UntitledFinancial/alternative-asset-literacy-glossary

Alternative Asset Literacy Glossary

351 research-sourced financial terms across 6 categories: Alternative Assets, Art, DeFi & Crypto, ESG & Climate, Behavioral Economics, and Gender Lens Investing.

Built for the Alternative Asset Literacy iOS platform by Victoria Lee Case, Untitled_ LuxPerpetua Technologies, Inc.

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Dataset Description

This glossary covers financial terminology used in alternative asset education. It is distinct from standard financial glossaries in two ways:

1. DeFi depth — 101 terms covering blockchain fundamentals, DeFi protocols, stablecoins, yield mechanics, CBDCs, MiCA/SEC regulation, and real world asset tokenization
2. Gender lens investing — 17 terms covering a category almost entirely absent from standard financial glossaries: gender bonds, the 2X Challenge, WEPs, board diversity metrics, and gender-smart portfolio construction

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Categories

Category	Terms	Coverage
Art	111	Auction mechanics, provenance, authentication, fractional ownership, art-secured lending, NFTs, artist estates
DeFi & Crypto	101	Blockchain, AMMs, stablecoins, yield farming, DAOs, CBDCs, regulation, RWAs
Alternative Assets	47	Private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, commodities, GP/LP structures, fee waterfall
ESG & Climate	42	Green bonds, carbon credits, TCFD, EU Taxonomy, SFDR, SBTi, blended finance, greenwashing
Behavioral Economics	33	Cognitive biases, loss aversion, anchoring, overconfidence, Kahneman/Tversky/Thaler frameworks
Gender Lens Investing	17	Gender bonds, 2X Challenge, WEPs, gender wealth gap, structural barriers, gender-smart strategies

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Data Format

Each record contains:

{
  "term": "Carried Interest",
  "definition": "The share of profits earned by a fund manager (general partner) as performance compensation, typically 20% of gains above a hurdle rate. Carried interest is taxed as capital gains rather than ordinary income in the US, a source of ongoing tax policy debate.",
  "category": "alternative-assets"
}

Fields:

• term (string) — Financial term, proper-cased
• definition (string) — Plain-language definition, research-sourced
• category (string) — One of: alternative-assets, art, behavioral-economics, defi, esg-climate, gender-lens

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Intended Uses

• Financial education NLP tasks
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for finance assistants
• Fine-tuning language models on alternative asset vocabulary
• Question-answering benchmarks for financial literacy
• Semantic search over specialized financial terminology

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Source and Attribution

Definitions are sourced from:

• MoMA (art terminology)
• Investopedia (general finance)
• CoinGecko (DeFi/crypto)
• GIIN (impact investing)
• Original research by Untitled_ LuxPerpetua Technologies, Inc.

Full bibliography: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1Ferik7yRl8Y6d/bibliography/public/

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License

CC BY-NC 4.0 — Free for educational and research use. Commercial use requires written permission from Untitled_ LuxPerpetua Technologies, Inc.

Contact: legal@untitledfinancial.com

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Related Resources

• Platform: alternativeassetliteracy.com
• iOS App: Alternative Asset Literacy — App Store
• MCP Server: alternativeassetliteracy.com/mcp — 13 tools including glossary.lookup, glossary.search, glossary.browse
• Machine-readable glossary: alternativeassetliteracy.com/aal-glossary.json

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Citation

@dataset{aal_glossary_2026,
  title     = {Alternative Asset Literacy Glossary},
  author    = {Case, Victoria Lee},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Untitled_ LuxPerpetua Technologies, Inc.},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/untitledfinancial/alternative-asset-literacy-glossary},
  license   = {CC BY-NC 4.0}
}