Tag Archives: income diversification

Making Money In Real Estate

Tweet If you’ve been reading my site for awhile, then by now you’re probably aware of my passion for diversifying income and having a diverse asset allocation.  By this, I’m talking about investments beyond traditional stocks and bonds – into things like Private Equity funds, peer-to-peer lending, and real estate. A well diversified portfolio of stocks and [...]

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 [...]

The Importance of Income Diversification

Tweet In asset allocation, diversification is a hedge against risk. Putting 100% of your money in one stock is extremely risky due to the volatility of an individual stock. A single stock is subject to 5 types of risk: Business Risk (earnings could drop), Financial Risk (the company can’t get funding), Liquidity Risk (you can’t [...]