I was scared of shares. Here’s what changed

When it came to investing, I used to be all about property. Flipping them, investing in them, having one to live in. After all, the saying is: “Safe as houses”.

I’d always known of shares. But outside of the financials section of the newspaper, all you really ever hear about them is when they drop. The media loves to roll out and use emotive words like “rout”, “plummeted”, “dived” or…