{"id":76006,"date":"2025-03-03T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=76006"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:24:17","slug":"acenda-backs-advisers-with-more-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/03\/03\/acenda-backs-advisers-with-more-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Acenda Backs Advisers with More Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While still transitioning from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlcinsurance.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MLC Life Insurance to Acenda<\/a>, the business is ramping up its CPD courses to help advisers with their professional development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marshall Ross<\/strong>, Partner Education Manager at Acenda, has been organising ad-hoc courses for three years, but says the time is right to formalise the offering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to give advisers \u2013 wherever they are when it comes to continuous training and CPD \u2013 access to the support and development they need,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s important for us to keep advisers up-to-date&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAdvisers have to cover such a broad spectrum of topics. From wellness, underwriting, technical elements, and product developments\u2026It really has become apparent that we needed to have something to support advisers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76009\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/03\/Marshall-Ross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76009 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/03\/Marshall-Ross.jpg\" alt=\"Marshall Ross Accenda\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshall Ross&#8230;wants to keep advisers up-to-date.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know, particularly in the risk space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ross has studied the data showing a lower proportion of advisers are specialising in risk advice. Nevertheless, it seems around 90% have to step out of their comfort zone to help clients with life, trauma, and TPD cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for us to keep advisers up-to-date,\u201d says Ross.<\/p>\n<p>MLC Life Insurance has been building its CPD capability during the past few years, and so far thousands of advisers have taken part in hundreds of its online training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Acenda\u2019s courses include live Q&amp;As, specialist guest presenters from outside the company \u2013 such as the FAAA and reinsurers \u2013 presentations from experienced staff, and self-guided training that can be taken at any time.<\/p>\n<p>In the planning stage are comprehensive courses by experienced specialist covering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trauma insurance<\/li>\n<li>Sums insured<\/li>\n<li>Claims statistics<\/li>\n<li>Wealth transfer<\/li>\n<li>Long-term financial planning \/ retirement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing our best to support advisers wherever they sit in the financial planning industry, and wherever they sit in their skills capability,\u201d says Ross.<\/p>\n<p>He says the free courses, available via Acenda\u2019s education hub, are a win-win for the firm and advisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest to have advisers up to speed with regulatory changes and industry updates so they can deliver the best advice possible to their clients,\u201d says Ross.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marshall Ross will be among the speakers at Riskinfocus 25. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlcinsurance.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While still transitioning from MLC Life Insurance to Acenda, the business is ramping up its CPD courses to help advisers with their professional development. Marshall Ross, Partner Education Manager at Acenda, has been organising ad-hoc courses for three years, but says the time is right to formalise the offering. \u201cWe want to give advisers \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8,248],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news","8":"category-compliance-regulation","9":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}