Jefferies: Baby Boomers Will Spend Their Retirement Money on Golf and Travel

Go long cruises and caddies.

This may or may not be a baby boomer golfing.

Photographer. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
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While analysts obsess over how the preferences of the millennials could shape market returns as they enter the workforce, Jefferies sets its sights on how the baby boomers – a generation with one foot out the door of the labor market – will alter their spending once they retire.

The boomers aren’t as large a cohort as the millennials by sheer numbers, the Jefferies analysts say, but what they lack in size, they more than make up for in wealth: