The 30 trillion dollar baby boomer wealth transfer is often cited as a reason for future selling pressure, but this analysis is flawed because: (1) wealthy boomers do not hold purely passive portfolios; (2) target-date funds have been shifting retirees into bonds for years; (3) heirs typically reinvest inheritance into equities and housing, not cash.
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“You pick the number 30 trillion roughly captured by the baby boomer generation being handed down to millennials. Been hearing this for 15 years. We know the demographics. The problem with this analysis that everyone that I've read is that either they're making the assumption that uh Mr. wealthy retiree has stuck in their passive equity portfolio until the day they die on age 80 and then all of a sudden all of that has to be sold, which is ridiculous because we know that that's not how people at the age of 80 are invested. or as they have aged from say 60 to their 80s deathbed they have been consistently selling their equity and buying bonds which is we know fundamentally what's happening because that's target date funds”
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The Trillion Dollar Trap | Mike Green on Passive Investing's Fatal Design Flaw— Excess ReturnsCreated: 8/11/2026, 5:27:10 AM
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