Inheritance

Retirees. They’re living it up nowadays, blowing any pitiful inheritance their kids could expect on all their tree-changes, sea-changes, and various kinds of me-changes.

Your inheritance? Ahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahaha. Picture: Thinkstock

But a number of Gen Ys - my generation - reckon they’re still going to get a fair bit from their parents when they die.

According the ING Direct Financial Wellbeing Index, one in seven Gen Ys are expecting to rely on their parents’ inheritance to support them in retirement.

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  • Mike says:

    01:26pm | 29/07/12

    You should take a good, hard read of Money Magazine, page 12, July 2012 edition.  That will put things into perspective for you and the whingeing boomers, with the faux “eeeh, it’s right tough for us” attitude. Read more »

  • marley says:

    07:30pm | 27/07/12

    @James - yep.  This isn’t about generations, really, it’s about what’s right and wrong.  It’s way too easy to blame the old fogies for everything that’s wrong and not to see the same pattern repeating itself in your own generation.  And, conversely, it’s way too easy for us older people… Read more »

 

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