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by MattGaiser 1796 days ago
Former equity analyst intern and now a software engineer here. My Dad also works in the investment world (and is a CPA and a developer coincidentally) and after Sino Forest happened, he wanted someone to parse annual reports and AIFs create a "weasel word index." Ever thought of doing that?

Basically rank companies in estimated honesty by the language they choose to use.

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Aw cool! Can I hang out with your Dad? ;) We do pick up on overly promotional/jargon-y language to some extent. For the most part, however, word lists haven't worked for us.