Buying commercial property can be an excellent investment.  Not only can you benefit from good capital growth but you can also take a good income from the rental payments your property generates.  However, as with any investment, there are advantages and disadvantages of commercial property.  Our guide looks at three things you should always bear in mind when buying.

Is Mis Selling Financial Products A Thing Of The Past

The FSA, a government watchdog tasked with regulating the mortgage market has taken decisive action against mis-selling, ensuring that borrowers are compensated if they are misled.

DB Mortgages, a mortgage provider for the Deutsche Bank was hit was fines nearing £1 million last week for irresponsible lending practices and unfair treatment of customers in arrears. Whilst the government was penalizing the company, it also managed to force DB to repay £1.5 million in unfair fines and charges.

Dell's Acquisition of Compellent Technologies for $800 million

In February 2011, Dell successfully completed its acquisition of Compellent Technologies, Inc. Compellent is a leading provider of innovative storage solutions on the web with automated data management capabilities. The shareholders of Compellent also agreed on the terms of the acquisition during a stakeholders meeting.

Deal-making and Japan's Nuclear Emergency

The stock market had another big day on Monday with deal-making, as stocks jump, easing many people’s worries about the emergency of Japan’s Nuclear Plants.

T-Mobile USA, a rival of AT&T Inc. said it would be purchase for thirty nine billion dollars, creating the largest cell phone company in the USA, and then Charles Schwab Corporation said it would purchase brokerage services provider Options Xpress for one billion dollars.

CBS Corporation (CBS) Currently On Hold

CBS Corporation is a mass media company that operates in both the US and Internationally and is near another 52 week high after a great climb to $24.51 today. This 5.51% improvement came after an analyst at Miller Tabak & Co liked the increased viewing audience watching the NCAA tournament on CBS this season.

In the aftermath of the global credit crunch and the years of decline in the old job-for-life culture at most large companies, more and more people are leaving behind traditional fixed employment and setting up their own businesses. Whether they run a small company or work in the contracting sector, most self-employed workers will start off working from home. And at a time in their business life when they will probably need to be working harder and concentrating harder than they ever have before, working from their home can often be a less than ideal atmosphere.  It is one of the ironies of moving to freelancing or contracting that you have escaped the structured routine of office life, but then find it difficult to work at home without that same structured routine. Most home workers find it very difficult to maintain discipline and not get distracted from their work once they are in a non – office environment.

Nothing is more endearing and inspiring than a true "rags to riches" story. Everybody dreams of achieving success and enjoying fame and wealth. Here are five examples of people that started with nothing and managed to reach the top.

Baby boomers have seen the most prosperous economic times in their youth. It is estimated that a larger part of global wealth is still owned and controlled by baby boomers.  Now as majority of that generation reaches the retirement age, the economic conditions are not very favorable. However, as they have always been a lucky generation, they are still lucky enough to be retiring in a time where there are many investment opportunities.

Returns on investment or ROI is a commonly heard term in conversations nowadays. Any effort in terms of time and money must yield returns. If taken literally, ROI is the benefit or return that accrues on an investment divided by the cost incurred on that investment. However, most time ROI crops up when one expects some returns for the effort put in.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Irish economy was referred to as the Celtic Tiger. Phenomenal growth in GDP occurred year after year, fuelled by high tech, service and construction industries. Anyone who visited Dublin in the past decade will have abiding memories of the city looking like one massive building site. Ireland had a highly educated population to provide the workers in these industries, 90,000 jobs were created every year and the country imported large numbers of workers from all over Europe to keep up with demand for skilled labor. Now, in 2011, the economy has all but collapsed and at the end of 2010 the Irish government had no other option but to ask for a multi billion pound bail out from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. So where did it all go wrong?