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Python for Finance, 3rd Edition
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Python for Finance, 3rd Edition

by Yves Hilpisch
March 2027
Intermediate
750 pages
14h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 17. Asset Management Foundations

Asset management turns investment objectives, constraints, and market views into systematic portfolio decisions. This chapter frames the asset management problem, introduces key actors and mandates, and links investment intent to the data structures that underpin research, implementation, and reporting. Later chapters in this part use these foundations to build concrete portfolios, signals, and reporting workflows in Python.

The chapter defines the asset management problem space, from long-only benchmarked mandates to more flexible multi-asset strategies. It shows how asset owners, asset managers, and mandates fit together; how objectives, benchmarks, and constraints drive portfolio design; and how cross-sectional, time series, and panel data structures support systematic workflows.

To follow along, you need a working Python environment with numpy and pandas installed, familiarity with basic return and risk concepts from earlier chapters, and access ...

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