Fund Volatility Index using equity market state prices |
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| Authors: | Michael J. O'Neill Zhangxin Liu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia;2. Business School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The Fund Volatility Index (FVX) is proposed as a forward measure of volatility with applications in fund hedging and risk management. The method applies equity market state prices to individual fund pay‐offs. FVX is validated as a predictor of short‐term realised volatility for 30 exchange traded funds. Performance of the method is compared with existing methods using a data set of 14 925 non‐traded funds. FVX has lower bias and higher forecast accuracy than existing methods. As a more general measure, it allows for incorporation of terms to capture individual fund skewness and projection of higher moments of returns. |
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| Keywords: | State price volatility Mutual fund |
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