OP-EDS AND MEDIA COMMENTARY 

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DATE

TITLE

PUBLICATION

2012

 

 

 

Why the Equity Bias (Australian Financial Review op-ed (retitled "Tax system drives us to equities") 7 Feb 2012)

Higher Bank Capital: What's Wrong with That? (Australian Financial Review op-ed (retitled "Social Dimension to Bank Capital Ratios"), 30 Jan 2012)

Finance Sector Employment on a Slippery Slope (Australian Financial Review op-ed 18 Jan 2012)

 

 

 

2011


 

Should Banks Be Compelled to Pass on Interest Rate Cuts? (The Conversation, 6 Dec, 2011) 

The contagion effect: how much will Australian banks be buffeted by Europe? (The Conversation, 24 November 2011)

Living Wills (The Conversation, 7 October 2011) also on Business Spectator

Different Times - Less Fuss on Deposit guarantee (AFR 14 Sept 2011)

The role of credit ratings agencies (The Conversation, 2 August 2011)

Million Dollar cap doesn't fit (AFR 8 June 2011)

Self Managed is the Key (op-ed, AFR 16 April 2011)

Buybacks - what is happening? (op-ed, AFR 9 March 2011)

Mortgage fees must be transparent (op-ed)


 

Australian Financial Review

2010

 

4/12/10  

18/11/10

9/11/10

5/11/10

12/10/10 

26/9/2010 

29/4/2010

17/3/2010

  15/3/2010

1/3/2010 

3/2/2010 

"Are Tax Incentives needed for a Fifth Pillar?"  

"Taking off the bank fee blindfold"

"Mortgages: Time to Redesign"

"Muzzling the interest rate hounds"

"So manyways to sell a corporate bond"   

 "The urgent task of recapitalizing banks: doing it gradually

 "Derivative ethics"

"Adding up numbers the creative way

"Bank Funding and Liquidity

  "Foreign Language School failures: Redesiging the ESOS Assurance Fund"

"Banks have to find common ground

Australian Financial Review

Business Spectator

Australian Financial Review

Business Spectator

Australian Financial Review 

Australian Financial Review

 

Australian Financial Review 

Melbourne APEC Finance Quarterly, Issue 8, April 2010

Australian Financial Review

Australian Financial Review

2009

22/12/2009 

   "Arguments against APRA Proposals are straw dogs"       

Australian Financial Review 

9/12/2009

"RMBS feel the squeeze"

Australian Financial Review

25/11/2009

"What Ripoll Didn't Recommend"

Australian Financial Review

2/11/2009

"RBA's third law of finance"

Australian Financial Review

17/08/2009

"What Now for Housing Debt"

Australian Financial Review

29/11/2008

"After the Storm"

Business Spectator

 15/11/2008 

  "Flight to quality risks helping banks grow too big

Australian Financial Review 

7/11/2008 

   "Covered Bonds should be on the Government's financial reform agenda" 

The Age 

27/10/2008

"Distortion is preferable to destruction"

Australian Financial Review

27/10/2008

"The haircut solution"

Business Spectator

14/10/2008

"Beware of Unintended Consequences"

Australian Financial Review

13/10/2008

"The guarantee needs fine-tuning"

Business Spectator

29/09/2008

"No need for a market when a simple tax will do"

Australian Financial Review

17/09/2008 

   "Finance system in search of a solution" 

Australian Financial Review 

4/06/2008

"Clayton's Deposit Insurance"

Australian Financial Review

12/04/2008

"Regulation by reaction is usually wrong"

Australian Financial Review

23/03/2008

(with Christine Brown) "Mapping our sub-prime epidemic"

Business Spectator

13/03/2008

"Bank capital's at a premium"

Australian Financial Review

19/02/2008

"Home loans a far from simple affair"

The Age

8/02/2008

"Basel II too fragile to cope with modern pressures"

Australian Financial Review

21/06/2006 

"A question of shareholder equity" 

Australian Financial Review 

29/08/2006  

"Protection won't break the bank" 

Australian Financial Review 

23/02/2003 

"Not a free source of capital" 

Australian Financial Review  

11/07/1996 

"Bigger is not better: you can bank on it" 

Australian Financial Review  

19/08/1991  

"CBA Float Under Scrutiny" (Letter to the Editor) 

Australian Financial Review