On November 20-21 of this year, the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund (UAPF), as part of its active public outreach efforts aimed at increasing financial literacy and awareness of the pension system and changes in pension legislation, the formation of personal pension savings, pension benefits and taxation, and pension asset management, held another free online course at the School of Financial Journalism. More than 100 journalists, bloggers, and students from across Kazakhstan participated.
Over the course, experts in the funded pension system conducted master classes in Kazakh and Russian over the course of two days.
The course included training modules on various topics. Fund experts and representatives of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan discussed global pension system models, the activities of the UAPF, pension asset investment, and the transfer of savings to trust management, types of pension benefits, mechanisms for receiving and taxing them. They also demonstrated how to create engaging content about the funded pension system and where to find exclusive commentary on the topic. They also answered questions from event participants.
The UAPF JSC expresses its gratitude to all participants who participated in the online seminar and hopes that the information provided will be useful to them as contributors and will also help them create relevant and interesting journalistic materials.