FinLit began as a small editorial desk with a simple premise: financial education should read like a conversation, not a prospectus. Our team of analysts, former advisors, and writers has spent years covering index funds, retirement drawdowns, and inflation hedging. We do not sell products, run a fund, or take commissions. We research, write, and edit so that a reader in their forties or sixties can make an informed decision without decoding industry jargon.
We started FinLit to close the gap between what people earn and what they understand about making it work for them. No product quotas, no commission-driven advice — just clear, structured education on investing, retirement planning, and building passive income that lasts.
Our editorial team follows a strict code: every article, guide, and calculator is reviewed by at least two qualified editors. We cite primary sources, flag uncertainty, and update content when market conditions change. The result is a library you can rely on — whether you are opening your first brokerage account or fine-tuning a withdrawal strategy.
Read our editorial standardsBehind every guide and market breakdown is a small group of writers, analysts and editors who check the numbers twice. These are the people who keep FinLit factual, readable and free of hype.
Rahsaan Bayer, lead writer for retirement planning and ETF explainers, spent a decade in superannuation administration before joining FinLit.
Brianne Parisian edits the inflation and bond coverage. She previously worked as a research assistant in a university economics department.
Grayson Thiel manages the guides section and fact-checks every article on safe withdrawal rates and portfolio construction.
Our copy desk reads each piece twice: once for accuracy, once for plain language. No jargon survives the second pass.
The data team keeps a running library of historical returns, fee tables and inflation figures so every article cites a verifiable source.
FinLit is run by a small team of analysts, planners and writers who have spent years in financial education, portfolio construction and retirement research. We are not brokers and we do not sell products. Our work is to explain how markets, taxes, inflation and compounding actually behave, so you can make decisions with a clear head.
Rahsaan spent a decade as a retirement researcher at a superannuation fund, where she modelled withdrawal strategies for thousands of members. She writes our guides on safe withdrawal rates, pension trade-offs and sequencing risk. Her focus is on turning actuarial research into plain language.
Brianne covers low-cost index funds, ETF construction and portfolio rebalancing. Before joining FinLit she managed a research desk that tracked fund fees and tracking error across Australian and US-listed products. She is the reason our cost comparisons always show the dollar impact of a 0.3% fee difference.
Grayson edits our fixed income and inflation coverage. He previously worked in government bond analytics and has written extensively on TIPS, real yields and how CPI announcements move markets. He is careful to separate short-term noise from long-term trends, and he checks every chart before it is published.
Mara is a behavioural finance researcher who helps us explain why investors panic, chase returns or hold losing positions too long. She has a background in applied psychology and has run decision-making workshops for financial advisers. Her articles focus on practical ways to reduce emotional mistakes.
Peter maintains our historical market data and builds the long-term charts you see in our retirement and inflation pieces. He spent eight years as a data journalist covering equity and bond returns. He is the one who checks whether a 4% withdrawal rate actually survived the 1970s.