Wealth managers around the world can connect together for the first time from today with the launch of www.wealth-connect.com an online networking service dedicated exclusively to them.

Wealth managers around the world can connect together for the first time from today with the launch of www.wealth-connect.com an online networking service dedicated exclusively to them.

Many hundreds of wealth managers have already signed up to www.wealth-connect.com to network with peers in other wealth management organisations and in other countries.

With today’s official launch, it is expected that hundreds more will sign up for membership and benefit from unparalleled access to ideas, information and wealth management experts.

Members of this exclusive new community, which is free to wealth management professionals, can communicate to and with the industry through blogs, groups and forums.

But the new community is not only about raising personal profile within the industry. Ideas, experience and thought leadership will now be shared round the clock in what industry commentators see as a major step towards raising the profile and status of the wealth management profession within the global financial services industry and in the wider community.

Ted Wilson, senior consultant at industry think tank Scorpio Partnership said: “The introduction of Wealth-Connect is very positive for a number of reasons: it will stimulate the flow of information among market participants, it will increase their familiarity with each other and, importantly, will help the industry to speak with a unified voice.”

Wealth-Connect has already received the endorsement of the recently-formed Zurich-based Association of International Wealth Managers, and is sponsored by Barclays Wealth.

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