{"id":525,"date":"2013-01-07T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fool.ca\/?page_id=525"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:29:46","slug":"fool-disclosure-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fool.ca\/fool-disclosure-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fool Disclosure Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at The Motley Fool, when it comes to matters of money, we believe in transparency and accountability. Day in and day out, we dedicate ourselves to delivering responsible investing ideas and sound financial education.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, when it comes to talking about stocks, we think it\u2019s important that you know exactly where we\u2019re coming from. With this in mind, we have developed a corporate group-wide disclosure policy to guide our business and communications.<\/p>\n

We call it Fool Disclosure. We invite you to take some time to read through it, and hope it helps inform your experience here in Fooldom.<\/p>\n

Investors Communicating With Investors<\/h2>\n

The Motley Fool is a company that represents investors teaching and learning from other investors. Many financial publications do not permit their writers and editors to own stock.<\/p>\n

The Motley Fool not only permits, but also encourages its staff to invest in the stock of individual companies. Why? Two reasons.<\/p>\n

First, we strongly believe the most effective way to create wealth is through the long-term ownership of stocks.<\/p>\n

The stock market has compounded around 10% average annual returns over the past century. We believe in using the stock market as a savings bank, and we strongly encourage treating money management as a lifelong endeavor. Therefore, we think it\u2019d be downright mean of us to close that avenue of investment to our employees and freelancers.<\/p>\n

Second, and more important, we don\u2019t consider our employees and writers to be journalists, but rather communicators and teachers of financial matters.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a subtle but critical difference that affects our entire service on Fool.ca. As a company, we utilize every available medium to teach people of all ages, all income levels, all backgrounds, and all genetic codes about money and its applications in modern life.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we believe our staff\u2019s involvement in managing their own money is critical to their learning more about the subject and their succeeding in their own lives. And who better to write about investing than those who do it themselves?<\/p>\n

Integrity and Transparency<\/h2>\n

Internally, the Fool has always strived to operate with the highest levels of integrity and transparency. As such, here are the key components of The Motley Fool\u2019s disclosure policy:<\/p>\n

Disclosure<\/b><\/p>\n