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.
Some people are saying direct indexing is nothing but expensive hype designed to push HNW efficiencies on portfolios too small to really support or justify anything but the random walk. We beg to differ. With a direct indexing guide on the horizon, we're obviously convinced that this is the future. But what do YOU think?
DWS, one of the world’s leading asset managers, announced today the listing of three new thematic exchange-traded funds (ETFs) designed to provide investors equity exposure to three vital sectors, U.S. green infrastructure, semiconductor and cybersecurity, at a competitive cost. The ETFs represent the first Xtrackers thematic offering for U.S. investors.
The products, which listed today on the Nasdaq, are:
SMArtX Advisory Solutions will be at INSITE. See if they'll tell you about their deal with TradePMR. The relationship enables TradePMR advisors to access SMArtX’s award-winning UMA technology, including their full model marketplace, automated rebalancing, tax harvester, cash management, billing, and Advisor as a PM tools to effectively manage their advisory business at scale.
We argued for years that even mass market clients needed at least a slice of liquid alternative investments to properly balance a "standard" portfolio. Last year proved it and made alt-friendly managers like Apollo look like prophets.
Apollo was always prescient in finding ways to bring private equity and other "challenging" asset classes to the retail investor. It took the simultaneous crash of stocks and bonds to prove their argument.