{"id":644383,"date":"2026-06-18T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644383\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:29:09","slug":"opinion-three-powerful-forces-are-draining-family-wealth-and-your-estate-plan-is-completely-unprepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644383\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Three powerful forces are draining family wealth \u2014 and your estate plan is completely unprepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated: June 17, 2026 at 4:40\u202fp.m. ET<br \/>First Published: June 17, 2026 at 9:24\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-ucetlp-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The largest wealth transfer in human history is <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/advisor\/articles\/great-wealth-transfer-next-generation-advisor-682e419f?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D79685346126430415411063066419221383381%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1781674454\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moving through American families right now.<\/a> The wealth itself is real, accumulated by the baby boomer generation through four decades of strong stock markets, real-estate appreciation and pension benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-ucetlp-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The money exists. What\u2019s at stake is how much of it will actually reach the heirs it was meant for.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">Copyright \u00a92026 MarketWatch, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Updated: June 17, 2026 at 4:40\u202fp.m. ETFirst Published: June 17, 2026 at 9:24\u202fa.m. ET The largest wealth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33936,138752,186182,6369,6311,73140,217144,84,7503,3673,26537,7840,5628,124724,9385,10146,5843,217145,4176,4768,1346,217146,217147,232,8953,217160,182431,217159,217158,7012,133717,21670,217148,102,3247,120389,217149,2960,158407,217157,10562,1349,1086,6305,33689,80137,2924,132544,217161,217150,154231,73604,120394,2222,120388,217151,217152,217153,6884,4174,4175,132545,13666,26542,26533,54131,6370,306,26528,77731,120841,4204,4272,217154,217155,5333,4839,26534,474,155476,19558,1892,217156,56,54,55,5351],"class_list":["post-644383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-accounting","tag-accounting-consulting","tag-adviser","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-annuities","tag-babyboomer","tag-business","tag-children","tag-commentary","tag-commentary-opinion","tag-community","tag-consulting","tag-direct-taxation","tag-economic-news","tag-estate","tag-estate-planning","tag-estateplanning","tag-finance","tag-financial","tag-financial-services","tag-financialplan","tag-geneations","tag-general-news","tag-generation","tag-generational-cohorts","tag-government-budget","tag-government-budget-taxation","tag-government-finance","tag-government-policy","tag-government-sponsored-health-insurance","tag-grandchildren","tag-greatwealthtransfer","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-medical-insurance","tag-healthcae","tag-healthcare","tag-heir","tag-iewm","tag-inheritance","tag-insurance","tag-investing","tag-investing-securities","tag-ira","tag-irs","tag-labor","tag-labor-personnel-issues","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-snco20260617009089","tag-longtermcae","tag-longtermcare","tag-medicaid","tag-medical-insurance","tag-money","tag-non-life-insurance","tag-nursingcare","tag-nursinghome","tag-obbba","tag-opinion","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-personnel-issues","tag-plan","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-property-taxes","tag-recommendation","tag-regulation","tag-regulation-government-policy","tag-retire","tag-retiree","tag-retirement","tag-retirement-planning","tag-retirementhome","tag-retirementplan","tag-securities","tag-society","tag-society-community","tag-tax","tag-tax-strategies","tag-taxation","tag-taxes","tag-trumpadministration","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}