A bold Greek with a hat

[Nirmal Govind]

Hi.. I'm trying to get a hat (^) on a bold greek symbol such as 
\beta .. I have the equivalent of the following LaTeX code: 
\hat{\boldsymbol{\beta}} .. however, the ^ is misplaced since it's 
not directly above the beta as it usually is if it were just 
\hat{\beta} .. so I tried \boldsymbol{\hat{\beta}} and now the hat's 
placement is fine but the hat is also in bold..  what is the correct 
way to get a non-bold hat on a bold symbol?

Thanks,
nirmal