Our mission at Chweya is to simplify complex financial information and decisions, empowering our readers to confidently manage every aspect of their economic lives. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced investor, planning your retirement, buying a home, studying for a business school exam, or running a small business, we’re here to answer your questions and guide you through your financial journey.
For over 10 years, we’ve helped hundreds of millions of people do just that. It’s important to share how we write all the articles you depend on.
Principles
Empowering: Finance can be complex and intimidating. We provide information you can confidently use, whatever your experience level. We aim to empower you to make informed financial decisions, giving you confidence in the economic landscape.
Unbiased: From financial product recommendations to government policy’s financial implications, we put things in context and provide all the facts. Our articles are carefully researched and not written to support any specific economic, geographical, or political viewpoint.
Accurate: Accurate financial information presented clearly and updated regularly is paramount. We also seek out and work with the most qualified experts across each topic we cover on our site. Any mistakes, inaccuracies, or misrepresentations our readers identify are thoroughly investigated and corrected promptly. Please get in touch with us for corrections.
At Chweya, we are committed to inclusivity and respect for all. Our content is designed to serve and depict people of different ages, nationalities, gender identities, family types, orientations, religions, relationship statuses, and physical and mental abilities with dignity and respect. We always value diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where each and every one of you feels included and respected in our financial community, ensuring you feel valued and respected when engaging with our content.
Ethics
We are committed to following the Codes of Ethics of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), an organization that sets industry standards for business journalism. Our content is guided by and upholds the Society for Professional Journalists’ foundations of ethical journalism: being accurate and fair, minimizing harm, acting independently, and being accountable and transparent. We also uphold the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines on disclosures, where applicable, to ensure transparency in our business practices and relationships with advertisers and sponsors.
Chweya’s content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute advice from a licensed or certified attorney, accountant, financial advisor, or other certified financial professional. Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge and understanding to make informed financial decisions.
Editorial Process
Our staff of editors and network of expert contributors write and manage all the articles you find on Chweya. We don’t make recommendations for you to buy, sell, or hold securities or investments. However, we provide relevant analysis, context, insights, and educational information to help you make smarter, better-informed decisions. We provide examples that help put complex topics and concepts into perspective wherever possible.
Our editorial team continually evaluates the articles across our site to flag any that contain information known to be or is likely to be out-of-date. Such articles are reviewed and updated or, if necessary, wholly rewritten, rechecked, and re-edited. Our network of experienced experts, who uphold our process and policies, assist with our updating efforts. Articles that have been updated are date-stamped to reflect this, ensuring you have the most current and accurate information. This transparent process keeps you informed and involved in our content updates.
Quality Standards
Every article you see has multiple people behind it, continually working to ensure that it is responsible, accurate, understandable, helpful, and reflective of our editorial principles.
Our editorial team approves all story ideas independently, and our expert contributors each have deep subject matter expertise in the topics that we assign them. Our professional editors, fact-checkers, and producers review content to uphold our empowering, inclusive, unbiased, and accurate values. They ensure the content meets our high standards and aligns with our editorial principles before publication.
All staff are responsible for disclosing any potential conflicts of interest.
Corrections
At Chweya, we are always committed to transparency and accountability. We will always inform you when an error has appeared in our content and correct it promptly. This applies to small and large mistakes, including news, ensuring you are always informed about updates or changes. When our journalism is factually correct, but the language is not as straightforward or detailed as necessary, the story may be updated without an editor’s note. Please report any possible errors to our editorial team, and we will address them immediately.
Writers
Chweya’s experts are not just writers but carefully recruited, vetted, and chosen for their deep knowledge and skill in communicating complex financial topics in clear, accessible, and actionable language. Some are experienced financial writers, others are experts in specific aspects of finance, and many are both. Their expertise ensures that you can trust the quality of the content you read, instilling a sense of confidence in the reliability of our information.
Every article’s author or reviewer is listed at the top of the page, to the left of the date, and is linked to their biography, which you can click on to learn more about their credentials, education, professional experience, and social media presence.
All our writers at Chweya are required to uphold the editorial guidelines listed above.
Third-Party Content
We understand the importance of maintaining high standards, even regarding third-party content. The editorial team carefully reviews all third-party content to ensure it aligns with our policies and standards. Any such content is clearly and conspicuously labeled to notify you of its source, providing you with the confidence and security you need when consuming our content.