Risk premiums have increased since early September as a function of gold breaking fresh records. The risk premium for options is rising in assets from stocks to gold, even as implied volatility on benchmark indexes has been either steady or falling for most of this year. Most Read from Bloomberg While that may seem counterintuitive, it’s in large part because the actual market swings have been so lackluster. That’s boosting the risk premium, or difference between how much traders expect a market to move ...