Free e-training offers guidance on protection regs

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Scottish Provident has launched a free online training session for intermediaries explaining how to prepare for protection regulation and how it will affect their business.

Aimed at introducer level advisers and brokers, the virtual classroom protection course has been developed as a simply screen-based tutorial taking a maximum of one hour to complete and carries CPD accreditation on completion of the multiple choice self-assessment test. Development of the latest education package by Abbey for Intermediaries follows research – compiled by IFAonline’s sister division Incisive Buzz – revealing around half of the advisers surveyed felt they needed more information about how regulation would affect them from next January and what they need to do to prepare. ...

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