Draft:Financial Management Association

• Comment: This joint may well be notable, as many professional organizations are, but it really needs secondary sourcing, and it needs a total rewrite. The editor really needs to read more encyclopedic articles, and also practice formatting. Drmies (talk) 21:53, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

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The Financial Management Association International (FMA) is a professional association wih approximately 3,000 members, similar to the American Finance Association, that publishes a peer-reviewed journal and holds annual meetings. The meetings are primarily attended by finance professors; practitioners. who commonly work for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or litigation consulting firms; and doctoral students. The European Finance Association lists the FMA as one of the nine premier financial associations for academics and practioners in the world.

The FMA also sponsors student chapters at many universities, with undergraduate finance majors participating. The web site for the chapter at the Carey School of Business at Arizona State University describes some of the activities of this chapter. The Office of Career Strategy at Yale University links to the FMA.

Administration and Governance

The FMA was founded in 1970. Unlike most professional organizations that have memberships primarily composed of academics, the FMA employs a full-time staff, based in Tampa, Florida, and is headed by an executive director. The current executive director is Michelle Lui. There is also an elected president and other officers, including a board of directors composed of academics and practitioners. Past presidents include Franklin Allen, Mark Flannery, Maureen O'Hara, and Laura Starks.

The FMA's web site is at https://www.fma.org/

Annual Meetings

The FMA holds a number of meetings each year, spread over the calendar year. The largest, with normally about 1,600 attendees, is the annual meeting, held in North America in October. A recent paper listed it as the largest academic finance conference in the world by the number of papers presented. There is also an annual European meeting of the Financial Management Association, usually held in June, and not to be confused with the annual meeting of the European Financial Management Association, which is an entirely different organization. The European meeting of the FMA is normally attended by about 300 people. The FMA also holds an Asia/Pacific meeting, usually attended by approximately 200 people.

The FMA also holds additional meetings annually, including the Applied Finance conference that is co-sponsored by St. John's University in New York City. In the spring, the FMA co-hosts the UC Davis-FMA Napa Valley Conference in California. In collaboration with the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business' Centre for Endowment Asset Management, the FMA holds the Consortium of Asset Management conference in Cambridge, UK in February.

Publications

The flagship publication of the FMA is Financial Management, published by Wiley. The editors since 2022 are Michael Goldstein, Kathleen Kahle, and Shawn Thomas. A 2005 study rated it the 10th most prestigious out of 40 finance journals.