1.30pm

Introductory remarks
Prof Kevin Davis SF Fin, Research Director, Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies

1.40-2.40pm

Mortgages and retirement savings

Older people's assets: generation issues in using housing equity to pay for health and aged care
Speaker: Benedict Davies F Fin, Member of Finsia Consumer Finance Advisory Group
The fixed vs floating rate mortgage choice decision - Supply and demand side explanations for household mortgage choice
Speaker: Graeme Wells, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania

2.40-3.10pm

Household finances - insurance

Affordability of Insurance/Non Insurance/Under Insurance, and Behavioural Economics relating to consumer purchasing behaviour and its relationship to key price drivers
Speaker: Annabelle Butler, Manager, Regulatory Affairs and Policy, Personal Lines Insurances, Suncorp

3.10-3.40pm

Afternoon Tea

3.40-4.10pm

Regulation

Trends in Consumer Finance Regulation - recent MCFS research
Speaker: Professor Deborah Ralston F Fin, Director, Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies

4.10-4.40pm

Microfinance

Progress Loans: towards affordable credit for low income Australians - Outcomes of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and ANZ Progress Loans program
Speakers: Genevieve Sheehan, Microfinance manager, Brotherhood of St Laurence and Andrew Everington, ANZ
Progress Loans: towards affordable credit for low income Australians - report

4.40-5.10pm

Behavioural finance insights

How do Australians Feel about Financial Investment?
Speaker: Dr. Jocelyn Pixley, Professorial Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute
London Metropolitan University, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology
Macquarie University

5.10-5.30pm

Review of Symposium outcomes & Future Research Directions
Prof Kevin Davis and Prof Deborah Ralston, Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies