MMP130: Peer to Peer Lending explained - worth a look?
The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Peer to peer lending is one of those things in life while there have been versions of it around for years, its popularity has exploded thanks to the internet. I am getting more and more enquiries and comments about it, so I thought we’d have a good look at it today.
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In this session you will discover:
- How P2P lending works and how it is raining on the banks' parade
- The benefits and limitations of P2P
- The big news which will catapult P2P into the mainstream
- How you should move forward with incorporating P2P into your portfolio
- The considerations you should bear in mind when determining how much to invest
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast session number 130. |
| 0:05.0 | Esteem by your peers. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you |
| 0:20.9 | everything you need to know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm here to help you make sense of money. |
| 0:36.9 | Woo-hoo, here we are again, folks. |
| 0:38.6 | Great to have you with me once again here on the award-winning, |
| 0:42.0 | Meaningful Money Podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | I will never tire of it. |
| 0:45.1 | UK podcast of the year, great to have you here again. |
| 0:48.1 | Session number 1.30. |
| 0:49.9 | And today we're going to be talking about peer-to-peer lending. |
| 0:53.8 | Now, peer-to-peer lending is one of those things in life where there have been kind of versions |
| 0:57.9 | of it around for years, but its popularity has exploded largely thanks to the internet. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm getting more and more inquiries and more and more comments about it, so I thought |
| 1:07.9 | we'd have a good look at it today. |
| 1:09.6 | So that's what we're about, peer-to-peer lending. As usual, after we've covered that, I'll look at most recent reviews |
| 1:15.2 | that have been left and I'll announce what we're going to be talking about next time. But as |
| 1:19.5 | ever before all of that, remember, this podcast is brought to you with the very kind help of my |
| 1:24.3 | friends at 7 Investment Management, who are a firm of investment managers |
| 1:28.2 | based up in London. They specialize in multi-asset investing, which brings institutional |
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