YieldStreet → Willow Wealth: Anatomy of a Rebrand $208 million of investor losses, a name change seven weeks after the second exposé, and a decade of performance data pulled from the website. The rebrand is what everyone noticed. The SEC filings describe something larger, and the company states it plainly in its own proxy material: […]
The Coupon That Couldn’t Wait: Woodville and the Fixed-Date Trap A UK litigation funder just collapsed with a £249M loan book, 300,000 claims, and about ten employees. It didn’t lose the cases — the cases haven’t finished. It promised investors fixed quarterly interest and fixed repayment dates on an asset that pays whenever a court […]
The Bank That Isn’t a Bank: Synapse and the FDIC Mirage No bank failed, so deposit insurance never paid a cent — and 100,000+ people still lost access to their money. Here’s what actually went missing, why the compensation arrived as a one-dollar penalty, and why the two rules meant to fix this still don’t […]
How “Senior Secured” Became Subordinated Scraps A $15M “senior secured” loan to a class action law firm — how I lost $87,723, and what the offering documents said before I lost it This is the most expensive lesson in my portfolio and the one I link back to most often, so I’ll put the takeaway […]
The Extended Hold: A 16-Month Deal That Ran 45 A merchant cash advance portfolio took nearly four years to pay 12.82% — and the thing that saved it was printed on page one all along My third YieldStreet investment — $70,000 into a portfolio of merchant cash advances — funded in April 2018 on a […]
The Acquisition Exit: A 48-Month Deal Paid Off in 21 My best YieldStreet investment returned 13.14% in 21 months — and the reasons it worked are nowhere on the tear sheet that sold it My first YieldStreet investment — $250,000 into a diversified pool of pre-settlement advances — returned $289,248 for a 13.14% IRR against […]
