We don’t get soooo much interest from 4thWay readers when we write about the social and environmental impacts of P2P lending. Our focus is on the risks, rewards, growing your wealth, or earning an income from money lending. Understandably, that’s what you’re most interested in….
Lenders who subscribe to 4thWay are asking about P2P borrowers’ ability to pay back their P2P loans, while their home mortgage costs are going up. Rising rates can also potentially knock house prices down, so I’m covering that too. Especially with latest headlines on falling…
If you find lending is too slow in one of your IFISAs, and the cash in that IFISA is all from prior tax years, you can simply transfer any unlent cash to another IFISA. That’s provided your IFISA provider allows you to make partial transfers*….
It takes endless patience and often remarkable intelligence to do nothing. Whether you’re a monarchist or not, you can still learn from the Queen, who was an absolute master of those useful skills, which you can apply in your P2P lending. The Queen must have…
Even over longer periods of time, – and perhaps not even that. over all time periods. How good are bonds? On average, bonds are “a bit naff”, according to the fantastic UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbooks. OK, the research doesn’t actually use those words, but it…
This was my first ever Candid Opinion piece for 4thWay, published originally on 25th November, 2014. I’ve just updated it very slightly – mostly as an excuse to get the editor to re-publish it for me and give it some more attention. This is a…
This article was originally the introduction and background to a piece called P2P Lending: How To Deal With Rising Interest Rates. But it got too long, so those tips on lending through rising rates now has its own page. In contrast, the page you’re reading…
When you’re locked into lending at lower rates P2P lending is almost invariably fixed-rate lending. Your existing borrowers aren’t going to start paying you more just because rates today are going up. Your cash is tied to that and it’s not partaking in any increases….
Today I want to look at how to prevent permanent lending losses caused by such things as recessions. 4thWay often alerts its subscribers in its newsletter if there are signs that a P2P lending website is lowering its standards, e.g. by accepting more borrowers with worse…
Naturally, we can’t know the answer to the question in the title precisely, because every major economic event is unique, coming with different causes, different factors happening at the time. However, investors need to invest – and lenders need to lend – with a large…
Recently we made a new effort to get even more data from the P2P lending providers to really get a full idea of how easy it is for lenders to get their money lent out at the moment. We wanted to know if we could…
Getting your money back when using auto-lend Some P2P lending accounts and IFISAs spread your money across loans automatically or have similar “auto-bid” or “auto-lend” features. When it comes to getting your money back from these sorts of accounts, a 4thWay user summed up the…
What is a secondary market? A secondary market allows you to buy and sell existing loan parts to or from other lenders. You might do this for bigger profits, to exit early or for other reasons. The only realistic way to leave P2P lending loans…
“Safe” and “20%” interest is probably not a phrase that you can legitimately hear. But “saf” and “20%” is something else. Because, of all the opportunities where you might be able to earn that return, one of them has to be the safest among them….
Our specialists have updated the 4thWay PLUS Ratings and 4thWay Risk Scores methodology slightly. On balance, the changes make it a little harder for P2P lending companies to get higher ratings and better scores. My colleagues have also removed all allowances made for COVID-19 forbearance,…
In autumn last year, inflation had doubled in six months to 3%, which prompted me to write The Impact Of Inflation On P2P Lending Results. Another six months or so have passed, and the inflation rate has more than doubled again, hitting 7.8%. This means…
LandlordInvest’s Bridging & Development Loans are currently unrated, as we’re missing just a small amount of monthly data required for our minimum assessment criteria. These loans have been paying lenders around interest before bad debts. Visit LandlordInvest or keep reading the LandlordInvest Review.
Mike Carter of the 36H Group has passed detailed data on P2P lending companies’ lending results to the FCA to demonstrate why this type of investing should be moved into a different, low-risk category. That’s according to P2P Finance News. 4thWay collects a huge amount…
Funding Circle is a stock-market listed company, registered as FCH for “Funding Circle Holdings” on the London Stock Exchange since autumn 2018. The Funding Circle share price is right down at 1/6th of its highs and it’s unchanged since releasing its 2021 results three days…
P2P lending is far better than ESG funds if you want both great returns as well as to truly support better causes while you invest. ESG means “Environmental, social and corporate governance”. Basically, it’s supposed to be about businesses being socially, ethically and ecologically responsible….
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