that you are happy with your portfolio selection and your merchant before making any buying decision
Step 5. Make sure you have an exit strategy, most people do not keep wine for more than 5 years as this is usually the optimum time to sell it if you where planning for a long term investment, but there is nothing stopping you from selling it sooner, It would be wise to keep it for at least 1 year to get a decent return.
