Debt-based securities investment sources 2014 statistic

This statistic shows the sources of money invested into debt-based securities within the United Kingdom (UK) alternative finance market as of 2014. According to the survey, 62 percent of respondents invested money they would otherwise invest in a different scheme.

United Kingdom: When you budget for investing in debt-based securities, where does the money come from?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Money I would invest	62%
Money I would save	55%
Money I would use for day to day spending	8%
Money I would give to charitable cause	3%

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Release date

November 2014

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

March to September 2014

Special properties

Investors*

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Through debt-based securities lenders receive a non-collateralized debt obligation, typically paid back over an extended period of time".
* The source clarifies the methodology 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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