finalytics 1.0.0rc1

Finalytics is a portfolio analytics engine written in Rust, with this typed Python package over it. It compares portfolio optimisation methods on returns they have not seen, and keeps the books of a real portfolio to report its performance, risk and attribution.

pip install finalytics            # with NumPy
pip install "finalytics[pandas]"  # with pandas

Until 1.0.0 is released, pip install finalytics gives 0.9; install a 1.0 pre-release with pip install --pre finalytics. The migration guide explains what replaces each part of 0.9.

Sample reports, built by the programs below from the bundled datasets: comparison · backtest · optimisation · portfolio · rebalance

Portfolio optimisation

Compare optimisation methods on the same assets. Each method is refitted every quarter on the five years before, and judged on the quarter that follows.

import finalytics as fl

assets = fl.Assets(fl.datasets.asset_class_prices(), risk_free_asset="T-Bills")

result = assets.compare(
    methods=[
        "equal_weight",
        "minimum_variance",
        "maximum_sharpe",
        "maximum_diversification",
        "risk_parity",
        "hierarchical_risk_parity",
    ],
    max_weight=0.40,
    rebalance="quarterly",
    validation=fl.WalkForward(years=5),
    trading_cost_bps=10,
)

result.show()

Every result has the same shape: result.report is the report, which print(result) prints as text and result.show() opens as a page (inline in a Jupyter notebook), and result.results holds every return and trade behind it.

To test one allocation, give a method or your own weights. Here, the maximum Sharpe ratio fitted to the years before November 2016, held from then on against a 60/40 benchmark:

result = assets.backtest(
    method="maximum_sharpe",
    max_weight=0.40,
    benchmark={"US Equity": 0.60, "Bonds": 0.40},
    rebalance="quarterly",
    validation=fl.Holdout(start="2016-11-01"),
)

result.show()

To see the weights a method chooses today, where their risk comes from and where they sit on the efficient frontier:

result = assets.optimise(
    method="maximum_sharpe", max_weight=0.40, frontier=True
)

result.show()

Portfolio analytics

Load a portfolio from its transactions and prices, and report on it: holdings, performance, risk, attribution and scenarios.

import finalytics as fl

portfolio = fl.Portfolio.from_csv(
    transactions="transactions.csv",
    prices="prices.csv",
    fx="fx.csv",
    instruments="instruments.csv",
    accounts="accounts.csv",
)

report = portfolio.report(benchmark="BENCH", group_by=["asset_class", "region"])

report.show()

The files are the portfolio dataset: a household's brokerage and retirement accounts, holding five funds in dollars and euros for three years. fl.datasets.file("portfolio/prices.csv") and the like return each of them, and fl.datasets.portfolio() loads the same portfolio without them. BENCH is a column of prices.csv, the benchmark's levels; asset_class and region are columns of instruments.csv that classify each holding. The sample report adds the attribution and scenarios of fl.datasets.report_options().

id,kind,currency,name,class.asset_class,class.region
VTI,fund,USD,Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF,Equity,North America
EXSA,fund,EUR,iShares STOXX Europe 600 UCITS ETF (DE),Equity,Europe

date,VTI,EXSA,BND,GLD,VNQ,BENCH
2023-11-01,208.86,43.21,68.99,183.51,73.37,100.0000
2023-11-02,213.01,43.92,69.39,184.12,75.78,101.4345

id,name,lot_method,taxable,class.owner,class.wrapper
brokerage,Brokerage account,fifo,true,Alex,Taxable
ira,Retirement account,fifo,false,Alex,Tax-deferred

To move the same funds to their least risky mix, 5% to 40% each, optimise the holdings and rebalance the accounts together, with fees and tax rates:

target = portfolio.assets().optimise(
    method="minimum_variance", bounds=(0.05, 0.40)
)

result = portfolio.rebalance(
    target, whole_units=True, fee_bps=5, minimum_fee=1, tax=(0.37, 0.20)
)

result.show()

Sales in the brokerage account take the lots that cost the least tax; the retirement account is not taxable (taxable is false in accounts.csv), so its sales pay none. portfolio.with_rebalance(result) makes the trades.

What is included

Optimisation

• Equal weight, minimum variance, mean–variance and robust mean–variance, maximum Sharpe, target return or volatility, maximum diversification, minimum CVaR, risk parity, hierarchical risk parity
• Limits on each asset and on groups, turnover, tracking error and factor exposure
• Black–Litterman and resampled estimates; Ledoit–Wolf, OAS and EWMA covariance
• Validation in sample, on a holdout, or walk-forward; calendar or drift rebalancing; trading costs

Analytics

• Books from transactions: lots, corporate actions, several accounts and currencies
• Time- and money-weighted returns, contribution, Brinson–Fachler and currency attribution
• Volatility, drawdowns, value at risk, risk decomposition, factor models and scenarios
• Rebalancing trades with fees and tax-aware lot selection, across accounts

Every report prints as text, 80 columns wide, and shows as one self-contained HTML page, in light and dark. Every model is tested against an independent implementation; the methods pages define each one.

Beneath the front doors, fl.risk, fl.opt and fl.performance give each method on its own, and results are frozen dataclasses with documented fields (see finalytics.types). Wheels are published for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Documentation

Data guide · Methods · Performance · Migrating from 0.9 · Source and issues

Contributing and licence

Contributions are welcome: see CONTRIBUTING.md. Finalytics is licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option. It provides analysis tools only and is not investment advice.