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MAF702 Financial Markets - Deakin University

A format to write your Essay
The essay may be between 3,500-4,500 words

Cover page
• Use the Deakin Assignment cover page supplied for this Unit, fill out the cover page correctly, you should not have any other separate cover page for your Essay
Letter of transmittal
• In Finance, a letter of transmittal is a type of cover letter that accompanies a document, such as a financial report or security certificate.
• A Transmittal Letter is a business letter and is formatted accordingly, it should include the recipient's address, sender's address, distribution list, a salutation and closing. It typically includes why it should receive the reader's consideration, and what the reader should do with it. The transmittal letter provides the recipient with a specific context in which to place the larger document or certificate and simultaneously gives the sender a permanent record of having sent the material.
Table of contents
• Serial number of the topics, name of the topics, page numbers should be added

Abstract
• Abstracts allow readers who may be interested in a longer work to quickly decide whether it is worth their time to read it.
• An abstract is not a review, nor does it evaluate the work being abstracted. While it contains key words found in the larger work, the abstract is an original document rather than an excerpted passage.

I. Introduction
The introduction should have some of the following elements:
• Start with an attention grabber: a short story, example, statistic, or historical context that introduces the paper topic
• Give an overview of any issues involved with the subject
• Define of any key terminology need to understand the topic
• Highlight background information on the topic needed to understand the direction of the paper
The introduction must end with a statement (a 1 to 2 sentences in length): Tell what the overall paper will focus on. Briefly outline the main points in the paper (This is the objectives/research questions of your Essay. On an average, the number of objectives/research questions should be between three to five. Look for a Hook: What is interesting about this question? Hook your readers with an interesting fact that might make them curious about this topic and rest of the Essay).

II. Literature Review
Find five articles about your topic and list the relevant facts from each one. The identification of the relevant facts should be aligned with the objectives/research questions that you have mentioned at the end of the Introduction. Now you are going to present different authors findings:
Explain how the ideas are different or the same. This should give you better understanding about what you should present in the body of your Essay (next section).
Establish a link (write a paragraph here) between the literatures that you have studies and the findings that you are going to present in the next section (Body) to answer your research questions (mentioned in Introduction)

III. Body (you can give it a relevant name)
• Here you should address all your objectives or answer all your research questions. It is the main part of your research.
• Show your analysis of data to answer and support your findings
• Clearly present the main points/findings of the paper
• Give strong examples, details, and explanations to support each main points
• In a research paper, use strong evidence from sources-paraphrases, summaries, and quotations that support the main points
• You can attach a tables, charts, graphs, comparisons, or list of findings.

IV. Conclusion
• Restate your key issues in different words
• Briefly summarize each main point found in the body of the paper (avoid going over 2 sentences for each point)
• End with a strong clincher statement: an appropriate, meaningful final sentence that ties the whole point of the paper together (may refer back to the attention grabber/Hook)

V. References

• As a university level students you are expected to critically analyse all the relevant literature, and consider persuasive academic sources. This means that students should consult with

academic texts, books and journals in addition to newspaper articles. Using the primary text book from the unit is not sufficient. Students should clearly cite all sources, employing either accepted methodology for citations, but students must be consistent in their method.

• Present the references in an alphabetic way. Use any method of referencing (e.g. Author, date or Harvard style or any other), but be consistent in using the same style for all of them.

VI. Appendix
An appendix contains information that is supplementary and not strictly necessary to the main body of the writing. An appendix may include a reference section for the reader, a summary of the raw data or extra details on the method behind the work. You may be required to write an appendix for school or you may decide to write an appendix for a personal project you are working on. You should start by collecting content for the appendix and by formatting the appendix properly. You should then polish the appendix so it is accessible, useful, and engaging for your reader.

Set-1: Assignment Topics

Assignment Topic for ODD ID: 1 - Analyse the price movements of the Australian domestic property markets, focusing on residential property over the last 10 years. Respond to the claim that while record low interest rates and unemployment would typically have continued to fuel property prices, the limited availability of credit has more than offset demand resulting in significant property price declines across many of our capital cities.
Note: Australia Real Estate Market Outlook could be one of the sources to collect information on this topic, you will have to make additional research to get more information.

Assignment Topic for ODD ID: 2 - Analyse the performance of crowdfunding as a policy. Analyse and discuss some of the trends (business models of firms raising funds, the quantum of funds, frequency of fundraising success) for firms raising funds.
Note: You will have to do research and get information from internet.

Assignment Topic for ODD ID: 3 - Self managed superannuation is becoming a popular choice for many Australians wanting to take control of their superannuation. What are some of the key drivers behind this trends? Analyse the data in relation to models of superannuation and fund choice focusing on self-managed and traditional non self-managed funds, and discuss any observable trends.
Note: https://www.ato.gov.au/About-ATO/Research-and-statistics/In-detail/Super-statistics/SMSF/ Visit this website and also do your research for more information

Assignment Topic for ODD ID: 4 - Analyse the business models of Coles and Woolworths. Compare the operating earnings of Coles with those of Woolworths over the last five years, ending FY 2018/2019. What are the observable trends in operating performance?
Note: Visit the website of the companies to get information.

Assignment Topic for ODD ID: 5 - Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, JingongHuang, Viet Hoang Nguyen (2019), Financial sector bailouts, sovereign bailouts, and the transfer of credit risk. Based on the finding of this paper, how you would like to analyse the comments of the authors- "Depending on the initial fiscal position of the target country, sovereign bailouts may also disrupt international credit risk spill overs originating from the target sovereign".

Set-2: Assignment Topics

Assignment Topic for EVEN ID: 1 - Consider the role of credit rating agencies such as Standard and Poors and Fitch. Analyse the ratings of the Australian federal and state government securities issuances, and compare the observed ratings with U.S. equivelants, what are some of the noticeable recent trends? Note: You will have to do research and get information from internet.

Assignment Topic for EVEN ID: 2 - Cryptographic currency remains largely unregulated. Discuss how crypto currencies function. What are some of the observable trends in the value of the popular crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and Dogecoin.
Note: You will have to do research and get information from internet.

Assignment Topic for EVEN ID: 3 - Discuss the operating performance and business model of Uber and consider what impact the introduction of Uber had on the price of license plates for taxi licenses within Australia, focusing your analysis a specific state or territory. Your answer should employ taxi directorate or state level price data over the relevant interval.
Note: Visit the website of the companies to get information.

Assignment Topic for EVEN ID: 4 - Analyse the business models of Kmart and BigW. Compare the operating earnings of Kmart with those of BigW over the last five years, ending FY 2018/2019. What are the observable trends in operating performance?
Note: Visit the website of the companies to get information.

Assignment Topic for EVEN ID: 5 - Matthew G. Lanfear, Abraham Lioui, MarkG. Siebert (2019), Market anomalies and disaster risk: Evidence from extreme weather events Based on the finding of this paper, how you would like to analyse the comments of the authors- "Long and short legs react differently and high momentum stocks experience a negative impact on their returns an order of magnitude greater than other stocks. Abnormal illiquidity is only able to account for a small fraction of the observed abnormal returns".

Attachment:- Financial Markets.rar