● About WealthGuides

Financial education built on primary sources, not recycled opinions.

WealthGuides exists because most personal finance content online repeats the same secondhand advice, dressed up differently. We start from primary sources instead — fund prospectuses, SEC filings, IRS publications, and Federal Reserve data — and explain what they actually say in plain English.

Last reviewed September 2026

Our mission

Help beginner and intermediate investors understand index fund and ETF investing well enough to make their own informed decisions — without needing a finance degree, and without being sold something in the process.

What we cover, and what we don't

Our focus is deliberately narrow: index funds, ETFs, retirement accounts, and long-term portfolio strategy. We don't cover day trading, cryptocurrency speculation, or "get rich quick" strategies, because the evidence doesn't support most of what's written about them, and it isn't the kind of investing we believe most readers are best served by. If you're new here, What Is an Index Fund? and Best Index Funds for Beginners are reasonable starting points.

How articles get made

Every article starts from primary sources — fund prospectuses, SEC filings, IRS guidance, Federal Reserve data — gets fact-checked against those sources before publication, and is reviewed by a second editor for accuracy and clarity. The full step-by-step process, including a worked example, is documented on our methodology page.

Editorial independence

Advertising and any disclosed affiliate partnerships never determine which products we cover or what we say about a fund's or broker's drawbacks. See our full editorial policy for exactly how that's enforced.

Who's behind WealthGuides

WealthGuides is produced by a small editorial team rather than a single named "expert" — we think that's a more honest model for a publication our size. Read more on the editorial team page.