The Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, as part of its active outreach work among the population aimed at increasing financial literacy, as well as awareness of the pension system and changes in pension legislation, the formation of personal pension savings and the results of activities in managing pension assets, is conducting another free course of financial journalism school.
Both active journalists and active bloggers from all over Kazakhstan, as well as journalism students, can take part in the training.
Over the course of two days, specialists in the field of accumulative pension system will conduct master classes in Kazakh and Russian.
The course program will include training modules on various topics:
- Pension systems of the world, population aging, 25th anniversary of the APS of the Republic of Kazakhstan, activities of the UAPF
- Social Code. Innovations in APS
- NBRK management of pension assets (presentation on how and where pension assets are invested)
- Pension savings in trust management (IPM).
- National Fund for children. How the program will work starting from 2024.
- Payments of pension savings (types of pension benefit payments from the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, the mechanism for receiving them, how to find information on the website enpf.kz)
- Information work of the UAPF. How to make interesting material about APS using materials from the original source and exclusive comments
The event will take place online on November 23 in Russian and November 24 in Kazakh from 10.00 to 13.00.
Pre-registration is required. An application for participation must be sent to the email address press@enpf.kz indicating information about yourself: full name, name of the media or educational institution (for students), date of participation, email address and phone number from WhatsApp (to send an invitation link).
An invitation link will be sent to you the day before the event.
The UAPF was established on August 22, 2013 on the basis of GNPF APF JSC. The UAPF founder and shareholder is the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan represented by the State Institution “Committee of State Property and Privatization” of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. UAPF pension assets are managed by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From January 1, 2016, the functions for developing proposals to improve the management of pension assets were transferred to the National Fund Management Council. In accordance with the pension legislation, the UAPF attracts compulsory pension contributions, compulsory occupational pension contributions, voluntary pension contributions, pension benefits, individual accounting of pension accumulations and benefits, provides the contributor (beneficiary) with information on the status of his pension accumulations (for more information visit www.enpf.kz)