SIRCA Director Professor Kevin Davis and author of a new major study Funding Australia’s Future is featured on the cover of today’s Australian Financial Review.
The article highlights the growing role of superannuation and capital markets in financing Australia’s future.
Announcements
2012 Philip Brown Best Published Paper Award Winner Announced
The winning paper for the inaugural Philip Brown Best Published Paper Award was announced on Tuesday at the 2013 AFAANZ conference in Perth.
Congratulations to Ben Marshall (Massey University), Nhut Nguyen (University of Auckland) and Nuttawat Visaltanachoti (Massey University) with their paper “Commodity Liquidity Measurement and Transaction Costs” that was published in The Review of Financial Studies v25 n2 2012.
The award was established in recognition of the contribution Philip Brown has made to the establishment of Sirca and the work he did in developing databases to be used for finance and accounting research. The award has a cash value of $10,000 and is made based on a recommendation to the Sirca CEO by the Membership and Research Committee, a sub-committee of the Sirca Limited Board.
Watch this space for how to enter your paper for the 2013 award early next year!New $12m national Big Data Knowledge Discovery initiative launches at SIRCA
Last night SIRCA, NICTA, Macquarie University and the University of Sydney launched a new national research collaboration around applying the latest Big Data and Machine Learning software tools and techniques to some of today’s grand scientific challenges in Ecology, Geology and Physics.
Dr Rob Stokes MP, Member for Pittwater and Parliamentary Secretary for Renewable Energy commended the initiative and commented on how this project may not only be the key to unlocking many great scientific riddles like Sir Richard Southwood former Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford’s quest for a “periodic table” of ecology but also contribute new tools to advance fundamental understanding of other unrelated areas such as nutrition and medical science.
More details of this project and a full press release can be found here.
The Big Data Knowledge Discovery project was also reported in The Australian newspaper on Thursday 6th June, 2013. You can find a copy of this news article here.
Philip Brown Prize for the Best Published Paper in 2012
Sirca has decided to make an annual award for the best paper published in the previous calendar year that uses, at least in part, data supplied by Sirca. The award will be made based on a recommendation to the Sirca CEO by the Membership and Research Committee (MRC), a sub-committee of the Sirca Limited Board. It has an initial cash value of $10,000.
In recognition of the contribution Philip Brown made to the establishment of Sirca and the work he did in developing databases to be used for finance and accounting research, the award has been named in his honour. The 2012 best paper will be announced during the 2013 AFAANZ Conference in Perth (July 7-9), and Philip has agreed to make the inaugural presentation.
I write to invite you to submit papers that were published in the 2012 calendar year, that use (at least in part) data supplied by Sirca, and that you believe are of excellent quality. While not all excellent papers are published in the “best” journals (as a guide ABDC rank A and above) it is unlikely that papers published in journals below an A rank would qualify for the award. Please submit a full pdf version of the paper that provides details of the journal in which your paper is published.
Please respond prior to 15 June 2013 to philipbrownprize@sirca.org.au
Chi-X data now available in the Data Library!
Chi-X Australia data are now available in the Data Library. These data contain an historical archive of order book tick history for trading on the Australian Chi-X Exchange (Chi-X), which dates back to the commencement of the exchange on 25th October 2011.
These data are made available under license from Chi-X for the purposes of academic research.
Please contact us if you would like to gain access to these data.
Sirca Welcomes Two New Members!
Sirca is pleased to announce that James Cook University and Swinburne University have recently joined us to bring our membership base to 36!
James Cook University has six campuses throughout Queensland and one in Singapore, with their Business School based in Townsville and Cairns.
Swinburne University has many locations throughout Melbourne and a campus in Malaysia.
On behalf of the Sirca community we wish you a very warm welcome!
James Cook University has six campuses throughout Queensland and one in Singapore, with their Business School based in Townsville and Cairns.
Swinburne University has many locations throughout Melbourne and a campus in Malaysia.
On behalf of the Sirca community we wish you a very warm welcome!
