Don’t leave your family at each other’s throats in your wake
Make a will. Illustration: Getty
Ireland stands on the brink of an “inheritocracy” – with a growing economic divide between young people who can depend on inherited or promised wealth from boomer parents, and those without an inheritance who cannot earn their way into owning a home or other assets.
Who your parents are, rather than what you earn, will matter more as the world’s great wealth transfer from boomers to millennials to Generation Z unfolds in the decades ahead.