GRiD launches 'best practice' academy for advisers and providers

'Good grounding' for GR1 qualification

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GRiD, the industry body for the group risk industry, is starting an academy aimed at raising standards among newcomers to the sector who might lack training from their own employers.

Open to both intermediaries and providers, the GRiD Training Academy's mission is to encourage best practice and offer an introduction to the fundamentals of group risk as an industry. Two workshops - the first one in September and a follow-up in October - kick off the academy. These are free to attend and, while they stand alone, they are considered good grounding - or a useful top-up - for GRiD and Chartered Insurance Institute's GR1 qualification, the organisation said. Areas covered include understanding the market, products and added-value benefits, through to taxation, legislati...

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