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Alternative beta is the concept of managing volatile "alternative investments", often through the use of hedge funds. Alternative beta is often also referred to as "alternative risk premia". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Alternative betaA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Review of Iron Overload in Beta-Thalassemia Major, and a Discussion on Alternative Potent Iron Chelation TargetsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Advances in non-Archimedean analysisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Modulation of the alternative complement pathways by beta 1 H globulin.Cited 419 times
- Go sideways: Hedge fund replicationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Lars JaegerA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A portfolio management strategy that seeks to avoid sensitivity to systematic risk of the market by adding other (although diversified) systematic market factors than those having known correlations to the chart, exploiting mispricing understood as behavioral effects, risk premiums, illiquidity, currency risks, interest risks, liability risks, regulatory risks, demographic risks, war risks etc.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Modulation of the alternative complement pathways by beta 1 H globulin.
Rat cystathionine beta-synthase. Gene organization and alternative splicing.
Time Varying Beta Risk: An Analysis of Alternative Modelling Techniques
Two forms of phospholipase C-beta 1 generated by alternative splicing.
Tissue-specific alternative splicing of the beta-galactoside alpha 2,6-sialyltransferase gene.
Nova1 is a master regulator of alternative splicing in pancreatic beta cells
An alternative cytoplasmic domain of the integrin beta 3 subunit.
Current and future alternative therapies for beta-thalassemia major
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Review of Iron Overload in Beta-Thalassemia Major, and a Discussion on Alternative Potent Iron Chelation Targets
Sox9 regulates alternative splicing and pancreatic beta cell function
Penicillin-Binding Proteins and Alternative Dual-Beta-Lactam Combinations for Serious Enterococcus faecalis Infections with Elevated Penicillin MICs
Alternative microbial-based functional ingredient source for lycopene, beta-carotene, and polyunsaturated fatty acids
Double transgenic neonatal porcine islets as an alternative source for beta cell replacement therapy
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Advances in non-Archimedean analysisInternational Conference on p-Adic Functional Analysis (11th 2010 Université Blaise Pascal) · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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