ACFS archive
Commissioned papers
- Theory and empirical evidence on socially responsible investing and investment performance: Implications for fund trustees and their members - Steve Easton, Sean Pinder
- Private health insurance in Australia: policy reform approaches towards greater competition and efficiency to improve health system performance - Ronald Donato, Ilke Onur
- Superannuation Fund Disclosure Past, Present and Future - Marie-Anne Cam, Obaid Awan, Monica Tan
- The Association Between Dividend Payout and Firm Growth: Australian Evidence - Abeyratna Gunasekarage, Michael Dempsey, Thanh Tan Truong
Research papers
- Innovation and fintech policy: Post-Murray developments - Kevin Davis
- International competition policy and regulation of financial services – Lessons for Australian fintech - Deborah Cope, Yvette Bauder, Lee Cope
- A framework for understanding fintech and its value: Implications for Australia - David Link, Rodney Maddock
- Cryptocurrencies, institutions and trust - John Vaz, Kym Brown
- Depositor protection, bank liquidity regulation, and taxation: Distortions affecting superannuation. - Kevin Davis, Rodney Maddock
- (In)Effective Disclosure - Justin Malbon, Harmen Oppewal
- Funding Australia's Future - Fintech
Policy briefs
Conference papers
Policy briefs
- Putting the Age Pension Assets Taper Test into Perspective - Kevin Davis
- Bank Disclosures Could Be Better - Kevin Davis, Andrew Zhang
- The Big Bank Tax - Kevin Davis
- The Economic Case for the Bank Levy - Kevin Davis
- Designing Capital Instruments for Mutual ADIs - Kevin Davis
- Reforming the Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) scheme - Kevin Davis
- Bank director remuneration: Why no downside risk? - Kevin Davis
- Banker Remuneration and Accountability - Kevin Davis
- MySuper DashBoards: Not so Super! - Kevin Davis
- Replacing stamp duties: Securitisation can hold the key - Kevin Davis
Working papers
- Catching-Up with Indonesia’s Fintech Industry - Kevin Davis, Rodney Maddock, Martin Foo
- Direct Charging of Card Fees - Stephen King, Rodney Maddock
Research reports
- Chinese capital account liberalisation: process, structure and consequences - Guonan Ma, Rodney Maddock
- A Review of Socially Responsible Investing in Australia - Martin Foo
- Barriers to entry and financial integration in Asia and RCEP countries - Alex Erskine
- Cultivating Growth: The 2nd Asia Pacific Region Aternative Finance Industry Report - Deborah Ralston, Edward Buckingham, Kieran Garvey, Rodney Maddock, Yianni Katiforis
- Socially Responsible Investing in Australia - Martin Foo
Submissions
- Response to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Major Bank Levy Bill 2017 and the Treasury Laws Amendment (Major Bank Levy) Bill 2017. - Kevin Davis
- Response to the Discussion Paper – Enhancing Victoria’s Economic Performance and Productivity. - Rodney Maddock
- Proposed Revisions to Prudential Standard APS 330 Public Disclosure - Kevin Davis
Commissioned papers
- Data Flows for Life Insurance Mental Illness Disability Data - Ian Enright
- Data access and availability in Australian funds management and superannuation - Dinh Tang, Paul Lajbcygier
- Chinese Capital Account Liberalisation: Process, Structure and Consequences - Guonan Ma, Rodney Maddock
- Why Australian Funds Management Needs Greater Transparency - Paul Lajbcygier
Academic research grants
- Assessing the Risk and Return of Australian Superfunds across Investment Options - Emawtee Bissoondoyal-Bheenick
- The Valuation of Speculative Position-Taking and Imputation Tax Credits within the BHP Billiton Group Dual-Listed Structure - Sean Pinder
- Volatility connectedness between equity index sectors: Dynamics within the ASX - Ronald McIver
- Is there a deficit of consumer trust in the financial sector? If so, what concrete measures can be implemented to remedy this? - Lisa Farrell
- Where does the crowd feel confident? The role of culture, politics, and institutions - Abu Zafar Shahriar, Luisa Unda
- Stock market returns, macroeconomic activity and financial performance: Australia over the long run - Rajabrata Banerjee
Conference papers
- Banking Regulation: Has Complexity Worked? - Kevin Davis
- Concentration and Contagion Risks in the Australian Banking System - Katia D'Hulster
- Regulation of Culture in Finance - Angela Pearsall, Liam Hennessy
- The Shifting Sands of Asset Management: The Rise of Indexing and Evolution of Active - Aidan Geysen
- Outlook for the SMSF Sector - Jordan George
- Barriers to entry and financial integration in Asia and RCEP countries - Alex Erskine
- Insurance - Challenges to the Business Model - Mike Thomas
- The Australian Securitisation Market in 10 Years on from the Financial Crisis - Chris Dalton
- Current trends in Australian Capital Markets? - Steve Lambert
- Secured Money Market Transactions: Trends in the Australian Repo Rate - Chris Becker, Peter Richards
The CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster was a multi-year research collaboration between Australia’s CSIRO and four universities, with support from industry and government organisations. The project ran from 2013-2017.
