Lending Club is a great tool for making some very nice passive income.  I’ve been using my account to invest some funds and see what I can do as far as a return, as well as to learn more about the service and what can be done with it.  As someone who lives in a [...]

A month or so ago, I was contacted by someone in the PR department at Kapitall.  If you haven’t heard of Kapitall (I hadn’t), it’s a new kind of brokerage.  They offered to set me up with an investing account with $100 in seed money, to play around with their site.  While it wasn’t required [...]

How much do you know about investing?  If you needed to build a balanced, diversified portfolio of investments, would you even know where to begin?  What if you wanted to take advantage of a certain trend by investing in the companies behind that trend?  Could you do the research necessary to find those companies and [...]

In order to be both a borrower and a lender at Lending Club, you have to open two accounts.  With two accounts, can your lender account fund your borrower account’s loan? One of the things that I occasionally do to find new ideas to write about is to go through the referral logs and look [...]

When you’re in debt, and trying to escape from the cycle of debt, the one thing that seems to dominate your every thought is paying off that debt.  Far too often, those of us who talk about debt and finances regularly tend to focus on debt as well.  We focus on paying off debt, eliminating [...]

Another three months have passed which means it’s time for another update on my Lending Club account.  If you’ve been following my LC updates, you know what this is all about.  If not, you can catch up by starting with the Calculating a Real Rate of Return on Lending Club post, followed by the first [...]

Retirement can sometimes be like that one cousin at family gatherings.  The one that nobody likes to talk about.  I think that, like that cousin, it’s easier to put our retirements out of our minds simply because, for many of us, it’s still so far away. We’ve still got 10, 20, 30, or even 40+ [...]

This post is written by Jason from WorkSaveLive. We’re taking a part in the Yakezie Blog Swap this week, and we’re each answering the question: what is your worst money mistake? For those of you that haven’t come across my blog – which I’m assuming is most of you – I should start by saying [...]

If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been performing a bit of an experiment.  I’ve been taking 10% of my earnings from this and other online ventures and splitting it evenly between Lending Club and Sharebuilder accounts.  The idea was to see what kind of returns I could get from the two, and [...]

Your primary home is not an investment in the normal sense of the word.  Dictionary.com defines Investment thusly*: “the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.”  Some of you will argue that you buy your house because it will appreciate in value.  But, to [...]