People who invest through AxiaFunder’s online platform are funding claimants’ legal cases. Investors typically take huge profits when these claims are won – sometimes even projected to earn 2-3 times the amount invested – albeit with substantial downside risk when cases are lost. Most cases…
A peer-to-peer lending secondary market – or marketplace – allows you to buy and sell existing loans after they have already begun. Why would you do this? Because it can be quicker, safer or more profitable: You might sell because you need the cash before…
Some lenders choose to lend through a type of pension called a self-invested personal pension, or SIPP. These are many and varied, but they often give investors an expanded choice of what they can invest in, albeit for a high price. SIPPs have historically suffered…
We have nagged the taxman’s notoriously tight-lipped officials, and chased down accountants, IFISA providers and even 4thWay’s own skilled experts to give you answers to all your IFISA questions, as well questions you never thought to ask. Here goes: What is an IFISA? An IFISA…
We told HMRC that, reading the rules for ISAs, “they don’t actually prohibit people opening multiple IFISAs in one tax year, provided they only subscribe new money to one of them”… Do they? A representative from HMRC has told us this “looks correct”. That’s about…
Last year, in 2023, if you invested in one of the cheapest and best share funds to cover the entire UK stock market, through Vanguard, and you did it directly through them in their own ISA, you’ll probably have made around 6.8%. That’s assuming you…
Update on 12th August 2023: Crowd2Fund’s accounts have now been filed and the strike-off action discontinued. Details of its accounts here. You’ve not heard anything from us on Crowd2Fund for a while. Crowd2Fund hasn’t been in a position to provide detailed data to us to…
Lande* has re-established its data pipeline and so we’ve reassessed its 4thWay PLUS Rating. Despite quite a few more loans falling late or turning bad as its history has been maturing, it has easily maintained its 3/3 “Exceptional” 4thWay PLUS Rating. Its high interest rates…
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We’ve slightly upgraded our 4thWay PLUS Ratings methodology over the past five weeks and reassessed the lending accounts that provide us with the data and access to apply our calculations. This upgrade impacts property P2P lending accounts, making it a little bit tougher to get…
It’s about taxes, so I’ll be brief! Less P2P lending due to frozen personal allowances The income-tax personal allowance of £12,570 will be frozen until This will mean less disposable income available for lending. More people will pay a 45% tax rate and lose their…
Assetz Capital announced in July that the long-lasting lending queue to put new money in its automated accounts finally started to shrink. More recently it has announced that all the money that had been waiting has now been put to work. Lending flows released due…
Sourced Capital has been incredibly busy for a couple of years, so we’ve had no opportunity to get an update from them for a long time. At last, we’ve just had a chance to get an update on a little bit of the information that’s…
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,…
Zopa has closed its P2P arm to focus on its bank. Zopa wrote to its customers: “Sadly, over the last few years, customer trust in P2P investing has been damaged by a small number of businesses whose approach led to material losses for customers investing…
Visit Proplend* has only ever introduced one new type of loan in its seven-year history. Everything it has done over the years shows that it prioritises quality lending that it understands above rapidly growing its own business. For just the second time, it’s just introduced…
I’ve looked through Lending Works Trustpilot reviews to find all the ones written in 2021 by its customers who have lent money. Trustpilot combines reviews from all customers, making it hard to distinguish between comments from its borrowers and lenders. The overwhelming majority of reviews…
Northern Provident Investments was a company I’d never even heard of that offered IFISAs. It recently shut down, possibly because it offered mini-bonds, which the FCA recently banned from mass-marketing. Clearly, it was small. It also seems likely it either didn’t offer P2P lending investments…
LendingCrowd* has taken the rare step of deciding to no longer publish its loan book or provide 4thWay with it on a regular basis. As a result of this large step back in transparency, LendingCrowd has lost all its 4thWay PLUS Ratings on all its…
Assetz Capital was one of the businesses that temporarily paused P2P lending last year in order to offer businesses government-backed pandemic loans, which weren’t available as P2P. It’s now reopening its P2P lending, but it could be some weeks before lenders can put new money…
