Richard L. Peterson
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Richard L. Peterson

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Richard L. Peterson MD works at the intersection of mind and markets. He is CEO of MarketPsych which has been at the forefront of natural language processing and AI for finance since 2006. Today MarketPsych's software and data powers alpha generation, thematic investing, narrative monitoring, sustainability, and risk management. MarketPsych's software is behind global Yahoo! Finance news sites and its data is distributed through LSEG to clients in 25+ countries. Research involving the company's data has been published in 500+ academic papers in top journals including The Journal of Finance.

Called "Wall Street's Top Psychiatrist" (Associated Press), Peterson's financial psychology research has been published in leading academic journals, textbooks, and profiled in the financial media including NPR, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the BBC. His book, "Inside the Investor's Brain" (Wiley, 2007), was praised as "outstanding" and a "seminal text" by Barrons. With Frank Murtha PhD he co-authored "MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity" (Wiley, 2010). Both books were named top financial books of their respective years by Kiplinger's. His new book "Trading on Sentiment" was published in March 2016 and is slated to be released in Chinese and Japanese in coming months.

Dr. Peterson earned cum laude degrees in electrical engineering, arts, and medicine (MD) from the University of Texas, performed post-graduate neuroeconomics research at Stanford University, and is Board-certified in psychiatry. He lives in California with his family.
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