Beyond the Efficient Frontier: How I Built a Self-Healing AI Portfolio Optimizer using XGBoost and Genetic Algorithms

In the world of quantitative finance, the "Holy Grail" is a portfolio that maximizes returns while minimizing risk. But in the 2020s, a third constraint has emerged: Sustainability (ESG). For one of my pre-final year projects at IIT Guwahati, I didn'...