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How billions in Boomer wealth could remake Greater Minnesota
Researchers say the transfer could reshape local giving as donor-advised funds and foundations help keep more money in Minnesota communities.
- Over the next decade, Baby Boomers in Minnesota will transfer $105 billion to the next generation, according to recent University of Minnesota Extension research with an interactive county-level map.
- Ben Winchester, a rural sociologist with Minnesota Extension, warns that wealth exits communities when Boomers pass away because their children have often relocated elsewhere.
- Projections vary significantly by location: Louis County expects $2 billion in transfers, while Olmsted County anticipates $1.6 billion; smaller areas face substantial changes, including $532 million in Clay County and $295 million in Polk County.
- Gumbel, an attorney at Wagner Oehler, LTD in Rochester, recommends estate planning to keep wealth local, noting that even those who don't feel wealthy can "impact your community."
- A steady inflow of newcomers—refugees, international immigrants, and returnees—is bringing fresh energy to Greater Minnesota, a migration pattern Winchester describes as a "brain gain.
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How billions in Boomer wealth could remake Greater Minnesota
ROCHESTER — Many people in Greater Minnesota are wealthier than they realize. That's been Jen Gumbel's experience as she talks with clients who seek her advice on what should happen to their money and assets after they die. "I run into so many people... where they have never considered themselves wealthy," says Gumbel, an attorney at Wagner Oehler, LTD in Rochester and educator at organizedafterlife.com. "It's the Midwest mindset: 'The wealthy p…
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