Alternative Investment Portfolio – May 2022

Stagflation
The war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China, supply-chain disruptions, and the risk of stagflation are hammering growth. For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid,” said World Bank President
Stagflation meme
Global growth is expected to slump from 5.7 percent in 2021 to 2.9 percent in 2022— significantly lower than 4.1 percent that was anticipated in January. It is expected to hover around that pace over 2023-24, as the war in Ukraine disrupts activity, investment, and trade in the near term, pent-up demand fades, and fiscal and monetary policy accommodation is withdrawn.
The current juncture resembles the 1970s in three key aspects: persistent supply-side disturbances fueling inflation, preceded by a protracted period of highly accommodative monetary policy in major advanced economies, prospects for weakening growth, and vulnerabilities that emerging market and developing economies face with respect to the monetary policy tightening that will be needed to rein in inflation.

Alternative Investment Portfolio Performance

This Month I tried a few deals on KredX. I have been using KredX for more than 3 years. I had discontinued it for 1 year due to a couple of defaults people had faced. Recently I found some good enterprises hence decided to invest in a few invoices.
KredX

Structured Lending Investment

Platform Returns NPA
Grip Invest 11-12%(Post-Tax) 0%
Klubworks 17%+ 0%
WintWealth 10-11.5% 0%
Jiraaf 12-16% New
Pyse 10-11% (Post-Tax) 0%
Legalpay( Promo code FV48G4) 14-16% New( 5 payments )
Growpital(Promo code GROWRDIMES) 12% (Tax-Free) New (3 Payment)
  • Have invested in Clairco at 11.7% on Jiraaf
  • Invested in Slice Oxyzo on Wealth Wint at 9.5% ( Already 99% sold)
  • Received  payment for Growpital
  • Invested in Freyr Energy on Klubworks (5 deals done till now)
  • All my cash flow in Klubworks, WintWealth, Pyse, and GripInvest are as per schedule.
  • 2 high Yield Deals live on Jiraaf ( Jindal MLD -10.5% and Vilcart -17%)
  • Growpital will be soon raising funds on Tyke

New Deals

Jiraaf Deals
Jiraaf deal
Liquiloans deals
Invoice Discounting and Pooled Loans
Platform Returns NPA
Liquiloans (Liquid Fund Substitute) 9-10% 0%
Tradecred 11.50% 0%
Lendbox (Per Annum +Settlement Finance) 11.50% 0%
Cashkumar(Elastic Run) 11.50% 0%
KredX 13% 0%
  • Lendbox settlement finance returns and Per Annum returns are as per expectations
  • 10% IRR deal available on Liquiloans for 4 Months Holding Period
  • I Invested in a Kredx deal this month- Saveo and Bizongo (Bizongo has recently raised money)

International Real Estate and P2P

Platform Return Current NPA
Heavyfinance 12%
Lofty (Tokenized Real Estate) 13% New
EstateGuru 10% 1%
PeerBerry 10.50%
Evostate (Aggregator Platform) 12%
Bulkestate 11% 2%
Lendermarket 13% 1%
RealT US High Yield Property(crypto-based) 11% Rental yield
Reinvest24 12.5% Rent+capital gain
  • We will be soon covering how to seamlessly invest in European platforms using MCA
  • Lofty provides daily accrual of rent. You can keep track of your total rent on a daily basis.

Equity Market

Global shares ended May largely flat in US dollar terms. Markets continued to be dominated by worries over rising inflation and a potentially faster pace of central bank tightening, as well as the ongoing war in Ukraine. Someone who had no exposure to Global markets could use this opportunity to start adding some ETFs.

Nasdaq has historically outperformed the broader market due to its composition which includes tech and growth companies. Higher returns come with higher volatility and anyone investing in Nasdaq should brace for periods of fast rise and sudden crashes.

Nasdaq performance

Nasdaq Volatility

Crypto Lending Investing

Platform Returns Capital Loss
Kucoin 5-50% Nil
Flint 10.00% New
Youhodler 12.50% Nil
Vauld 12.70% Nil
Coindcx 14% Nil
  • Coindcx is also offering a 14% return on USDT
  • Would be Keeping allocation to Crypto lending to the minimum at the moment due to the heightened volatility and possible repercussion of the Luna Terra fiasco

Crypto Investment

Cryptomarket is in deep winter for the last few months. I feel there can be more downside from the current level. If the market does fall substantially I will allocate some risk capital and wait for the bull market which eventually will come (could take more than a year). Crypto has fallen more than 60-70% in past too and if we go by history it has been a good opportunity for accumulating at those levels.

