The purpose of this paper is to examine the propensity, characteristics and performance of directors' trades. Consistent with prior research we show that on average, directors outperform the market. However, we also find that there exist a large number of trades which do not share these abnormal...

The London Stock Exchange Model Code (1977)imposes a two month close period prior to company earnings announcements where corporate insiders are banned from trading in their own company's securities. We find that although the close period affects the timing of insider trades surrounding both...