Understanding the basics.

I read a book 'Motivated Money' by Peter Thornhill. It is insightful, written clearly and concisely. He explains and compares all the asset classes, property, fixed interest deposits with equities (Shares). Equities overtime beat any other investment in the financial sector in his opinion and he shows many years of historical evidence to support this.  I research many other websites Motley fool, Yahoo Finance, Google Finance and listen to the nightly news.