TID Editorial Desk
TID Editorial Desk is the byline on pieces produced by The Investment Daily’s newsroom as a team rather than by one named writer. Every desk piece is researched from primary sources, checked figure by figure against those sources and approved by an editor before it is published.
We have not yet named our editors and reviewers on this site. The last section of this page explains why, and what will change.
Who writes under the desk byline
The desk byline covers the editors and writers who run The Investment Daily, working together on a piece. We use it for explainers, news and data notes where several people have researched, drafted and checked the work. When a named writer or contributor writes a piece, it carries their name instead.
Many desk pieces are researched and drafted with the help of AI tools. A person then checks the figures against their sources, edits the piece and approves it. No piece is published automatically, and no AI tool decides what we publish. The rules are in our editorial code.
How a desk piece is researched
Each piece starts from the primary source: the legislation, the HMRC manual, the FCA rule or policy statement, the Bank of England or Debt Management Office data, the ONS release or the company’s own filing. On the India and US desks, that means the Reserve Bank of India, SEBI, IFSCA, the IRS and treaty texts. We use reputable secondary sources only where no primary source exists, and we say so in the sentence.
Tax rates, allowances, limits and dates come from one internal reference that we check against the law and keep up to date. Every tax table carries the tax year it applies to, and every rule says who it applies to.
How a desk piece is sourced
Every figure, rate, allowance, date and rule in a desk piece links to its source in the text. The full list of sources prints at the foot of the piece, with the date of each. Figures are given as at the date they refer to. If we cannot verify a figure at its source, we leave it out. The detail is on how we count.
How a desk piece is checked
Before publication, every source is opened again and each number in the piece is checked against it. AI tools may help with that check; a person reviews the result. The piece is also checked against our education boundary: it explains and compares, and it does not recommend. Pieces about high-risk investments carry a plain risk box. Any piece that criticises a named firm relies on the public record and needs an editor’s approval.
After publication, errors are put right openly under our corrections policy.
Named editors and reviewers
We plan to appoint named editors and at least one qualified reviewer, such as a Chartered Financial Planner or a CFA charterholder, to sign off our explainers and data methods. When they are in place, their names, roles, credentials and holdings policy will appear on this page and on the pieces they write or review.
Until then, desk pieces are checked by the desk but have not been signed off by a named, qualified reviewer, and they carry no reviewer line. We would rather say so than let a byline imply more than it should.
Dealing and conflicts
Everyone who works on desk pieces follows the staff dealing rules and holdings disclosure in our editorial code. To contact the desk, email editor@theinvestmentdaily.com.