The New Rich: What Success and Wealth Means to Consumers in 2010
Co-Authored by Arnold's Global CEO Andrew Benett

All year long Forbes comes out with lists of the world's richest people--the youngest billionaires, the most eligible billionaires, the richest women, the wealthiest families on each continent. People find it fascinating to track the waning and waxing of personal wealth, watching as perennial front-runners Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are eclipsed by a Mexican telecom titan and chased by various silver-spoon princes of Asia and the Middle East. To be among the world's wealthiest is the stuff of many a daydream.
And yet our communal vision of what it means to be "rich" is changing. Where once personal wealth might have been measured solely by the figures in one's investment portfolio and the cumulative value of one's assets, today people have begun to look deeper, taking into consideration softer values, such as happiness and contentment, friendship and belonging.
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