Early-Retirement Market Crashes Can Derail 30-Year Plans: Three ETF Strategies to Hedge Sequence Risk
For retirees, the timing of market downturns matters as much as the size—a crash in year one can permanently reduce lifetime purchasing power, making portfolio structure and sequence-of-returns risk critical planning questions.
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