Where Richiest's ETF numbers come from.
This page is the canonical source list for fund facts across the site. The goal is simple: if a number appears on a fund page, this is where it came from and how fresh it is supposed to be.
Where Richard's numbers come from
The sources below cover fund facts on the archive pages. Richard's numbers are a different thing entirely — they are your own:
- Connected accounts, via Plaid. Balances, transactions, investment holdings and liability terms, read directly from your institutions.
- What you enter. Property details, private holdings, income streams, debts, goals and household profile answers.
- Dated reference tables. Federal tax brackets, the estate and gift exemption, and market rate benchmarks are hand-maintained snapshots with the date shown. Where a figure is a snapshot rather than a live feed, Richard labels it.
Richard has no live market-price feed. Where a calculation needs a long-run assumption — asset-class correlations, for instance — it uses a documented reference table and says so, rather than implying a measured result.
Primary source types
Issuer fund pages
The main source for fund facts, holdings summaries, and current fund disclosures.
SEC filings
Used for official fund documents and filing-backed details when we need the source of record.
Fund fact sheets
Used for yield data, portfolio summaries, and the cleaned-up figures shown on comparison pages.
Richiest last-verified notes
Each fund page carries a visible last-verified date so stale numbers are easy to spot.
How to read the source notes
- If a page says “Last verified,” that is the date Richiest last checked the current facts.
- If the data changes, the page should be updated instead of silently drifting.
- If a page is stale, it should say so plainly.