For the fifth year in a row, the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund as part of an active outreach work among the population aimed at increasing financial literacy, as well as awareness of the services of the UAPF, the pension system and changes in pension legislation, the formation of personal pension savings and the results of activities on Pension Asset Management conducts an intensive course at the School of Financial Journalism.
The main target audience of the school are journalists, bloggers and students of journalism faculties, because they are the ones who actively help the UAPF to conduct outreach work.
This year, in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held online. However, despite this aspect, the school gathered over 60 participants in the Kazakh and Russian languages.
It should be noted that the course program for the participants included training modules on various topics - the pension system of Kazakhstan and the activities of UAPF JSC, the peculiarities of the Kazakhstani accumulative pension system; pension savings from opening an individual pension saving account to making benefit payments; planning and calculating a pension using a pension calculator; demographic trends in Kazakhstan and their impact on the economy; information and explanatory work of the Fund in order to increase the financial literacy of the population, etc. In addition, together with the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the topic “Information on the management of the UAPF's pension assets” was disclosed.
During the training, UAPF specialists helped the school participants understand complex financial indicators and statistics, gave advice on various issues on pension benefits and savings, and also answered numerous questions about the pension system, which should help in creating vivid and reliable journalistic materials.