Almaty, Kazakhstan – Total pension savings as of August 1, 2016 were about KZT 6.35 tln.  Number of depositors’/recipients’ individual pension accounts (IPA) under all types of contracts was 10.15 mn accounts, including those generated from compulsory pension contributions – 9.7 mn. Number of depositor IPAs from compulsory professional pension contributions was 405 713 accounts, while from voluntary pension contributions – 39 075 accounts. 

Net investment income amounted to KZT 378.82 bn, which is 222.19 bn more than in the same period last year (KZT 156.63 bn). Besides, annual return on UAPF depositors’ pension assets (July 2015 – July 2016) has exceeded inflation at the rate of 17.7% to make 19.1%. Since the start of 2016 the return made 6.4%, which is 1.2 % above the rate of inflation for the same period (5.2%). 

Since the start of the year total pension payments and transfers paid/made by UAPF has reached KZT 106.58 bn, including transfers to insurance companies of KZT 10.95 bn. 

Any depositor / recipient can get information on status pension savings on their IPSs to any date in any of the 236 UAPF personal service centers, or on the Fund website: www.enpf.kz (E-statement section). Depositors / recipients have the opportunity to monitor their IPAs via UAPF mobile application for smartphones and tablets running on various operating systems. As of August 1, 2016 total number of mobile app downloads has made 267 600 downloads. The leader is Android: an application on this platform has been downloaded 215.6 thousand times, which is 80.6% of all downloads, iOS ranks the second: applications for iPhone and iPad have been downloaded 47.1 thousand times, and Windows Phone is the third with a mere 4.9 thousand downloads. 

Since the launch in February 2015 of the service: Provision of information about status of UAPF depositor’s/recipient’s pension savings (with regard for investment income) as of August 1, 2016 over 315 thousand IPA statements were issued via E-government portal.