MCFS Past Events (2005 - 2008)
2008
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16 December 2008 |
MCFS Special Event
Industry Briefing - The Future Fund
Venue: Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall
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26 November 2008 |
3rd International Distinguished Lecture
John Fraser, Chairman & CEO of UBS Global Asset Management
Venue: Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne
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:: Download article: "A tumultous year" (inFinance Magazine March 2009)
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21 November 2008 |
Symposium
Islamic Financial Services: What Role for Australia?
Venue: RMIT Business, School of Economics, Finance & Marketing, Room 134, Level 8, 239 Bourke St Melbourne
Presented in association with the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies Australia and Asialink
Sponsored by the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development
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:: Download presentation: How different is Islamic banking from conventional finance? Professor Mervyn Lewis, Banking and Finance, University of South Australia
:: Download presentation: Is Islamic banking a successful alternative for conventional banking? A comparison of two banking systems Mr Abdulnasir Abdullah, PhD candidate, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Southern Queensland
:: Download presentation: Regulatory challenges and opportunities: A case of Australia Dr M. Kabir Hassan, Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans
:: Download presentation: Ethics and financial practice in a global perspective Professor Michael Skully, Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University
:: Download presentation: Factors that are important to the establishment of and Islamic finance industry in Australia Mr John Masters, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
:: Download presentation: Sharia-compliant mortgages/leases in Australia Mr Gerard Kennedy, Principal, Macpherson & Kelley Lawyers
:: Download presentation: Becoming and Islamic bank in Australia - MCCA's experience so far with the regulators Mr Chaaban Omran, Managing Director, Muslim Community Co-operative Australia Ltd
:: Download presentation: GCC investment in Australia - legal reforms and Australia's competitiveness as a place of investment Mr Asad Ansari, Director, Kuwait Finance House Australia
Partner Event: Asialink Islamic Finance Colloquium
23 October 2008
Venue: University of Melbourne
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18 November 2008 |
Seminar
The Credit Crisis: Counterparty and Operational Risk Issues
Papers from: Prof Stephen J. Brown, David S. Loeb Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business; Alan Laubsch, Director (Asia-Pacific), RiskMetrics Group; Prof Kevin Davis, Director, MCFS and Chair of Finance, Commonwelath Bank; Dr Carsten Murawski, Lecturer in Finance, The University of Melbourne; Wayne Read, Partner (Audit), Accounting Advisory Services, PMG; and Blaik Wilson, Solutions Consultant, APAC, Reval
Venue: KPMG
Proudly Sponsored by RiskMetrics
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:: Download presentation: The Credit Crisis: Counterparty and Operational Risks Stephen Brown
:: Download presentation: Subprime risk management lessons Alan Laubsch
:: Download presentation: Of dwarfs and giants Dr Carsten Murawksi
:: Download presentation: Fair value accounting and stressed markets Wayne Read
:: Download presentation: Robust valuations in today's environment Blaik Wilson
:: Download paper: Estimating Operational Risk for Hedge Funds: The w-Score Stephen J. Brown, William N. Goetzmann, Bing Liang, and Christopher Schwarz
:: Download article: "Was the credit crisis a 'black swan' - an unforeseeable, extreme event?" (inFinance Magazine March 2009)
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28 October 2008 |
MCFS-Janus Capital Funds Management Forum Series
Forum 3: Generating Alpha Without Picking Stocks
Presenter: David Schofield, President, International Division, Enhanced Investment Technologies
Venue: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Level 14, 180 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
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29 - 30 September 2008 |
13th Finsia-MCFS Banking and Finance Conference and Dinner
Recent developments in Australian debt markets
Morning plenary speakers: Ann Byrne, CEO, ACSI; Malcolm Rodgers, Director, Strategy, ASIC; Dr Martin Fahy, CEO, Finsia; Dr Robert Eisenbeis, former Vice President, Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Banking/Financial Markets; Prof Ben Hermalin, Haas Business School, UC Berkeley; Dr Mark Lawrence, McKinsey & Co; Mark Johnson, Chair, AGL Ltd
Afternoons: Academic and combined practitioner-academic workshops
Conference Dinner speaker: Michael Ullmer, Deputy Group CEO, NAB
Venues: Conference - University of Melbourne; Dinner - RACV Club
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:: Download article: "Financial turmoil - addressing the causes not the symptoms" (inFinance Magazine March 2009)
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1 September 2008 |
