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title: Predicting Individual Corporate Bond Returns
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4753422/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4753422
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4753422
featured: 2024-03-13
citations: 0
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Predicting Individual Corporate Bond Returns

Machine learning, particularly Random Forest, shows strong evidence of return predictability and investment gains for individual corporate bonds, especially in private bonds.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4753422
- Identifier: SSRN 4753422
- Released: 2024-03-09
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 40 (2024-03-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-03-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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