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Online professional development for the insurance industry.
The new Insite offers a huge variety of learning activities to maintain knowledge and skills
through constantly updated quizzes, case studies and articles relevant to the modern
insurance professional.
With Insite it is easy to create a learning plan for yourself or your staff to ensure that all
knowledge and compliance requirements are met. Progress is then easily tracked in real time.
Keeping professional development records and reporting on staff progress can be a major drain
on time and resources. Insite automatically records staff progress and makes it easy to generate
reports for distribution to management and regulators.
For more information and to arrange a demonstration, contact the Institute’s Client
Solutions Team on 03 9613 7280 or email
India – sleeping giant of sport?
Despite the Global Financial Crisis, figures
show the Indian economy is still growing
at 5%, protected from the worst of
the global recession by being mainly a
domestic economy. The growing economy
is providing new opportunities for sports
like golf and tennis which are closely
linked to the strength of the business
community. But with a population of over
1.1 billion, Indian could well become a
sports powerhouse in the future.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge
of Indian sport knows that much of the
money in sport is based on a huge national
passion for cricket. The Indian Premier
League was a massive boost to the amount
of revenue spent around sport as well as
an instant global phenomenon drawing
the very best players to India each year.
Field hockey is the national sport with a
huge following and sports such as squash
are also extremely popular.
However, there have been a number of
recent developments that suggest that
other sports are growing significantly in
their popularity and support.
Formula 1 has seen a huge surge of
interest following Vijay Mallya’s creation
of the Force India team. Golf and tennis,
both aspirational sports for the huge
number of people forming the Indian
middle class, are enjoying record levels of
success. Perhaps most interesting of all,
football is starting to achieve real traction
with TV audiences turning on in ever
greater numbers for international leagues
and competitions.
There are also some major events in
the calendar which look set to have a
transforming effect on sport in India.
Delhi will play host to the Commonwealth
Games in 2010 and India will stage part
of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011. The
race is also on to bring F1 to the country
which will almost certainly see the creation
of a new circuit which together with
historic investment in stadia by cricket
and football will drive opportunities here
too.
This all translates into a nation that is
currently a sleeping giant in terms of world
sport but that could well be transformed
over the next decade. Perhaps it will
not be too long before we see India
challenging the rest of the world for major
trophies in football, rugby, tennis as well
as cricket.
