Commodity index futures offer a versatile tool for gaining different forms of exposure to commodity markets. Volatility is a critical input in many of these applications. This paper examines issues in modelling the conditional variance of futures returns based on the Goldman Sachs Commodity...

The value premium remains a puzzle despite considerable research effort in accounting for the higher returns earned by value stocks relative to growth stocks. A rational explanation is that value stocks are more risky than growth stocks. We seek to validate the risk argument in a nonparametric...