ceejay
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Post by ceejay on Apr 5, 2018 8:31:54 GMT
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Post by albermarle on Apr 5, 2018 18:05:27 GMT
The article mentions Triodos bank offering bonds in an IFISA wrapper for good/ethical causes. 5 year bond for 5.5 % pa unsecured . Not very exciting but I had a look at the prospectus for one offer. Must say that it was much more professional ( they are a bank ) than what we are normally used to in P2P. Also more likely to give you a feeling you are doing something good with your money rather than funding dodgy property developers !
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Post by macq on Apr 5, 2018 22:06:04 GMT
there was a feature on Trustnet yesterday called - The Innovative ISA what is it and is it worth considering?
Which mentions one company in particular and with what maybe an interesting spot in the comments section
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Liz
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Post by Liz on Apr 6, 2018 23:18:50 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Apr 7, 2018 8:38:45 GMT
It's worth remembering that "ThisIsMoney" is the Daily Mail's finance brand. As such, I'd expect the conclusions of any article to be pretty much directly contradicted by a similar article in a few days time.
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Post by justuslee on Apr 7, 2018 10:21:21 GMT
I spent quite some time on the phone with the journalist on the How to Invest In Property without a landlord article, and must say I was quite taken aback at the negative questioning and we had to defend quite strongly around the merits of professional P2P operations.
They even challenged my personal knowledge of the industry, I have a 25 year track record on loan and mortgage origination, which stands at over £5BN and over 100,000 mortgages and loans with full FCA oversight and no complaints.
I would not and will not comment on existing and expected platform failures, and feel the poetic license of the journalist took things to the very edge.
I was then shocked to read that the Mail owned a stake in non-P2P brick lane, which received a postitively glowing write up, when it’s not even Directly Authorised with the FCA so has had no FCA due diligence and guess what; there was a whopping Big banner ad above thestory for brick Lane, beggars belief.
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Post by albermarle on Apr 7, 2018 17:53:49 GMT
Are you really that surprised that media outlets puff up their assocaite companies ?
The Murdoch owned press continually attack the BBC and the licence fee, as it is the main competitor to SKY.
In any case a journalist is trained to find a story , not make a dispassionate report of the facts.
So ‘ P2P is the next financial disaster waiting to happen’ Is what they are looking for .
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Liz
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Post by Liz on Apr 8, 2018 3:17:24 GMT
Are you really that surprised that media outlets puff up their assocaite companies ? The Murdoch owned press continually attack the BBC and the licence fee, as it is the main competitor to SKY. In any case a journalist is trained to find a story , not make a dispassionate report of the facts. So ‘ P2P is the next financial disaster waiting to happen’ Is what they are looking for . The TV license should be scraped. I don't watch any bbc content and a lot don't either.
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