INFORMATIONAL MESSAGE
UAPF held an online seminar "School of Financial Journalism in the field of pension provision"
The UAPF annually conducts seminars aimed at improving financial literacy, as well as awareness of the pension system and changes in pension legislation within the framework of information and explanatory work.
These seminars help in understanding how personal pension savings are formed, how and who manages pension assets, and many other issues related to the accumulative pension system.
The autumn "School of Financial Journalism in the field of pension provision", which was held online on November 24 and 25, 2022, gathered about 100 people for training, including active Kazakhstani journalists and bloggers, as well as students of journalism faculties.
Within two days, the Foundation's specialists conducted master classes in Kazakh and Russian.
The course program consisted of training modules:
- Pension systems of the world, demographic trends and the need for a funded component, the pension system In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the activities of the UAPF, development strategy;
- Management of pension assets of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan and UIP;
- Digital UAPF (presentation about the Fund's electronic services);
- Pension provision in the EAEU countries;
- Types of pension savings payments from the UAPF.
Heads of departments and specialists of the Fund in an accessible form and using visual presentations told about how the pension systems of the world work, what the pension system of Kazakhstan consists of and what types of payments exist in it.
The heads of the public relations department told current and future journalists about how information and explanatory work is carried out and how to make interesting material on the topic of pension provision.
In the process of online communication, those present were keenly interested in the proposed material and actively asked questions to the speakers.
All course materials are available on the enpf website.kz in the section "About the Fund"-"Press center"-"Special Projects".
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 trust management of pension assets of the UAPF is carried out by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since January 1, 2016, the functions of developing proposals to improve the efficiency of pension assets management have been transferred to the National Fund Management Council. In accordance with the pension legislation, the UAPF attracts mandatory pension contributions, mandatory occupational pension contributions, voluntary pension contributions, pension payments, individual accounting of pension savings and payments, provides the depositor (recipient) with information on the status of his pension savings (more on www.enpf.kz ).