It’s back to work, and time for savers, investors and lenders to consider where to place their money for this year. As a peer-to-peer business lending platform ultimately regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, we cannot comment on current loan offerings. We can however point out that gross indicative yields are currently around the 10 […]
In the second of a series of three blogs, Money&Co.’s head of communications and content, Martin Baker, makes more calls for 2015. His views are personal and do not necessarily represent the views of Money&Co. Following the earlier blog with its five predictions, I have two specific calls to make on alternative finance, with […]
As the old year passes into the new, we’ll be bringing you the rest of our predictions for 2015. We have a lot of new, exciting deals in the pipeline, and the growing interest from individual and institutional investors will, we confidently expect, grow stronger in 2015. In the interim, let us reprise our mission: […]
Please see the latest Money Matters blog to read Money&Co. head of communications Martin Baker’s top five predictions for 2015. They are simple calls, using his experience as the former investment editor of the International Herald Tribune, associate editor of Sunday Business, and editor-in-chief of thestreet.co.uk, back in the day… The predictions are based on […]
The following views are the personal opinions of Martin Baker, Money&Co’s head of communications and content. They do not necessarily represent the views of Money&Co. Here’s hoping you all had an excellent Christmas. 2015 certainly promises to be an exciting year for us all at Money&Co. Below I set out just some of the […]
It’s the time of year when punters – and punters’ opinions – proliferate. That’s partly because there’s a shortage of news, and partly, in some cases one suspects, because there’s been some old-school, Fleet Street pint-related punditry. This, despite the fact that alcohol and keyboards do not mix. We’ll be offering our own sober, considered […]
There are signs, early ones as yet, that the young sub-sector of crowdfunding inhabited by Money&Co. is growing up. Once upon a time, crowdfunding was a vaguely trendy, catch-all term for anything from start-ups seeking equity investment, to group property investment, to a charity raise and beyond. One fellow in the United States sought money from […]
The Money&Co. team recently took the opportunity to catch up with Bryan Zheng Zhang, doctoral student at Cambridge University with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the crowdfunding market. Bryan was a leading light in the production of the latest report on our sector, which was published as a joint venture with the National Endowment for Science Technology and […]
I have long believed that forcing people to buy annuities was unfair, and was a poor way for pensions to be invested. And so the government’s decision to remove the compulsion to buy an annuity at age 75 and, indeed, to allow anyone over 55 to take their pension money and invest it for themselves, […]
Virtual Paris – this Eiffel Tower’s in Las Vegas The Crowdfunding industry is the fastest growing financing source for Small and Medium Businesses in the World,” reports crowdfunding intelligence platform, crowdfundbeat.co.uk. The platform quotes some rather mouldy (2012) growth data, but goes on to make the valid point that our industry is “a major, long-term […]