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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
My risk management strategy in p2p lending is to invest only money that, if lost, will at max cause me a shrug. To keep the compounding going and diversify risk, I use part of the gains from one platform to Read more…
I try to read blogs and forums to get ‘a pulse’ of the p2p industry. If crypto is considered at best as a fringe, curious topic by mainstream financial media, p2p coverage is relegated to that one per year article Read more…
This is the classic post that is more useful to the writer than the reader. Pondering and analysing investors mistakes but, more importantly, your mistakes is one of the most effective way of learning. Reading about someone else mistakes is…better Read more…
Quick one for the UK based readers. Kuflink is a peer to peer lending company that offers lenders opportunities to invest in short-term, 3 to 12 month bridging loans. All loans are secured by property should the borrower default. Kuflink Read more…
Some days ago I stumbled on this post, enticed by its title. Finding the maximum rate at which you can withdraw from your savings without going broke is the Holy Grail of retirement planning: once you cracked that, and you Read more…