Sources of information about investment

mikeymo_3

I'm looking for sources of investment advice, apart from here of course.

I'm 51. I have £80,000 in total. I like research, and doing sums! So I'm not the least afraid of direct equity investment.

Investors Chronicle looks OK - is it? If so is it worth paying for the extra online access?

Any other regular print publications anybody would recommend?

Or good online sources?

I don't entirely trust financial journalists, I think many people have axes to grind. so...

if I want to make direct assessments of individual companies, what are the sources of info. Company reports, presumably (just write and ask for the last accounts, yes?). Any other way of investigating? I would actually quite like to visit a company's premises. Perhaps one can gain at least an impression that way.

And what decent print/online guides are to how to interpret a company's figures.

The industries which I have worked in are construction, education, music, theatre. It would be good to look at a sector I actually have direct knowledge of.

Thanks.