Should you invest at all?
In this special video guide, Adam Shaw outlines what shares are, where you get them and what you do with them.
He explains the role of stockbrokers and how you can get involved with like-minded people in a share club.
And there's also advice from stockbroker Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management on what to look for in a company.
This is the third in our series of guides aimed at making financial matters easy to understand.