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7)- Professional and academic journals

Numerous publications are specifically targeted toward professionals in each type of financial intermediary, and must be considered by these professionals as valuable reading to keep up with for best practice and to be aware of recently uncovered problems. Occasionally, these publications also offer articles that may be useful to a wider readership of investors.

a) Professional journals
Here is a sampling of professional journals:
- ABA Banking Journal
- Bank Magazine
- Bankers Monthly Magazine
- Canadian Bankers & ICB Review
- Donoghue's Money Fund Report
- Financial Analysts Journal
- Financial Executive
- Investment Companies (from Wiesenberg Investment Companies Service)
- Investment Company Stock Holdings Survey (from Computer Directions Advisors)
- Journal of Commercial Bank Lending
- Journal of Insurance
- Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
- Journal of Portfolio Management
- Journal of Risk and Insurance
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- National Banking Review
- Savings Institutions
- Vicker's Guide to Investment Company Portfolios

b)- Academic Journals
Academic journals are mostly ignored by practitioners for there is already too much information to absorb. But, naturally, many theoretical findings eventually filter down to affect finance professionals. The leading journals are
- Journal of Business
- Journal of Finance on line at http://www.afajof.org/
- Journal of Financial Econometrics (first issue due April 2002) at http://www.wkap.com/

- Journal of Financial Economics

See research assignment R-1D7.1.

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