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Lending Club Rolls Out Enhanced Reporting Features for Foliofn Users

September 18, 2014 By Peter Renton 4 Comments

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Today, Lending Club has added some long awaited features for investors who use the Lending Club trading platform to buy and sell notes. Until today many people who traded notes on Foliofn had no idea what their actual returns were – these were often mispriced by Lending Club’s NAR calculation. No more. If you have never bought or sold notes through Foliofn then these changes do not affect you.

Below is an explanation of these changes using my own main Lending Club (taxable) account as an example.

Primary Notes Return

Lending Club Primary Notes Return

This 10.85% number above represents the NAR return on all the notes that I have bought on the primary platform and not sold. These are now called Primary Notes. Any notes that were either bought or sold on Folio are excluded from this number.

When you click on the Understanding Your Returns link (underneath the NAR number) here you will go into the same screen as before with the dot-chart that plots similar investor returns.

Traded Notes Return

Lending Club Traded Notes Return

This is where Lending Club has made some major improvements. This has been the issue. If you bought and sold all your notes at or near par then your Lending Club NAR calculation was accurate. But some Folio traders buy or sell deeply discounted notes and for these people the NAR number has not reflected their actual return. It is these investors who benefit the most with this change. Now, Lending Club has taken all the activities on Folio into account and made an accurate annualized return number for all.

You can see my return here is really low: 2.78%. This is because most of the notes I sold on Folio were late notes that I sold for a loss. There is a more detailed explanation about this on Lending Club’s knowledge base. In this article there is an excellent example that explains why the NAR was fairly meaningless for active Folio investors before this change.

Combined Return

Lending Club Combined Return

Above is a screenshot of my new Combined Return number. As you can see it takes my 10.85% return and combined it with my 2.85% return from my traded notes to make this 10.33% number. There is another explanation that Lending Club provides when you click on Understanding Your Combined Returns link.

Download all Your Traded Notes

Download Traded Notes

That is not the only change that Lending Club made today. Another complaint of active Folio users is that there is no easy way to analyze all their trades. This became particularly troublesome at tax time. Now, investors can download all their notes or just those notes that were bought and/or sold on the trading platform. Just click on the Notes link in the top menu of the main Lending Club account screen and then scroll to the bottom of the page. You will see the links in the screenshot above.

It is good to see Lending Club continue to make changes here to help Folio investors, the often ignored segment of Lending Club investors. But let’s hear from the active Folio users. What do you think? Are these changes useful? Let me know in the comments below.

Filed Under: Peer to Peer Lending Tagged With: FOLIOfn, Lending Club, trading platform

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Comments

  1. JJ Hendricks says

    September 19, 2014 at 11:33 am

    I’m happy to see more transparency so the data is easier to see for investors. It is very helpful to break down the traded returns even more on the ‘understanding traded not returns’ page, so you can see interest received, principal received for buying and selling.

    My accountant will be very happy to know about the download traded notes option 🙂

    Reply
    • Peter Renton says

      September 19, 2014 at 3:06 pm

      Thanks JJ. I agree that more transparency is always better. This change has been a long time coming but I am very glad it is finally here.

      Reply
  2. CA-Lender says

    September 24, 2014 at 9:52 am

    I think this is an awesome addition. Hopefully Prosper will follow suit.

    I’ve sold $100,000s of notes on Prosper’s FolioFN, all at a premium, and I know the return shown on my Prosper home page, compared to my own calculation, using XIRR() is off by about 100%. In other words, it’s so inaccurate that its meaningless.

    Great job LC.

    Reply
    • Peter Renton says

      September 24, 2014 at 10:17 am

      Thanks CA-Lender. Lending Club have made some great changes for retail investors in the last 12 months. Prosper needs to follow suit. I know they intend to make retail a focus for next year and I hope this includes some enhancements to their platform like this one.

      Reply

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