Digital Financial Services (DFS) are held out as key financial solutions for improving financial inclusion. However, targeted end-users often offer little in the way of obvious profitable opportunities and so market forces alone are not enough to ensure the services provided match end-users...

An effective portfolio disclosure regime must balance both its costs and benefits across the entire financial services industry. This study examines a number of disclosure regimes with respect to accuracy and susceptibility to copycat behaviour in an environment absent of mandatory disclosure....

Rapid developments in cloud computing and data science have significantly reduced the cost and expanded the scope of possible analytics in the practise of financial regulation. However, the existing Organizational Architecture of regulatory interaction is still rooted in old models of data that...

Public policy development is often conducted via the process of a Public Inquiry involving the statement of a Terms of Reference, appointment of an Expert Panel and call for submissions from interested organisations and members of the public. The public input to a typical inquiry involves...

Our contribution to funds management research is in matching qualitative information sourced from the fund manager with their own quantitative data concerning what assets they own, how they trade, and how their portfolios are managed. We find that survey responses are informative of...

We conduct an experiment to investigate how regulatory requirements in the accounting for impairment, namely, reversibility of impairment losses and disclosure of impairment assumptions, influence managers' bias in the processing of impairment information. Our results show that regulatory...

We investigate the short-term relation between individual investor trading and stock returns on the Australian Securities Exchange. Stocks heavily bought by individual investors underperform stocks heavily sold over the subsequent three days, with respective returns on to a long-short portfolio...

The increasingly intertwined banking and insurance sectors have lead to calls for stronger regulatory oversight of the insurance industry as potentially systemically risky. Ultimately systemic risk impacts the real economy, and this paper measures the risk via interconnectedness of the banking,...

A number of prior studies have examined qualitative and quantitative indicators that help investors decide which funds to invest in. The majority of these have focused on indicators of performance, which fit broadly into two categories: measures of the funds' historical performance (e.g. risk...

This paper presents an examination of economic and financial linkages for a selection of economies in the Asia-Pacific region for the period 2001 to 2012. The countries examined are the ASEAN5 group of nations – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; the three large...