TY - JOUR T1 - Identifying Profitable Insider Transactions JF - The Journal of Investing SP - 61 LP - 75 DO - 10.3905/joi.2012.21.2.061 VL - 21 IS - 2 AU - Kaspar Dardas Y1 - 2012/05/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/21/2/61.abstract N2 - This article examines long-term excess returns subsequent to directors’ dealings announcements between January 2002 and December 2009 from 17Western European countries. Excess returns are adjusted with equally weighted portfolios that are size and sector neutral. The main findings show that long-term positive (negative) excess returns exist after insider purchase (sell) transactions. Moreover, a simple technique is introduced to detect the most informative directors’dealings, where each transaction is categorized as a low-,medium-, or high-conviction trade. Based on this categorization, out-of-sample high-conviction insider purchases generate an average 12-month excess return of 20.94%, medium-conviction purchases generate 1.32%, and low-conviction purchases generate -3.40%.TOPICS: Legal/regulatory/public policy, statistical methods, equity portfolio management ER -