Alternative Investments Industry Update
Speakers from the Chartered Alternative Investment Association (CAIA), USA
Venue Partner: Investment Centre Victoria, Level 46, 55 Collins St, Melbourne
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28 August 2008 |
Twilight Seminar
Securities Lending in Australia: Current Issues and Challenges
Presenters: John King, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques; Assoc Prof Olan Henry, University of Melbourne
Venue Partner: Goldman Sachs JBWere*, Level 16, 101 Collins St, Melbourne
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:: Download presentation: Securities lending and short selling: Quo Vadis? John King
:: Download presentation: The information content of trading volume and short sales Olan T. Henry
:: Download paper: The information content of trading volume and short sales Michael McKenzie and Olan T. Henry
:: Download paper: The determinants of short selling in the Hong Kong equities market Michael McKenzie and Olan Henry |
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19 August 2008 |
Finsia-MCFS Symposium and Academic Workshop
Consumer Finance, Investment & Regulatory Issues
Breakfast Speaker: Hon Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law
Symposium Speakers: Greg Kirk, Director, Consumer Protection, ASIC; Prof Ron Bewley, Chief Investment Officer, Private Client Services, Commonwealth Bank; Prof Deborah Ralston, Director, Mortgage Choice
Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
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17 July 2008 |
Seminar
Prof Richard Portes CBE
:: Download presentation: The Euro Challenges the Dollar in International Finance: a bumpy road ahead
:: Download presentation: Financial Globalisation and International Financial Stability |
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8 July 2008 |
MCFS-Janus Capital Funds Management Forum Series
Forum 2: Boutique Equity Managers in the Australian Marketplace
Presenter: Andrew Bell, Portfolio Manager, Bellwether Partners Limited
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23 June 2008 |
Occasional Seminar Series: Modern Finance - Insights from Academia
Leadership, collective decision-making, and pension fund governance
Presenter: Gordon L Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Director, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
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17 June 2008 |
Finance Forum
Tales of Transition Management - A practitioner's guide
Presenter: David Foodey, Director Head of Transition Management, Deutsche Bank Australia
Sponsored by AFM Investment Partners
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10 June 2008 |
Finance Forum
What have Risk Managers learned so far from the Credit Crisis?
Presenter: Chris Finger, Global Head of Research, RiskMetrics Group (NY)
Sponsored by RiskMetrics
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2-3 June 2008 |
13th Melbourne Money and Finance Conference
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20 May 2008 |
Inaugural Symposium
Financial Centres of the Future
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7 May 2008 |
Workshop
Superannuation Board Governance: Search for a Super Model
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6 May 2008 |
AIST-MCFS Superannuation Governance Conference
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28 April 2008 |
Abacus-MCFS Research Workshop
Financial Mutuals
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17 April 2008 |
Occasional Seminar Series: Modern Finance - Insights from Academia
Do Measures of Liquidity Measure Liquidity?
Presenter: Charles A. Trzcinka, Professor of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington USA
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13 March 2008 |
MCFS-Janus Capital Funds Management Forum Series
Forum 1: The Optimal Structure of a Team-Led Portfolio: Manager Behaviour Under Tracking Error Constraints
Presenter: Adam Schor, CFA, Vice President, Investments and Client Portfolio Manager, Janus Capital Group
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26 February 2008 |
MCFS-Finsia Luncheon
Credit Crunch: the new diet snack bar for capital markets, by Satyajit Das
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23 January 2008 |
Occasional Seminar Series: Modern Finance - Insights from Academia
Real Options and Regulation
Presenter: Gordon Sick, Professor of Finance in the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary
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2007
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12 December 2007 |
2nd International Distringuished Lecture
Dr. Robert Joss, President of Stanford Business School and former Westpac CEO
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7 December 2007 |
Finance Forum
Determinants of credit availability and capital structure at small firms: Evidence from the National Surveys of Small Business Finance
Presenter: Rebel Cole, Associate Professor of Finance. Department of Finance, DePaul University
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5 December 2007 |
Finance Forum
Insights from Hedge Fund Registration, and Alpha from Hedge Fund Due Diligence?
