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Older Australians driving intergenerational wealth divide

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Higher home prices are contributing to the wealth divide with older Australians more likely to benefit. Those over the age of 60 are set to transfer an estimated $3.5 trillion, mostly to their families over the next two decades. But that also poses the question: what happens to all that wealth in the future?
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