P2P Lending
Fool’s Yield
Dan Rasmussen is the founder and portfolio manager of Verdad, a firm that invest in leveraged small value stocks in the public markets; he is a super smart dude and I tend to read / listen when I am lucky Read more…
P2P Lending
Viventor Bonus
Last year I published my Viventor platform review; it did not disappoint since and now they are offering you (and me) a 1% bonus if you invest with Viventor. The bonus is valid until the end of the month, so Read more…
P2P Lending
How to spot a SCAM
Spoiler Alert: I do not have the magic formula that is going to save you 100% of the time, other than use your brain and common sense. Recent events brought me to write this post. Ben Carlson is a portfolio Read more…
P2P Platform Review
Elfin Market: a BUY or a SELL?
Elfin Market is a p2p / credit card start-up that is currently raising money on Seedrs. I already invested in three p2p companies on the platform (OrcaMoney, Abundance Investment and Assetz Exchange) and I wanted to share here my opinion Read more…
Personal Finance
TESLA is going parabolic
Yesterday evening I was watching Uncut Gems on Netflix when a friend texted me: F: Are you looking at Tesla? Me: Did it break $700? (Narrator: it closed at $780) This is what it looks like: Previously, on Tesla: in Read more…
Personal Finance
Regulate: my adventure in the Swiss pension system
I lived in Switzerland for four years. I do not want to bother you on how the pension system is designed there, is quite similar to UK and very different from Italy, but the short story is that I have Read more…
P2P Lending
Panic! at the disco
I read the Envestio news with a big shrug. The platform with the ugliest logo ever was a scam, ok… Truth be told, the biggest p2p investors in Europe are Germans and I never wore socks with sandals so, who Read more…
P2P Lending
Kuetzal is dead, long live Kuetzal
I did not invest in Kuetzal and given recent news, probably I would never get the chance to. I tend to gravitate away from ‘the new kid on the block’, sometimes it means that I miss the generous yield new Read more…
P2P Lending
An open letter to Bondora CEO
This is the fifth post about Bondora, and the second in a row: I promise I will stop. When I started investing in p2p loans years ago I envisioned the potentiality of this new ‘asset class’ for retail and institutional Read more…
P2P Lending
The Bondora Go&Grow Discount
Lat week while I was reading this post from AQR I had a sudden revelation: what if I can borrow Cliff analysis and use it to explain Bondora Go&Grow (alleged) success? The AQR paper is about Private Equity, why investors Read more…