Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
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.
recent posts
- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
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Category: Credibility of Financial Advisors
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The settlement planning space I operate in is at the intersection of multiple dynamic overlapping disciplines as part of a much larger dynamic financial services industry. This necessitates not only an incredible foundation level of knowledge but the need to stay current, to keep the pace.
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Smith allegedly advised an illiterate, intellectually disabled 20 year old on the sale of a structured settlement (designed to protect her for life) for a severely discounted amount of cash, without meeting her or providing counsel on the potential consequences of selling the structured settlement payments
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Annuity Straight Talk’s Bryan Anderson completely misrepresents the financial ratings of John Hancock, MetLife, Allstate and Prudential as AAA when they are not. Isn’t the purpose of due diligence to confirm all material facts in regards to a sale?
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Representatives of settlement purchasers are apparently attempting to unsettle structured settlement annuitants by giving them the impression that they are not earning any interest on their structured settlement. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Is it necessary for a structured settlement consultant to be defense only, or plaintiff only, to be effective to meet your needs? Is it not more important that the structured settlement consultant be a credentialed expert in his or her field?
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The wide release of the ChSNC professional program has been postponed to January 1, 2014. ChSNC is a special needs focused professional designation program developed by the American College and Mass Mutual and introduced in 2011. The Mass Mutual exclusivity period now ends December 31,2013.
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The Chartered Special Needs Consultant™ provides financial professionals with the technical, collaborative, and quantitative skills necessary to help clients with special needs and designed to provide people with disabilities and other special needs with a more competent advisor
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A structured settlement IS NOT a scam. A structured settlement is a voluntary agreement between at least two parties in which the paying party promises to make future periodic payments to the receiving party as part of the consideration to resolve a legal dispuite
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If you are a resident of the State of New York or enter into your contract of life insurance, disability insurance, long term care, or annuities in the state, the assessment and diversification of risk with insurance contracts is now more important than ever before.