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…
P2P Platform Review
Do you Iuvo?
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…
P2P Lending
Do not be that (P2P) investor
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…