Presenter: Stephen J. Brown, David S. Loeb Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
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26 November 2007 |
Finance Forum
Value Investing and the Search for Value
Presenter: George Athanassakos, Professor of Finance, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario (Canada) and Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing
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16 October 2007 |
Occasional Seminar Series: Modern Finance - Insights from Academia
Estimating the Cost of Capital: CAPM variants and alternatives
Presenters: Associate Professor Alastair Marsden, The University of Auckland; Associate Professor Michael Dempsey, Monash University; and Associate Professor John Handley, the University of Melbourne
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12 October 2007 |
Seminar
Early exercisable derivatives: using Monte Carlo to obtain tight bounds
Presenter: Mark Joshi, Centre for Actuarial Studies, University of Melbourne
Presented in conjunction with the Centre for Actuarial Studies of the University of Melbourne and the Institute of Actuaries of Australia
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24-25 September 2007 |
12th Finsia-MCFS Banking and Finance Conference
Developments in Financial Services: Theory meets Practice
Venue: RMIT University, Melbourne
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21 September 2007 |
Conference
Correlations and Copulas - Pushing the boundaries of risk management
Venue: RMIT University, Melbourne
Presented in conjunction with Melbourne Derivatives Research Group; Department of Finance, the University of Melbourne; School of Finance and Applied Statistics, ANU; and Financial Integrity Research Network
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20 September 2007 |
MCFS-AMSI Financial Mathematics & Statistics Conference
Quantitative Methods in Investment and Risk Management: Sourcing new approaches from mathematical theory and the real world
Venue: Innovation@257, Level 1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne
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19 September 2007 |
Financial Regulation Conference
Costs, Benefits and the Process of Regulatory Change
Venue: Vanguard Investments Ltd, Southbank, Melbourne
Sponsored by ASIC, APRA and FICA
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7 September 2007 |
Finance Forum
The History and Application of Stochastic Portfolio Theory: Risk Management and the Search for Alpha
Presenter: David Schofield, President, International Division, Enhanced Investment Technologies LLC
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6 September 2007 |
Finance Forum
Hedge Funds Investing in an Uncertain Market
Presenter: Richard Tarvin, Investment Director, The Fortune Group
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29 Aug + 5 Sep 2007 |
Academic Seminar
Credit Risk Transfer via Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDOs)
Presenter: Dr. Harald Schedule, Dept of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne
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20 August 2007 |
Finance Forum
Venture Capital Investing in South Korea
Presenter: Perry Ha, Manager Director – DFJ Athena (Korea venture capital fund)
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12 July 2007 |
Academic Seminar
Insights for Investors from Behavioural Finance Research
Presenter: Terrance Odean, Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
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10 July 2007 |
Finance Forum
Innovations in Housing Finance: Reverse Mortgages and More
Presenter: Mark Brennan, Over 50 Group
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6 July 2007 |
Finance Forum
Extreme Value Theory
Presenter: Associate Professor Frank Ashe, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre
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29 May 2007 |
Finance Forum
An Introduction to Stochastic Portfolio Theory: The Importance of Diversity
Presenter: Dr Adrian Banner, Director of Research, Enhanced Investment Technologies, LLC
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25-26 May 2007 |
12th Melbourne Money and Finance Conference
Wealth management: trends and issues
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16 May 2007 |
Finance Forum
Measuring Carbon Value-at-Risk and Value-of-Gain
Presenter: Dr Geoff Wells, Joint Managing Director, ImperativePlus Pty Ltd
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13 April 2007 |
Finance Forum
Governance of Superannuation Funds: Searching for an Ideal Model
Presenter: Jane Neville, Trustee Development Manager, Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees
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5 April 2007 |
Luncheon Forum
New Market Wizards
Presenter: Jack Schwager
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28 March 2007 |
Symposium
Governance of financial Institutions - The Impact of Market Structure
Presenter: Prof. Andy Mullineux, Professor of Global Finance, Department of Accounting and Finance, The Birmingham Business School, The University of Birmingham
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:: Download presentation: Financial Sector Convergence and Corporate Governance
:: Download presentation: Creating an EU Retail Banking Market? The Future of Retail Banking in the EU
:: Download presentation: The Corporate Governance of Banks
:: Download presentation: Asymmetric Effects Of Interest Rate Changes: The Role Of The Consumption-Wealth Channel
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27 March 2007 |
Finance Forum
European Venture Capital: Some recent experiences of a State development bank
Presenter: Roger Bendisch, the IBB-Beteiligungsgesellschaft
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19 March 2007 |
Finance Forum
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs): As Good as Gold?
