A unique master class on the funded pension system from UAPF specialists

Every year, the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund gathers media representatives, bloggers, and students of journalism faculties to share the secrets of creating timely and relevant materials that will be of interest to all target audiences.

In 2024, the event will be held online on November 7 in Russian and on November 8 in Kazakh from 10:00 to 12:30.

Over the course of two days, specialists in the field of the funded pension system will conduct master classes in Kazakh and Russian.

The course program will include training modules on various topics:

– Basic concepts and types of pension systems in the world, the impact of demographic trends on pension provision. Pension system in Kazakhstan. Activities of the UAPF (Why are more and more countries moving to funded and mixed types of pension systems?)

– Management of pension assets by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan (a presentation on how and where pension assets are invested will be presented by managers from the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

– Pension savings in trust management. Where to find and how to correctly read information about management companies.

– Pension planning tools. (Is it possible to calculate and change the future pension when there are still 20-30 years left?).

– Payments of pension savings (Types of payments from the UAPF, the mechanism for receiving them, how to find information on the website enpf.kz)

– Information work of the UAPF. How to make an interesting article about the FPS, using materials from the original source (What requests to address to the UAPF, direct channels for obtaining information about the funded pension system: website enpf.kz, social networks, press@enpf.kz, БЖЗҚ/ЕНПФ YouTube channel– exclusive comments from Kazakhstani and international experts)

Pre-registration is required to participate. An application for participation must be sent to the email address press@enpf.kz with information about yourself:

Full name, name of the media outlet or educational institution (for students), date of participation, email address and phone number with WhatsApp (to send an invitation link).

The invitation link will be sent to you the day before the event.

UAPF was founded on August 22, 2013 on the basis of GNPF APF JSC. The founder and shareholder of the UAPF 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. Trust management of UAPF pension assets is carried out by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In accordance with the pension legislation, the UAPF attracts compulsory pension contributions, employer’s compulsory pension contributions, compulsory occupational pension contributions, voluntary pension contributions, as well as carries out enrollment and accounting of voluntary pension contributions formed at the expense of the unclaimed amount of guaranteed compensation for the guaranteed deposit, transferred by the organization carrying out mandatory guarantee of deposits, in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On mandatory guarantee of deposits placed in second-tier banks of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, ensures the implementation of pension benefits. The Fund also carries out accounting of target assets and target requirements, accounting and crediting of target savings (TS) to target savings accounts, payments of TS to their recipients in bank accounts, accounting for returns of TS in the manner determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the framework of the National Fund for Children program (More details at www.enpf.kz)