Meet our remarkable members

The centre members boast a wide range of knowledge and expertise.

Follow the links to find out more about the members’ individual research strengths.

Director

Professor Robert Bianchi

Dr Robert Bianchi has more than 25 years of industry experience in the funds management industry. His research expertise is in the areas of asset allocation, superannuation/pensions, infrastructure investments and alternative assets.

Deputy director

Professor Mark Brimble

Dr Mark Brimble has active research interests in financial markets, sustainable finance, personal finance and finance education. He is a Commonwealth Office for Learning and Teaching National Fellow and is the recipient of numerous teaching and learning grants, citations and awards.

Members and their research expertise

  • Emerging market finance
  • Public sector finance
  • Energy carbon markets
  • Financial education
  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Corporate control
  • Corporate governance
  • Dividend policy
  • Corporate restructuring
  • Indigenous business study
  • Financial literacy
  • Digital innovation in accounting education
  • Bankruptcy prediction modelling
  • Women and financial literacy
  • Behavioural finance
  • Financial planning
  • Debt
  • Financial accounting
  • Accounting education
  • Innovation and demand
  • Evolutionary economics
  • Tourism economics
  • Behavioural barriers to climate change adaption
  • Competition law
  • Corporations law
  • Taxation and finance law
  • Trusts law
  • Supperannuation policy
  • Financial lliteracy and capibility
  • Personal finance
  • ESG investing
  • Corporate restructuring
  • Supperannuation
  • Pensions and investment management
  • Life-cycle investing
  • Retirement policy
  • Commodities
  • Empirical asset pricing
  • Alternative investments
  • Momentum investing
  • Financial accounting
  • Accounting education
  • Tax transparent companies
  • Arts tax reform
  • Taxation of Islamic finance
  • Scholarship of learning and teaching
  • Financial planning
  • Microfinance
  • Law and economics
  • Development law
  • Environmental economics policy
  • Agricultural economics policy
  • Water management policy
  • Fisheries economics and management
  • Experimental and computational economics
  • Personal and household finance
  • Behavioural economics
  • Financial planning
  • Financial product innovation
  • Intellectual property
  • Indigenous intellectual property
  • Commercial law
  • Empirical asset pricing
  • Consumption-based asset pricing
  • Market efficiency
  • International finance and investments
  • Empirical asset pricing
  • Behavioural finance
  • Institutional investors
  • Stock market anomalies
  • Financial risk management
  • Securitisation and structured finance
  • Capital structure and cost of capital
  • Asset pricing
  • Financial Education
  • Superannuation
  • Work integrated learning
  • Asset pricing
  • Multifactor models
  • Behavioural finance
  • Momentum and contrarian investing
  • Corporate governance
  • Earnings quality and earnings management
  • Executive compensations
  • Corporate social responsibility reporting
  • Commodity economics
  • Finance asset pricing
  • Financial risk management
  • International financial integration
  • International portfolio diversification
  • Financial risk management
  • Alternative investments
  • Applied mico-economics
  • Labour economics
  • Health economics
  • Social and economic disadvantage
  • Econometrics
  • Growth and development economics
  • Financial economics
  • Volatility estimation and forecasting
  • Informational content of option markets
  • Asset pricing in incomplete markets
  • Technical analysis
  • Household finance
  • Personal finance
  • International portfolio management
  • International finance markets integration
  • Sustainable finance
  • Socially responsible investments

Adjunct members

Higher Degree Research Students

  • Jaliya Amarasinghe
  • Prince Acheampong
  • Yasir Alsaedi
  • Xiaoyue Chen
  • Lee-yun Chiang
  • Augustine Conteh
  • Vanessa Crawford
  • Tania Driver
  • M Luthfi Hamidi
  • Leeanne Hodgson
  • Sonja Kobinger
  • Stefen MacAskill
  • Sivathaasan Nadarajah
  • Lan T Nguyen
  • Lan Nguyen
  • Quyhn Chau Pham
  • Radies Purbo
  • Julio Rumokoy
  • Amanda Taylor
  • Pazung Thang
  • Deni Wahidin
  • Dezhong Xu
  • Kejia Yan
  • Jerry Zhang
  • Tingxi Zhang

Contact the Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation

Phone
(07) 3735 4272

Address
Griffith Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation
Room 1.28, Griffith Business School Building N50
Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road
Nathan QLD 4111