SIRCA wishes to inform our Members that we will be retiring the Global News product (currently available through the SIRCA portal); access will be discontinued on 21 December 2015.
Should you have suggestions about the provision of other datasets, please email these to: enquiries@sirca.org.au. Additionally, should you have any questions regarding the retirement of this product, please email us on: enquiries@sirca.org.au.
Thank you for your understanding.
This is a reminder the call for papers are still open for paper submission to be considered for the Pitching Research Symposium held on Friday 26 February, 2016 at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Please email submissions to callforpapers@sirca.org.au.
The University of Queensland are sponsoring a $1,000 prize for the overall best pitch of the symposium, and CoreLogic are sponsoring a $500 prize for the best pitch utilising CoreLogic RP Data as provided by SIRCA.
More details on this symposium are available here.
The submission deadline is 12 noon Monday 25 January, 2016.
From November 25, Chi-X added warrants to their system. Due to this change there will be a delay in the November data update being released to our Members via our Data Library.
We apologise for this delay and will confirm when this data becomes available.
Building on the great success of the inaugural event in 2015, SIRCA is pleased to announce the second edition of its Pitching Research Symposium in 2016.
Professor Robert Faff from the University of Queensland Business School will co-ordinate and lead a one-day symposium comprising ‘pitching research’ presentations. More details on this symposium are available here.
The University of Queensland are sponsoring a $1,000 prize for the overall best pitch of the symposium, and CoreLogic are sponsoring a $500 prize for the best pitch utilising CoreLogic RP Data as provided by SIRCA.
The call for papers are now open and should be emailed to callforpapers@sirca.org.au for consideration.
The submission deadline is 12 noon Monday 25 January, 2016.
The symposium will be held on Friday 26 February, 2016 at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
SIRCA is pleased to announce the winners of the SIRCA Best Paper Award at the Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets (BFCM) Conference are Tālis J. Putniņš (UTS) for his co-authored paper titled ‘Volatility After-Effects: Evidence from the Field’ found here, and Sean Foley (The University of Sydney) for his co-authored paper ‘Is There An Optimal Closing Mechanism’ found here.
SIRCA would like to congratulate Tālis and Sean for jointly winning the SIRCA Best Paper Award at the BFCM Conference.
SIRCA is pleased to announce our support of the FMCGC to be held at the Intercontinental Melbourne The Rialto over 31 March – 1 April, 2016. Please see the website for more details.
SIRCA are sponsoring a $1,000 prize for the best paper which has used SIRCA data (this includes the full range of SIRCA data from Corporate Governance to the ASX intraday tick data with regulatory disclosures, and the Thomson Reuters intraday tick data and news). Please note, the use of SIRCA data must be acknowledged in the paper.
The deadline for paper submissions is 22 January, 2016.
SIRCA has released the latest update for the Corporate Governance dataset, providing company report details through to the end of 2014. Histories back to 2001 have been added for companies that became large during 2014, and our annual update process continued to gather data for companies that fell out of the largest 500 group during 2014.
Our Corporate Governance dataset is available through the Member Portal.
SIRCA’s YRW5 submissions are being reviewed and finalised. We are again delighted with the high quality of papers received this year and look forward to the presentations of the successful applicants at the University of Technology, Sydney over 19-20 November.
All applicants will receive an email confirming their position for the YRW5 event shortly.
The paper submissions for SIRCA’s YRW5 event have now closed. Thank you to the SIRCA Members who have submitted their papers, we look forward to reading them.
SIRCA will be in contact with the successful candidates by 19 October, 2015.
Please email enquiries@sirca.org.au in the meantime with any questions.
We would like to congratulate the winners of the SIRCA sponsored Best Paper Award from the 2015 AFAANZ conference: Dale Fu, Elizabeth Carson and Roger Simnett.
Their paper titled “Behind the Transparency Report: Examining the Influence of the Partner Remuneration Schemes on Audit Quality” can be found here.
