The Share Price and Price Relatives (SPPR) dataset contains monthly ASX share prices and calculated price relatives back to December 1973 for all Australian listed and previously listed companies with fully paid shares. Additionally, the SPPR data contains dividends (including franking credits), adjustments for share issues and reconstructions, number of shares on issue, and also tracks ticker changers along with merger/delisting information.

SIRCA’s 2015 update of the SPPR data is now available through our Data Library (DL2).  The dataset is fee liable.  Should your university be interested in subscribing to the SPPR dataset, please contact enquiries@sirca.org.au for licensing and fee information.

Reminder Call: SIRCA are seeking submissions for the 2015 Philip Brown Prize. 

The Philip Brown Prize acknowledges the significant contribution Philip Brown made in the establishment of SIRCA and the work he did in developing databases used for finance and accounting research.

To be considered for this Prize, the paper must have been published in an A grade (or higher) journal in the calendar year of 2015 by a SIRCA Member using authorised SIRCA data.  Additionally, the use of SIRCA data must be cited within the publication.

To submit an application, email a full PDF version of the paper to philip-brown-prize@sirca.org.au by 30/5/2016.

SIRCA encourage all Members who meet the above criteria to apply.

The winner of the 2015 Philip Brown Prize will be announced during the 2016 AFAANZ conference in July.

For more information on the Philip Brown Prize, click here.

Congratulations to the joint winners of the SIRCA Best Paper Award from the 28th Annual Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC). The winning papers were:

“Price Discovery in Stock and Options Markets” by Vinay Patel (University of Technology, Sydney), Tālis Putniņš (University of Technology, Sydney), David Michayluk (University of Technology, Sydney) and Sean Foley (University of Sydney)

and;

“Communicating Stability in the Financial System: On the Causal Effects of Transparency on Growth” by Robert Faff (University of Queensland), Shams Pathan (University of Queensland) and Natalya Zelenyuk (University of Queensland).

Congratulations on this well deserved recognition from UNSW and the AFBC. We look forward to reading your future research papers.

Students from Beijing Normal University recently visited SIRCA to understand more about the financial datasets that SIRCA provides to the academic community. The elite group of students were in Australia as part of a short summer programme held at the University of New South Wales.

The Call For Papers has now closed for SIRCA’s Pitching Research Symposium (PRS) 2016.

The PRS will be held on Friday 26 February, 2016 at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

Thank you to all researchers who submitted pitch papers for consideration. The papers are now under review and we will be notifying all candidates shortly of the outcome.

More details on this Symposium are available here.