We study implications of partial versus full disclosure requirements on mutual fund trading and performance, by exploiting a unique hybrid disclosure policy in China, requiring full disclosure at a semi-annual frequency, but only disclosure of top-10 holdings at other quarters. Under partial...

Most existing text-based sentiment measures in finance are lexicon-based which are effectively based on word counts of positive and negative sentiment dictionaries, and naturally lose most information. We measure news sentiment using BERT, a state-of-the-art large language model, which reads and...