BTC price

Platform Quarter Return
Crypto Hedge Fund Iconomi -10%
Crypto Hedge Fund Ember
Crypto Hedging Deribit 2%
Bitcoin Trading(Wazirx/Binance/CoinDCX) 5%

P2P Investment

Current allocation:

  • India P2P – 15% (new)
  • 12Club – 5%
  • Rupeecircle- (stopped)
  • I2IFunding- 40%
  • Finzy-40%
Platform Loans Selected Yield NPA
I2IFunding Cooperative banks-backed loans, E-Rickshaw backed loans, education loans, NBFC backed loans(Mondeo etc) Group loans 13.5% 4.9%
IndiaP2P Only Women Borrower Loans, Branch-based p2p lending 16% 0%
FINZY Prime Borrowers, High Salary,A category 14.2% 3.5%
12 Club Only Minimum amount 12% 0%
  • Will be slightly increasing my investment in IndiaP2P this month. The performance of the platform looks good.
  • Have been investing in Urban Clap Loans on I2IFunding
  • The systematic investment plan loan on Faircent ( Only SIP Loan) is doing well
  • Completely stopped RupeeCircle

 Other Alternative Assets  and Platform Updates

Fractional Real Estate Update- My investment in MYRE Capital has been performing as expected. I have received 5 cashflows on time. People who are interested in a lower minimum (INR 1 lakh) can invest in  Real Estate on Grip Invest

Platform Returns Payment Received on time
Myre Capital 10% 5.00
Upcide Updates

Upcide has recently listed a new opportunity. The volume on the platform is low but the deal selection is decent (access code RDIMES to get early access)

Upcide_May

6 thoughts on “Alternative Investment Portfolio – May 2022”

    • No deals till now. Anyway cosnidering the macroeconomic scenario I feel lot of startup valuation will go down significantly and we can get better deals better.

      Reply
  1. Hi Rohan,
    Considering the current uncertainties regarding stagflation, quantitive tightening, and increased repo rate (with a projection of further increase), I decided to stick with debt only portfolio.
    I decided to stick with more regulated kindf safe products with highly reputable with little exposure to new options.

    Here is a look at the debt based investment lot with the max allocation (slowly allocated on salary day) what do you think I should adjust considering inflation.

    https://ibb.co/dbHLxt2

    Reply
    • Hi Zac ,
      In terms of interest rate going up I sticking to shorter dated fixed options such as liquid fund, short duration fund, some invoices,bonds up to 15 months
      The bigger threat I feel is the liquidity drying up in market and companies with weak financials can suffer hence I ensure doing lot of due diligence on each deal from from a credit risk point of view and avoiding high exposure in any one issuer.
      I am buying equity US and India in staggered manner and will gradually keep increasing allocation to equity if market goes further down

      Reply
      • How do you exactly evaluate authenticity of a platform or company listed on that platform?

        For example if a bond issuing company defaults, it is sebi who intervenes and represent lender interests in the court, etc.

        In conjecture, Im concerned about asset leasing or invoice discounting deals/platforms.

        What if tommorow startup like xyz listed on gripinvest or relatively new P2P platform defaults.

        In that case who represets lenders/investors in bankrupcy court.

        I am not being paranoid or hypercautios, just caught the eye about hedonova’s recent mint expose (many many thanks to you).

        Its been around month of this uncover, no big economic publication has covered it or tried to investigate the matter.

        These are completely digital companies, most them are not acknowdledged by major media houses or youtubers (Wintwealth & Tradecred being an exception), I can only study their backgroud on crunchbase or other online aggregator or your blog.

        In that case how can we evaluate authenticity of a company or in worst case senario, in case of default how can a regular job goer like me recover my money?

        Reply
        • Hi Zac,
          Evaluation of a platform can be broken into two parts:

          1) How genuine the platform is ?
          2) What happens in case the deal defaults

          For the first part, I try to find out as much information available about the founders through the internet(Linkedin, MCA website , Network,funding details ) etc. I thus always start with a small investment and gradually increase the allocation when I develop more confidence. I guess for most platforms you can ascertain something is off in a few months at max.

          The second part is where I feel there is a larger scope of things going wrong as once an issuer of company defaults there is a long drawn recourse process even in the case of regulated entities(syntax, DHFL, Reliance capital, Yesbank AT1, etc). Even though We can argue that P2P platforms are under NBFC P2P guidelines or Wintwealth/Jiraaf bonds have trustees and follow SEBI guidelines, the recovery process is tedious if it comes to defaults. The best way for me to deal with it is a) I research each deal independent of platform rating and b) Never invest too much in 1 deal.

          I am planning to create a database in the future where I can take the collective experience of all investors to identify the performance of various deals on all alternative platforms

          Reply

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