This document discusses using sentiment analysis and behavioral finance to generate investment returns. It outlines how natural language processing can extract sentiment and behavioral biases from public and private investor communications. These extracted features are then used to construct factor portfolios targeting specific market anomalies related to biases. Preliminary results show some behavioral factors have significant premiums and improve upon traditional models like Fama-French in explaining returns. Overall the approach aims to take advantage of cognitive and emotional biases to identify new sources of excess return, or "alpha".
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