Sirca HQ Launched in The Rocks
Last week Sirca launched their new headquarters and innovation centre with VIP guests and invitees including:
• The Honourable Greg Pearce MLC Minister for Finance and Services Minister for the Illawarra
• Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney
• Ross Dawson Leading Author and Technology Futurist
For the full press release click here.
• The Honourable Greg Pearce MLC Minister for Finance and Services Minister for the Illawarra
• Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney
• Ross Dawson Leading Author and Technology Futurist
For the full press release click here.
From Left to Right: Sirca's CEO Mike Briers, Tracy Barber from UTS, The Hon. Greg Pearce MLC, Sirca Board Members Peeyush Gupta and Kevin Davis
Ross Dawson speaking at the event
The view from the Sirca rooftop
Catering at the Event
Call For Papers – Sirca Young Researcher Workshop
Sirca’s Chief Research Officer, Terry Walter, invites young researchers on behalf of the Membership and Research Committee (MRC) to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the 2nd Sirca Young Researcher Workshop. Submitted papers should be sufficiently advanced to benefit from feedback and suggestions from a seminar presentation. Please send all papers to callforpapers@sirca.org.au. The deadline for submissions is 12 May 2013.
Notification of the five papers to be included will be made by 15 June 2013, at which time we will also advise the nominated MRC referee who will discuss the individual papers at the workshop. Sirca will also invite a further group of young researchers to the workshop as attendees and to participate in research presentations in the afternoon of 25 July 2013. Sirca will meet all reasonable travel and accommodation costs for the presenters and the invited attendees.
To qualify for inclusion at least one of the authors of the submitted paper must be a young researcher. We define a young researcher to be a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed within the last five years. It is not a requirement for submitted papers to be using Sirca data however the researcher must be from a Sirca Member university. Sirca would also like to track the progress of papers submitted at this workshop and be kept informed of any publication outcomes.
Notification of the five papers to be included will be made by 15 June 2013, at which time we will also advise the nominated MRC referee who will discuss the individual papers at the workshop. Sirca will also invite a further group of young researchers to the workshop as attendees and to participate in research presentations in the afternoon of 25 July 2013. Sirca will meet all reasonable travel and accommodation costs for the presenters and the invited attendees.
To qualify for inclusion at least one of the authors of the submitted paper must be a young researcher. We define a young researcher to be a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed within the last five years. It is not a requirement for submitted papers to be using Sirca data however the researcher must be from a Sirca Member university. Sirca would also like to track the progress of papers submitted at this workshop and be kept informed of any publication outcomes.
Sirca Welcomes Southern Cross University as our 34th Member!
Sirca is pleased to announce that Southern Cross University have joined the Sirca Membership Community as our 34th Member.
We are looking forward to working with SCU across their 3 locations of Lismore, Coffs Harbour, and The Gold Coast. Our Member Services team will have their work cut out for them!
Congratulations Southern Cross University and welcome to Sirca!
We are looking forward to working with SCU across their 3 locations of Lismore, Coffs Harbour, and The Gold Coast. Our Member Services team will have their work cut out for them!
Congratulations Southern Cross University and welcome to Sirca!
PhD Scholarship Opportunity
Sirca is working to deploy cutting edge data analysis tools to complement our data sources as part of our ongoing strategy aimed at improving research outcomes.
One initiative we have underway is working with Macquarie University, a Sirca Member, in exploring issues in Laser Physics; one strand of this research involves the development and application of methods to find non-linear and chaotic structure in streaming data. These methods will be directly applicable to the analysis of streams of financial market data.
The project has a PhD scholarship available for a suitable candidate, details of the opportunity can be found at:
http://hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/scholarships/hdr_scholarships_domestic_and_international
in the Business and Economics section.
Applications close March 14th, 2013.
One initiative we have underway is working with Macquarie University, a Sirca Member, in exploring issues in Laser Physics; one strand of this research involves the development and application of methods to find non-linear and chaotic structure in streaming data. These methods will be directly applicable to the analysis of streams of financial market data.
The project has a PhD scholarship available for a suitable candidate, details of the opportunity can be found at:
http://hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/scholarships/hdr_scholarships_domestic_and_international
in the Business and Economics section.
Applications close March 14th, 2013.
