Vectorized Portfolio Risk - python

Im have N pairs of portfolio weights stored in a numpy array and would like to calculate portfolio risk which is w * E * w_T where w_T is weight transpose. The way I came up with is to loop through each weight pair and apply the matrix multiplication. Is there a vectorized approach to this such that given a weight pair (or if possible N weights that all sum to 1) I apply a single covariance matrix to each row to get the risk (ie without loop)?
import numpy as np
w = np.array([[0.2,0.8],[0.5,0.5]])
covar = np.array([0.000046,0.000017,0.000017,0.000032]).reshape([2,2])
w1 = w[0].reshape([1,2]) # each row in w
#portfolio risk
np.dot(np.dot(w1,covar),w1.T)

#Adam's answer is valid, but for big arrays, can result with very big temporary arrays (NxN), and unnecessary computations (computing the off-diagonal elements).
Here's a similar, yet much more efficient solution:
(I added another weight-pair, to distinguish between the different dimensions of the problem)
w = np.array([[0.2,0.8],[0.5,0.5], [0.33, 0.67]])
covar = np.array([0.000046,0.000017,0.000017,0.000032]).reshape([2,2])
(np.dot(w, covar) * w).sum(axis=-1)
=> array([ 2.77600000e-05, 2.80000000e-05, 2.68916000e-05])
By using plain-multiplication in the second step, I'm avoiding the unnecessary compuations of the off-diagonals.
EDIT: explaining the temporary arrays
# first multiplication (in both solutions)
np.dot(w, covar).shape
(3, 2)
# second, my solution
(np.dot(w, covar) * w).shape
(3, 2)
# second, Adam's solution
np.dot(np.dot(w,covar),w.T).shape
(3, 3)
Now, if you have N sets of weights you want to compute risk for (in this example N=3), and M instruments in your portfolio (here M=2), and N>>M, you get an array which is much bigger with Adam's solution (NxN). Not only that it will consume more memory, the computation populating the off-diagonal elements are expensive (matrix multiplication), and unnecessary.

It seems like your code is already set up for a vectorized approach, but you are only dealing with one row at a time. Grabbing the diagonals from the result when using your full weight matrix should give you what you want.
# portfolio risk
np.diagonal(np.dot(np.dot(w,covar),w.T))

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