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Markowitz Portfolio

Optimal portfolio weighting that maximises return per unit of risk.

Harry Markowitz's 1952 mean-variance framework finds the portfolio weights that sit on the "efficient frontier" — the set of portfolios with the highest expected return for each level of volatility.

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Solved via: scipy.optimize.minimize(neg_sharpe, weights)

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