Now you are on your own. Here are some things you can do and books you can read

Site

Look at parts of this site to which you may not have linked Commentaries, Who's Who, Choosing Products

Books

Still on everyone's top ten and most people's top two of books on equity investment: "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. First published in 1949 based on ideas developed in the thirties.

Tim Hale: "Smarter Investing: Simpler Decisions for Better Results".

For an insider's description of the role of the Institutions in the City it's hard to beat Tony Golding's "The City: Inside the Great Expectations Machine".

Perhaps not for beginners, but a deeply thought and passionate "kick in the pants for the industry and a wake-up call for individual investors": " No Monkey Business: What Investors Need to Know and Why" by Stuart Fowler.

William Bernstein has been described in Investors Chronicle as "the quiet genius of modern investment advice". He is particularly strong on asset allocation (but with American assets). "The Intelligent Asset Allocator". His site

Anyone except the complete numeri-phobe will obtain many pain-free insights from "Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life" and "Black Swan" , by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Activities

Join an Investment Club. Proshare

Join UK Shareholders Association. UKSA