The Real Investment Show (Full Show)
Oct 6, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
You can earn a solid average return in retirement and still run out of money. The reason may be sequence of returns risk — the danger of suffering significant market losses early in retirement, while…
Lance RobertsHost
Jonathan PennGuest
We're going to be talking a little bit about the math that breaks retirements today, and that's the sequence of returns risk.

We're going to get into a little bit of that today, what that means, what causes it, and why it's important today really pretty much more than ever before.

And it's interesting when we take a look at economic activity, it's really remaining fairly robust right now.

Even in the face of higher interest rates and higher oil prices, the services and manufacturing indexes are still posting pretty strong expansionary growth levels, at least at this point.

And that's a lot of that's due to the fact that, you know, we have all this capex spending, hundreds of billions of dollars of capex spending is coming in.

We've talked about this before, but that is feeding into the data that's helping support earnings.

And as we get ready and gear up now for the Q3 earnings season, which is starting this week, we have a few reports this week.

By the end of this month, basically, once we get towards the last week of the month, we'll have about 70% of the S&P we'll have reported.

So it's about to get very, very busy in terms of earnings reports here over the next couple weeks.

We're going to be talking a little bit about the math that breaks retirements today, and that's the sequence of returns risk.

We're going to get into a little bit of that today, what that means, what causes it, and why it's important today really pretty much more than ever before.

And it's interesting when we take a look at economic activity, it's really remaining fairly robust right now.

Even in the face of higher interest rates and higher oil prices, the services and manufacturing indexes are still posting pretty strong expansionary growth levels, at least at this point.

And that's a lot of that's due to the fact that, you know, we have all this capex spending, hundreds of billions of dollars of capex spending is coming in.

We've talked about this before, but that is feeding into the data that's helping support earnings.

And as we get ready and gear up now for the Q3 earnings season, which is starting this week, we have a few reports this week.

By the end of this month, basically, once we get towards the last week of the month, we'll have about 70% of the S&P we'll have reported.

So it's about to get very, very busy in terms of earnings reports here over the next couple weeks.
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