a source of sophisticated analysis of developments in the rapidly expanding world of finance, is a double blind peer reviewed refereed monthly journal that publishes articles on a wide variety of topics ranging from corporate to personal finance, insurance to financial economics, and derivatives. It provides a forum for exchange of ideas and techniques among academicians and practitioners and thereby, advances applied research in financial management. The journal, with its mission to promote thinking on various facets of finance, is targeted at academicians, scholars, and professionals associated with the field of finance to promote pragmatic research by disseminating the results of research in finance, accounting, financial economics, and sub – areas such as theory and analysis of fiscal markets and instruments, financial derivatives research, insurance, portfolio selection, credit and market risk, statistical and empirical financial studies based on advanced stochastic methods, financial instruments for risk management, uncertainty, and information in relation to finance.