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.
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Category: Genex Capital Commentary
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Its recent website edit stating “the payment stream is an existing, fixed receivable or derivative, SMA Hub has a taken a step forward which underscores that “secondary market annuities” ARE NOT annuities
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Questions continue regarding intermediaries, financial planners and settlement planners who distribute structured settlement payment rights (structured settlement derivatives) to investors mislabeled as annuities.
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Top Consumer Reviews is an unreliable source of information about companies that by structured settlement payments because their methodology is flawed.
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Nicholas Jackson, an Annapolis MO man once associated as a “financial adviser” with structured settlement buyers, faces felony drug charges in St. Francois County on January 6, 2016, according to Missouri Court records at Case.net. Jackson has served jail time several times since 2012.
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Proctor’s sense of urgency and act of “clairvoyance” proved to be unfounded and interest rates actually declined, in some cases massively. Inflation was low. Lower interest rates mean a higher present value for your structured settlement payments.
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If you sell your right to receive structured settlement payments you sell those payments at a discount to the present value of the future payments, not the future value. You CANNOT have your inheritance in its entirety, up front or otherwise as Genex Capital misrepresents.
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The term Settlement Exchange falsely implies a regulated marketplace. Settlement exchange is not like a stock exchange which IS highly regulated. There’s no federal or state supervision of a so called “settlement exchange”. Structured settlement sellers & investors should not be confused.