How we write and check our content.
Our guides help you understand financial advice and the questions to ask an adviser. They provide general information, not personal financial advice. These standards explain who is responsible for our content and how we research, check and update it.
Who is responsible for our content?
Advisedly is responsible for the content we publish. Articles credited to Advisedly Editorial Team are published under our organisation's name. This does not mean that each article has been reviewed by a financial adviser.
We may use tools to help with research and writing. We still check the sources and remain responsible for what we publish.
Where our information comes from.
We prioritise official sources, including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), MoneyHelper, the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), HMRC, GOV.UK and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We also use pension bodies and recognised professional organisations. Our guides should link to the sources that support them.
We make clear when we are quoting an official source and when we are explaining it in our own words. We credit research carried out by others.
General information, not personal advice.
Our guides explain financial topics, what to consider and what to ask. They do not tell you to buy, sell, transfer or choose a particular financial product. Where you may need personal advice from a regulated adviser, we explain this and link to relevant checks or official guidance.
How we explain fees and statistics.
Fee calculations are examples, not quotes. If we publish an actual firm's price, we identify the firm and use a price it has supplied or published that we can check. We explain adviser fees separately from platform, fund, product and transaction charges.
We state the area and time period covered by a statistic. Figures from different places or dates may not be directly comparable, so we explain those differences.
How we keep content up to date.
Each guide shows when it was reviewed or updated. We prioritise pages affected by changes to regulations, tax or financial product rules. We review other explanations according to how likely the information is to change.
When we find an error that affects the meaning or accuracy of a page, we correct it and update its review date. Fixing spelling or layout alone does not mean that we have researched the article again.
How we keep our content independent.
Advisers cannot pay for a more favourable conclusion in our guides or a different FCA status. This applies to any future introduction fees or other paid arrangements. If we publish sponsored content, we will clearly label it.
Read about our current plans for fees on How Advisedly works.