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Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Here’s a condensed June 2013 update for my Beat the Market Experiment, a series of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost portfolio that would be easy to replicate and maintain for DIY investors. $10,000 Beat-the-Benchmark Speculative Portfolio that [...]
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Monday, June 10th, 2013
Realty Mogul is a new “crowdfunding” start-up that lets you invest in residential investment property for as little as $5,000. You either take a partial ownership position in a property, or you become a lender to (experienced) house flippers. The new thing here is that you can do it completely online with a few mouse [...]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Here’s a condensed May 2013 update for my Beat the Market Experiment, a series of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost portfolio that would be easy to replicate and maintain for DIY investors. $10,000 Beat-the-Benchmark Speculative Portfolio that [...]
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
Here’s the April 2013 update for my peer-to-peer lending portfolio, the last of three “real money” portfolios being tracked monthly as part of my Beat the Market Experiment. See also the $10,000 Benchmark and $10,000 Speculative portfolio updates. For this one, I started with $10,000 split evenly between Prosper Lending and Lending Club, and went [...]
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
Here’s the April 2013 update for my benchmark portfolio, the first of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012 as part of my Beat the Market Experiment: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost portfolio that would be easy to replicate and maintain for DIY investors. [...]
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
I’ve gotten a few tax-filing questions regarding P2P lenders Prosper Lending and Lending Club. I finally got around to starting my taxes for the year as a results of my P2P Lending Experiment, and below are my notes. Let me also recommend Peter Renton’s post at LendAcademy, the follow-up comments on that post, and this [...]
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Here’s the 3rd and last piece of the monthly updates for my Beat the Market Experiment, a set of three real money portfolios started on November 1st, 2012. See also my $10,000 Benchmark and $10,000 Speculative portfolio updates for March 2013. For this one, I started with $10,000 split evenly between Prosper Lending and Lending [...]
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Here’s the 2nd piece of the monthly updates for my Beat the Market Experiment, a set of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012. Since this update is rather boring, let me provide an update on the overall experiment: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost [...]
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
Time again for a Beat the Market Experiment monthly update, for the first of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost portfolio that would be easy to replicate and maintain for DIY investors. $10,000 Beat-the-Benchmark Speculative Portfolio that would [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Here’s the 3rd and last piece of the monthly updates for my Beat the Market Experiment, a set of three real money portfolios started on November 1st, 2012. See also my $10,000 Benchmark and $10,000 Speculative portfolio updates for February 2013. I started with $10,000 split evenly between Prosper Lending and Lending Club, and went [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Here’s the 2nd piece of the monthly updates for my Beat the Market Experiment, a set of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost portfolio that would be easy to replicate and maintain for DIY investors. $10,000 Beat-the-Benchmark Speculative [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Time again for a Beat the Market Experiment monthly update, for the first of three portfolios started on November 1st, 2012: $10,000 Passive Benchmark Portfolio that would serve as both a performance benchmark and an real-world, low-cost portfolio that would be easy to replicate and maintain for DIY investors. $10,000 Beat-the-Benchmark Speculative Portfolio that would [...]
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