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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.

Now Catholic Investors Have Their Own Sin-Free Global Fund

Conscience-motivated investors have been able to avoid funding U.S. companies they find immoral for decades. Now there's a way to give them clergy-approved exposure to foreign equity in an exchange-traded structure.

The Global X S&P Catholic Values Developed Ex-U.S. ETF (CEFA) launched June 24 and in its first month is beating the EFA benchmark by a few basis points. While I suspect the performance gap will even out over time, investors are clearly not sacrificing returns here in exchange for moral clarity.