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Despite Concerns, Analysts Bullish On Lending Club IPO

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Mark Melin
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The future looks compelling for Lending Club as it heads to an IPO, a Sterne Agee report indicates, while issues regarding investment transparency are not entirely relevant, the report’s author said today.

Hurdles for Lending Club to expand its product

In a pre-IPO report today Sterne Agee said there was little in the way of Lending Club to expand its product line into other loan categories such as student and auto loans, as analyst Henry Coffey, Jr. expects the IPO to be priced between $13 and $17 per share, prices that are above the current filing range.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.