Asset Management is a rare opportunity for you to connect directly with some key decision makers and thought leaders of the Australian asset management industry. Led by representatives from across the broad spectrum of asset management – from funds management to asset consulting and major superannuation funds, across the full span of asset management activities and asset classes – you will gain valuable insights, real life skills and helpful connections to inform and guide you across the threshold from student to professional. Every week, you and your peers will host an industry expert to find out what’s happening and what matters in today's financial system. Dive into the details of contemporary case studies, sprint through mini-simulations and pick the brains of industry decision makers in exclusive Q&As.

This course is to provide students with an appreciation of the mathematical and economic models of investment markets and highlight their application (and shortcomings) in asset-liability management for insurance, superannuation and funds management and in the pricing of derivatives.  Topics covered include; risk and utility; risk measures; mean variance models; factor models; asset liability models using portfolio selection models; equilibrium and arbitrage-free valuation; valuation of derivatives; term structure models; credit risk models and actuarial stochastic investment models and their application. The topics will be illustrated with applications to the valuation and risk management of insurance and superannuation contracts especially those with embedded options and financial guarantees - with a particular focus on the inadequacies of the models for investment risk management. The course will include case studies on investment and derivative disasters.

Assurance is a cornerstone of the modern international economy as it allows investors and other stakeholders to have faith in the reliability of financial reports and other information produced by companies. Auditing is the systematic process by which assurance is provided to stakeholders. In this subject you will learn how to audit the financial statements of an Australian company following the rules set down in the Corporations Act (2001) and Australian Auditing Standards. This will include assessing business risk, evaluating internal controls, collecting sufficient appropriate audit evidence, forming an audit opinion, and expressing this opinion in a written audit report. In this subject, you will also examine auditing and assurance in their broader social context through an analysis of the economic benefits of assurance, ethical behaviour and legal obligations of auditors, fraud risks and responses, and assurance of sustainability reports.

From British and French colonists in the eighteenth century to Taylor Swift in 2024, visitors to Australia have left their mark, and shared their impressions. Historian Geoffrey Blainey referred to the ‘tyranny of distance’ as a marker of Australia’s place in the world. Yet despite – or perhaps because of – Australia’s vast distance from the Global North, it has attracted many notable visitors across its history as a settler colony. Whether prompted by colonial conquest, fascination with Indigenous peoples, scientific curiosity, royal or political duties, the pursuit of literary or sporting inspiration, or an enthusiastic local fanbase, famous visitors have included Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Paul Robeson, DH Lawrence, Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II, The Beatles, Marina Abramović and Nelson Mandela. In this course, you will be encouraged to take a multi-perspectival view on Australian history, culture and society through the accounts and experiences of visitors to these shores over the past 2 centuries. This scope allows you to observe and analyse major social, political and cultural changes and to pursue your own research via a dynamic and unique approach to Australian history.

Australia’s Asian Context' introduces you to transdisciplinary ways of examining modern Australia's relationship with the Asian region. It examines the conflicting perceptions, images and responses that Australians have towards their region and the various events that have impacted upon them. Materials examined include historical documents, literature, art, blogs, cartoons, documentaries, movies as well as academic books and articles. Topics covered include: Asia and the formation of Australian identities, the rise of Asia and Australia’s shifting strategic relationships, the impact of Asian migration and multiculturalism, Asian-Australians' experiences, educating about and for the Asian Century, military engagement in Asia, tourism to Asia, economic ties with Asia, and cultural integration with our region.

The Australian Consumer Law is contained in the Competition and Consumer Act, and operates as a law of the Commonwealth, and as a law of each of the states and territories by separate State and Territory application legislation. It contains the former Trade Practices Act Consumer Protection provisions, as well as new laws on unfair contract terms, product safety, consumer guarantees law, lay-by sales , unsolicited selling and new penalties and enforcement powers for the ACCC and state and territory agencies. These laws are now consistent across all jurisdictions, and enforceable in each. Many concepts from the former Trade Practices Act are still relevant, and although some have been redrafted to comply with newer style this is not intended to alter their legal effect.