Stephen Taylor is Associate Dean – Research and Development and Professor of Financial Accounting at UTS Business School. Prior to joining UTS in 2008, Stephen was a Professor of Accounting at the University of New South Wales (2003-08), where he also served as Acting Associate Dean (Research) in 2005 and 2006. He has previously been a Professor at the University of Sydney, where he served as Director of the Accounting Foundation. In 1999-2000, he was a Visiting Professor of Accounting at the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan, following an earlier appointment there in 1993-94. Stephen received his PhD from the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW) in 1991, and is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and a Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA). Stephen is currently Chair of BARDSNet, the representative group of Associate Deans-Research in Australian and New Zealand business schools. He has held this position since January 2012, a role which also requires advising the Australian Business Dean’s Council on research policy and strategy matters as they affect the business school community. Stephen is a director of SIRCA Ltd, as well as being chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of that board as well as for SIRCA Technology. He also serves as a director of the Capital Markets CRC, where he also chairs the Audit Committee. Stephen represents UTS on the Advisory Council of the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR). Stephen is also an academic advisor to Plato Funds Management. Supervisor Homepage

Terry Walter is Professor of Finance  and former Chief Research Officer and Director of Equities Research at Sirca (www.sirca.org.au). Terry has nearly 40 years’ experience as an academic in accounting and finance. He has published widely on topics in finance and accounting, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and SEOs, market microstructure, anomalies in empirical capital market evidence, behavioural finance, and the performance of mutual funds. In particular, Professor Walter has carried out work in the Singaporean market over the past three years and has been involved in several projects that use data from the Singapore Exchange.

Dr Frino is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Global Strategy and Professor of Economics, University of Wollongong. He specialises in security market microstructure and he has published almost one hundred articles in scholarly journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Futures Markets. Since 2001, Professor Frino has acted in a great number of matters involving breaches of continuous disclosure, the impact of information, market manipulation, and a range of other matters in securities markets in Australia and Hong Kong, and provided expert reports on issues of market microstructure, market efficiency and market integrity to exchanges, intermediaries and other institutions concerned with financial markets.

List of Cases and assignments

Inabu Pty Ltd v Leighton Holdings Limited (event study, continuous disclosure, 2014) Modtech Engineering Pty Limited v GPT Management Holdings Limited (event study, continuous disclosure, 2013) Kirby v Centro Properties Limited &, (event study, continuous disclosure, 2011) XQZT v ASIC – AAT proceeding 2009/3619 (in relation to a trade cancellation on the ASX, 2010) GIO v AMP (alleged deceptive conduct) NAB v Idoport (information technology (misappropriation) OAMPS v Porter (valuation issues) First Pacific Capital Underwriters v CCI Holdings Ltd (valuation issues, 2007) Australian Pipelines Ltd v Hastings Management Ltd (event study, 2012) Transmarket Trading Pty Ltd, Kestrel Trading Pty Limited and Biskra Aotearoa Limited v. Sydney Futures Exchange Limited (event study in relation to a trade cancellation claim, 2009) Challenger Managed Investments Limited & Anor v Octaviar Limited & Ors, (event study in relation to payoff from exercising convertible notes, 2008) Andrew Taylor v Telstra Corporation Limited. Federal Court of Australia (continuous disclosure, 2007) Chemeq Ltd v ASIC (event study, breach of continuous disclosure, 2006) Adam Tomas and Leon Siakos v Macfutures Australia, Macfutures Limited (2004) Derbyshire, Le Marrec & Ors v Ord Minnett Ltd, Ord Minnet Management Ltd, performance Plus Funds Management Ltd (In Liquiditation) & Ors. (2003) Susquehanna Pacific Pty Ltd (market manipulation, 2001) Anderson v CSR & Anor. Dust and Diseases Tribunal (event study, 2001) RP Data-Rismark Property Index , 2011 (see: http://www.corelogic.com.au/resources/pdf/rismark/ews_audit_report.pdf )