# Financial Content Risk Review

Identify advice-like language, performance claims, assumptions, uncertainty, fees, conflicts, audience risk, product status, and specialist review needs.

## Usage note

Use this worksheet to identify issues for qualified financial, regulatory, legal, and compliance review. It is not financial advice and does not determine whether content or a communication is regulated. Financial decisions can cause material loss, so never rely on a disclaimer to repair misleading performance, price, risk, suitability, tax, credit, or return language.

## How to use this template

1. Extract financial claims, audience, jurisdiction, product, relationships, and explicit or implied action.
2. Triage advice-like, promotional, performance, credit, tax, or suitability language to qualified owners.
3. Recalculate numbers and document dates, assumptions, fees, benchmarks, uncertainty, and downside.
4. Add reviewer-directed risk, eligibility, product-status, and scope wording in prominent context.
5. Record approvals, release boundaries, monitoring, updates, archive, and correction ownership.

## Blank template

### Content and risk triage

- **Content/claim ID:** [Location]
- **Exact wording:** [Headline, body, chart, CTA, metadata]
- **Audience and jurisdiction:** [Scope]
- **Implied action:** [Buy, sell, borrow, save, choose, other]
- **Product/issuer/provider:** [Exact]
- **Author/publisher relationship:** [Ownership, affiliate, sponsor, customer]
- **Content type:** [Education, promotion, comparison, tool, example]
- **Advice-like signal:** [Personalization, imperative, suitability, urgency]
- **Potential loss/harm:** [Specific]
- **Compliance/legal reviewer:** [Qualified role]

### Numerical and evidence review

- **Claim/source/date:** [Authoritative record]
- **Value and unit/currency:** [Exact]
- **Rate/term/compounding:** [Details]
- **Fees/tax/inflation:** [Included, excluded, assumption]
- **Performance type:** [Actual, projected, hypothetical, backtested]
- **Period/benchmark:** [Exact]
- **Downside/variability:** [Relevant evidence]
- **Eligibility/liquidity/protection:** [Approved facts]
- **Example assumptions:** [Clearly fictional or illustrative]
- **Approved wording:** [Reviewer direction]

### Publication checks

- [ ] Prominent title and call to action are included in review.
- [ ] Audience and jurisdiction are bounded.
- [ ] Advice-like language is escalated.
- [ ] Numbers, fees, periods, and assumptions are reproducible.
- [ ] Performance is not cherry-picked or implied to be guaranteed.
- [ ] Risks and downside are visible near benefits.
- [ ] Disclaimers do not contradict the main message.
- [ ] Rates, products, approvals, updates, and corrections have owners.