A Beginner's Guide to Lending Club: An Investment Guide to Peer-to-Peer Lending

Lending Club is the largest peer-to-peer lending platform in the United States. More importantly, in an age of low interest rates, peer-to-peer lending is a financial market in which an individual investor can earn a great return on their investment - if properly managed. Before you begin investing in Lending Club, invest in making sure you know what you're doing!

This Guide is for anyone who is interested in investing, or has already begun to invest, in Lending Club or any other peer-to-peer lending platform. It provides a basic understanding of the fundamentals of peer-to-peer lending, the risks involved in investing, the means to reduce those risks, strategies to build portfolio returns, and some hints to help in tracking and automating your portfolio.

Some of the topics covered include:

•An introduction to the Lending Club platform
• How to assess loans as investments
•Buying and selling notes on the secondary market
•Risk vs. reward and portfolio diversification
•Platform fundamentals - how to best use Lending Club
•How to build a solid portfolio
•How to preempt loan defaults

This Guide will arm you with the knowledge necessary to begin comfortably investing in one of the fastest growing financial markets. Happy investing!