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Insider trading − the legal kind −is a lot more profitable if you work for a multinational company
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Dallin Alldredge, Florida International University
Executives and other high-level inside traders at US companies with global sales earned about three times as much in a month as the average investor, a new study found.
What is insider trading? Two finance experts explain why it matters toeveryone
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
The SEC is investigating whether executives at First Republic Bank, which was seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase, improperly traded on inside information.
For richer, for poorer: how married CEOs are less prone to risky investing and insidertrading
Prasad Hegde, Auckland University of Technology; Nhut (Nick) H. Nguyen, Auckland University of Technology; Rui (Mary) Ma, La Trobe University, and Shushu Liao, Kühne Logistics University
New research suggests being married influences a CEO’s appetite for opportunistic insider trading and the subsequent risk of prosecution.
Could better regulation reconcile trading andethics?
Aziza Laguecir, EDHEC Business School and Bernard Leca, ESSEC
The regulatory apparatus designed to oversee investment banking is structurally flawed. To spawn ethical behaviour within traders will require nothing less than a sector-wide cultural change.
What’s insider trading and why it’s a bigproblem
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is pushing for a ban on active trading by members of Congress following accusations that some of their colleagues may have engaged in insider trading.
Australia’s insider trading laws might not apply to super – here’s why theyshould
Juliette Overland, University of Sydney
ASIC suspects some super fund trustees of using inside information for personal gain, but they might not be caught by the insider trading laws.
Insider trading has become moresubtle
Barry Oliver, The University of Queensland
Chief executives have moved on from buying while spreading bad news. They’re buying while spreading uncertainty.
DOJ drops investigation into three senators for insider trading; Burr probecontinues
Stanley M. Brand, Penn State
Did members of Congress illegally sell stocks after getting inside information about the pandemic from federal officials? A former lawyer for the House says proving such cases is very difficult.
What is insider trading, the crime Rep. Chris Collins was chargedwith?
Jena Martin, West Virginia University and Karen Kunz, West Virginia University
Insider trading, like what Rep. Chris Collins is accused of engaging in, is one of the sexier crimes in securities law.
To protect markets we need strict penalties for insidertrading
Juliette Overland, University of Sydney
For the first ever case a corporation was fined for insider trading. But we should consider stiffer penalties to protect markets.
Insider trading is greedy, not glamorous, and it hurts usall
Danika Wright, University of Sydney
It doesn’t matter how much Oliver Curtis and John Hartman stood to gain from insider trading, what matters is what we all lose from market tampering.
Seven-year sentence for insider trading unlikely to deterothers
Michael Adams, Western Sydney University
The sentences handed to insider traders Lukas Kamay and Christopher Hill send a strong message, but preventing the opportunity for such crimes to occur is just as important.
White collar crime and metadata: beware of building a newhoneypot
John Selby, Macquarie University
Businesses as well as individuals could soon see their metadata retained, making the data storage points even more attractive to criminals.
Infographic: insider trading inAustralia
Charis Palmer, The Conversation and Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation
The typical insider trader is male, aged between 30 and 49, and holds a company director position, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Melbourne. The study analysed all insider…
Wall Street tries to weed out the wolves while London stayssheepish
Marc Goergen, Cardiff University
When Mathew Martoma, the former portfolio manager of SAC Capital, was sentenced to nine years in prison for insider trading last week, much of the comment was about how harsh the punishment looked. It…
Insider trading part of one in fourdeals
New York University
A quarter of all publicly traded deals involve insider trading, but with less than 5% resulting in litigation, the vast majority…
Heartbleed bug: insider trading may have taken place as shares slid ahead of breakingstory
Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
Here is a puzzle for you. Why did shares in Yahoo! slide by nearly 10% in the days before Heartbleed was announced and then recover after the main news items broke? It has long been the case that security…
SAC Capital and the curious economics of insidertrading
Piotr Korczak, University of Bristol
A US judge has approved a US$1.2 billion settlement and accepted a guilty plea by hedge fund SAC Capital in what has been described as the largest insider trading settlement in the country’s history. Eight…
Low penalties, high costs: ASIC needs legislativereform
Suzanne Le Mire, University of Adelaide
In 2005, the Federal Court faced the difficult task of arriving at a penalty for Steve Vizard after he was found in breach of his duties as a director of Telstra. In his judgment, Raymond Finkelstein criticised…
Insider trading gets more scrutiny, but convictions may notflow
Juliette Overland, University of Sydney
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is moving to “real-time” monitoring of share trading as another weapon in the ongoing fight against insider trading. But will the use of this form of…
