Smart Money’s Editorial Guidelines
At Smart Money, our priority is to provide you with the best financial information available. We create articles, calculators, and recommendations so that you can make smart money moves with confidence. To do this, we adhere to rigorous editorial guidelines and fact-checking.
Our Mission
To provide you with the best financial information on the internet.
Our Vision
A world where you can make quick, informed financial decisions for a brighter, stronger, and healthier future.
The Smart Money editorial team delivers accurate, timely, and actionable content that inspires and serves readers. Our editorial principles guide how we source, report, write, and edit stories, with a rigorous fact-checking process and prompt error corrections.
Editorial independence drives everything we do. Our advice, recommendations, and assessments are not influenced by business partners.
Our content is crafted to reflect the ever-changing financial landscape and lead our readers through life’s biggest financial challenges. We offer content that guides, inspires, and offers actionable insights to our readers.
What We Offer
We provide readers with practical money tips and tricks to boost their financial life.
Smart Money delivers actionable insights to help your money work smarter.
Our goal is to generate content that helps readers navigate the complicated world of personal finance.
Editorial Independence
Our goal is to provide accurate, reliable, credible, engaging, and balanced information online for our readers.
Our editorial team consist of editors, writers and fact-checkers to manage our content. This includes reviewing all Smart Money’s articles, guides, reviews, and lists.
Our editorial content is produced independently and is solely editorial, based on our research and comparison with similar products. We source our stories with information experts and they are written by experts in their fields. Online content is defined as text, articles, photos, graphics, audio, video, blogs, user-generated content (UGC), and links.
Smart Money works with business partners and advertisers. However, this does not influence our editorial decisions or product reviews. The viewpoints expressed in our product reviews are without influence by any advertiser or commercial supporter. As a result, we strive to make them objective and factual.
Our editorial team members do not receive direct compensation from Smart Money’s advertisers or business partners. Their compensation is unaffected by their favorable or unfavorable articles, insights, or product reviews.
Fact-Checking and Content Integrity
Smart Money’s editorial content is fact-checked for accuracy, relevance, and timeliness.
We are committed to the quality and trustworthiness of our content and editorial processes. Our team of writers and editors research and review content on an ongoing basis to ensure it is up to date, accurate, and puts the needs of our readers first.
Our fundamental goal is to make sure all the information in each article is current as of the article’s publication date.
All content flows through a careful fact-checking process involving writers, editors and content management specialists. Additionally, we conduct periodic reviews by editors as well as fact-checkers to ensure the quality, accuracy, and integrity of these assets.
Photos and videos are not edited in any way that may cause them to be false or misleading.
We correct any factual errors in a transparent manner. If you find and error, please email content@smartmoneyhabits.com.
