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In line with our campaign for improved transparency and communication with lenders, we crunched the numbers on our loanbook to deliver you a picture of the average returns enjoyed by rebuildingsociety lenders.
The data we analysed covers the period between our inception up to the end of the 2015/16 tax year, and takes into account all interest received up to this point, losses relating to bad debt, and expected losses on any under-performing loans. The figures do not include promotional credits or any profit/loss from Microloan Trading.
As always, past returns are not necessarily a guarantee of future performance.
So here are the facts:
- 15.5% AER: If you had placed the same amount on every loan in the said period, your net return would have been 15.5% AER, which compares very favourably with the reported 7.3% AER for one of our largest competitors.
- Security Counts: The most notable impact on returns was the security offered. It will come as no surprise that loans with only a personal guarantee represent our lowest returns for lenders at just 8.88% AER - though still higher than the 7.3% AER reported by our largest competitor.
- Size Matters: Our medium sized loans (£50,001 - £99,999) gave the best returns, narrowly ahead of large loans (£100,000+). This is to be expected given that additional security is required above £50,000, so the medium and large loans are unhampered by the poorer performance of loans backed only by a PG.
- Cream of the Crop: By quite a margin our highest rates of return were offered by loans that were medium sized and backed with property as security.
