{"id":9629,"date":"2017-12-05T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bondora.com\/blog\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2017-12-05T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:53:19","slug":"when-music-is-your-obsession-do-you-still-have-time-to-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/blog\/when-music-is-your-obsession-do-you-still-have-time-to-invest\/","title":{"rendered":"When music is your obsession, do you still have time to invest? Meet Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Welcome to the third post of our investor stories series. We are excited to share our interview with Duncan, a first time investor whose goal is to make enough passive income to take care of his living costs while he spends more time doing what he loves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/investor-Duncan.jpg\" alt=\"Bodnora-investor-Duncan\" width=\"1157\" height=\"772\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I was a first time investor, so I would tell my past-self \u201cJust do it!&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I\u2019m an Australian, living in Portugal. I make electronic music. My only (other) hobbies are cooking &amp; reading. I love my job so I don\u2019t have room for more obsessions!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>What made you start investing with Bondora?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I was looking for an investment option that satisfied a few personal criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good return<\/li>\n<li>Access to the interest (good cash flow)<\/li>\n<li>Closer to real investment, putting my capital in real people\u2019s hands, rather than just property or speculating on a stock price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I simply use the portfolio manager, with a medium risk setting&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>What were your investment goals when you started and how is your portfolio doing now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">My investment goal was simply to provide me with enough passive income to take care of my living costs, while I work on my music. My portfolio is performing well enough that I can do that.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>What features\/strategy do you use and how does it work for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/en\/portfolio-manager\">I simply use the portfolio manager<\/a>, with a medium risk setting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;After tracking its performance for a few weeks, it became clear that Bondora really was performing as advertised. Better than the other p2p services I tried.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>If you could give any advice to someone starting out with Bondora, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I was a first time investor, so I would tell my past-self \u201cJust do it!&#8221;. Being scared\/sceptical, I only invested a small fraction at the beginning. But after tracking its performance for a few weeks, it became clear that Bondora really was performing as advertised. Better than the other p2p services I tried.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>We love Duncan\u2019s story. It\u2019s inspiring when we see our customers take control of their financial freedom and make more time to focus on doing what they enjoy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Be like Duncan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/en?noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">start here today<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the third post of our investor stories series. We are excited to share our interview with Duncan, a first time investor whose goal is to make enough passive income to take care of his living costs while he spends more time doing what he loves. &#8220;I was a first time investor, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bondora-news"],"acf":[],"featured_image":null,"categories_names":["News"],"category_name":"News","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}