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Do Macro Variables Help Forecast the Yield Curve? Three Honest Experiments

A follow-up to the yield-curve forecasting post. I add inflation, the repo rate, the rand and the VIX to the forecasts in three wa...

2026/06/14
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Forecasting South African Government Bond Yields

I raced about twenty forecasting models against each other on SA government bond yield buckets, and the humble random walk turned ...

2026/05/31
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ML-Driven TFSA ETF Portfolio Optimization for EE

I built a LightGBM pipeline to pick ETFs for my EE TFSA and it beats the JSE Top 40 by 6–9% annualised. Over-engineered retirement...

2026/05/17

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Do Macro Variables Help Forecast the Yield Curve? Three Honest Experiments

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Easy Equities TFSA ETF Analytics

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Forecasting South African Government Bond Yields

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