The great wealth transfer. Roughly $80–100 trillion passes from Boomers to heirs and charities over two decades.
Scaling Compounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data. Largest effect expected 2025–2045.
Second-order effects
Wealth managers fight to keep assets through the generational handoff; estate lawyers and trust companies scale; heirs in midlife receive money exactly when they are paying for children and parents. Inheritance rather than wages becomes the main route to home ownership, hardening inequality between families.
Its neighbourhood
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
Solutions it accelerates
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
If this trend is real, these are the numbers that will show it first.