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P2P Lending

Posted 14 days ago by Mark
in P2P Lending, P2P Update, Portfolio Update 804

P2P Lending Portfolio Update For February 2019

February 2019 has been another great month for my new P2P Lending Portfolio! £985.78 in monthly income. That doesn’t include lender cashback bonus

P2P Lending

Posted 9th February 2019 by Mark
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Peer to Peer Lending

Offering returns from 3% to 25%, Peer to Peer Lending (P2P) is a method of financing which enables individuals to borrow and lend money without a bank

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Lender Review

Posted 3rd February 2019 by Mark
in Lender Review, P2P Lending 29257

Funding Circle Review

100% unbiased. Based on my own experience investing with this large, well established peer to peer lender offering returns of up to 7%

Tags: funding circle app, funding circle for investors, funding circle how to lend, funding circle investor requirements, funding circle lending, funding circle loans, funding circle returns, funding circle uk, how to use funding circle, is funding circle a good investment

Growth Portfolio

Posted 2nd February 2019 by Mark
in Growth Portfolio, Growth Portfolio Update, Portfolio Update 1126

Growth Portfolio Update for January 2019

After a lackluster 2018, and a pullback last month, the Growth Portfolio came roaring back in January making gains of over 6% in a month!

Tags: best asset allocation, bonds, gold, growth portfolio, Permanent Portfolio, portfolio performance, REITs, stock portfolio

Lender Review

Posted 1st February 2019 by Mark
in Lender Review, P2P Lending 18417

Growth Street Review

Based on my own investing experience with one of the UK’s most popular Peer to Peer lenders. Offering short term lending returns of 5.3%

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P2P Lending

Posted 31st January 2019 by Mark
in P2P Lending, P2P Update, Portfolio Update 2503

P2P Lending Portfolio Update for January 2019

January 2019 has been the best month so far for my new P2P Lending Portfolio! £966.43 in monthly income. That doesn’t include cashback bonus

Tags: assetz capital returns, funding circle returns, Growth Street Returns, Landbay returns, Lending Crowd Returns, Lending Works Returns, Mintos Returns, p2p lending returns, peer to peer lending returns, Ratesetter returns, Unbolted returns

Question – Why Do I Use US Dollars for Most Investments?

Growth Portfolio

Posted 13th January 2019 by Mark
in Growth Portfolio, Misc. Investing Stuff 528

Question – Why Do I Use US Dollars for Most Investments?

QUESTION 1 – “Why do you prefer to work with USD and not GBP or even EUR? Is it because of the Bonds, Stocks and Reits you choose?”

ANSWER – There are a few reasons:

1. The first is that I lived in the USA... Read more

Wolfe Wave – TLT (Bond ETF) Weekly Target Hit

Misc. Investing Stuff

Posted 11th January 2019 by Mark
in Misc. Investing Stuff, Wolfe Waves 771

Wolfe Wave – TLT (Bond ETF) Weekly Target Hit

Towards the end of the last post on Wolfe Waves back in December, we identified a weekly bullish Wolfe Wave in the TLT (Long Term US Treasury Bond ETF). The wave completed just last week, then interestingly enough, turned back down. If you... Read more

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Growth Portfolio

Posted 5th January 2019 by Mark
in Growth Portfolio, Growth Portfolio Update, Portfolio Update 708

Growth Portfolio Update for December 2018

As expected, December was a very volatile month in the US markets. We saw the biggest point loss in the Dow on a Christmas Eve ever, then we saw the biggest point gain ever on the day after Christmas

Tags: backtest investment strategy, backtest portfolio asset allocation, gold, permanent portfolio historical returns, S&P 500 returns

P2P Lending

Posted 1st January 2019 by Mark
in P2P Lending, P2P Update, Portfolio Update 759

P2P Lending Portfolio Update for December 2018

December was an interesting month. I decided to exit Zopa and distribute the capital to other lenders. You can read in more detail why I decided to do this further down in the Zopa section of the update. I also added some more information to... Read more