The project aimed to develop an evidence base, assisting policy-makers and industry to provide better outcomes and products for superannuation fund members and retirees.
Research areas
- Infrastructure investment
- Member behaviour
- Fund style
- Super and the economy
- Retirement outcomes
- European perpectives
- Wealth and health
- Older workers
- Retirement income
Working papers
- WP 2017-05 Later-life employment and retirement: Individual perspectives and employer mediations
- WP 2017-04 Milestone Birthday Events and Retirement Investment Behaviour
- WP 2017-03 When Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) Turn Sour: Australian Evidence
- WP2017-02 Retaining Australian older workers – a guide to good practice
- WP2017-01 Retaining Australian older workers – a literature review
- WP2016-11 Member Retirement Investment Behaviour and Performance
- WP2016-10 Approaching Retirement: The Categories, Timing and Correlates of Advice Seeking
- WP2016-09 A Modelling Framework for Analysing the Role of Superannuation in Australia’s Financial System
- WP2016-08 Superannuation and Macroeconomic Growth and Stability
- WP2016-07 Retirement savings trajectories: An analysis of the experience of fund members. Part Two: Mediators and moderators of retirement savings choices
- WP2016-06 Passive Hedge Funds
- WP2016-05 The future of health and aged care expenditure in Australia
- WP2016-04 Superannuation Drawdown Behaviour: An Analysis Of Longitudinal Data
- WP2016-03 Governance and funded pensions: European perspectives
- WP2016-02 Public policy, age discrimination and Australian older workers: solutions in search of a problem?
- WP2016-01 Retirement, Pension and Superannuation Outcomes for Indigenous Australians
- WP2015-08 Superannuation and the Allocative Efficiency of Capital Supply
- WP2015-07 Retirement Savings Trajectories: An Analysis of the Experience of Fund Members. Part One: Experience
- WP2015-06 Who Makes the Financial Decisions? Intra-Household Evidence from Panel Data
- WP2015-05 Superannuation within a Financial CGE Model of the Australian Economy
- WP2015-04 Locus of Control and Savings
- WP2015-03 A Longitudinal Analysis of Superannuation Outcomes: Gender Differences
- WP2015-02 The Viability of Alternative Indexation when Including All Costs
- WP2015-01 The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourses of Working Longer
- WP2014-11 Is Infrastructure an Asset Class – an Asset Pricing Approach
- WP2014-10 Withdrawal Capacity in the face of Unexpected Health and Aged Care Expenses During Retirement
- WP2014-09 The Demand for Advice in Defined Contribution Plans
- WP2014-08 Measuring Immediate Price Impact: The Comparison Between Different Price Impact Models
- WP2014-07 A Lifestyle Perspective of Stockmarket Performance and Wellbeing
- WP2014-06 Patterns of voluntary worker retirement savings: a longtitudinal analysis
- WP2014-05 The predictability of Australian Listed Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnership Returns Using Asset Pricing Models
- WP2014-04 Factors Affecting the Birth of and Fund Flows into Commodity Trading Advisors
- WP2014-03 Do Incentive Fees Signal Skill? Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry
- WP2014-02 Gender issues in Australian pensions: some European perspectives
- WP2014-01 Understanding superannuation contribution decisions: Theory and evidence
- WP2013-05 The Predictability of Australian Listed Infrastructure Returns using Asset Pricing Models
- WP2013-04 Retirement Adequacy through Higher Contributions: Is This the Only Way?
- WP2013-03 Is fundamental indexation able to time the market? Evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- WP2013-02 Systematic Risk Factors in the Returns of Australian PPP Bonds
- WP2013-01 A Review of Retirement Savings Investment Behaviours: Theory and Evidence
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