Anyone publishing on LearnFineEdge writes for readers who use our articles to make real financial decisions. The Indian audience we serve includes first-time taxpayers, mid-career professionals, retirees managing their own pension corpus, and parents thinking about their child’s long-term security. This page describes the standards every contributing author meets before, during, and after publication.
Who can contribute
We work with contributors who have one or more of the following credentials:
- A finance-related professional qualification (CA, CFA, CFP, MBA Finance, or equivalent).
- Five or more years of full-time professional work in financial planning, banking, investment management, insurance, tax practice, or financial journalism in India.
- Documented expertise in a specific domain we cover (for example, a developer building open-source financial calculators, a small-business owner with deep practical tax knowledge, an academic who teaches financial economics).
We do not accept anonymous contributions for any article on tax, regulation, investments, insurance, or money management. The author’s full name is mandatory on the byline.
Required disclosures on every article
Every article includes the author’s name, the date of publication, the most recent revision date if applicable, and a brief author bio that mentions the author’s relevant qualification and current role. If the author has any commercial relationship with a product or service mentioned in the article, including paid consulting work, equity ownership, employment, or affiliate revenue, the relationship is disclosed in plain language inside the article. “I previously worked at…” or “I hold a small position in…” is acceptable. Silent omission is not.
Content we will not publish
The following categories are out of scope for the site, regardless of who pitches them:
- Individual stock buy or sell recommendations. SEBI’s Investment Adviser Regulations and Research Analyst Regulations require registration for such recommendations. LearnFineEdge is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst.
- Personalised financial advice. We do not assess any individual reader’s financial situation, goals, or risk profile. Articles are written for a general audience and do not substitute for a one-on-one consultation with a qualified professional.
- Get-rich-quick narratives. Articles promising specific returns, “guaranteed” income, or accelerated wealth-building outside genuine compounding mathematics are not accepted.
- Cryptocurrency, F&O, or commodity trading signals. We publish educational content on these topics, never trade calls.
- Articles generated by an AI tool without substantive human editing, original analysis, and primary-source verification. We use AI tools for drafting and research support, never as a stand-in for human authorship or accountability.
Sourcing minimums
An article that quotes a number, a rule, or a regulator action carries at least one primary-source link as defined in our Fact-Checking Policy. Articles on tax, insurance, NPS, F&O, REITs, and crypto VDA carry at least three primary-source links, since the underlying regulator language is dense and readers benefit from being able to read the source themselves. Comparison articles cite each compared product’s own official documentation rather than relying on a third-party comparison page.
India-context default
LearnFineEdge is an India-first publication. Articles about tax, insurance, pension, banking, credit scoring, and capital markets default to Indian rules, currency, and timelines unless the article is explicitly framed as comparative. References to “the tax authority” mean the Indian Income Tax Department. References to “the regulator” mean SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, or PFRDA as appropriate. Currency is denominated in rupees. Where an article necessarily touches non-Indian content (for example, dollar-denominated international funds, US tax for an NRI), the international context is explicit and the reader is told which jurisdiction the rule applies to.
Quality bar before publish
- Original analysis. The article adds a perspective, a comparison, a worked example, or a synthesis that the linked primary sources do not themselves provide.
- Clear structure. Headings reflect the questions readers ask, not internal section names. Paragraphs are short and use plain language.
- Verifiable claims. Every load-bearing statement is sourced or framed cautiously (“according to a long-standing AMFI disclosure”, not “everyone knows that…”).
- Honest scope. The article names what it does not cover. A piece on Section 87A rebate explicitly states that surcharge and cess are outside scope, rather than implying completeness.
Editorial workflow
The contributing author drafts the article and submits it with all primary-source links inline. A senior reviewer (a separate person from the author, with relevant domain experience) reads the draft, checks each cited source, flags missing disclosures, and either approves or sends it back for revision. The article is then re-read in full by the author at least 24 hours after revision before publication. After publication, the article is added to the relevant re-review schedule (annual, quarterly, or event-triggered) described in the Fact-Checking Policy.
Conflicts of interest among the team
All editors and senior reviewers declare their commercial and equity relationships annually. Where a conflict exists, the article is reassigned to a different reviewer. The conflict is also disclosed inside the article if the reviewer’s role was material to the final framing.
Off-platform contact
Authors and reviewers do not solicit private financial questions from readers and do not provide one-on-one financial advice via direct message, email, or social media. Reader questions are routed to general-purpose articles or to our Contact form for editorial feedback only.