Archive for 'Lending Club'

Lending Club Update: May 2013

Tweet Normally I start off my quarterly Lending Club investment reports by stating “Every 3 months I write an update on my Lending Club investment, based on my patented LC investment strategy.  And now that another quarter has passed, it’s time for an update.” I suppose I can’t quite claim that now, since I sorta kinda [...]

Lending Club Investment Update: November 2012

Tweet Every 3 months I write an update on my on my Lending Club investment, based on my patented LC investment strategy.  And now that another quarter has passed, it’s time for an update. By now, I’ve now been investing with Lending Club for 15 months.  I started with a $10,000 investment, and my portfolio [...]

Lending Club Update: August 2012

Tweet Well, another 3 months have passed so it’s time for another quarterly progress report for my Lending Club investment. If you haven’t read it before it, and assuming this interests you, you might want to first read my initial investment strategy, as well as my previous quarterly reports. It’s not been a full 12 [...]

Lending Club Update: May 2012

Tweet I’ve now been investing with Lending Club for a about 9 months, so I feel my results are finally starting to become more legitimate.  My last update was in February, and I’ll try to continue to provide a quarterly report of my performance.  I originally wrote about my strategy (which was using a filter [...]

Lending Club Update: February 2012

Tweet I’ve managed to get writer’s block while trying to finish my last 2 posts in my core principle series, so I thought I’d take a minute to provide an update on my Lending Club investments.   I’ve been investing in Lending Club for a little over 6 months, so it’s probably a good time [...]

Lending Club Investment Update – October 2011

Tweet I’ve now been investing with Lending Club for almost 4 months.  Around that time, I wrote about my Lending Club investment strategy. Basically, I used historical analytic data to filter out loans that I believe will return a significantly higher return than the average. When I began investing in Lending Club, I decided I would invest [...]

Lending Club Investment Strategy

Tweet About 2 months ago, I decided to begin investing at LendingClub.com, a peer-to-peer lending platform.  Peer to peer lending is a method where investors like you and me can provide micro loans (as small as $25) that get pooled together for someone that needs the loan. These people pay interest rates ranging from 6% [...]

My Lending Club Experiment

Tweet Since my plan is to become a full-time investor (early retiree, capitalist, lazy bum, or whatever you choose to call it) I am constantly searching for new methods to stretch my capital as much as possible.  For the past 10 years, I’ve kept 90% of my money in stocks – both individual and mutual [...]