Pension Navigator: Exclusive interviews with experts on Kazakhstan's pension system
26.11.2025 17:40:44 34
A joint project between UAPF and the Business FM radio station was implemented. Using audio and video podcasts, hosts Rustam Maksutov and Yerlanbi Dauletyar, along with experts from UAPF and the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, discussed the most pressing issues related to the country's pension system and informed listeners and viewers about global trends in this area, explaining complex concepts in simple and understandable language.
The discussions addressed global demographic trends, the global transition to a funded component, long-term pension planning, and employee motivation to save. They also touched on topics such as pension asset management, the possibility of transferring savings to investment portfolio managers (IPMs), the implementation of new rules for developing investment strategies, types of pension benefits, and the latest changes to pension legislation.
The project aims to improve the financial literacy of Kazakhstanis regarding the pension system. The program is targeted at entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and anyone interested in building and effectively managing their pension savings.
We invite media representatives to watch the Pension Navigator video podcasts to receive exclusive, first-hand information that can be used to prepare reliable, objective, and professional materials about Kazakhstan's pension system.
Watch video podcasts - 2025 on the topics:
- Current issues of the funded pension system (Saule Yegeubayeva, Deputy Chair of the Executive Board of UAPF JSC) in Russian at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdqbJ0_3fnM
- Current issues of the funded pension system (Murat Sharipov, Managing Director of UAPF JSC) in Kazakh at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw24C2CQTMA&t=64s
- Investment activities (Nurzhan Nurgazin, Deputy Director of the Monetary Operations Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan) in Kazakh at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYo6Yh2Pmog
- Pension planning and measures to increase it (Aizhan Temirlan, Head of the Strategy and Analysis of the Strategic Development Department of JSC UAPF) in Russian at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyRFcdyWXlk
- Pension capital management opportunities. (Lazzat Amirgaliyeva, Head of Investment Portfolio Analysis Department, UAPF JSC) in Russian at the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Jc4pG5iAo
- Types of payments from UAPF (Gulnur Agaydarova, Head of the Payment Methodology of the Payments and Information Department of JSC UAPF) in Kazakh at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_wL_G-02M
The Pension Navigator program is available on the Business FM and БЖЗҚЕНПФ YouTube channels, as well as on Google, Yandex, and iTunes podcasts.
Dialogues on the formation and development of Kazakhstan's pension system have become a tradition on the БЖЗҚЕНПФ YouTube channel. Here, prominent Kazakhstani financiers such as Grigory Marchenko, Bolat Zhamishev, Kadyrzhan Damitov, Anvar Saidenov, Yelena Bakhmutova, and others, as well as renowned international experts, share their opinions.
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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