Scott Martin

Contributor

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.

Networking and Tech Gadgets Attract Wealth Advisors to Big ABA Trust Convention This Week

American Bankers Association wealth management and trust conference brings cutting-edge technologies together with the industry’s decision makers under the banner of building stronger client relationships and enhancing business.

In a few days, an elite 500 or so bankers and other financial professionals will be in Scottsdale, Arizona hammering out the future of high-net-worth advice, and open architecture investing will be front and center.

The Best and Worst Trust Companies for Advisors in 2015

Now that truly independent trust companies are shaking up the financial landscape, some vendors have hit a strategic wall. It’s time for the giants to wake up and for “me too” advisor-friendly firms to further differentiate or die.

Wealthcloud, LLC Cloud-Based Computing Platform Received Strategic Investment to Help Wealth Management Industry

WealthCloud, LLC, a cloud-based computing platform mounted on Salesforce, announced that it has closed a favorable seven-figure strategic investment targeted to accelerated growth.

WealthCloud is a privately-held company founded in 2013 with offices located in the Philadelphia suburb of Conshohocken, PA.

The company provides users with a single platform that integrates multiple applications to effectively and efficiently manage all their day-to-day responsibilities in the wealth management industry.

Oscar de la Renta Leaves Big Hole in $300 Million Family Empire

The designer was an institution but it might be time for his heirs to make the hard choice about whether the family business can continue in its current form. An eleventh-hour succession plan may not be enough to perpetuate his legacy.

George Clooney Takes $220 Million Plunge With No Prenup In Sight

His people vehemently deny all rumors of a pre-wedding division of marital property but choice of venue and residence may have left the notoriously divorce-leery star with few other options.Once George Clooney announced he was actually getting married again, even the gossip channels naturally assumed it took an ironclad premarital contract to seal the deal. But after a few tabloids started chasing rumors of prenup-related squabbling between the star and soon-to-be-wife Amal Alamuddin, his people were quick with a blanket denial.