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.
Cash-lean accounting and plenty of legal safeguards ensure that even multiple broken marriages to the same woman won’t do more than dent the billionaire’s net worth.
Elon Musk’s personal affairs are barely a factor in his science fiction ambition. He has no obvious human vices, doesn’t even drink and spends much of his brainpower pondering ways to manage apocalyptic risk: global warming, robot uprising, asteroid impact.
Legendary comedian hadn’t made a film in 25 years but died in relative comfort 3,000 miles from Hollywood. While it may not have been a blockbuster final act, it was quiet and he called the shots -- finally a model for HNW seniors to emulate and not dread.
Gene Wilder’s glory years came too late for the Golden Age of Hollywood and too early for the modern era of $50 million superstars, but he did well enough to walk away after a couple of decades.
Heavyweight champion didn’t leave billions behind but after 35 years of effective retirement he could’ve done a whole lot worse. Passive income and street-level ambition overcome a lot of hard hits along the way to get the best realistic outcome given the shifts in generational scale.
Baywatch actor talking down net worth on the verge of a new movie probably won’t convince the court, but it’s probably the last chance he’ll get to make his case.
Fight over how to embody the countercultural giant’s notoriously litigious legacy feeds nothing but bad feelings between brothers at an emotionally fragile moment. If you ever needed an example of why independent trustees are critical to dynastic harmony, this is it.
Throughout history, there have only been a handful of guitarists with the legal right to perform under the name of Zappa, and one of them has been dead for decades.