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● pyportfolioopt — external
PyPortfolioOpt
A Python library for portfolio construction covering mean-variance optimization, Black-Litterman, shrinkage risk models, hierarchical risk parity and discrete share allocation.
added 2026-08-17 · MIT · external
$ pip install pyportfoliooptpyportfolioopt ├─ expected returns ├─ risk models ├─ efficient frontier ├─ black-litterman ├─ hierarchical risk parity └─ discrete allocation
PyPortfolioOpt is the allocation layer of a strategy: it turns expected-return and covariance
estimates into portfolio weights, then into an integer share basket. The pypfopt package ships
expected_returns.py, risk_models.py (including shrinkage estimators), efficient_frontier/,
objective_functions.py, black_litterman.py, cla.py for the Critical Line Algorithm,
hierarchical_portfolio.py for Hierarchical Risk Parity, and discrete_allocation.py. Usage is
fully programmatic and needs no key or account — from pypfopt import EfficientFrontier, risk_models, expected_returns over a price DataFrame — and the README names its intended reader as
“an algorithmic trader who has a basket of strategies”.
The library is peer-reviewed: PyPortfolioOpt: portfolio optimization in Python appeared in the
Journal of Open Source Software 6(61):3066, submitted 25 February 2021 and published 7 May 2021
(JOSS). Maintenance is live rather than
nominal, with 41 commits on main in the trailing twelve months and the most recent on 2026-07-07.
Stewardship has moved. Originally Robert Andrew Martin’s single-author project, the repository was
transferred to the PyPortfolio GitHub organization, created 2025-11-08 and holding this one
public repository; GC.OS, the non-profit German Center for Open Source AI, lists PyPortfolioOpt
among its featured projects. That relationship is evidenced by a README badge and the gcos.ai
listing rather than by any governance document in the repo, and two artifacts of the move remain:
the JOSS paper’s metadata still points at the pre-transfer robertmartin8/PyPortfolioOpt URL, and
CONTRIBUTING.md is still written in the original author’s first person.
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