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Category: SMA Hub
SMA Hub catergory 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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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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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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It wasn’t an annuity, it was an assignment of rights to certain agent’s fees due to the sports agent for NBA player Paul Millsap of the Brooklyn Nets, flowing through a chain of transactions, being held out as as an annuity, of questionable suitability for a disabled man with brain damage.
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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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The kaput Lake Oswego, OR company required a level of paperwork that looked like they were being appointed with an insurance company or insurance brokerage. If a receivable isn’t an annuity or insurance product, why all the SMA Hub hoopla to make it look like it was?
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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?