This study examines the patterns of, and long-run returns to, directors’ (insiders’) trades along the value-glamour continuum in all stocks listed on the main London Stock Exchange and analyses what these directors’ trades add to a naïve value-glamour strategy. We consider alternative...

This paper examines the performance of personal pensions (exempt unit trusts) in the UK 1980-2000. Unitised personal pension schemes are a type of mutual fund that is constituted as a contractual savings scheme, whose value can only be accessed at retirement. By studying the performance of these...

The significant impact of method of payment on the share price abnormal returns following mergers and acquisitions have been broadly considered and documented in US and UK empirical studies (Agrawal and Jaffe 2000). In the UK, all-cash acquisitions show insignificant negative or small positive...