Empirical Studies on Japanese Daily Mutual Fund Flows and Investor Sentiment

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Based on the analysis of daily mutual fund flows by style, we extract three differently but reasonably interpretable sentiment factors and are able to apply them to derive the single market-wide sentiment which effectively explains equity return cross-section. This result is robust to the use of differently data sets in monthly frequency and other asset classes than equity.