Rate My Professor Simon Cottrell

Dr. Simon Cottrell serves as Senior Lecturer in Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance, College of Business and Law, at Adelaide University. He earned his Ph.D. researching commercial bank debt funding programs. Cottrell's professional career commenced in a senior treasury role at an Australian commercial bank, overseeing interest rate risk, balance sheet liquidity, regulatory capital, capital management plans, wholesale funding programs, and cross-currency and interest rate swap strategies. After completing his doctorate, he took up academic positions at several Australian universities and higher education institutions, such as Flinders University and Federation University Australia, where he coordinated postgraduate and undergraduate courses in corporate finance and financial markets. Additionally, he taught online finance and economics courses to international MBA students. Before his current role, Cottrell was Program Coordinator for Finance and Financial Planning and Research Degree Coordinator for Finance and Property at the University of South Australia's Business School. There, he contributed to the Centre for Markets, Values, and Inclusion and held allied membership in the Financial Planning Association.

His research focuses on areas including credit default swap markets, commercial bank debt funding, interest rate risk, balance sheet liquidity, regulatory capital, wholesale funding programs, US Treasury market default risk, global interbank liquidity risk, credit spreads of oil companies, liquidity shocks in BRICS countries, foreign monetary policy effects on bank funding costs, and the role of financial integration in East Asian economic growth. Notable publications include "US Treasury market default risk and global interbank liquidity risk" (Borsa Istanbul Review, 2025, with J. Lei, Y. Ma, S. Delpachitra); "What drives credit spreads of oil companies? Evidence from the upstream, integrated and downstream industries" (The Energy Journal, 2023, with Y. Ma et al.); "Does foreign monetary policy drive Australian banks' wholesale funding costs?" (Global Finance Journal, 2021, with S. Karpavičius); and "Real exchange rate and economic growth in East Asian countries: the role of financial integration" (Singapore Economic Review, 2017, with P.V. Dai, S. Delpachitra). Cottrell currently co-supervises doctoral candidates on geopolitical risks in financial markets and the impact of banquet fees on firm risk. In teaching, he delivers courses like BANK 2008 Introduction to Financial Planning, BANK 5013 Investment Management, and BUSS 5446 Ethics and Professionalism.