Lending Club – March 2013 Update

04-03-13 Lending Club IRA - Main Screen

Each month I plan on updating my Lending Club investments in both my taxable and Roth IRA accounts. Over the course of March, I was able to get another couple thousand invested in my Roth IRA account. As I get closer to reaching full investment in this account, things will transition to maintaining … [Read more...]

Lending Club – February 2013 Update

Lending Club - Taxable

Each month, I plan on updating my Lending Club investments in both my taxable and Roth IRA accounts. In the last month, I have continued to invest my $10,000 rollover contribution in my IRA account and work to become fully invested in notes. … [Read more...]

Lending Club – Tracking My Taxable Account

As I mentioned in my initial peer-to-peer lending post, my first Lending Club investment, a taxable account, was opened in the spring of 2009. Having held this investment for almost four years, I have recently been at a crossroads with what to do with this account. Last fall, I made the decision to … [Read more...]

Lending Club – 2013 Investment Criteria

Since starting with Lending Club in the spring of 2009, my investment criteria has changed significantly. Prior to 2012, I was invested in mostly medium to low risk loans in the B-C grades. Last spring, after reading Peter Renton’s Lend Academy post on how he planned to invest his money in 2012, I … [Read more...]

Peer-to-Peer Lending – Lending Club Investment

Peer-to-peer lending has been around here in the United States for the better half of a decade. This type of lending environment strives to bring both individual and institutional investors together with various grades of qualifying borrowers. The two main companies in the peer-to-peer lending arena … [Read more...]