Research areas

Finance; Funds management; Asset Pricing; Workplace gender equality.

Qualifications

BComm (Hons), BEco, PhD

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Biography

Anna von Reibnitz is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, the Convenor of ANU Finance Masters programs and a Research Affiliate with the Global Institute for Women's Leadership (ANU). Anna’s research interests include funds management, asset pricing and workplace gender equality, with a particular focus on the risks and rewards of active investing. Her research has been published in a number of top-ranked finance journals including Critical Finance Review, Financial Analysts Journal and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.  She actively collaborates with industry, including research for the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has been interviewed on TV and radio outlets such as SBS World News and ABC Radio, and her research has been covered in the Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg and the Canberra Times, among others. Anna’s focus on industry engagement and application underpins her research-led teaching practices, including the development of the award winning ANU Student Managed Fund, and has resulted in National accolades such as the Australian Awards for University Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence.

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Grants

Awards and Prizes

Awards

2022  ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
           (with Geoff Warren for the ANU Student Managed Fund)

2021  ANU College of Business and Economics Commendation for Teaching Excellence
           (with Geoff Warren for the ANU Student Managed Fund)

2017  Australian Awards for University Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence

2017  Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

2015  ANU College of Business and Economics Award for Teaching Excellence 

2014  Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)  

2011  ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 

2010  ANU College of Business and Economics Award for Excellence in Tutoring

Scholarships and Prizes

2010-12  Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship for Doctoral Study

2010-12  ANU Research Supplementary Scholarship

2009  ANU College of Business and Economics Honours Scholarship

2009  ANU University Medal

2009  Goldman Sachs JBWere Prize for best Honours graduand in Economics or Commerce

2009  India Association of Australia Prize - CBE for most outstanding Honours result

2008  Ernst and Young Prize in Accounting Theory

2008  Ernst and Young Prize in Auditing

2007  Australian Finance Conference Prize in Corporate Finance

2007  GSL Tucker Memorial Prize for best result in History of Economic Thought (Honours)

Grants

Luck or Skill in the Success of Active Bets? AFAANZ Research Grant. 2013-2014

Publications

Academic Journals:

Excess Return Profiles for Stocks Purchased by Active Equity Managers, with Jo Drienko, Bruce Grundy and Geoff Warren, Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming.

Bridging Disclosure and Action: The Role of Intermediaries in Gender Pay Gap Regulation, with Sally Curtis, Jananie William, Miriam Glennie and Andi Pekarek, Journal of Industrial Relations, Forthcoming.

Socially Responsible Investing in a Student-Managed Investment Fund: A Case Study, with Geoff Warren, Journal of Investing, 2022, 31:103905. 

Return Dispersion and Fund Performance: Australia - the Land of Opportunity? with Ying Cao and Geoff Warren, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020, 60:101269.

A Review of the Return-Illiquidity Relationship, with Jozef Drienko and Tom Smith, Critical Finance Review, 2019, 8:127-171.

When Opportunity Knocks: Cross-Sectional Return Dispersion and Active Fund Performance, Critical Finance Review, 2017, 6:303-356.

Company Responses to Exchange Queries in Real Time, with Jozef Drienko and Stephen Sault, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 2017, 45:116-141.

The Impact of Liquidity and Transaction Costs on the 52-Week High Momentum Strategy in Australia, with Jenni Bettman and Stephen Sault, Australian Journal of Management, 2010, 35:227-224.

Other Publications:

Glennie M, von Reibnitz A, William J, Curtis S, Bordia S, 2021. Gender pay gap reporting in Australia - time for an upgrade. The Australian National University: Canberra.

Walsh K, von Reibnitz A, Humphrey J, 2021. Gender Equity in Academia: Ten Years of Support in Australia and New Zealand. CSWEP News, Issue III.

Investing in the Restructured Kaisa Group, with David Smith and Grant Fleming, Darden/McIntire Business Case series, Forthcoming. 

Debt-for-Control Investing in Asia: Nine Entertainment Company, with David Smith and Grant Fleming, Darden/McIntire Business Case series, 2017, In Press.

Research engagement

Research Affiliate with the Global Institute for Women's Leadership (ANU)

Teaching Consultant

Current service roles at ANU:

ANU Learning and Teaching Committee Member

Convenor of the Finance Masters programs

College of Business and Economics Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Committee Member

Teaching

Anna has taught Undergraduate, Masters and PhD courses in financial markets and systems, investment management, portfolio construction, and corporate finance. She supervises students at Honours, Masters and PhD levels.

Anna has received multiple awards as an educator, including at the National level with an Australian Awards for University Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence in the Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies category. She has also received the College of Business and Economics Award for Teaching Excellence, an Australian National University Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, and the College of Business and Economics Award for Excellence in Tutoring. 

As a teaching team, Anna and Geoff Warren have been awarded an ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and a College of Business and Economics Commendation for Teaching Excellence for establishing and convening the ANU Student Managed Fund. 

A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Anna is an active proponent of effective and innovative education and regularly serves as an assessor for teaching awards at National and University levels.

Current Teaching:

Foundations of Finance (FINM1001/FINM7006)

Prior Teaching:

Student Managed Fund (FINM3009/3010/6009/6010) 

Portfolio Construction (FINM3008/FINM8016)

Corporate Finance (FINM2001/FINM7007)

Advanced Corporate Finance (FINM8004)