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Barclays: ₹130 lakh crore wealth transfer to test family succession
Barclays: ₹130 lakh crore wealth transfer to test family succession
Barclays Private Bank India estimates that around ₹130 lakh crore of generational wealth will change hands over the next five years. Adrish Ghosh, head of Barclays Private Bank India, said proactive succession…
The Story in Brief
Barclays Private Bank India estimates that around ₹130 lakh crore of generational wealth will change hands over the next five years. Adrish Ghosh, head of Barclays Private Bank India, said proactive succession planning and wider family participation are critical. The estimate follows the 2026 Barclays Private Clients Hurun India Most Valuable Family Businesses List, which values India's top 300 family businesses at ₹138 lakh crore. These firms generate ₹56 lakh crore in revenue, ₹5.6 lakh crore in net profit, employ over 5.4 million people, and paid ₹1.9 lakh crore in taxes, about 17% of India's corporate tax collections.
Ghosh told ETBFSI that India's legal and capital-market infrastructure is adequate for the transfer, but families often fail by treating succession as a one-time activity and not involving all members. The list shows 208 families in the second generation, 57 in the third, and 26 in the fourth or beyond. First-generation businesses are also significant, with 100 such firms worth ₹77.8 lakh crore.
The Indian Opinion
The narrative that India’s wealthy families are ill-prepared for this transfer is overstated. The legal and market infrastructure is robust, as Barclays notes. The real challenge is not external but behavioural: treating succession as a one-off event and excluding family members from planning. That is not a crisis of capacity but of family governance. The test will be how many of these 300 families adopt institutionalised decision-making before the next generation takes over, not how much wealth is lost to taxes or markets.
Source: bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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