More boomers are proactively transferring their wealth to their adult kids.Jordan Siemens/Getty ImagesA 68-year-old government employee in Canada is already passing his wealth on to his adult children.He said he's set for retirement and wants to help out his kids in their financially demanding years.He's part of a trend of baby boomers who are proactively passing their wealth down to their kids.MJ, a 68-year-old government employee in Alberta, Canada, has already started passing on his wealth to his four adult kids, even though he's still six months away from retirement and plans to live to a "ripe old age."MJ, who asked to go by initials for privacy reasons, told Business Insider his mindset shifted a few years ago when he read the 2020 book "Die with Zero" by Bill Perkins."The book stresses kids typically will need help from late twenties to 40, when they're dealing with house down payments and mortgages and kids and all of those things that go along with life," he said.
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