• Travel grants for doctoral students who attend the FMA Annual Meeting. The purpose of the grants is to provide assistance with travel expenses for doctoral candidates who would not otherwise attend the FMA meeting. Up to twenty $500 travel grants will be awarded to eligible applicants. Additionally, the registration fee for the meeting will be waived for all grant recipients. 

• The opportunity to get a head start building relationships with a broad circle of friends and colleagues. Successful people have strong networks of people with whom they share research ideas and information about interesting opportunities. In effect, FMA offers you access to an established and open group of professionals who can help you throughout your career. 

• FMA is offering FREE memberships to students in the first three years of their doctoral programs. Specifically, if a student joins during his/her first year, he/she will receive a free three-year membership. A student joining in his/her second year will receive a free two-year membership. A student joining in his/her third year will receive a free one-year membership. (For all other doctoral students and those who desire paper copies of publications, the annual membership fee is only $30 (plus postage outside the US).)

FMA offers the most comprehensive listings of candidates and positions in the doctoral qualified finance market. For a nominal fee, members can list their resumes and gain access to a variety of positions available in the U.S. and throughout the world. Our listings provide user friendly databases for quick and easy access to the position announcements you are seeking. In 2006, FMA posted nearly 300 position announcements on the FMA webpage.

FMA's Placement Service is:

• Year-Round
• The largest source of resume and position listings in the field of finance
• Universities and other institutions listing positions for people with doctorates (or soon to hold doctorates)
• People listing resumes for doctorally-qualified positions

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FMA Publications

Did You Know ...?

• FMA Online serves the profession by offering an electronic focal point for communinty of FMA members in the form of destination-oriented portal to general-interest, finance-related information and articles as well as to existing FMA web content.



• Financial Management contains timely articles on the topics students need in their research – Doing research on IPO's? – Simply search the FM archive for IPO's and you'll find the most important articles written since 1990.



• The Journal of Applied Finance (formerly Financial Practice and Education) offers a wealth of information for students looking to balance their research, teaching, and practice – Teaching a Finance Principles Course? – Search the JAF archive and find an analysis of student effort and performance.

 

Special Offer for PhD/DBA Student FMA Members All doctoral students who are members of FMA, and who have never been a professional member of the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP), can now apply for a free student membership in the AFP. With over 14,000 professional members, the AFP is a resource for continuing education, financial tools and publications, career development, certifications, research, representation to legislators and regulators, and the development of industry standards.