P2P Platform Review
Loanpad
You do not have the time to finish to write about ‘a legit Go&Grow‘ that you find it on Seedrs…or not? Loanpad is a new UK p2p platform that aims to offer the operational simplicity and control of an online Read more
Personal Finance
If it were easy, Everyone would be doing it
And for a period of time, it certainly seemed so. I was reading bloggers (yeah, not investors) making yearly returns of 11%, 12%, even more than that. I was asking myself why I was only cautiously deploying capital into p2p Read more
P2P Lending Personal Finance
The Greensill Saga and lessons for p2p investors
Two weeks ago I did not know the existence of Greensill, I bet 99% of the readers of this blog do not neither. Their website was taken down last Wednesday, so not more luck if you wanted to have a Read more
P2P Lending
The Future of P2P
Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital frequently uses the concept of directional arrows of progress, meaning that technologies are directionally predictable; this concept might be extended to other fields: for example, trading costs are an arrow, their direction was downward and Read more
Personal Finance
Inflation and other scares
Last week I decided to do a bit of a change, instead of passing my days sit at my kitchen table working, I took a week off…to pass my days on the couch in front of my kitchen table. At Read more
P2P Lending
DoFinance Webinar
I started investing in DoFinance in mid 2017 and I wrote a review in Nov 2019, so like 20 years ago. The VID was not kind to their business model. In a traditional p2p platform, an investor lend money to Read more
Personal Finance
SONG
My personal investment trifecta: passive income, uncorrelated to stock market, good topic at a party (once we will be able to go to one). A music royalties investment company, Hipgnosis Songs is the brainchild of Merck Mercuradis, former manager of Elton Read more
P2P Lending
Yields will go down – Part 2
More than a year ago I wrote this post on how returns in the p2p world will shape in the future. Time for a victory lap? Recently RateSetter, one of the pioneer of the sector in UK, announced the closing Read more
Personal Finance
You have no friends on WallSt
As the GME saga unfolds, I think there is an ever-lasting lesson to repeat here. Yesterday, while I was q-ing under the rain to do grocery shopping, I listen to the latest episode of The Compound Show with Josh Brown: Read more
Personal Finance
Do you remember Valeant?
This graph was all over internet recently: One side of the story is that companies got ‘smarter’, understood that investors pay for growth and therefore re-invest every single dollar of cashflow into the business. The way that Amazon did. The Read more