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Assuming you aren’t a skilled loan underwriter, you may keep selecting people with a good story but may end up shoveling money towards the worst risks possible. It is the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and to offer loan trading. But are personal loans good retirement income investments. There are automated plans offered by Lending Club and Prosper, but I chose to do lending club quantitative analysis where I invest in loans that meet my strict criteria.

It represents the good kind of financial innovation, and the underlying assets aren’t incomprehensible derivatives; they’re just plain vanilla loans. Lending Club is not FDIC-insured, and you can lose money.

Think back to the golden age of real estate when uneducated investors threw money at homes they couldn’t afford for reasons they couldn’t explain. Lending club enables borrowers to create loan listings on its website by supplying details about themselves and the loans that they would like to request.

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