pcrm-book 1.0.8

Accompanying Python code to the Portfolio Construction and Risk Management book by Anton Vorobets.

Portfolio Construction and Risk Management book's Python code

This repository contains the accompanying code to Portfolio Construction and Risk Management book © 2025 by Anton Vorobets.

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Running the code

It is recommended to install the book's code dependencies in a conda environment.

After cloning the repository to your local machine, you can install the dependencies using the following command in your terminal:

conda env create -f environment.yml

You can then activate the conda environment and start a JupyterLab instance using the following commands:

conda activate pcrm-book
jupyter lab

If you are completely new to conda environments and Jupyter notebooks, you can find a lot of information online.

You can also run the code without any local installations using Binder. Note however that Binder servers are not always available and might have insufficient resources to run all the examples.

Feedback

Please post your feedback in the community Discussions forum. I will try to incorporate the feedback in the book. See the book's preface for some general perspectives on what it tries to achieve, and which kind feedback will be considered appropriate.

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Licenses

The Portfolio Construction and Risk Management book © 2025 by Anton Vorobets is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

The accompanying code to the Portfolio Construction and Risk Management book © 2025 by Anton Vorobets is licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html