Reminder: Call for Papers – SIRCA ‘Pitching Research’ Symposium

SIRCA is pleased to announce a new innovation in the Young Researcher Workshop (YRW) programme 2015.

Professor Robert Faff from the University of Queensland Business School will co-ordinate and lead a one day symposium comprising ‘pitching research’ presentations.

The symposium will be held on Friday 27 Feburary, 2015 at SIRCA.

For more details on this symposium are available here and submissons should be sent to callforpapers@sirca.org.au.


Deadline for submissions: 19 January 2015

FinanceCom 2014 Workshop – ‘New’ Emergent Trends of IT in the Finance Industry

Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. ​Following the success​ of recent​ ​global ​FinanceCom workshops​​, SIRCA is pleased to ​support the ​Sydney ​2014 FinanceCom Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, focusing on the theme ”New’ Emergent Trends of IT in the Finance Industry’. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. SIRCA representatives will be present to talk about​ ​developments​ which will benefit our research community.​

Details of the event are as follow​s​:

Date: Friday 12th December 2014

Venue: Darlington Centre at the University of Sydney (174 City Road, Darlington NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia)

Click here for details on registration and the full workshop agenda.

Call for Papers – SIRCA ‘Pitching Research’ Symposium

SIRCA is pleased to announce a new innovation in the Young Researchers Workshop (YRW) programme for 2015.

Coinciding with his role as AFAANZ Visiting Research Professor, 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 and submissions should be sent to callforpapers@sirca.org.au.

The symposium will be held on Friday 27 February, 2015 at SIRCA.

 

WINNERS of the Philip Brown Prize 2013

The Philip Brown Prize for Best Published Paper is awarded to the best paper published in an A* journal in the previous calendar year using Sirca data. This prize is to recognise the significant contribution of Philip Brown in the establishment of Sirca and the work he did in developing databases to be used for finance and accounting research. The Philip Brown Prize is awarded annually through recommendation from senior scholars around Australia and New Zealand.

Sirca would like to congratulate this year’s joint winners on their successful publications from 2013:

Terrence Hendershott and Ryan Riordan for their co-authored paper ‘Algorithmic Trading on the Market for Liquidity’, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 48, No. 4, Aug. 2013.

Michael Souček and Neda Todorova for their co-authored paper ‘Realised volatility transmission between crude oil and equity futures market: A multivariable HAR approach’, Energy Economics, Vol. 40, Nov. 2013.

Fourth Young Researcher Workshop

Sirca is delighted to welcome the participants of the Fourth Young Researcher Workshop to Sydney this week.

This event provides a platform for young researchers to present their work to an esteemed panel of academics, the Sirca Membership and Research Committee.

Sirca Exhibiting at AFAANZ 2014

Please stop by the Sirca booth in the exhibit hall at the AFAANZ conference in Auckland (6-8 July, 2014) to meet the Sirca representatives. Dr Danika Wright will be giving a short presentation on RP Data at the Behavioural Finance Special Interest Group at 12 noon on Sunday 6th July – join us if you can.

We look forward to speaking with our Members and welcome your feedback for our product development!

Reminder: Sirca Young Researcher Workshop 4 Call For Papers

Sirca is pleased to invite young researchers to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the Sirca YRW4 to be held in Sydney from Thursday 10th to Friday 11th July, 2014. Please submit papers to: callforpapers@sirca.org.au.

To qualify at least one author must be a young researcher; defined as a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed less than five years ago.

Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 April, 2014. All submissions will receive notification of outcome by 15 June, 2014.

Please see link for further information on the Young Researcher Workshop: Sirca YRW 4

Sirca Young Researcher Workshop 4, 10-11 July: Call for Papers

Sirca is pleased to invite young researchers to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the Sirca YRW4 to be held in Sydney from Thursday 10th to Friday 11th July, 2014. Please submit papers to: callforpapers@sirca.org.au.

To qualify at least one author must be a young researcher; defined as a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed less than five years ago.

Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 April, 2014. All submissions will receive notification of outcome by 15 June, 2014.

Please see link for further information on the Young Researcher Workshop: Sirca YRW 4

Australian Government announces SIRCA-led Financial Services Innovation Partnership

Today SIRCA announced the success of its proposal to create a $40m Australian Financial Services Industry Innovation Partnership based around Sydney’s Barangaroo with a foundation commitment from the Australian Government of over $15m. A national consortium of Businesses, Universities and State Governments plan to match the Government’s investment in the initiative.

For the full press release please click here.