P2P lending

The medium risk loans seem to have about 5% annualised return.

There is huge risk in the fact that the broker is ripping you off, or running a scam like lending club.

You don't really own the loan... the broker does...

>>1389413

True! I am sure they take a significant cut on the interest itself.

Do you have much experience in P2P?

>>1389413

Why would Lenders Club be a scam?

>>1389624

Not sure as well. They don't seem to be regulated here in the UK but the compliance and reviews seem legit.

You'll have to pay income tax on your measly little 5 percent return

>>1389401

I have been using FundingCircle and Zopa for about 3-4 years now.

I would keep your exposure low - it is not as good as it was a few years ago.

Now the UK gov is funding some loans the number of shitty companies coming on board has increased, especially ltd companies with no assets and no director guarantees.

Guys what's the best Bitcoin lending site? I don't wanna use shitty ass loanbase or btcjam or any thing like that is there anything that isn't really popular that I could try

>>1390526

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah I wouldn't spend more than £1k and even then it would be an experimental amount. Why did you go with Zopa?

I am considering RateSetter too but I hate how I need to provide ID for Zopa

>>1390529

Not sure mate, sorry! Try doing some research or see if existing providers do this already?

A bit of an update regarding the tax treatment of P2P income.

The HMRC says that any interest should be taxed but individual investors have basic tax free allowance. In my case, it would be any interest from savings and P2P loans that is under £1000 a year will not be taxed.

>>1391561
I went with Zopa because at that time (~4 years ago) it was the most established. No other reason.

I have about £10k in each. Average rate of return after losses is 5.7% for Zopa and 5.2% for FundingCircle.

I am fairly conservative with FundingCircle so it could have been higher.

Im not putting more into FC, just reinvesting interest into companies that are at least asset backed or director backed now.

Il probably only put £500 - 1k per year into Zopa from now on, just for spread

>>1392730

Thanks for getting back!

Yes, it seems that Zopa, RateSetter and Funding Circle are the most established players.

Are you declaring/paying tax on the interest?

Think I'll go with RS

p2p invester here... I have no problems with p2p so far.. Been making 12% returns for over a year now.. With that being said, the industry is still in its infancy and I dont find a problem with investing in it.. but always take caution, find a good provider and get good loans

>>1392740

12% seems a it high. Did you go with higher risk loans?

>>1392837
My p2p platform provides 12%/yr with buy-back guarantee.
Which means they buy 100% of bad loans back from you and you get back full investment + gains.

It's Europe based platform created about a year ago and 35M invested to date. Of which 6M in June.

I have an insider and I know for sure they are buying multi milloin € software solutions to accumulate growth.

Is this too good to last?

>>1394353
Would you mind sharing the name?

>>1394353
>>1394420
It's Mintos, isn't it?

>>1394353

Yes and no. All of these platforms provide better deals to borrowers than the banks.

However what if the default rate goes higher than expected? Sure, the safety fund will protect some of the investments but if it is the next 2008/2009, we will be in trouble.

>>1389401
Been using FundingCircle for almost 2 years. Made £550 profit after bad debt and fees from £6500 (adding £40 a week). Fully diversified. No more than 1% in any business.

>>1394920

Do you allocate to individual borrowers or does the platform do that on your behalf given the spec?

>>1395085
I choose individual borrowers. I look at their financials/liquidity (albeit briefly) and if I like them, lend £20-£60.

FC does feature an autolender for those who do not wish to choose individual companies.

>>1395104

Ah sounds like I chose the one of them all! Oh well, £1k at 4% for one year isn't that bad I guess.

>>1395764
Sorry i don't understand what you just said.

I'd recommend FundingCircle. We can get £50 each if I recommend you and you invest £1k. Pls hmu

>>1389401
I use Mintos, tested it with 1k EUR for about a year, seems to be working all good.

Thinking about trying Twino soon. (But they only support TransferWise for deposits, no withdraws, which is a shame)

Was thinking about Saving Stream, but Brexit + all the talks about the UK housing market convinced me to let it go for now.

>>1395774

Sorry, I meant to say I picked the worst one.

Actually RateSetter should give me a £100 bonus as I lent more than £1k. But if I decide to switch or allocate more, def going with your deal.

>>1395952

Yeah that's a good point. A lot of the loans seem to be given to developers, some are luxury apartments. I personally wouldn't want to have exposure to UK housing market at the moment.

>>1390529

Cool idea. I own some crypto currency but not a lot. Though how would it work exactly work? Given crypto is extremely volatile, relative to traditional fiat money in developed markets.

>>1395985
Yours is more stable I suppose. My gross income would be 12% but it's down a lot after fees and bad debt. If you don't mind seeing bad debt all the time, it's good. Some people panic over silly things like that though. Post-Brexit I've moved out of a lot of debt and into UK equities because I feel that they're undervalued (also dat foreign exposure). Still, have about £6k in Funding Circle still. Twice as much in shares.

>>1396137

Yeah, most of my investments are in equities too, maybe overall 30% UK exposure. I have a credit fund and soon a Japanese fund.

I also have some crypto, tiny amount of silver and the rest is cash.

>>1396137
What!!

you have £6k in p2p but only £12k in shares?!

You should only be putting money into p2p when you have significant other assets.

ie £10k as emergency fund, £20-40k cash, £50k stocks/funds, £5-10k p2p

>>1396888

OP here. I think it depends on one's tolerance of risk. Obviously this guy wants higher returns, which leads to higher risk allocation.

>>1392837
yeah high risk loans.. i chose them wisely tho.. took me 6 months to choose my current p2p loan portfolio..

Most people invest willy nilly, but i take all the variables into account, including where the borrower lives (ie: not niggertown)

>>1394420
>>1394424
Twino.eu

>>1396888
I'm only 20 I feel like I've diversified enough and am taking anappropriate level of risk. Cash returns are so poor. I keep about £2k in a TSB account giving 5% (any more yields nothing) and whatever msn l max you can have in a Help To Buy ISA ISA.

FundingCircle is very liquid if I ever really needed the money I could get it out in days. Sold £1000 of debt last week actually.

>>1394353
>My p2p platform provides 12%/yr with buy-back guarantee.
>Which means they buy 100% of bad loans back from you and you get back full investment + gains.

So what's the downside? You're getting fucked somehow.

>>1398671

They probably take a cut on the interest and also go after the default loans

>>1398671
Exactly my point - there seems to be no downside.
The only thing that could bring them down seems to be the inevitable crisis.
Their business ir growing exponentially.

They take a % for their services, but that's the money I never get to see so I don't care.

I wonder how businesses like this handle bear market.