Racing Towards Retirement

I have money invested with two different Peer-to-Peer lending companies, Lending Club and Prosper.  My Lending Club returns were discuss...

Prosper and Lending Club are both "marketplace" or "peer-to-peer" lenders.  Both allow people who want to borrow mone...

Wow, half the year has gone.  It is time to take a look at our investment portfolio, analyze it and decide if any changes are needed. V...

Last week I took a look at my Lending Club account and how it was doing .  This week I'll examine my Prosper account.  For those who do...

Wow, it seems hard to believe that three months have passed in 2016, but they have.  This week's post will look at our financial stat...

If you are going to be a financial blogger, you have to decide how much of your financial information you are going to make public.  On the...

Someone once asked my why I invested in a particular thing. My answer? "To make money, of course". That answer was the truth b...

In picking investments, I believe it is important to keep your goals in mind.  While most of us would define our goal as "retirement...

My parents were financially successful.  They had some good luck and they made some good luck, and in the end were able to not only hav...

One day when surfing the web, I happened on to a new type of investment, "peer-to-peer" or "marketplace" lending.  Basi...