As part of the concept of individual pension capital (IPC) developed by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of Russia, it is planned to transfer compulsory pension insurance (CPI) funds to citizens. For consolidation the entire systemic and legal pension structure changes: non-state pension funds (NSPFs) at the savings stage will become management companies, and at the payments stage, will become insurers requiring a serious change in legislation and raises the issue of admitting not only NSPF to pension money, Kommersant writes.

And this is for the reason: cancer remains the second leading mortality cause in Russia. Only last year more than 300 thousand people died from this disease, rg.ru reports.

What risks are the main priority for women, which risks they fear, and which risks they consider unlikely. Ingosstrakh held such a study before the International Women's Day on 8th of March, according to korins.ru.

A new player appeared on the domestic insurance market: on March 4, 2019, the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued a license for insurance and reinsurance activities in the life insurance industry to JSC LIC Eurasia, which is a subsidiary of the permanent leader in general insurance Eurasia IC JSC, forbes.kz reports.

Life insurance companies (LICs) begin a year on a positive note. In January, insurance premiums increased by 34% (by 3.1 billion tenge) to 11.9 billion tenge compared to the same period of 2018. The insurance payments increased by only 0.3%, from 1.47 billion to 1.5 billion tenge, helping companies keep expenses at a comfortable level.

By the end of January 2019, the assets of insurance organizations amounted to 1.1 trillion tenge with a 15.6% increase over the year. A year earlier, the amount of assets had increased by 6.9% over the year and amounted to 933.9 billion tenge. The maximum growth in the same period in recent years was observed in 2016 - by 37.4% yoy, finprom.kz reports.

According to international studies, a properly organized employee health management reduces their incidence by 40-50%, the number of days of disability by 20%, increases the detectability of chronic diseases by 10-15%, and reduces the average period of temporary disability by almost a third, reports forinsurer.com.

The 1st of March is World Day of Immunity. The ability of the immune system to maintain the integrity of the internal milieu is 50% dependent on the person’s lifestyle. Bad habits, one of which is smoking, weaken the immune system and become the causes of many diseases. If urgent measures are not taken to combat smoking, the number of annual deaths in the world by 2030 could exceed 8 million cases, warns the World Health Organization (WHO), according to forinsurer.com.

Chicken pox has become a leader in the number of registered cases, according to kursiv.kz.

Zhanat Kurmanov, the Deputy Chairman of the National Bank, spoke about the state of the insurance sector in an interview with kursiv.kz.

You can gain confidence in yourself and in your future only by fully taking responsibility for your health and life, said Saule Yntykbayeva, an Almaty dweller. By choosing universal life insurance you can protect yourself and loved ones from any twists of fate. Moreover, this type of insurance allows you to accumulate and increase money, as if you put it on deposit.

Life insurance is a mandatory part of any European and American family spending. The total number of life insurance companies in the European Union in 2017 amounted to 5.16 trillion US dollars. According to Europeans if a person has no life insurance policy, he is practically a bankrupt. Kazakhstani authorities began to create conditions for the life insurance development.

Oksana Radchenko, the Board Chairman of JSC Halyk-Life, in an interview with our portal LifeInsurance.kz, shared her opinion on the development of the state educational accumulative system on the following issues.

The company is restarting a full work as of February 1, reports kursiv.kz.