Presenter: R. Mark Holberton, Gold Bullion Securities
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1 March 2007 |
Finance Forum
Carbon Trading: It's already happening. The Story So Far
Presenter: Ken Edwards, Next Generation Energy Solutions
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27 February 2007 |
MCFS-IAESR-UoM Finance Symposium
The Future Fund: Getting Down to business
Presenters: Stephen Halmarick, Director, Citigroup; Mark Delaney, Australian Super; Prof. John Freebairn, MIAESR, University of Melbourne; and Dr. Vince Fitzgerald, Chairman, Allen Consulting Group
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:: Download presentation: Market Views on the Future Fund Stephen Halmarick
:: Download presentation: Future Fund Mark Delaney
:: Download presentation: Some Macroeconomic Implications of the Future Fund Prof. John Freebairn
:: Download presentation: Governance Challenges for the Future Fund Board of Guardians Dr. Vince Fitzgerald |
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31 January 2007 |
Finance Forum
The advantages and disadvantages of investing in hedge funds
Presenter: Richard Tarvin, The Fortune Group
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19 January 2007 |
Luncheon Discussion
Reflections on Establishing a Central Bank in a transition country
Presenter: Peter Nicholl of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2006
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21 December 2006 |
Inaugural International Distinguished Lecture
Mr Mervyn King, Governor of The Bank of England
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15 December 2006 |
Finance Forum
Developments and Opportunities in Japan
Presenter: Michael Thomas, Director and Head of Japan Team, Martin Currie Investment Management
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24 November 2006 |
Finance Forum
Superannuation Trustees: Who They Are, Their Responsibilities and Educational Needs and Research Opportunities
Presenter: Rachel Poulson, Professional Development Manager, Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees
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26 October 2006 (Syd)
30 October 2006 (Melb) |
Symposium
Off-Market Share Buybacks Efficiency and Equity Issues in Capital Management
Presented in conjunction with The Australian Financial Review
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27 October 2006 |
Finance Forum
The Cost of Capital for Regulated Industries
Venue: ACCC Offices, 360 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
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:: Download presentation: Problems with the static WACC/CAPM framework Professor Glenn Boyle
:: Download presentation: The Market Risk Premium Associate Professor John Handley
:: Download presentation: Defining regulatory risk: how to take into account regulatory risk in cost of capital calculation depends on the source of the risk Professor Joshua Gans
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25-26 September 2006 |
11th Finsia-MCFS Banking and Finance Conference
Banking and Securities Markets: Convergance, Innovation and Regulation
Venue: RMIT University, Little Bourke Street, Melbourne
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25 September 2006 |
Executive Conference Dinner
Presenter: David Murray SF Fin, Chairman of the Future Fund
Venue: RACV Club, Melbourne
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1 September 2006 |
Seminar
Basel Committee Update
Presenter: Charles Freeland, Basel Committee |
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27 Aug - 6 Sep 2006 |
59th International Banking Summer School, Melbourne
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25 August 2006 |
Finance Forum
Implementing Basel II: Is the Game Worth the Candle?
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8 August 2006 |
Finance Forum
Global Alpha
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20 July 2006 |
Workshop
Financial Literacy Research: Evaluation of the Australian Saver Plus and Money Minded Programs
Presenters: Tim R.L. Fry, Sandra Mihajilo, Roslyn Russell and Robert Brooks
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:: Download paper: Evaluation of the Australian MoneyMinded Financial Literacy Program
:: Download paper: The Factors Influencing Saving in a Matched Savings Program: The Case of the Australian Saver Plus Program |
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17 July 2006 |
Seminar
Major Investments, Firm Financing Decisions, and Long-run Performance
Presenter: Professor Mark Flannery
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17 July 2006 |
Seminar
Basel 2 and Bank Regulation: International and Australian perspectives
Presenters: Bernie Egan, Program Director, Basel II, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA); Benton E. Gup, The University of Alabama; and Morris Batty, ANZ
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19 June 2006 |
Seminar
Investment Property Databank |
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13 June 2006 |
Regulatory Review Forum
Presented in conjunction with the Victorian Government Finance Industry Consultative Committee |
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7 June 2006 |
Finance Forum
Hedge Funds |
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16 May 2006 |
Finance Forum
Corporate Social Responsibility |
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19-20 May 2006 |
11th Melbourne Money and Finance Conference
The future of Australian banking
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4 April 2006 |
Finance Forum
Energy Reform and Development of New Financial Markets
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29 March 2006 |
Workshop for Academic and Industry Researchers
Contemporary Research in Credit Risk
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1 March 2006 |
Seminar
Operational Risk
Presenter: Paul Embrechts |
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15 February 2006 |
Workshop for Academic and Industry Researchers
Current Issues in Corporate Finance
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10 February 2006 |
Workshop for Academic and Industry Researchers
Funds Management Research: Emerging Issues
Presented in conjunction with the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) and the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD)
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:: Download paper: Evaluation of the Performance of Australian Retail Funds Using Time-Varying Alphas and Betas Tariq Haque
:: Download paper: The new assessment of US mutual fund returns through a multiscaling approach Francis In and Sangbae Kim |
2005
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28 November 2005 |
Finance Forum
Funds Management
Presenter: Mr Syd Bone, CEO, Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC)
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3-4 October 2005 |
Training program (Melbourne)
Basel II, Credit Risk and Operational Risk Measurement and Management
Presenter: Professor Tony Saunders, New York University |
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6-7 October 2005 |
Training program (Sydney)
Basel II, Credit Risk and Operational Risk Measurement and Management
Presenter: Professor Tony Saunders, New York University |
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29-30 September 2005 |
AIBF 10th Banking & Finance Conference |
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28 September 2005 |
Symposium
Basel II
Presented in conjunction with The Conference of Economists |
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