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The National Pension Commission, PenCom, said pension fund assets had risen to N12.66 trillion as at June 30, with contributors under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, hitting the 9.38 million mark.<\/div>\n
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\nThe Director General, PenCom, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, said this at the 2021 Journalists Workshop held on Monday in Lagos, with the theme: Positioning the Pension Industry in the Post COVID-19 Era.<\/p>\n

Dahir-Umar, represented by Mr Peter Aghahowa, Head,\u00a0 Corporate Communication, PenCom, noted that the consistent growth trajectory justified the commission\u2019s overriding investment philosophy of ensuring the safety of pension fund assets.<\/p>\n

She assured pension stakeholders that the implementation of the CPS remained on course.<\/p>\n

Dahir-Umar stated that the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a review of business processes across various organisations, which made it imperative for the commission to deepen technology innovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID-19 has engendered socio-economic disruptions of the entire global order, with multifarious challenges in conducting hitherto routine activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was, therefore, imperative for the commission to deepen technological innovation to navigate through the challenges imposed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most recent technological innovation introduced by the commission is the in-house designed and developed online enrolment application.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe application has capabilities to register, verify and enroll prospective retirees of Treasury-Funded Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to her, by the\u00a0 deployment of this new application, mass gathering of people has been avoided while enhancing convenience for the prospective retirees through a seamless enrolment process.<\/p>\n

The DG mentioned that another notable technological innovation by the commission was the design and deployment of the Retirement Savings Account, RSA, Transfer System, RTS, which was launched in November 2020.<\/p>\n

She emphasised that public enlightenment and education were some of the five strategic focus areas currently pursued by the commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is considered germane considering that 17 years after the pension reform in Nigeria, there still exists a knowledge gap on the CPS.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, the commission is committed to reinvigorating its public enlightenment and education drive in order to address this challenge,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to her, other strategic focus areas of PenCom included the resolution of outstanding pension liabilities of the federal government; portfolio diversification of pension fund investments.<\/p>\n

She also mentioned improvement in customer service delivery across the pension industry and unrelenting pursuit of sustainable growth of the pension industry by expanding the coverage of the CPS.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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