Rate My Professor Kian Tan

Dr. Eric (Kian) Tan is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours from Monash University. In his career at UQ, he has served as Finance PhD Coordinator from 2020 to 2025, Chair of the FIRN Asset Management Meeting, Convenor of the Student Managed Investment Fund, and Health and Safety Representative for the UQ Business School. He is also a member of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law’s Lower Risk Ethics Review Panel and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Tan’s research focuses on funds management, investments, and empirical corporate finance, particularly institutional investors such as mutual funds and hedge funds, alongside corporate finance and banking topics including executive compensation, ownership structure, capital structure, and climate transition risk. His publications appear in prestigious journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and European Journal of Operational Research. Key works include “Do banks engage in earnings management? The role of dividends and institutional factors” (2024), “Complements or substitutes? The effect of ETFs on other managed funds” (2024), “The investment behavior of China-connected mutual funds in the pandemic: Information advantage through operational link” (2024), “Media uncertainty and risk-taking” (2024), “Climate transition risk in U.S. loan portfolios: are all banks the same?” (2023), “Shared experience in top management team and mutual fund performance” (2022), and “Political connections, tacit power and corporate misconduct” (2022). He has earned best paper awards at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium (2016), FIRN Annual Conference (2017), and UWA Accounting and Finance Research Forum (2018), as well as the Enhancing the First-Year Experience teaching award and Excellence in MBA Education award (both 2024). Tan regularly referees for leading journals like The Review of Financial Studies and has presented at American Finance Association and European Finance Association conferences, securing grants from AFAANZ and industry partners.