It has been a while since I wrote about my whacky alternative investments. Two things happened in the past: P2P Lending I am left with some boomer platforms in this area. Maybe some of these names would generate a bit of nostalgia in the reader; what impressed me the most Read more…
Shortly after I moved to Zurich with my family, we went to visit my wife’s sister that also lives in Switzerland. While chilling on the couch on a rainy Saturday, I started to rant to my brother-in-law about the fact that I had to stash more than 11k in a Read more…
Listening to the latest episode of Animal Spirit podcast, the CEO of Cadre repeated at least five times that his mission is to ‘democratise finance’. Cadre offers to US accredited investors the possibility to invest in commercial real estate, an investment category that is normally only available via Private Equity Read more…
It’s amazing, for me, that after 25 years looking at this stuff I still manage to get surprised when I should not. I read about people that spend millions to buy a jpeg of a rock (and thousands to buy the meme of that rock) and others that will not Read more…
There are two categories of people in the world: the ones that love Packy McCormick and the ones that do not know Packy. Howard Marks (I think) said that good stock traders are optimist while good bond traders are pessimist. I happened to to be a bond trader as part Read more…
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…
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…
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…
At the beginning of December I started to place some investments in EvoEstate; one day I received an email from them about a new platform they were adding to their portal and…they had me at introducing Evo Alternative. The platform is called Heavy Finance, a really unique marketplace to invest Read more…
So it is time for me to write about something I have very limited experience with and most importantly no success to date: start-up investing. Even this definition might be loose since Mintos was founded in 2015 and at a valuation of €68mio, it is not exactly a small company. Read more…