Practitioner’s Version of an Academic Paper Guidelines

The overriding principle is to emphasize market intuition versus theoretical detail. In addition, to the extent possible, additional data and conclusion extension(s) are desirable.

The following features are encouraged:

• more extensive introduction to motivate the paper for practitioners;
• addition of relevant practitioner citations;
• use of empirical results to illustrate their practical significance;
• condensing empirical results while adding more discussion;
• use of technical appendices for all non-essential equations;
• a mosaic of past papers, fully cited and in a form not in conflict with their copyright(s).

In sum, our objective is to transform high quality, rigorous research to promote an impact on investment management decision making.