IAPF holds an online seminar on the subject “School of financial journalism in the field of pension provision”
Integrated Accumulative Pension Fund, as part of active awareness-raising work among the population aimed at improving financial literacy, as well as awareness of the pension system and changes in pension laws, the formation of personal pension savings and the results of pension asset management, is conducting another free course of the school of financial journalism.
Both current journalists and active bloggers from all over Kazakhstan, as well as students of journalism faculties can take part in the training.
Within two days, specialists in the field of the accumulative pension system will hold master classes in Kazakh and Russian.
The course program will include training modules on various subjects:
- Pension systems of the world, demographic trends and the need for an accumulative component, the pension system in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the activities of IAPF, development strategy;
- Management of pension assets of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Investment portfolio management;
- Digital IAPF (presentation about the electronic services of the Fund);
- Pension provision in the EAEU countries;
- Types of payments of pension savings from IAPF.
In addition, the heads of IAPF PR department will tell their current and future colleagues how awareness-raising work is carried out in the Fund and how to make interesting material about the accumulative pension system.
The event will be held online on November 24 in Russian and on November 25 in Kazakh from 10.00 to 13.00.
Pre-registration is required to participate. An application for participation is to be sent to the email: press@enpf.kz, indicating information about yourself: full name, name of the media or educational institution (for students), date of participation, email and WhatsApp number (for sending an invitation link).
An invitation link will be sent to you the day before the start of the event.
The school has become a traditional annual event.
Since 2017 about 400 current and future journalists have taken part in it.
IAPF was established on 22 August, 2013 on the basis of State Accumulative Pension Fund APF JSC. The founder and shareholder of IAPF is the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan represented by the Committee of State Property and Privatization State Institution of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Trust management of IAPF pension assets is carried out by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 1 January, 2016, the functions of developing proposals to improve the efficiency of pension asset management have been transferred to the National Fund Management Council. In accordance with the pension laws, IAPF attracts mandatory pension contributions, mandatory professional pension contributions, voluntary pension contributions, pension payments, individual accounting of pension savings and payments, provides the contributor (recipient) with information on the state of his/her pension savings (for more details, see www.enpf.kz ).