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Working with MCFS Sponsorship Opportunities WORKING WITH MCFS 14 With links between academics, practitioners and government, you can work with MCFS in several different ways: as a corporate sponsor, event sponsor or as a research partner. Corporate sponsorships The strategic direction and activities of MCFS are overseen by a Board which comprises consortium members and corporate sponsors. Through membership of the Board or the IAC, corporate sponsors become involved in the strategic management and research direction of MCFS. Other key benefits available to sponsors are: • The preparation of thought leadership pieces and bespoke research papers providing timely, independent and well considered commentary on industry relevant issues; • Direct involvement in our Research Reference Groups to facilitate access to academic researchers and postgraduate students, and contribute to broader industry relevant research outcomes; • Recognition through logo and acknowledgement on Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies website and all major marketing documents; • Enhanced opportunities to engage with high quality post graduates and the professional development of existing staff through MCFS activities; and, • Involvement as a guest at all major MCFS events. Notably, these include the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium, the International Distinguished Lecture and the Executive Conference Dinner of the Banking and Finance conference. The sponsor will also benefit from leveraging opportunities via connections to internationally-renowned academics and local media exposure (MCFS has an extensive finance and business media distribution list.) AAMI has been an inaugural Corporate Sponsor for four years. AAMI raised with MCFS a fundamental problem facing the general insurance industry relating to chronic underinsurance, brought to a head with the recent Victorian bushfires. MCFS prepared a thought leadership piece entitled ‘Underinsurance: a case of moral hazard’ that addressed key issues including: • the extent of the problem in property; • the social and economic costs of underinsurance to the public and government; • costs outweighing benefits especially for the young, single and less educated; • taxes and levies in premiums being disproportionately high and inconsistent between states; and • the need for the Henry Review to address these tax inefficiencies. Event sponsors During the year MCFS runs events bringing members of the finance community together to discuss and disseminate the latest industry developments. MCFS’s events have become a ‘must attend’ item on the calendars of leading decision makers, academic analysts, practitioners and government reflecting for the event’s promotion of critical thinking and applications of finance research. There are three main categories of events: large scale conferences and presentations, finance forum and academic seminars. Large scale events include the Consumer Finance Symposium (August) and the Banking and Finance Conference (October) both held jointly with Finsia, the Superannuation Funds Governance Conference (May) held jointly with AIST, the Melbourne Money and Finance Conference (May-June), the International Distinguished Lecture series (summer), and from 2010, the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium. The last year has seen the participation of prominent presenters such as John Fraser (UBS Global Asset Management), Prof Stephen J Brown (NYU Stern School of Business), Dr Robert A Eisenbeis (Cumberland Investors), Satyajit Das, and Senator the Hon Nick Sherry. The finance forums and academic seminars are both part day events which give academics and practitioners the opportunity
CONSORTIUM PARTNERS INDUSTRY BRIEFING: THE FUTURE FUND RESEARCH PARTNERS to hear from leading practitioners and leading local and international academics on current issues facing the local and international finance community. MCFS promotes these events through its database of around 4,000 stakeholders in the finance community across industry, academia and government. Sponsoring an event or research can get your name to the desired audience. Sponsorships in the past have included benefits such as branding events or research, the opportunity to have a speaker at an event and visibility on MCFS marketing documents, website and e-newsletter. Research partnerships MCFS facilitates research with major corporate partners and through the academic staff and postgraduate students of consortium partner universities. Across the three consortium partners we have access to over 100 finance academics and in excess of 200 postgraduate students working in finance research. Through the work of our Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) and Research Reference Groups, MCFS plays a critical role in identifying areas for investigation in industry related areas of interest.Our aims are to produce research outcomes which are industry related, of high quality in terms of academic outcomes and invariably have a policy implication. Research ideas generated by the IAC and through the Research Reference Groups inform the academic research agenda and provide a source of ideas for intending postgraduate students. MCFS also conducts and facilitates research with corporate partners, looking at current issues and trends in the financial services industry. CORPORATE SPONSOR 15
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