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buying bad debt

Do Debt Settlement Company Relationships With Hedge Funds Create a Fiduciary Problem for the Consumer?

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A new variation of the debt settlement process is appearing, the debt settlement hedge fund. Apparently the way this works is the debt settlement company has a relationship with a related hedge fund or pool of money that they can access to payoff an enrolled clients debt. The issue is if the debt settlement company …

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There’s Big Bucks in Bad Debts

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For decades, credit-card companies and other firms would eventually give up after attempting to collect from deadbeat customers. Now, companies are packaging and selling many of those overdue accounts for pennies on the dollar to debt collectors. The collectors then aggressively pursue the debtors to repay, or they turn around and resell those same debts …

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