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SEC.gov Owns the Facts. NerdWallet Owns the Answer.
SEC.gov and Investopedia are the foundation. Bloomberg, WSJ, and Reuters supply the news layer. But the consumer-finance answer surface belongs to NerdWallet — and most financial brands haven't noticed.
- 01Investopediainvestopedia.com
Definitional authority across every finance term. ~15% of all finance AI citations estimated.
Publisher - 02Wikipediawikipedia.org
Baseline for companies, instruments, history, regulatory bodies.
Encyclopedic - 03Bloombergbloomberg.com
Market news, company analysis. Leads on company-specific prompts.
Publisher - 04Wall Street Journalwsj.com
US business and markets news authority.
Publisher - 05Reutersreuters.com
Wire-service financial authority — global markets and international coverage.
Publisher - 06SEC.govsec.gov
Filings, enforcement, rules — primary-source regulatory authority.
Government - 07NerdWalletnerdwallet.com
Dominates consumer finance — credit cards, savings, tax basics.
Publisher - 08Morningstarmorningstar.com
Fund ratings, investment analysis, structured data.
Publisher - 09Federal Reservefederalreserve.gov
Monetary policy, interest rates, economic data — cited on macro prompts.
Government - 10Yahoo Financefinance.yahoo.com
Quote reference and consumer-finance baseline.
Publisher
Stock-specific prompts · investment advice · crypto-finance overlap. SEC.gov constrains what AI engines will say; trade press fills the gap; Reddit fills what trade press leaves. On "should I buy X stock" queries, engines hedge and cite SEC.gov and Investopedia rather than recommend — a pattern unique to finance and healthcare.
- Which sources do AI engines cite most for finance?
- Investopedia, Wikipedia, Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters, SEC.gov, NerdWallet, Morningstar, the Federal Reserve, and Yahoo Finance. Investopedia alone accounts for an estimated 15%.
- Why does NerdWallet dominate consumer-finance AI answers?
- Structured, sourced, schema-tagged content at industrial scale across credit cards, savings products, and tax basics. Content structure beats brand recognition.
- Are AI engines cautious about investment advice?
- Yes. On stock-specific prompts the engines hedge and cite SEC.gov, Investopedia, and trade press rather than recommend.
- How can asset managers increase their AI citation share?
- Influence is indirect. Produce structured research that earns coverage. Maintain Wikipedia accuracy. Surface in Morningstar and SEC data structures. The GEO Operating Stack is the operating model.
Method
Citation share modeled across four AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — and a fixed prompt set of 60+ queries.
Estimates are directional and date-stamped to Q2 2026. Sources tagged on the five-tier Retrieval Hierarchy.
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