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.
Plan sponsors that focus on health and wealth are often more likely to implement other benefits that they would not have been considered before, including life insurance, supplemental health benefits, and executive and retiree medical and retirement benefits, Caldwell added.
When the insurance is no longer needed in the retirement plan there are different ways it can be removed from the plan. If it is simply transferred to the insured participant it will be a taxable distribution and the participant will pay tax on the value of the policy when it is transferred. To avoid a taxable distribution, the policy can be bought by the participant with outside funds to replace the value of the policy in the retirement plan.