We need your help to make this initiative work. “Thought Partners” within various practitioner associations are helping identify research topics of interest to practitioners but which are currently unanswered in academic and practitioner research. As research topics are identified, they will be posted in this section of the FMA web site. The committee invites you to read through the list of research questions in their interest area.
We encourage any FMA members who wish to work on these research questions to do so. Alternatively, you may submit indications of interest in and proposals to conduct research for a specific topic. Proposals that meet the needs of the “Thought Partners” identified for a topic may receive assistance from those “Thought Partners” in understanding necessary institutional details, in designing the research, and/or in acquiring the data necessary to answer the research question. The ability to work with a Thought Partner will potentially produce a study that is both more relevant to practitioners and more likely to be published in a quality journal. IMPORTANT NOTE: Any researcher who initiates a study has full rights to whatever research is developed and may pursue publication in appropriate journals. The research is not funded. Rather, we believe that research of sufficient quality and relevance is likely to be published in scholarly or trade journals.
FMA Practitioner Research Committee
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The objective of PDDARI is to facilitate the development of cutting edge research useful to practitioners, their firms, and the profession. Through this research initiative we hope to encourage academic research that addresses practitioner needs and encourage interaction between the practitioner and academic communities. By this initiative, we hope to identify significant topics that are of vital interest to the practitioner world and encourage researchers to analyze these issues. Further, we are optimistic that this partnership between practitioners and researchers will result in the discovery of solutions to applied issues that are critical in the practitioner world. 
Amy Edwards, US SEC