Sequence of returns risk advice gap
Financial advisors understand sequence of returns risk, but fail to successfully transmit this critical retirement risk concept to retail clients.
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The story so far
CONTESTED · 54 MENTIONS · 15 EPISODES · 12 SHOWS
22 JUL 2026 — 2 AUG 2026 · 4D AGO
43 SUPPORT · 9 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
- THE RATIONAL REMINDER PODCAST · 4 MENTIONS
- Advisors nudge clients toward higher equity allocations
- Advisor fixed effects override client customization
- Target-date funds boost long-term wealth
- Sequence of returns risk advice gap · THIS IDEA
7 EPISODES BETWEEN · 17 MENTIONS
- TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED · 4 MENTIONS
- PLANET MICROCAP PODCAST
- EXCESS RETURNS
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 2 MENTIONS
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY · 3 MENTIONS
- CAPITAL ALLOCATORS · 4 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS · 2 MENTIONS
- THE ACQUIRERS PODCAST · 4 MENTIONS
- THE RATIONAL REMINDER PODCAST · 7 MENTIONS
- Lifecycle investing: young workers should use leverage
- Static all-equity strategy reduces retirement failure rates
- Sequence of returns risk drops with flexible spending
- Variable withdrawals eliminate need for defensive cash allocations
- Shift asset allocation to 100% equity before leveraging
- Redefining risk as goal failure versus volatility
- Leveraged lifecycle strategy diversifies across time
- THE DERIVATIVE · 7 MENTIONS
- Managing uncorrelation versus purchasing tail-risk insurance
- Trend following remains structurally uncorrelated over time
- Institutional asset bucketing hurts multi-asset portfolio retention
- Combining equity beta with trend alpha maximizes efficiency
- Managed futures belong in tactical allocations, not buy-and-hold
- Equities outperform long-term buy-and-hold bond allocations
- Combining managed futures and equities mitigates abandonment
- MASTERS IN BUSINESS
- TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED · 9 MENTIONS
- Portable alpha as a more efficient leverage · CHALLENGES
- Lever concave risks creates disasters
- Positively convex: more risk is less risk
- Markets are permanently coupled through diversification
- Long vol as a band-aid for bad portfolios
- Diversification increases exposure to fractal tails
- Big market moves stem from leverage and correlation
- Market moves are 90% endogenous
- Diversification's benefits depend on payoff
- WSJ WHAT'S NEWS · 4 MENTIONS
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