Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Welcome to the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics (RSFAS). We are the home of research and education in finance, actuarial studies and statistics here at The Australian National University (ANU). Our unique combination of finance, actuarial studies and statistics creates a dynamic and stimulating environment that encourages excellence in research and education for researchers and students.
We offer an extensive suite of rigorous undergraduate and postgraduate coursework and research degrees in all three fields. We are a young and dynamic school and our faculty have received PhDs from the world's very best universities.
We are a designated Centre of Actuarial Excellence by the Society of Actuaries and are accredited by prestigious industry bodies including the,
Chartered Financial Analysts Institute, Actuaries Institute, and Statistical Society of Australia.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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GEM-Cu: Geodynamic Environments for Mineralisation of Cu (Copper)
Davies, R. (PI), Goes, S. (CoI), Ham, D. (CoI), Hoggard, M. (CoI), Sambridge, M. (CoI), Scealy, J. (CoI), Shephard, G. (CoI), Steen, J. (CoI), Taylor, J. (CoI) & Walls-Nichols, E. (CoI)
1/01/26 → 31/12/28
Project: Research
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Modern statistical methods for clustering community ecology data
Hui, F. (PI), Foster, S. (CoI), Menéndez, P. (CoI), Warton, D. (CoI) & Woolley, S. (CoI)
9/12/24 → 9/12/27
Project: Research
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Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI)
Tanaka, E. (PI), Hui, F. (CoI), Stone, E. (CoI) & Welsh, A. (CoI)
4/12/24 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
Research output
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A hidden cost of ETF investing: Retail demand shocks and limits to arbitrage
Liu, X., Zhang, T. & Zhang, Y., 21 Jan 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Banking and Finance. 107621.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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BOB: Bayesian optimized bootstrap for approximate posterior sampling in Gaussian mixture models
Marin, S., Loong, B. & Westveld, A. H., Feb 2026, In: Statistics and Computing. 36, 1, 33 p., 14.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Random effects misspecification and its consequences for prediction in generalized linear mixed models
Vu, Q., Hui, F. K. C., Muller, S. & Welsh, A. H., Jan 2026, In: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 213, 12 p., 108254.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access