Spiegel speculate that as the baby boomer generation ages, they are likely to shift from buying stocks to selling their equity holdings to finance retirement, and this shift could be a factor holding down equity valuations over the next two decades.
The second long-term factor was the shift in the distribution of income.
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GM's Mr. Reuss also sees fuel prices playing a factor in a sales shift to smaller vehicles.
Gelb pointed to the shift in Congress as the single biggest factor at work.
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Another factor to watch: a slow but steady shift away from equities into greater fixed income allocations.
The next most common factors is a drop in household income, which can be related to the death of a spouse or an independent factor. (Note: People who shift from owning to renting are generally economically less well-off than those who continue to own.) And the third factor: nursing home entry of a family member.
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What turns this shift from demographic accounting to a social question is the pursuit-of-happiness factor: as a rule, do people live alone because they want to or because they have to?
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