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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Independent and Lauren MacDougall

Voices: ‘It feels wrong to have it’: Gen X on the disorientation of a sudden inheritance

Generation X is about to inherit trillions of pounds as wealth passes down from the baby boomer generation – the biggest transfer of its kind in history.

Stephen Armstrong’s recent piece explored why many Gen-Xers are approaching this windfall with as much anxiety as hope, having spent decades saving too little and trusting financial institutions too rarely.

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