In August 1976 the then Federal Treasurer foreshadowed the incorporation in the Income Tax Assessment Act, 1936 of a severely modified form of the Mathews Committee's (1975) recommendations on trading stock. This paper documents the existence of substantial “tax-free†capital gains to...

We analyze a novel alpha momentum strategy that invests in stocks based on three-factor alphas which we estimate using daily returns. The empirical analysis for the U.S. and for Europe shows that (i) past alpha has power in predicting the cross-section of stock returns; (ii) alpha momentum...