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Post by earthbound on May 2, 2016 18:01:36 GMT
Liz I wonder if there is a number somewhere that shows the amount of registered investors, that are actually investing. No doubt there is, but i wouldn't know of the top of my head where to look. There isn't. Buty we can take a good guess ( read here) From the above post, my best guess was 40%. I do think that it's slightly lower (between 30-35 %) Only SS really know, but total registered investors looks a much better number to show off on their website  This would be an interesting daily/weekly/monthly figure to know, agree with you we are unlikely to find out the exact figure, but maybe SS would be happy to let us all know the average % figure.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on May 2, 2016 18:07:18 GMT
One way to guesstimate is to look at how many investors were in (via prefunding) for new loans .. see p2pindependentforum.com/post/60487. You can expect a few were waiting for the SM offering, and some will have decided to sit this one out, and some maybe have no cash left to invest, but it's probably a better guide than the headline 'number of members'. Anyone sitting on their hands, or with no interest in new loans, probably isn't an active investor anyway. |
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Post by earthbound on May 2, 2016 18:22:23 GMT
One way to guesstimate is to look at how many investors were in (via prefunding) for new loans .. see p2pindependentforum.com/post/60487. You can expect a few were waiting for the SM offering, and some will have decided to sit this one out, and some maybe have no cash left to invest, but it's probably a better guide than the headline 'number of members'. Anyone sitting on their hands, or with no interest in new loans, probably isn't an active investor anyway. Agreed, i sort of have a sneaky feeling that lots of the new sign ups will spend 20 mins or so on the site , see how hard it actually is to get invested , and buzz of elsewhere, or that's what i hope is happening. 
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Post by ped on May 8, 2016 9:51:05 GMT
Broken the 8000 and just 7weeks after the 7k users. Most loans are at 2000 investors so happily I agree, looks like most new investors are not getting a sniff.
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Post by doorway on May 8, 2016 11:50:51 GMT
On most Google searches relating to P2P investing, Saving Stream is paying to come up about 2nd, a good position.
In other words, they are paying for more members.
They have recently doubled their staff.
It looks to me as if their company plan is to increase in size.
Must be new and probably larger loans, which will also repopulate the SM.
Which will also, hopefully, take the pressure off the idea of reducing investment returns.
Some happy poster to this forum actually proposed this policy.
I disagree.
(I suppose I must declare that I have an interest in this policy)..
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Post by ped on May 28, 2016 22:10:08 GMT
Wonder if showing a loan in default before someone even logs in will slow the number of new members.
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Post by cooling_dude on May 28, 2016 22:14:17 GMT
Wonder if showing a loan in default before someone even logs in will slow the number of new members. That's exactly what I was thinking. The defaulted loan could be around for months, and that could, in turn, adversely affect the uptake of new members (one of the first loans they will see on the SS site is the BIG RED BOX). ATM, not a bad thing as there is more than enough money about; but give it a month when some of the larger pre-fund loans come through, SS could find it hard to fund those loans...
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Post by ped on May 30, 2016 13:15:33 GMT
Members 8488 still going up plenty.
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Post by ped on Jun 1, 2016 22:20:22 GMT
I am starting to think this is just a web counter and not the real number of investors at all. 8530 now.
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Post by cooling_dude on Jun 1, 2016 22:28:09 GMT
I am starting to think this is just a web counter and not the real number of investors at all. 8530 now. It's definitely not a web counter ( that number would be 100s if thousands; but I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic) ! It is generally accepted that the " number of investors" is simply everybody that has signed up to SS, not active investors (which my guess is between 2500 & 3000).
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Post by boble on Jun 1, 2016 23:02:39 GMT
It would be interesting to know what the average "total amount invested per investor" is.
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Post by cooling_dude on Jun 1, 2016 23:30:11 GMT
It would be interesting to know what the average "total amount invested per investor" is. We can guess.. The max amount of investors in PBL96 is 2000, and if we can assume that those 2000 investors have diversified across most loans (with a bit of tolerance provided for others that didn't invest in PBL96), then we can guesstimate that the average investment on SS is about £50,000.
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Post by adrianc on Jun 2, 2016 7:30:11 GMT
It would be interesting to know what the average "total amount invested per investor" is. Define "investor". It's an easy figure if we go with SS's published figure - because we know what the total loan book is. £102,052,063 between 8,530 is a snidge under £12k. We don't know the numbers which fit any other definition of investor. Those with at least £1 actively lent out would be the most relevant figure.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jun 2, 2016 7:53:15 GMT
And also note that mean, mode, and median (all potential definitions for 'average') different wildly.
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Post by boble on Jun 2, 2016 7:58:42 GMT
I would define "investor" as anyone who has funds currently vested in the platform.
It would be interesting to have a demographic of SS Investors. I guess a few different polls covering the various aspects of an investors profile may provide a rough guide.
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