Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Australia
Mark is an Associate Professor of Finance at UNSW Business School. His research interests are mainly in corporate governance and in law & finance. His work has appeared in major finance journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He received his PhD in finance from UNSW in 2012 and has also received qualifications in law.
Explainer: what exactly must companies disclose to investors?
Aug 28, 2017 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is now facing the possibility of a class action lawsuit over allegations it failed to adequately disclose to investors that it may have breached Australian anti-money laundering rules, as...
TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?
May 09, 2017 15:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Investing
TPG Capital, the US private equity firm leading a consortium bidding for some of the assets of troubled Australian media company Fairfax, has a reasonable track record in media acquisitions. Judging by its past...
Fixing an ailing Obamacare: four ways to address rising costs and less choice
Nov 22, 2016 13:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Repealing Obamacare was central to both Donald Trumps, and the Republican partys, policy platforms. The President-elect has since softened his stance and there are several Republican proposals to replace Obamacare with a...
The problems with AT&T's bid for Time Warner
Oct 27, 2016 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So it is with a sense of familiarity that we greet ATTs proposed acquisition of Time Warner. In early 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner for US$164 billion....
What went wrong with Pokémon Go? Three lessons from its plummeting player numbers
Oct 19, 2016 10:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Pokémon Go is in rapid decline. Since launching in July and soaring in popularity, it had lost at least a third of its daily users by the middle of August. By mid-September, daily revenues had fallen from US$16m per...
Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
Jun 21, 2016 11:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Private equity-backed IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) have come under significant scrutiny following several high-profile failures: but are these representative or merely anomalous blights on an otherwise well-performing...
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