Every investor strives to balance two conflicting goals: Maximizing their investment returns and minimizing their risk. Beta offers a way to measure the amount of risk you’re taking on for a given ...

In nuclear beta decay an up quark ‘u’ in a proton converts into an up down quark ‘d,’ turning the proton into a neutron and emitting a positron and a neutrino. This work affects interpretation of beta ...

The beta of an investment security, like a stock or group of stocks, measures its correlation and volatility of returns relative to the market, or broader benchmark, and is an important ...