We study the relation between cognitive abilities and stockholding using the recent Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which has detailed data on wealth and portfolio composition of individuals aged 50+ in 11 European countries and three indicators of cognitive abilities:...

This article examines an equity pairs trading strategy using daily, weekly and monthly European share price data over the period 1998–2007. The authors shows that when stocks are matched into pairs with minimum distance between normalised historical prices, a simple trading rule based on...