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Why would they withdraw it? they still need to live off their portfolios for decades .
they may alter it or tone it down but most will still need it.
what about the baby boomeer children who will inheirt billions if not trillions of that money and invest it.
we also have entire 3rd world nations with money investing in our markets.
lots of boomer kids starting 401k plans and contributing.
many boomers with no pucker factor have already fled to bonds and annuities as well. those folks already toned things down, myself included in that statement.
i have 18 months left but started to shift 5 years ago .
personally i think the issue is going to be much ado about nothing.
Where do you think that money will go once the Baby Boomers withdraw it?
A lot of it is going to pay the wages of their caretakers. I get that some may end up back in the market in a roundabout sort of way, but not all of it. We're coming up against a demographic watershed. I'm not optimistic about the future of stocks.
I don't even know where to begin here. Everyone is either a conspiracy theorist or a troll.
I'm not changing the basic way I invest in stocks - for myself or others under my discretion. Never have. And we are always heavily in equity, even the older crowd.
Great businesses will be worth considerably more in the future, regardless of boomer withdrawals, sovereign debt, Fed printing or any half-baked macro theory you can cook up.
A lot of it is going to pay the wages of their caretakers. I get that some may end up back in the market in a roundabout sort of way, but not all of it.
But you haven't really pinpointed where it is going to go instead. Caretakers need to pay for food, clothing, shelter, transportation, health care for themselves and their family.
What the market needs to worry about is when the Baby Boomers stop spending money, not when they stop earning and saving money.
the slowing down of boomer spending as they age can be a real issue.hopefully for all the reasons above from inheritance to emerging nations having more money that will take up the slack.
Great businesses will be worth considerably more in the future, regardless of boomer withdrawals, sovereign debt, Fed printing or any half-baked macro theory you can cook up.
So true. I have no idea why the naysayers don't understand this. Have they not noticed the last 2 centuries of American history?
Overbought in the short term definitely but this bull will go to 16k-18k or more before ending, book it. Markets around the world with easy money and economic growth and labor conditions improving, this train has a long way to go.
The worst decline probably in the history of the stock market was from 1929 to 1933, when the DOW went down by 90%. In spite of that, by 1955, the DOW regained all of its loss. Today, it's 3,600% higher than it was at its peak in 1929.
Just goes to show that in the stock market, time heals all wounds.
The worst decline probably in the history of the stock market was from 1929 to 1933, when the DOW went down by 90%. In spite of that, by 1955, the DOW regained all of its loss. Today, it's 3,600% higher than it was at its peak in 1929.
Just goes to show that in the stock market, time heals all wounds.
That's true, but its also worth noting that the stock market can stay irrational longer than investors can stay solvent....
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