Rate My Professor Winston Wu

Dr. Winston Wu is a Lecturer of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance, College of Business and Law at Adelaide University. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney. Previously associated with the University of South Australia Business School, his research specializations encompass behavioural finance, empirical asset pricing, and liquidity. Wu's teaching areas include investments and portfolio management, applied research methods, and corporate valuation and risk management. He has taught courses such as BANK 3009 Corporate Valuation and Risk Management (2025), BANK 5016 Managing Financial Risk (2025), BANK 5035 Applied Research in Finance (2025), BANK 1002 Personal Finance (2024), BANK 3017 UO Portfolio and Fund Management (2024), BANK 5016 Managing Financial Risk (2024), BANK 5035 Applied Research in Finance (2024), and BANK 5043 Personal Finance G (2024).

Winston Wu has contributed to the academic field through peer-reviewed publications in prominent finance journals. Key works are: Bradrania, R., Veron, J. F., & Wu, W. (2025). Investor behavior and the beta anomaly: who benefits from betting against beta? Economics Letters. Bradrania, R., Veron, J. F., & Wu, W. (2023). The beta anomaly and the quality effect in international stock markets. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 38, 1-18. Bradrania, R., & Wu, W. (2023). Foreign institutions, local investors and momentum trading. Journal of Empirical Finance, 73, 40-64. Bradrania, R., Elliott, R., & Wu, W. (2022). Institutional ownership and liquidity commonality: evidence from Australia. Accounting and Finance, 62(S1), 1231-1272. Bradrania, R., Grant, A., Westerholm, P. J., & Wu, W. (2017). Fool's mate: what does CHESS tell us about individual investor trading performance? Journal of Accounting and Finance, 57(4), 981-1017. He is eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students.