Tenet has become the first IFA support services group to achieve prior learning accreditation with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). This allows the business to develop, administer and mark the JO5 exam module.

The award follows over a year’s close co-operation with the CII and Tenet expects hundreds of its clients to take it up.

As well as bespoke course and study material, Tenet advisers will be able to sit the exam on a monthly basis and for less than a third of the usual cost, as Tenet says it will bear most of the expense.

New study material has been written specifically for clients, with Tenet’s training team authorised to take on all of the necessary face-to-face tutoring and assessment, which could even take place in an IFA’s office.

Distribution and development director, Keith Richards, said: “It is a further demonstration of our continuing investment in providing practical help and guidance to achieve the required qualification standards in the run-up to RDR. With our hands-on support