Here’s how wealthy Canadians will give their families some $2.8 trillion this decade

Hot off the heels of us finding out that some Canadians don’t hesitate to help their children buy homes, a new report has looked even closer at the lives of Canada’s wealthiest. Turns out, wealthy Canadians are gearing up to give their families an astounding $2.8 trillion this decade, in one way or another.

As evidenced by a new report from Investors Group, there are some 913,000 Canadian households with at least $1m in investable wealth, accounting for a whopping $4.2t. Open the definition up to ‘total assets’ (which includes cars, art, family businesses, and so on…), and that number balloons to $11.9t.

So, there’s a lot of cash floating around in Canada’s wealthiest families. And since a decent portion of these folks is over the age of 70, IG wanted to look at their plans over the next 8 years or so. What they found out made even our eyes pop.

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That’s because this decade (2020-2030) wealthy Canadians are planning to give away some $2.8t to their families, in one way or another. First up- lifetime transfers and inter-household transfers.

Basically, these transfers cover two things- giving money away to children or others during one’s lifetime, and transferring money/assets to family members upon the death of a spouse/parent. Taken together, and these two kinds of transfers add up to almost $1.64 trillion.

Next are the intergenerational transfers, which occur when the surviving parent/spouse dies. At this time taxes and other financial issues are much more prominent, but even still, that’s another $1.207 trillion coming down the pipeline. Yeah, we’re talking serious amounts of cash here.

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Now, you might be wondering how much actually goes to taxes and the like, and IG has that number, too! Across both categories, wealthy Canadians will be giving $139 billion to taxes, costs (of lawyers, planners, and so on…), and ‘third parties’. To put that into context, it’s just under 5% of literally trillions of dollars.

And here we are worried about paying rent! What’s the next plan? Find a wealthy family and see if they’re willing to adopt us, because that’s gotta be easier than actually reaching their level if we’re paying 25% or whatever it is a year on our less-than $100k/year jobs.

To check out the report in full, which is sure to have you feeling some feels, click right here.