{"id":84404,"date":"2026-10-23T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=84404"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:57:35","slug":"launch-of-new-cpd-platform-for-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/10\/23\/launch-of-new-cpd-platform-for-advisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of New CPD Platform for Advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new CPD platform for financial advisers and their licensees, <a href=\"https:\/\/accrue-cpd.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accrue CPD<\/a>, has just been launched.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the platform means financial advisers can keep their CPD record up-to-date throughout the year, rather than piecing the record together in the final weeks, noting it is a platform built by an adviser for advisers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84407\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/Ivan-Jones-Head-Shot-2026-e1792722627853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-84407\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/Ivan-Jones-Head-Shot-2026-e1792722627853-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/Ivan-Jones-Head-Shot-2026-e1792722627853-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/Ivan-Jones-Head-Shot-2026-e1792722627853-367x420.jpg 367w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/Ivan-Jones-Head-Shot-2026-e1792722627853.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan Jones &#8230;advisers do the learning all year, and much of it never gets recorded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEvery adviser knows the end-of-year rush,\u201d says the firm&#8217;s founder, <strong>Ivan Jones<\/strong>, who is also Executive Director and founder of Loyalty Financial Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do the learning all year, and much of it never gets recorded: the reading that lands in your inbox every day, and the certificate that turns up a fortnight after the webinar. I built Accrue to take the friction out of capturing it, so the scramble at the end of the year disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says that having been a licensee responsible manager for more than 20 years, he also knows what a licensee needs to see.\u00a0\u201cA complete record with the evidence behind it, available whenever it is asked for. Accrue works alongside the licensee\u2019s own CPD policy and systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The platform has been in daily use by a selection of advisers since May, and their feedback has shaped the platform ahead of the launch.<\/p>\n<p>In promoting its offer the company says it will allow advisers to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capture learning in moments. Add an article they have read, or upload a certificate when it arrives, and Accrue CPD records it, classifies it against the CPD areas and keeps the evidence with it<\/li>\n<li>Know where they stand on any day of the year, against the 40-hour requirement and each category minimum<\/li>\n<li>Produce a complete, evidenced record whenever it is needed, with reporting on demand for advisers and their licensees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Risk Hub founder, <strong>Marc Fabris<\/strong>, says his company has followed Accrue CPD\u2019s progress closely and can see real value in it for advisers:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe learning that slips through the cracks is usually the small stuff: a short article, a product update, a note on a claims trend. Accrue makes that learning count. Risk Hub will be supporting the platform with risk-focused material that advisers can read and record in moments,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84410\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84410\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard.png 1920w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/10\/accrue-cpd-01-dashboard-747x420.png 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>The Accrue CPD adviser dashboard shows CPD hours to date against the 40-hour annual requirement, the run-rate, and the CPD areas where the adviser is still short.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new CPD platform for financial advisers and their licensees, Accrue CPD, has just been launched. The company says the platform means financial advisers can keep their CPD record up-to-date throughout the year, rather than piecing the record together in the final weeks, noting it is a platform built by an adviser for advisers. \u201cEvery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":84413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,8269,7734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-compliance-regulation","category-cpd","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84404","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84417,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84404\/revisions\/84417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}