The academy will offer advisers a range of heavily subsidised benefits and study assistance with members free to pick and choose as little or as much as they want.
With less than three years to go until the RDR is introduced, the academy is designed to help IFA firms struggling with the costs associated with meeting the FSA's requirements.
Money Marketing is in talks with a number of providers to help fund the academy to enable support, ranging from text books to residential training, to be offered for free or at a significant discount.
Launching the academy is, says Centaur, part of Money Marketing's commitment to its readers to help ensure as many IFAs as possible are still practising after 2012.
