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Market Musings – FB, Oil, Biotech & more

I wrote a lot about crypto lately, definitely more than it is represented in my portfolio. In the meantime, have collected thoughts on some more traditional assets. Then the war happened. Most of the considerations you will read are still valid, mine is not exactly the blog for day-traders, but Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 3 yearsFebruary 28, 2022 ago
P2P Lending

Viventor Update

This morning I received below email from Viventor: We are pleased to announce that the acquisition of Twinero & Presto by Gielen Group is now final and investors are given 2 recovery options.As we informed you last year, the following three scenarios would be evaluated:1. Sell the troubled loan portfolios Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 25, 2021 ago
P2P Lending

P2P platforms update

It has been a while since I wrote about my p2p investments. Nothing relevant happened, just few good and bad news here and there. The main disappointment is that initially, p2p was meant to ‘democratise’ an asset class that was not available to retail investors; while it is still mostly Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsMay 13, 2021 ago
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 of its retail activity: RateSetter announces that Metro Bank is Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsFebruary 7, 2021 ago
P2P Lending

Is Housers the next default?

I just started investing in EvoEstate, I did not do any platform review because I usually wait at least one year and see how it works before expressing my findings. The founders are supposed to be expert in the sector and I wanted to invest in what they invest (plus Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 4 yearsJanuary 18, 2021 ago
P2P Lending

Where have all the p2p investors gone?

Daytrading “The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” – FDR Retail traders are likely finding that the truth of trading is hard, now that they’re free to pursue it. And pursue it they have, setting activity records every month. pic.twitter.com/VgmQpScb8o — SentimenTrader (@sentimentrader) May 14, 2020 Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsMay 18, 2020 ago
P2P Lending

High Risk / High Reward

This week I was reading a blogger report that went like: I invested in Crowdestor because after the default of Kuetzal and Envestio this will be my high risk/high reward platform I do not want to talk about specific platforms here (even if you already know what I think about Read more…

By TheItalianLeatherSofa, 5 yearsMarch 8, 2020 ago
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