Financial Analysts Journal

The goal of the Financial Analysts Journal is to advance the knowledge and understanding of the practice of investment management through the publication of high-quality, practitioner-relevant research. The FAJ should serve as a bridge between academic research and practice by seeking academically rigorous papers that have direct relevance to practitioners; as a forum for presenting practitioner research; and as a forum for the perspectives of leading practitioners, academics, and regulators about the financial industry.

The FAJ maintains high standards with regard to the selection and publication of articles. Articles published in the FAJ must accurately represent well-executed and correct research. To help ensure that the FAJ continues to maintain its high standards for article quality, the FAJ uses a double-blind peer review system, in which the names and affiliations of authors are not revealed to reviewers and names and affiliations of reviewers are not revealed to authors. The double-blind review system is designed to produce objective and unbiased peer reviewing.

Research published in the FAJ must be of interest or use to investment practitioners. To meet this goal of publishing practitioner-relevant research, all participants in the publication process must recognize and support the FAJ's primary purpose: to serve the interests of the FAJ's largely practitioner readership. Additionally, the editor is responsible for assuring that the topics of the articles published in the journal generally mirror the professional interests of the global membership of CFA Institute.

Articles published in the FAJ are written in a style that is accessible to the general CFA Institute membership. The statistical and mathematical content of articles are consistent with the standard training of the general CFA Institute member, whose training can be considered on a par with current statistical and mathematical methods used in the Chartered Financial Analyst curriculum.