Interesting article.
the-meaning-of-wealth-translated-around-the-world: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/article/109630/the-meaning-of-wealth-translated-around-the-world?mod=retire-planning - broken link)
by Robert Frank
Monday, May 24, 2010
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We like to think the reasons for seeking wealth are universal. Humans, by nature, like to be comfortable, like to have power and like to have the choices and freedoms offered by lots of stuff and money.
Yet it turns out there are some regional variations in the meaning of wealth around the world.
The new Barclay’s Wealth Insights study, released this morning from Barclay’s Wealth and Ledbury Research, finds that the emerging-market rich view wealth very differently from the older-money Europeans and the slightly less nouveaux Americans.
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