Neville Kent

Research Student

Neville Kent is affiliated with the Department of Accounting and Finance.

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Biography

I am an experienced actuary having held senior roles within the life and pensions sector over the last 40 years covering investments, financial and strategic planning, risk management, operations, project management, regulatory reporting and mergers and acquisitions. Before qualifying as an actuary I was awarded an Economics degree from Leeds University, and recently completed an MSc in Finance with the Open University.

Current Research

Textual Analysis in Finance and Accounting

The long-term shift in temperature and weather patterns resulting from human activity has the potential to destabilise global financial markets and represents the greatest challenge economies currently face. Governments in response have committed to the delivery of sustainability goals which can only be achieved with large scale investment by companies to create a sustainable circular economy. The disclosure of transparent information by companies, is seen as a pre-requisite to the achievement of these goals. My research proposal seeks to harness advanced machine learning and large language models to identify patterns, trends and predictive indicators within corporate disclosures, earnings reports, and social media content that remain obscured in traditional numerical data analyses.