Disability Law

Deal Flow Media Webinar

By Patrick Hindert

Deal Flow Media publishes reports, and also sponsors webinars and conferences, about specialized financial markets.

Deal Flow Media's markets include:

• Life Settlements
• Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs)
• Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
• Reverse Mortgages
• Distressed Debt

On November 29, 2007, Deal Flow Media will enter the structured settlement market by sponsoring its first structured settlement webinar.  Please note the Postcript at the end of this post. Deal Flow Media will be rescheduling and expanding this structured settlement webinar.

In addition to Brett Goetschius, Karen Meyers and Dan Finn, this author will be one of the featured speakers. My topic will be "The Structured Settlement Secondary Market".  Some of the questions my presentation will address:

• What is a structured settlement?   
• What is a structured settlement factoring transaction?
• What are structured settlement payment rights?
• What is the secondary structured settlement market?
• How do the primary and secondary markets interact?
• Why do payees sell structured settlement payment rights?
• What definitions and legal rules apply to this secondary market?
• How large is the structured settlement secondary market?
• Who are the leading secondary market participants - and why are they successful?
• What does an investor in structured settlement payment rights actually purchase?
• What are the business and investment risks?

Additional S2KM online resources about the structured settlement primary and secondary markets:

• Structured Settlements
  • Overview of the Structured Settlement Market
  • History of Structured Settlements
  • Future of Structured Settlements
  • Structured Settlement Transaction Diagram
  • Structured Settlement Public Policy Wiki
  • Structured Settlements and Government Benefits
  • Blog posts featuring Robert Wood's podcasts
    • Structured Attorney Fees
    • Single Claimant 468B Funds
• Structured Settlement Secondary Market
  • Structured Settlement Transfers
  • Settlement Transfer Update
  • Settlement Transfers - Release 39
  • How the Primary Market Views Factoring
  • NSSTA Bylaw Amendments
  • J.G. Wentworth v. Peachtree Settlement Funding
  • Settlement Transfers: Wentworth and Symetra
  • Rapid v. Symetra
  • Review of Robert Wood's article: "Structured Settlements: Factor vs.Commute".
• National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP)
  
  • 2007 Annual Meeting
  • 2006 Annual Meeting
  • NASP Wiki

Postcript - added November 28, 2007

• Deal Flow Media has decided to reschedule and expand its structured structured webinar.  Deal Flow Media will announce new dates and details for its expanded webinar on Deal Flow Media's website.   This author will appear as a participant in Deal Flow Media's structured settlement webinars- and will also provide continuing S2KM blog coverage of Deal Flow Media's structured settlement publications.
• S2KM has added corrected links for the following concept maps developed by Dr. Barbara Bowen of Sound Knowledge Strategies.  Each concept map includes embedded submaps and links.
  • Overview of Structured Settlement Markets
• How the Primary Market Views Factoring

For additional information about S2KM's collaboration with Barbara Bowen, see "Web 2.0 for Lawyers Concept Map".

Full post as published by Beyond Structured Settlements on November 24, 2007 (boomark / email).