UAPF held an online seminar for journalists

For the fifth year in a row, the Unified accumulative pension Fund has been conducting an intensive course of the school of financial journalism as part of its active awareness-raising activities among the population aimed at improving financial literacy, as well as awareness of the UAPF services, the pension system and changes in pension legislation, the formation of personal pension savings and the results of pension asset management.
The main target audience of the school is journalists, bloggers and students of journalism faculties, because they actively help the UAPF to conduct awareness-raising work.
This year, in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held in an online format. However, despite this aspect, the school gathered more than 60 participants in Kazakh and Russian.
It should be noted that the course program for participants included training modules on various topics : the pension system of Kazakhstan and the activities of UAPF JSC, features of the Kazakhstan accumulative pension system; pension savings from opening an individual pension account to making payments; planning and calculating pensions using a pension calculator; demographic trends in Kazakhstan and their impact on the economy; information and explanatory work of the Fund to improve financial literacy of the population, etc. In addition, together with the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan was revealed the theme of "Information on management of pension assets of SAPF".
Experts SPSF during the training helped to understand the participants in a difficult financial indicators and statistics, gave advice on various questions on retirement benefits and savings, and also answered numerous questions about the pension system, which should help in creating vivid and credible journalistic materials.

 

UAPF was established on August 22, 2013 on the basis of JSC "NPF "GNPF". The founder and shareholder of the UAPF is the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan represented by the state property and privatization Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The national Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan manages the pension assets of the UAPF in trust. Since January 1, 2016, the functions of developing proposals for improving the efficiency of pension asset management have been transferred to the National Fund management Council. In accordance with the pension legislation, the UAPF attracts mandatory pension contributions, mandatory professional pension contributions, voluntary pension contributions, pension payments, individual accounting of pension savings and payments, and provides the depositor (recipient) with information about the state of their pension savings (for more information, see www.enpf.kz).