Below are the results of my British Pound based Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending portfolio. This is income from UK Peer to Peer Lenders, many of whom I have been investing with since 2015. I started to publish returns information on my website in 2018. As you can see below, in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic, I drew down my P2P investments significantly, as many investors did. We did not know at the time how bad the pandemic would get, and which (if any) of the P2P lenders would survive.

Sure enough, many have closed down or been bought by banks & other concerns. Other platforms went to lending with government backed business loans, which do not allow retail investors to invest into.

On the positive side, I didn’t lose a penny because of the pandemic through any GBP lending platform, which says a lot about the general strength of the industry in my opinion.

Now the end of the pandemic seems like it is in sight, with vaccinations and lockdowns which appear to be working. I have started once again to increase my investments in the UK P2P lending space. My thought is that any lending platform that came through this once-in-a-lifetime event, can probably come through anything. You can see from the charts below which companies have been successful, and which have not been quite so much.

Tracking spreadsheet & income charts updated monthly.

£ – GBP Peer to Peer Lending Total Returns to Date.

(Click on Chart for Interactive)

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Euro Peer to Peer Lending Portfolio

For anyone looking for the Euro Portfolio, I have been drawing it down slowly as because I live in Portugal much of the time, I live on Euros, so I have been using the Euros that I have invested in Euro Lenders for living expenses. Typically I would change US Dollars or GB Pounds for Euros, but the Euro has been rising rapidly recently, so I decided to use the Euros I have before changing more at this high rate in the hope it comes back down soon.

If you have Euros to invest and are looking for ideas. There are a few Euro Lenders that have come through the pandemic and seem to have been largely unaffected, namely Crowdestor, Mintos, Swaper, Peerberry & Robocash have all done what they are supposed to do. I will invest in these all again once I am ready to invest Euros again. I believe they are all decent investable companies paying very good returns.

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