Professor Ralf Zurbrugg

Telephone	+61 8 8303 5535
Position	Professor
Email	ralf.zurbrugg@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 7243
Building	10 Pulteney Street
Floor/Room	12 21
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Business School

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Biography/ Background

Professor Zurbruegg is the Associate Dean for Partnerships and Community Liaison within the Faculty of the Professions. He serves on various committees both inside the University and in the private sector. Professor Zurbruegg has taught and held various visiting positions around the world, including the UK, Singapore, UAE and the US. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Bradford University School of Management, a Justice of the Peace for South Australia and heavily involved with education issues at both the national and state level. He is a joint editor of the International Journal of Managerial Finance, serves as the academic convenor of the International Centre for Financial Services and is a director of a quantitative investment solutions company, FinHeuristics. He regularly consults for industry, particularly for the hedge fund market, as well as being an expert witness on a number of state and federal court cases. He has also appeared on television and been quoted in national newspapers over the years.

Ralf spends his non-professional time on his interests in wine-making, and is one of the principle winemakers for a small, award-winning amateur wine label, The 3 Academics.

Teaching Interests

Finance Professor Zurbruegg's primary teaching responsibilities lie in supervising honours students, as well as postgraduate Masters and PhD students. He also teaches a derivatives and risk management course.

Qualifications

BSc(Econ) Lond, MSc PhD Manc, CertDipHEd UNSW After graduating with a degree in monetary economics from the London School of Economics, Ralf completed a Masters in business economics and PhD in financial econometrics from Manchester Business School. Since then he has taught finance related courses at several universities throughout the world.

Research Interests

Financial Market Analysis Ralf's primary research interests lie in risk management issues as they relate to various different types of financial markets and instruments. His research spans work on securitised real estate assets, stock selection processes, derivatives and the insurance markets. He has also published in various other areas, including work on international business dynamics and financial services provision, plus is heavily involved in the design of computer-aided trading platforms. His research has been published in both national and international press, various public institutions (such as the World Bank), and has appeared on Television and Radio as a commentator on financial issues.

Publications

Ralf has over 70 published articles in various general and specialised field journals. Some examples include publications in Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Risk and Insurance, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Forecasting, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Property Investment and Finance and Journal of Property Research.

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Economics, Real Estate
Expertise	Finance, Hedge Funds, Investment Banking

Entry last updated: Sunday, 13 Jul 2008

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