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Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Annuity.org | Sweeping Up Poor Annuity.org Research
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Annuity.org, its writer, its editor and financial reviewer with an MBA completely miss THE MOST critical element in the establishment of a structured settlement, the release in exchange for a promise to make future periodic payments.
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According to A.M. Best a B++ rating represents companies that “are stable but have room for improvement. The long-term outlook may be unsure”. Synonyms for unsure include lacking confidence, equivocating,..just the type of words that might cause an annuity prospect to question
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If you have “received a settlement”, whether constructive receipt or the actual receipt of a settlement, you’re “fupped duck” and may not structure. See Constructive Receipt is Game Over for Structured Settlements at (4structures.com)
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It was only decades ago, during the “Paleolithic Computer Era”, there was a simple but blunt concept called “Garbage In Garbage Out”, or in a playfully respectful acronym, a nod to Madame Vice-President (and Muttley from The Wacky Races), “GIGO”
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Annuity.org just doesn’t care. Annuity.org claims standards belied by their work, which is consistently poor and unreliable to structured settlement consumers. Annuity.org has proven over the years an innate ability to churn out alot of inaccurate content, replete with poor interpretation of cited sources.
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Annuity.org falsely implies Peachtree is a regulated entity under state insurance law and regulated by state insurance commissions; and structured settlement factoring companies that misrepresent as a structured settlement broker, are regulated by state insurance commissions; that any structured settlement purchaser that buys structured settlement payment rights and then assigns them to an investor is…
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It’s not unusual for a team paying to pay athletes deferred payments, but Bobby Bonilla was no Ken Griffey, Jr. or Manny Ramirez, who got bigger deferred payments, had greater accomplishments and bettter examples to promote deferred payments for any company, let alone, a company from Boston.
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In Private Letter Ruling PLR-119273-97, the IRS concluded that the lump sum received from the sale of structured settlement payment rights retained the same tax treatment that it was accorded prior to the structured settlement factoring transaction.
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If you’re going to shill for a structured settlement factoring company, at least know what they are actually buying (i.e. structured settlement payment rights” not structured settlement annuities). The Annuity.Org “All-Star Team” somehow managed to flunk, badly, again.
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Bonilla career stats performed well below his peers with deferred payments. But for the fact the Mets and others were scammed by the late crooked Bernie Madoff, there would be no Bobby Bonilla Day. Instead of “celebrating” Bonilla, consider Bonilla’s deferred compensation peers as a better role model for annuities.