Hair today – and it could be gone tomorrow for all we know! We’re pleased to report a new 9% yield loan offering. It’s risk-rated at B+. Elliotts Hair is a hairdressing business, based in the Midlands. The company is seeking £200,000, repayable over a five-year period. The purpose of the loan is to facilitate re-organisation of the business. Below is an extract from the borrower’s representations.
The six salons that we are taking on had sales of £886k in 2015, £959k in 2016 and £925k in 2017. The year end of the company is March. Three of the salons are performing less well and we intend to close them when the leases come up for renewal later this year. This will allow us to reduce costs and increase the profitability of the overall business.
Full details – which we have made our best effort to determine as true, but cannot legally warrant that this is so – are available here.
The other offering on site is a fixed-rate loan at a yield of 8 per cent, rated A. It is property-backed, and has an A+ rating from our credit comittee.
A gross yield of 8 per cent equates to a return of 7 per cent net of our fees. If you invest via our Innovative Finance Individual Savings Account (ISA – see below for a step-by-step guide to how this works) you will receive the income tax-free.
All loans on site are eligible for inclusion in a Money&Co. ISA. If you do not have a Money&Co. ISA yet, please click on the ISA application tab on the Home page and fill in the form. You will need your National Insurance number. The ISA allowance for 2018/19 is £20,000. For full detail on the process, see below.
A Process Guide To Innovative Finance ISA Investment
Our offering is an Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) that can hold the peer-to-peer (P2P) business loans that Money&Co. facilitates. For the purposes of this article, the terms ISA and IFISA are interchangeable.
So here’s our guide to the process:
The ISA allowance for 2018/19 is unchanged from last tax year at £20,000, allowing a married couple to put £40,000 into a tax-free environment. Over three years, an investment of this scale in two Money&Co. Innovative Finance ISAs would generate £8,400 of income completely free of tax. We’re assuming a 7 per cent return, net of charges and free of tax here.
Once you have made your initial commitment, you might then consider diversifying – buying a spread of loans. To do this, you can go into the “loans for sale” market. All loans bought in this market also qualify for IFISA tax benefits.
Risk: Security, Access, Yield
Do consider not just the return, but the security and the ease of access to your investment. We write regularly about these three key factors. Here’s one of several earlier articles on security, access and yield.
It’s relatively easy to logon to our site and register to become a lender. But if that’s all too new-fangled, you can call us on 020 3143 4004 or write to Money&Co., 58 Glentham Road, London SW13 9JJ. We’ll then send you an ISA Brochure, and ISA Transfer Authority form (if you want to transfer monies from a Cash ISA) and a Freepost envelope. Then it’s just a question of following your nose to get that income…