Members of the post-war "baby boom" generation own almost half of all the peronal wealth in the country, according to London's Telegraph newspaper.
People under 45, meanwhile, own little more than a tenth of all property and assets .
The paper reports that according to Pinch, by David Willetts, a Conservative frontbencher in Parliment, the generation born between 1945 and 1965 have been left with a disproportionate share of the country's wealth.