Alternative finance funders age by platform 2014 statistic

This statistic shows the age distribution of funders of alternative finance platforms in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2014, by platform. Approximately 57 percent of peer-to-peer business lending funders were aged 55 and older in 2014.

Funders of alternative finance sector platforms in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2014, by age

Characteristic	under 35	35 to 54	55 and more
Community shares	5	39	56
P2P business lending	12	31	57
P2P consumer lending	12	33	55
Debt-based securities	20	40	40
Rewards crowdfunding	22	43	35
Donation crowdfunding	23	40	37
Equity crowdfunding	38	36	25

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Release date

November 2014

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

March to September 2014

Special properties

primary industry figures as well as extensive surveys of businesses and consumers

Supplementary notes

Figures exceeding or not reaching 100 percent is due to rounding.
The source adds the following information: "Alternative finance is an umbrella term, covering a very diverse market of various innovative financial models."
Methodology is clarified as the source as follows: "Four stages of research activity were carried out from March to September 2014. (1) Stage one involved collecting primary transactional data directly from alternative finance platforms. (2) Stage two consisted of designing and distributing model-specific questionnaires to survey funders and fundraisers of alternative finance. In total 15,658 users were surveyed. (3) Stage three conducted in association with ACCA and PwC included two external national surveys to understand the level of awareness among consumers of alternative finance. 2,007 consumers and 506 SMEs were surveyed. (4) Stage four was the industry-wide tracking survey among UK crowdfunding associations and P2P associations to gather industrial figures for year 2014. Transactional data was collected for quarters one to three of 2014."

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