Paul Gerrans is a Professor of Finance at The University of Western Australia. Paul’s research focuses on consumer financial decision making, particularly within a retirement savings context, and the role of financial literacy in these decisions. This research has been aided by transaction databases provided by a number of large retirement savings funds. Paul teaches personal finance and financial planning and undertakes related research into financial literacy and financial advice seeking. He has an interest in all aspects of financial literacy with an emphasis on the acquisition of financial literacy by young adults (e.g. undergraduate students) and the interaction of financial literacy and cognitive decline among older adults. Paul has previously been a member of federal government retirement savings advisory bodies and a member of the MoneySmart Teaching Evaluation Steering Committee at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. He is currently a member of the OECD/INFE Research Committee and a member of the OECD's PISA financial literacy expert group.

Managing your Personal Finances, Consumer Financial Products and Services, Financial Planning, Funds Management

PhD supervisions

(UWA) Zoe Callis: Individual Differences in Financial Literacy and Intelligence

(UWA): Inge Kristoffersen "Economic analysis of happiness and satisfaction: selected methodological issues and applications"
(ECU): Nurasykin Jamaludin "Individual retirement savings behaviour: Evidence from Malaysia"
Gerry Croy: "Psychological determinants of retirement savings behaviour: An application of the theory of planned behaviour"

Financial Literacy of Undergraduates;

Insurance Choices in Pension Funds, with Gordon Clark (University of Oxford);

Member Retirement Investment Behaviour and Performance, with Moulang and Feng (Monash University);

The Role of Socialisation in Acquiring Financial Literacy, with Ooi, Sneddon, Kristofferson, Preston (UWA);

Personal values and value expressive behaviour: Estimating Relationships with Quantile Correlation, with Lee and Sneddon (UWA);

Longevity risk aversion, personal values, and the allocation of assets in retirement, with Soutar and Lee (UWA);

Cognitive Decline and Financial Literacy, with Jo Earl (Macquarie);

Individual Investors and International Equity, with Dirk Baur (UWA), Elisabeth Sinnewe (QUT);

Financial Education Interventions and Personal Savings Orientation, with Hoffman (University of Adelaide);

Milestone Birthdays and Retirement Investment Behaviour, with Sirimon Treepongkaruna (UWA) and David Pitt (Macquarie); and

Pensions savings in Thailand with Professor Sirimon Treepongkaruna (UWA) and Dr Suntharee Lhaopadchan (Kasetsart University).