4 In the Physics literature, there are papers that also consider super skewness(fifth moment) or the super flatness/kurtosis (sixth moment) (Frenkiel and Klebanoff, 1965; Garg and Warhaft, 1998; Lindgren et al., 2004). In general, though, it holds that the higher the kurtosis, the lower is the probability that even higher moments exist. Given that asset returns are typically characterized by a high kurtosis, it is not surprising that we are not aware of any paper in Finance that goes beyond the fourth moment.5. The first moment under the risk-neutral return distribution is known ex-ante,which is why we only concentrate on higher moments.6. One might wonder whether there are sufficient data on options for long matu-rities. We find that for the stocks considered in our sample, there are on average 8 strikes with positive bid price for calls and 7 for puts for times-to-maturity be-tween half a year and a year and about 5 for each for times-to-maturity above one year. The shares of stocks with multiple strikes available are also substantial forboth horizons. This data should be sufficient to accurately estimate and interpolate option-implied moments. Nevertheless, in Section 5.5 we also consider shorter horizons for the implied moments ranging from one month to twelve months, forwhich there are typically even more strikes with a positive bid price available, andfind results that are very similar.7. Theoretically, any sophisticated model for the prediction of realized or impliedmoments can be applied here, including stock characteristics or macroeconomic variables. We decide to rely on a very intuitive model using the lagged moments which should be directly linked to the persistence and predictability of the moments.