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Are the fixed rate bonds with London Capital & Finance as good as they appear? Their interest rates are much better than anything else available at the moment.
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Are the fixed rate bonds with London Capital & Finance as good as they appear?
Depends on what your definition of what they appear is. To me, they are an unregulated bond with 100% capital loss that is badly marketed (on purpose) to pretend it is something else to people that don't know what they are doing.Their interest rates are much better than anything else available at the moment.
No they are not. There are other 100% loss potential risk based investments with comparable or high yields.
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Go to the search box above the posts type in "London Captial and Finance" and read one of the threads that already exists on this subject0
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Looks as though they will be doing good business from the numerous threads on here.
This should really be something addressed by either the financial regulator and/ or the Asa, there is something wrong with the adverts to be attracting the sort of people who expect a deposit account.0 -
This should really be something addressed by either the financial regulator and/ or the Asa, there is something wrong with the adverts to be attracting the sort of people who expect a deposit account.
Hopefully they'll do less good business if they get readers coming on these threads.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
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You have not stated what interest rate these bonds are stating they will pay. As a filter, applying some simply logic would help.
Today
Best safe 3 year investment in a bank about 1.6%.
FTSE 100 yields about 4%.
Stockmarket long term returns are expected to be about 6%
The stockmarket is a risk investment. So anything higher than this is either
(a) High risk investment. In which case why not put it in a FTSE 100 fund, instead of just one company.
(b) Scam of some type. In which case you would be better of not putting your money there!0 -
george4064 wrote: »
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5549141Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
Are the fixed rate bonds with London Capital & Finance as good as they appear? Their interest rates are much better than anything else available at the moment.
This is a high risk investment. You might get the 8% interest they quote, or you night lose ALL your investment. I've pasted below the disclaimer they display on their website
Investors should note that repayment of the bonds offered by London Capital & Finance Plc, and the payment of interest on the bonds, depends on the performance of loans made by London Capital & Finance Plc to various small and medium-sized enterprises. In the event that these borrowers default on the loans, investors may lose some or all of their investment. Investment in the bonds of London Capital & Finance Plc is therefore speculative and involves a degree of risk.
Nationwide Flexdirect and some of the Regular Savers pay 5% and your capital is secure. A much safer option! .0 -
Superscrooge, Bail-In is for some reason waking up any thread he can find about LC&F.
This one was 8 months dormant before he poked it with his blunt stick.0 -
AnotherJoe wrote: »Superscrooge, Bail-In is for some reason waking up any thread he can find about LC&F.
This one was 8 months dormant before he poked it with his blunt stick.
Not sure if Bail-In is a spammer or spanner.0
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