I have now seen a third debt go ‘bad’ at Zopa, the peer-to-peer lender. This time it was in the A market, whereas my previous two bad debts at Zopa were from the B market.
To be clear, when I say ‘bad’ I mean the debt was written off.
All my Zopa loans are just £10 in size, which means the impact isn’t too great.
The money thief bad debtor was even kind enough to pay back £1.24 of my hard-earned cash before he decided he’d paid enough.
Alas I didn’t personally interview the legendary David Swensen, creator of the Yale portfolio model. Monevator is a small fish in the big, shark-infested ocean of the financial media!
Rather Mike over at Oblivious Investor spotted these WealthTrack video interviews with Swensen on YouTube.
The interviews give an up-to-date insight into Swensen’s thinking, and are far less frenetic than the “future of the world in two seconds!” soundbites you get on CNBC.
Here are the two videos for the investing geeks among you, followed by my usual Saturday links:
I have an old Sony Ericsson phone that an unlucky mugger would throw back at me. It does the job, but it’s no boy’s toy.
I didn’t even pay for it! A friend gave it to me after a month because he only bought it to use while in Europe.
Its charger has a two-prong European plug. The adapter I use to power it in Britain costs £1.99. It’s my two-quid mobile phone.
I have written about several specific company’s shares here on Monevator over the past few months, and I thought it would be interesting to see what’s happened to them.
To do this properly, one would compare not only the price when I looked at them with the price today, but also the market move over that time.
It would also be good to look at the company newsflow and any financial results in the interim.
I don’t intend to do that. This is my personal blog, that doesn’t pay, and I’ve M&S sticky toffee pudding to tuck into.
These then are just my quick impressions of how accurate or otherwise my initial thoughts turned out, and an indication of how I traded them where applicable.
