Andrew Ainsworth

BEc(Hons) UWA; MFin UNSW; PhD UNSW
Lecturer
Room 408
H69 - Economics and Business Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
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Bio
Andrew commenced as a Lecturer at the University of Sydney in 2009. He received his PhD in Finance from the University of New South Wales in 2010 and holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons 1) from the University of Western Australia. Prior to undertaking his PhD, he was an analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia. The title of his PhD thesis was Institutional Investors: An Analysis of Investment Style, Dividends and Trading Behaviour. A chapter of his PhD thesis was awarded the Chartered Financial Analysts Best Paper Prize in Investments at the Asian Finance Association Conference in 2009. His current research interests include the performance and behaviour of investment funds, the valuation of dividends and the role of liquidity in capital markets.
Research Expertise
- Funds Management (equity and fixed income)
- Dividends and Imputation
- Investor trading
- Liquidity and capital markets
Recent Units Taught
FINC3017 Investments and Portfolio Management
2012: Semester 1, Semester 2, 2011: Semester 1,
FINC3019 Fixed Income Securities
2011: Semester 1, Semester 2,



