Short Biography

Associate Professor Ben Hunt is a retired Head of the Graduate School of Business and Associate Dean, International at the University of Technology, Sydney.  He is currently empoyed in the Finance Discipline Group within UTS.  He has degrees from Adelaide University, including a Master's thesis on Price Formation in the Sydney Futures Exchange, and a Doctorate from the Australian National University.  His PhD. focused on an examination of the Determinants of Australian Interest Rates and Exchange Rate.  He is also a co‑author of the text book,Financial Instruments and Markets (7th Ed.), published by Cengage.

Ben has for a number of years concentrated his research efforts on applied financial problems.  His latest work explores the predictability of implied volatility and its application to option trading systems.  His most recent research effort was directed at determining the optimal composition of high growth portfolios.

In addition to his academic work, he consulted extensively to the private sector.  He developed a Bond Futures system for Bain and Co., a gold trading system for the Union Bank of Switzerland, an FX system for Shearson Leman and an FRA system for Fulton Prebon.  He was jointly responsible for the PROTANGO, BOPS equity option systems and BeaCh, a technical trading system that was distributed by Reuters Australia and installed in many Australian broking and fund management offices.

Ben is widely regarded for his ability to translate theory into practice and for his communication skills.  In addition to his UTS duties, Ben has taught in the graduate programs of Sydney, N.S.W. and Macquarie Universities.  He has provided many in‑house finance courses for Macquarie Bank, the Australian Treasury and the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, the Brunei Investment Agency and has been a prominent speaker at many commercial conferences.