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Scott Martin

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Executive Editor
The Wealth Advisor

 

A veteran in the business of digital and print journalism, Martin joined The Wealth Advisor in January 2009. His name now appears in most U.S. financial advisors’ inboxes each day as sender of record on the 11 million emails we deploy each month.

 

He writes for an audience of 280,000 wealth and financial advisors including 205,000 registered investment advisors (the largest digital audience of RIAs of any industry publication), managing a staff of 5 editors and 2 researchers to produce daily wealth management news and 8 specialty newsletters focused on top-of-mind industry topics like tax protection, practice management, technology and TAMPs (turnkey asset management programs).

 

He also moderates industry panels and compiles our specialty annual guides on trusts, technology and TAMPs: America's Most Advisor Friendly Trust Companies, America's Best TAMPs and America's Best Trust Technology Buyers Guide.

 

In prior lives he served as lead market writer at CNN, ran Buyside magazine, wrote for Institutional Investor, Research, ALPHA and other publications, and dabbled in hedge fund land.

ESG Takes Over Wall Street: But What Do Those Letters Mean?

In a year when most stocks struggle to attract  investors with signs of purely financial progress, many executives are turning to the factors of their corporate footprint that they can control, manage and even demonstrate real progress. References to "ESG" principles doubled last quarter and a full 35% of S&P 500 constituents talked about injustice and equality on their earnings calls.

Growth Is Golden In A Year Of Shocks

Some market environments are easier to explain than others. But whether the cards on the table make sense or not, we all have to play the hand the market deals us. 

That's a central message in the 2Q 2020 Review and Outlook from Global X. We all read too many of these. This one is refreshing in the way it acknowledges the facts all investment professionals need to keep in mind while we navigate the day-to-day noise.