Anthony Asher

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies

Associate Professor

Sydney, NSW 2052

Australia

http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/AnthonyAsher.aspx

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  • University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies

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1.

Developing Actuarial Judgement

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2013ACTL03
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2016
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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Actuarial, Judgement

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Age Pensioner Profiles: A Longitudinal Study of Income, Assets and Decumulation

ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research Working Paper 2015/17
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Oct 2016
Shang Wu, Anthony Asher, Ramona Meyricke and Susan Thorp
Aware Super, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Risk & Actuarial Studies and The University of Sydney Business School
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Retirement Wealth, Life-Cycle Saving, Public Pension, Portfolio Choice

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When Cognitive Functioning Meets Financial Literacy and Judgment in Older Age: Advising Those Self-Managing Retirement Savings

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Feb 2015
Joanne Earl, Paul Gerrans and Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia - UWA Business School and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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Retirement savings, cognitive ability, financial literacy, financial decision-making, dementia, ageing

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Supply Side Resistance to Lifetime Annuities

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Dec 2021
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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Behavioural biases; misunderstanding; regulatory capture; perverse incentives

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Company-Level GHG Emissions And An Institutional Investor’s Active Ownership Objective: Long-Term Shareholder, Socially Responsible Investor, Common Owner Or Stakeholder-Oriented Shareholder?

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 14 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
Robert Annabel, Anthony Asher and Arghya Ghosh
UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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corporate governance, climate change, common ownership, socially responsible investment, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory

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Post Retirement Funding in Australia

Actuaries Institute Actuaries Summit, May 2013, UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2014ACTL03
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Mar 2014
Anthony Asher, Patricia Berry, Andrew Boal, Mike Callan, Jules Gribble, Curtis Heaser, Jeff Humphries, Kelly Graham, Wade Matterson, Jim O'Donnell and Paul Scully
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, Milliman, Inc, Jackson McDonald Lawyers and Independent
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retirement incomes, annuities

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Means Tests: An Evaluation of the Justice of Imposing High Rates of Clawback on Those of Modest Means

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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State pension, Superannuation tax, equity, incentives, saving, retirement, means tests

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Developing Effective Rules of the Market for Life Annuities

UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Feb 2024
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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annuity puzzle, financialization, market design

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Retirement Incomes – Issues and Next Steps

Australian Journal of Actuarial Practice, 3, 93-97, 2015
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Nov 2015
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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annuities, regulatory impediments, consumer protection, research

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Developing a Harvesting Plan: Optimising Retirement Spending in the Face of Economic, Social and Personal Risk

19th Annual Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers, July 2011, Actuarial Society of South Africa Retirement Matters Seminar, June 2011, UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2011ACTL14
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Mar 2014
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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harvesting plan, superannuation, retirement spending

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The Lifetime Harvesting Plan: Smoothed Annuities with Sharing of Mortality, and Averaging of Investment, Risks

Actuaries Institute Financial Services Forum, 2012, UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2012ACTL22
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Mar 2014
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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retirement income streams, smoothing, pooled, group, variable or with-profit life annuities

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Specifying Financial Calculators to Elicit Utility Preferences

7th Australasian Actuarial Education and Research Symposium
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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Redistribution and Capital Market Impacts of Social Security Retirement Systems: Principles and Scope for Actuarial Involvement

Australian Journal of Actuarial Practice, 2, 13-20, 2014
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 13 Nov 2015
Anthony Asher
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies
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social justice, defined benefit, financialisation, aging, governance

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Age Pensioner Decumulation: Responses to Incentives, Uncertainty and Family Need

Australian Journal of Management, Forthcoming
Posted: 26 Oct 2017
Ramona Meyricke, Susan Thorp, Shang Wu and Anthony Asher
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Risk & Actuarial Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies

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Life-cycle saving, portfolio choice, public pension, retirement wealth

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Financial Literacy, Financial Judgement, and Retirement Self-Efficacy of Older Trustees of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds

Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2015
Posted: 18 Sep 2015
Joanne Earl, Paul Gerrans, Anthony Asher and Julia Woodside
University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia - UWA Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - School of Actuarial Studies and University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Australian School of Business, School of Accounting

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Ageing, cognitive ability, dementia, financial decision-making, financial literacy, retirement savings