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Investors - LC / What is Your Minimum Acceptable Return
« on: January 13, 2018, 12:00:00 AM »
Whatever it is, I'm already well below it!
I use P2P lending as a "safer" hedge to pair with my stock market investments, so I'm OK with modest gains. I can live with 5% for that (2-3% after inflation), but of course hope for more. But I'm actually LOSING money in my non-IRA LC account (-2% last year). That's largely because I stopped reinvesting proceeds at the start of 2017 and am just draining the account as loan payments come in.
In my IRA, I'm still reinvesting proceeds, and running about +3.5% return. Not very happy with that either but I'll give it another year and see if it turns up.
I use P2P lending as a "safer" hedge to pair with my stock market investments, so I'm OK with modest gains. I can live with 5% for that (2-3% after inflation), but of course hope for more. But I'm actually LOSING money in my non-IRA LC account (-2% last year). That's largely because I stopped reinvesting proceeds at the start of 2017 and am just draining the account as loan payments come in.
In my IRA, I'm still reinvesting proceeds, and running about +3.5% return. Not very happy with that either but I'll give it another year and see if it turns up.