FPA mission statement.

The mission of the Financial Publishers Association (FPA) is to share knowledge of best business practices to help our members' publications grow and prosper, while empowering readers with unbiased, independent information. The FPA is devoted to enhancing and maintaining the financial publishing industry's reputation for excellence while helping individual investors build their wealth.

With those goals in mind, we seek to pool our insights and develop standards of practice for the acquisition and retention of subscribers; share valuable lessons learned from marketing and promotional activities; explore alternative marketing venues; and reach out to similarly minded organizations and institutions to promote and improve mutual cooperation and understanding.

Combined, the members of the FPA reach 14 million investors through their regular publications and websites.

Important criterion for membership: Although the FPA does not seek to judge the business models of other publishers or associations, an important criteria for membership is independence. Thus, publishers are not eligible to be members of the FPA if they accept direct or indirect payments or subsidies from companies for promoting, recommending, or issuing positive ratings or research on the companies' shares.