Nearly all of European buyers are taking a conservative method this yr and are sustaining portfolio volumes, new analysis has discovered.
Peer-to-peer lending platform Robo.money surveyed 617 buyers from 29 international locations.
83 per cent stated that 2023 met their expectations from the P2P market, whereas 73 per cent managed to attain their funding targets and 6 per cent exceeded their objectives.
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“The yr proved to be fairly profitable,” stated Robo.money analysts. “The volumes of the continental P2P business went up. Inventory markets additionally gave buyers ample revenue alternatives and steered away from important collapses.”
Regardless of this, Robo.money discovered that simply 28 per cent of respondents intend to develop their funding portfolios in 2024.
Traders stated they had been cautious attributable to financial indicators equivalent to inflation and rates of interest (32 per cent), and geopolitical occasions (26 per cent).
“Related statistics had been noticed in 2022,” Robo.money stated. “Traders are conscious of the dangers related to the unpredictability of the financial scenario, political conflicts and endeavour to steadiness them.”
The survey comes after Robo.money evaluation recommended that P2P has a spot in “optimum” portfolios this yr.
Analysts on the platform discovered that for 2024, buyers ought to maintain two-thirds of their funding portfolios in fixed-income devices equivalent to P2P loans.
They assessed 10 portfolio allocation fashions break up throughout 9 totally different funding property to work out essentially the most profitable portfolio construction.
The evaluation discovered that essentially the most optimum portfolios will comprise 64.9 per cent of fastened revenue property, specifically bonds, P2P investments and deposits. The remaining a part of the portfolio needs to be made up of property with a variable return (30.6 per cent) and overseas foreign money property (4.5 per cent).
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