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Category: SMA Hub Commentary
SMA Hub Commentary features blogs and commentary concerning SMA Hub, a company that promoted structured settlement receivable using the in accurate term “secondary market annuity”
SMA Hub, Inc. was a wholesale distributor of structured settlement receivables which it promoted using the bogus label “Secondary Market Annuities (SMAs) and based in Lake Oswego, Oregon accoridng to its LinkedIn. It was founded in 2013 by veterans of the SMA industry, including Jonathan Walker, who served as President and CEO.
SMA Hub, through a related company chopped up and sold pieces of esoteric cash flows such a payment streams from ex-football QB Michael Vick and later, what was bogusly marketed to investors as an “NBA annuity”when it was not. It is this reckless activity that led to its demise.
SMA Hub in New Lawsuit Over Reassigned Unum Receivable | Financial Elder Abuse of 80+ year old – Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog
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Thinking about investing in a purported factored athlete contract? Think again. I want you to read the below excerpts of testimony from Arizona attorney Andrea Watters in a 9/2021 hearing. It should send chills down the spines of anyone seeking to invest in any purported athlete contracts.
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Trenton Douglass, a former employee of SMA Hub sent emails to an investor in 2019 pitching a purported investment in NBA star Paul Millsap’s agent Brendan DeAngelo Simmon’s purported agent’s fee as a “premium” and as a “low risk NBA deal”. It was a disaster.
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A notice of settlement was filed October 15, 2021 in the Pima County Arizona “Secondary Market ‘Annuity’ Shit Show” lawsuit filed last month and the matter has been placed on the dismissal calendar according to publicly available court records. Specific terms of settlement were not available
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A river of unregulated BS swirls around retirement plan investors that looks and smells like an annuity but isn’t. Whether targeted for investments in a scam labeled secondary market annuity, or a share of receivables purportedly due to an agent from a current NBA player, there are risks.
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How Is having a company, or a member associated with a company, whose acronym represents a scam label for factored structured settlement payment rights consistent with mission of the Society of the Settlement Planners?
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The SMA Hub purchase order referred to the NBA as an insurance carrier. It is not. One wonders what it said on the Michael Vick purchase orders sent to investors, cash flows that too became troubled. Why are no investment regulators onto this SMA Hub nonsense?
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SMA Hub and other companies offered scam labeled structured settlement receivables investment products to investors, intentionally misrepresenting them as annuities when they were not annuities.
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Financial planners or settlement planners who recommended that their clients buy and subsequently sold them structured settlement receivables that they told clients was an annuity, may want to change their underwear now.
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Have you been solicited to invest in receivables alleged to be guaranteed by professional baseball, football, basketball or soccer players, their teams or leagues? Has the investment performed the way you were sold by promoters of the alleged factored sports contract investment or have you lost money?