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"Devon, thanks for yet another excellent posting. That Wisealpha website looks most interesting - but why is there nothing about this sort of thing in more ordinary investment guides / journals etc? Investors Chronicle for example never explains how an ordinary investor can buy into bonds, the impression being that you need £1m before buying bonds. Minimum investment here is £100! Most interesting and many thanks"
It's a startup Pearls, although they have been around since 2016 and won several banking awards. There's aplatform as well as investment risk.
I wouldn't bet the house with them. I have just a few thousands with them out of a portfolio of 50 plus listed investments ( and 80 startups).
It's early days for them, and the idea of offering "notes" to private investors, but if it's succesful it might one day form a plank in every portfolio.
Slowy, slowly.
I very rarely find any reason to rush when investing. It's not like there wont be another opportunity coming down the road.
Devon, thanks for yet another excellent posting. That Wisealpha website looks most interesting - but why is there nothing about this sort of thing in more ordinary investment guides / journals etc? Investors Chronicle for example never explains how an ordinary investor can buy into bonds, the impression being that you need £1m before buying bonds. Minimum investment here is £100!
Most interesting and many thanks
"wouldn't know enough about the corporate debt World to be comfortable"
Easy solution for that. You normally need to buy in lots of £100,000, BUT, here you can buy "notes" in bonds for an initial £100 and what ever's available after that. I've bought as little as £1.26 after opening an intial £100 position:
https://www.wisealpha.com
You can get more of a feel for Corporate Bonds here: https://www.fixedincomeinvestor.co.uk/x/default.html
And here: http://p2pindependentforum.com/ WiseAlpha have a discussion room.
I invest in a broad spread of listed equities, P2P and startups. Corporate Debt was out of my price bracket, so I thought I'd use WA as a way of learning, diversifying and gain better understanding when I analysis listed fixed income vehicles. I also wanted to experiment with a long deb/short equity strategy. Hence Debenhams.
I also own ETF's, in reference to fixed income ETF's SLXX.L
Hope it gives you the confidence to try. Full disclosure, I'm shareholder of WA. They've raised a few times on Seedrs & CrowdCube. https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/wise-alpha/pitches/l8x4dl
Enjoy!
Devon a 12% yield is great, wouldn't know enough about the corporate debt World to be comfortable. I'd be just a plain old indexer that on average makes a move once every 3 years. Pretty boring stuff! Hopefully the US markets will give out a further 40% before it blows up given its so cheap
Long way to go, but there's a chance I might double my money and in the interim there's a 12% yield.
It's an OK gamble is a diversified portfolio.
Invested the income in the debt of Atalian Servest. Already made a slight capital gain, again there's income on offer of 8.6%
I see some private investors are looking at Thomas Cook bonds. I haven't got time or interest, althought I might look over SPD. I made a very goosd hand of shortening all the way down a dew years ago. Until then, I'm back to reading the Prospectus of Pemium Credit.
Well done Sir
Received my first interest payment today from Debenhams. Decent enough yield.