CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Section on Asset Management in Asia–Pacific Journal of Financial Studies

Section Theme:

Asset Management: Large Pensions, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and Others. 

Guest Editor: Francis In

Monash University

Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies (AJFS) invites manuscripts for publication in the Special Section on Asset Management in its October 2016 issue (Volume 45, No. 5). Up to three manuscripts will be selected for publication in the special section.

Asset management for pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and other large long-term investors is a challenging area particularly in the recent volatile financial markets. Compared to mutual funds, with their relatively long-term nature, these investments have profound influences on various finance functions, such as asset pricing, corporate financing and investment, corporate governance, and risk management. The special section is devoted to the empirical and theoretical studies of these and other related issues, both positive and normative. Examples of relevant topics may include, but not limited to:

. Pensions asset management in general

. Sovereign wealth funds management in general

. Risk management in pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and others

. Governance issues in large pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and others

. Alternative investments for pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and others.

. SRI in pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and others.

Asia–Pacific Journal of Financial Studies

AJFS has been published since 1980 by the Korean Securities Association (KSA), the oldest and largest academic organization of finance scholars and practitioners in Korea. AJFS became the first finance journal published in Asia covered by the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in 2006. Visit http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/apjfs and www.apjfs.org for additional information about the Journal.

Special Symposium on Asset Management

Some papers selected among the submissions for the AJFS special section on asset management will also be invited for presentation at Special Symposium on Asset Management to be held in Seoul, Korea, in August, 2016.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION AND SCHEDULES:

All manuscripts must be in English and include an abstract of fewer than 500 words. The cover page should contain the paper’s title, the author’s name, affiliation, address, and e–mail address. The second page should contain only the paper’s title and abstract. All manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format to ajfspension2016@gmail.com by June 30, 2016. No submission fee is required. We expect to complete the initial review process and notify the result by July 31, 2016.