Peer Lending Advisors manually underwrites every loan, which includes reviewing every borrower’s employer and ensuring they have a steady job. A basic guiding principle is that people with unsteady jobs (think minimum wage and high-churn jobs) have higher default rates, and people…
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Why loan filters alone can lead to bad investment decisions
Peer Lending Advisors uses its own proprietary algorithm to select P2P Loans to invest in, and doesn’t just stop with an algorithm and loan filters. Peer Lending Advisors manually underwrites every loan, including reading all the supplementary information that a computer/loan filters…
Posted in Computer Algorithm, Human Underwriting
Maximizing Online Lending Returns: It’s about avoiding losses
If you invested in the Dow 5 years ago, you’d have made about 32% on your money. Not bad. However, if you’d have managed to avoid the 5 biggest daily declines for the Dow, ranging from 4-8% losses in a single…
Misspellings in loan descriptions: Would you invest in these people?
Other providers that offer managed investing in Peer-to-Peer Lending talk about their statistical models, but gloss over an advantage of Peer-to-Peer Lending that they’re not taking advantage of: rich, written descriptions of how the borrower will use the money. If…
Posted in Human Underwriting