In this paper the integrated risk measure of Damant and Satchell (1996) is used to formulate an investor's utility function and the properties of this function are investigated. The authors calibrate their utility function for a typical UK investor who would hold different proportions of equity....

The purpose of this paper is to consider how to forecast implied volatility for a selection of UK companies with traded options on their stocks. The authors consider a range of GARCH and log--ARFIMA based models as well as some simple forecasting models. Overall, it is found that a log-ARFIMA...

This paper proposes the unobserved fundamental component of volatility as a measure of risk. This concept of fundamental volatility may be more meaningful than observed volatility for market regulators. Fundamental volatility may be obtained using a stochastic volatility model. The authors...

The purpose of this paper is to build an asset pricing model for emerging markets using higher moments. It is well-known that conventional CAPM models fail to explain the risk present in the data. The contribution of this paper is to use an extended CAPM that explicitly involves measures of...