Editorial

Excerpt

It is a great honor for me to be chosen as the managing editor of the Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (FMPM) journal as the successor to Manuel Ammann and I am looking forward to this challenging task. Manuel has served the journal as managing editor for as long as 8 years. During this time, FMPM has become a widely read outlet for the research of numerous academics and practitioners in finance. The most important milestones under Manuel’s editorship were the transformation from a trilingual into an English journal, the introduction of a double-blind peer reviewing process, and the move from a small local publisher to a large, international publishing house which all helped to increase the quality, reputation, and dissemination of the journal. In the name of all the members of the publisher of this journal, the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, I thank Manuel for his commitment, effort, and acuity in establishing FMPM as a journal read and respected by practitioners and academics alike. As the new managing editor, I will build on and continue these efforts of my predecessor and strive to publish a journal of relevance to both academics and practitioners. …