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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.

Unsettled Paul Walker Estate Shows No Millionaire Is Too Young to Plan

Accidental death leaves rival girlfriends bickering over a reported $45 million fortune while the star’s parents have to provide for his granddaughter.

While it takes most people a lifetime to accumulate an estate complicated enough to require professional assistance, celebrities and other younger millionaires are still vulnerable to accidents.

Paul Walker, for example, was barely 40 years old when the Porsche he was in rammed a tree at 100 miles per hour.

Billionaire Harold Simmons Dies, Leaving Legendary “Broken” Trusts Behind

Acting as own trustee cost the corporate raider turned Republican activist at least $100 million and two of his four daughters. How will his charitable foundation survive without him?

Harold Simmons built a sprawling industrial empire out of a single Texas drugstore but his estate plan never quite matched his M&A brilliance.