Sequence risk is not the ogre of the aged
![If you accept risk as part of life, your savings should last nearer to life's end.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170613180541/http://www.afr.com/content/dam/images/g/i/b/j/r/y/image.related.afrIndexLead.320x210.gimwfj.png/1441516476538.jpg)
Discussions of sequence or series risk regularly appear in the financial media and are increasingly appearing in the general press. In simple terms, fear of sequence risk drives investors to take equity and growth asset exposures out of their retirement portfolios.