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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.

Love The Breakthru Experience? Take It Up A Mile Next Year

It looks like Future Proof is in the process of spinning up a high-altitude counterpart. Matt Middleton leaked to a rival publication that he's preparing a "Breakthru Retreat" in Colorado Springs next spring.

This one is going to be far from the Huntington Beach venue that has taken Future Proof from experimental start-up to industry linchpin event in only two years. For one thing, it's going to start intimate and intensive: attendance capped at 500.

Trump Interview Sheds New Light On Fed Policy Pivot, Raises Independence Questions

Donald Trump said so many things on "Meet The Press" last weekend that one of the biggest bombshells went practically uncommented in our world. It turns out he's taking credit for the Fed's unusually abrupt pivot from tightening rates in 2018 to a long pause and then cuts in 2019.

In other words, someone from the White House is claiming to have pushed the theoretically isolated and independent Fed around . . . and that Jay Powell in particular backed down.

Here's the quote:

Future Proof: The Buzz That Drives The "Breakthru" Business

Wealth management is one of the talking businesses. Whether you talk about the market, your clients' goals or how the two fields fit together, delivering advice revolves around communication. 

That's why people are talking themselves hoarse at Future Proof. Put that many industry perspectives in close proximity and take away most of the screens and the ideas are going to flow pretty fierce.