Alas it seems Zopa, the UK peer-to-peer lender, isn’t immune to the downturn – at least not if my recent experience is anything to go by. Readers may recall I was worried that bad debts would rise at Zopa as far back as March 2008. My fear was that consumers starved of finance by the [...]
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This series has previously looked at the general principle of investing during a crisis, as well as how you might react to particular headline news events. But crisis investing is also relevant to particular company stocks. Companies are hit by media headlines proclaiming ‘crisis’ all the time, whether it’s a crisis in the boardroom, a [...]
Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best. Before we get on to the links, I’d like to mention that Mike from Oblivious Investor has just announced his book is now on sale. Entitled Oblivious Investing: Building Wealth by Ignoring the Noise [...]
Part one of this series introduced crisis investing and looked at the opportunity to profit when vague fears affect the stock market. But how should you react when a specific event makes headline news? Some events can be very significant for both history and stock markets, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall or [...]