Post by pom on Dec 12, 2017 16:59:50 GMT
Are you not losing money by not having it all in the highest interest ISA?
If you want high rates you'll need manual investments in which case the safest way to do it is spread your cash over a lot of loans, and deal flows invariably mean you'll need multiple platforms to do this (so that you can cherry pick loans from each one, because accepting there will be losses isn't the same thing as blindly investing in every opportunity a platform presents). And given platform failure can and does happen it makes sense to mitigate against that as much as possible - it should hopefully not result in a total loss, but at the very least would likely lead to confusion and lack of liquidity for potentially rather longer than your original loan terms. In an ideal world perhaps you'd have enough platforms so that if one failed, that years interest from the others would cover your losses, but in the real world I'm not sure there's enough good platforms for that (I'm currently in 20, but it's nowhere near balanced enough). So personally I just restrict myself to an amount per platform that I could just about grit my teeth and shrug off if it all suddenly all became illiquid indefinitely.
It's not difficult to do if you're happy with spreadsheets etc, but if this has just given you a headache, may I suggest you look at Lending Works again