Wharton’s Musto Named Guest Editor for FinTech Special Issue of "Financial Planning Review"

The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning today announced David Musto, Ph.D., of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as guest editor of an upcoming FinTech Special Issue of its double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal, Financial Planning Review.

“The academic study of financial technology is quickly becoming a critical area of focus moving in parallel to what we see in practice,” said Musto, Wharton’s Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Finance and Director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance. “I hope this issue will bring important rigorous analysis to this burgeoning field.” 

This special issue will present the latest research in financial technology and innovation that encompasses the eight major content areas of Financial Planning Review, and directly or indirectly relates to financial planning practice. Now through December 31, 2019, the Center will accept submissions of research papers in areas related, but not limited, to: 

• robo-advising, insurtech, and other digital financial advisory/wealth management services;
• technology related innovations in value storage, transfer and payments;
• technology-driven lending and investment, such as crowdfunding and market-place lending; and
• the facilitation of financial inclusion through the use of technology. 

Paper submissions are subject to a double-blind peer-review by respected researchers from a variety of academic disciplines and research methodologies. Learn more here. 

In addition, the third installment of Financial Planning Review was recently published. Volume 2, Issue 1 of Financial Planning Review is now available electronically. Paper topics include consumer shifts from high-interest to low-interest debt, the survival of active equity management, the financial behaviors of boomerang children, and the impact of shared financial decision making on overconfidence for married couples. 

Published by John Wiley & Sons quarterly, the Review features high quality scholarly research, including rigorous empirical and methodological analyses directly and indirectly related to financial planning practice. These topics include, but are not limited to, financial planning; portfolio choice; behavioral finance; household finance; psychology and human decision-making; financial therapy, literacy and wellness; consumer finance and regulation; and human sciences. Accepted papers span the broad spectrum of research methodologies and data analyses. 

The journal is available electronically from the Wiley Online Library. Each edition of the Review is distributed electronically to over 84,000 CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals throughout the United States.