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title: Credit Factor Investing Challenges
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4700056/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4700056
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4700056
featured: 2024-01-23
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Credit Factor Investing Challenges

The article suggests that factor investing in corporate bonds can be successful despite challenges like nontradable assets and high transaction costs, with realistic expectations and avoidance of common mistakes.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4700056
- Identifier: SSRN 4700056
- Released: 2021-03-11
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 34 (2024-01-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-01-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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