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This week we focus on money; what we do with the money we earn, reinvesting, peer to peer lending, etc. As Jean is proudly joined by Laurence Samuels, creator of Financial Thing: a blog site full of unbiased P2P lending reviews, DIY investing guides, and home to the new Investing Essentials Podcast.
Topics Include:
- Introductions; how and why Laurence started Financial Thing.
- How cancer, in part, drove Laurence into the world of investing.
- The book that made investing just click.
- What is P2P Lending?
- The things that have lead to the success of, and need for, P2P.
- What interest look like on P2P platforms.
- Weighing risk of P2P.
- Acknowledging the subjectivity of risk.
- Laurence’s experience based tips.
- Recommended platforms.
- Why Europe has a leg up in the P2P space.
- The difficulty with American money lending.
- Who is exactly lending to whom?
- Criticisms of P2P.
- Investing resources.
- Dividend investing.
- Calculating investment returns.
Some very interesting information on the P2P Market. Laurence is always fun to listen to.
Any thoughts on an update to this post for 2019?
Thanks for the blog.
We interviewed Jorgen and Sterling in upcoming episodes so keep an eye out for those.