Summary
Susan Thorp is a Professor of Finance and Superannuation in the Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney. Susan’s research focuses on retirement savings and long-horizon wealth management, with particular interest in consumer decision making in superannuation.
She is a member of the Centre for the Study of Choice and the Quantitative Finance Research Centre at UTS, and an associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU, and the National Centre for Econometric Research, QUT.
Susan is a Chief Investigator on two current Australian Research Council projects studying member choices in superannuation. Her publications in leading international journals have included studies of retirement savings portfolio management, annuitisation, retirement income streams, and the value and insurance features of the Age Pension.
Professor Thorp gained her BEc (Hons) from the University of Sydney, and her PhD from the University of New South Wales. She previously worked in the Economic Group at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Experience
- Professor of Finance and Superannuation, University of Technology, Sydney 2011 – present
Education
- University of New South Wales, PhD in Economics, 2005