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Is Investing In Peer-to-Peer Lending the Right Move for Your Portfolio?
Heard of peer-to-peer lending? Accessible to retail investors, it can provide high returns and allow you to give back to small business. Read More
Crowdfunding Syndicated Loans: An Alternative for Real Estate Debt Investors
Investing in real estate debt requires market expertise. Investing in a syndicated loan through a crowdfunding platform offers diverse lender expertise. Read More
When Is it Appropriate to Take on a High Interest Rate Debt Loan?
High interest rate debt may not be as bad as you think. Learn what alternative lenders and a high interest debt loan can do for your business. Read More
Can Seeking Help from the Lender Fix Distressed Companies’ Woes?
Turnaround Financing: How to Secure a Borrower Recently, bad practices caused a client’s accounts receivable to get extended well past 90 days. In fact, the client had 20% of its receivables dated further back than 120 days. Company staff knew that much of that would prove to be uncollectible, but no one really knew the […] Read More
What Investors Need to Know about Equity Crowdfunding: Part 2
There is considerable potential in equity crowdfunding, but all investors should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages to such investing. Read More
What Investors Need to Know about Equity Crowdfunding: Part 1
Equity crowdfunding has changed in notable ways since its introduction in 2012, and is now primed to revolutionize how we finance companies and investments. Read More
Alternative Assets and the “Average” Accredited Investor Installment #4
Overview of the Alternative Assets Landscape Subsequent installments in the series will dive into specific subcategories within the “alternative asset” asset classes. Think of those installments as the trees. This installment looks at the forest. There are many different ways of categorizing the alternative assets; no universally accepted approach exists. In this series, we group […] Read More
Digital Currency in Your Portfolio
Is now the right time for digital currency investment? Here’s what you should consider before allocating money towards Bitcoin. Read More
A Few Minutes With…Neha Manaktala, CEO and Co-founder, DealIndex
Neha Manaktala is co-founder & CEO of DealIndex, a young alternative finance aggregator. Founded in 2014, DealIndex is part of The Grow VC Group. Manaktala has a background as an entrepreneur and finance professional with experience in investment banking, private equity and startups. Read More
A Few Minutes With … Marshall Saunders, Managing Partner, SaundersDailey
Marshall Saunders is a real estate veteran with two decades of experience and the co-founder and managing partner of SaundersDailey, an online investment marketplace connecting investors to exclusive real estate opportunities, with low minimum investments, in select markets throughout the Midwest. Read More