by Structured Settlement Watchdog
SMA Hub solicited me by email to invest in structured settlement receivables with the subject line “Annuities”
Neither SMA Hub, nor Trent Douglass, the individual whose email address at SMA Hub was associated with the solicitation are licensed to sell annuities or life insurance in Connecticut. Verify here.
Neither SMA Hub nor,Trent Douglass, the individual whose email address at SMA Hub was associated with the solicitation, are licensed to sell annuities or life insurance in Oregon. Verify here.
SMA Hub and other companies offered structured settlement receivables that were intentionally misrepresented as annuities to investors when they were not annuities
What is notable about an email from SMA Hub’s Trent Douglass. addressed to a CT resident, is that SMA Hub is brazen enough to even remove the secondary market prefix.
Life’ a Beach!
Structured settlement receivables are structured settlement payment rights not annuities.
At the end of a structured settlement factoring transaction, no investor owns an annuity or annuities funding a periodic payment liability from a lawsuit settlement. The investor simply does not acquire an annuity
The Lake Oswego Oregon company’s email was sent out by Mail Chimp, a marketing automation platform and an email marketing service, begging the question about how many investors were targeted by SMA Hub with the scam labeled investment solicitation. If you have received a similar email from SMA Hub I’d be interested in hearing from you.
For more information read the 4structures.com LLC blog Investing in Structured Settlements A Guide for Unwary Investors June 28, 2025