Musings, Tips & News From The World Of Financial Communications

Copylab Exists Because Fund Commentary Exists  I set up the company in 2005 because I experienced first-hand the exhausting nature of producing hundreds of month-end and quarter-end reports: lung-busting activity for the first half of each month; recovering in a...

Before the client reads a word of your document they will start to form a judgment based on the front cover, and long after they have forgotten the detail of the text they will recall the images you used. Here are some ideas that could help you get more from your design studio or agency partner, and increase the impact of every document they create.

If you’re reading this blog, you probably work for a financial services company on commissioning, producing and managing content. That means you’re almost certainly already doing elements of content strategy as part of your day-to-day working life – perhaps without even realising.

The central theme of MHAW this year is nature, underpinned by the Five Ways to Wellbeing, a series of steps aimed at maintaining the mental health of you and those around you. Here is how we try to adhere to these steps at Copylab.

“You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.”We humans appear to have evolved to be ‘wired for story’. Neuroimaging has shown that a good story can prompt the release of chemicals, including oxytocin and cortisol....

 The book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” discusses the fundamental differences between men and women. Is the phrase also true when it comes to investing? Studies in both Europe and the US indicate that women and men have different financial experiences; and...