Among the various strategies studied in this paper, only momentum investing appears to earn persistently non-zero returns: from 1965 to 2014, the classical momentum strategy based on performance over the previous two to twelve months earned an average return of 1.57% per month (excluding...

For the U.S it has been shown that insiders and their imitators, on average, do not earn profits net of transaction costs. For Germany, we find that profitable insider trading is related to index membership. For the TecDAX, we find for purchases that insiders and imitators earn large and...

Existing time series of the returns on German stocks are either short or have weaknesses. We discuss the problems of creating such a time series and then report our monthly series based on all stocks in the top segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. We compare our return series with the...

Due to the success of the Fama/French three-factor model, many factor sets for non-U.S. stock markets have been estimated and applied. Exporting a specific factor model from the U.S. to another country seems to be an easy and well-defined task. We use the example of Germany to illustrate that...