{"id":463162,"date":"2018-02-10T02:29:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T02:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/campaign-on-successful-retirement-launched\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T02:29:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T02:29:04","slug":"campaign-on-successful-retirement-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/campaign-on-successful-retirement-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign on successful retirement launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Saturday, 10 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/75660512.295.jpg\" alt=\"Beige Retire\" title=\"Beige Retire\" width=\"295\" height=\"154\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Campaign seeks to target about two million people to enable them to retire comfortably<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518229744_292_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The BEIGE Pension Trust has launched a one-year nationwide campaign to educate workers in both the formal and the informal sectors on the need to start planning their retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign seeks to target about two million people to enable them to retire comfortably within the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Daily Graphic after the launch of the campaign in Accra yesterday, the Managing Director of the Beige Pension Trust, Mr Richmond Kwame Frimpong, said the issue of retirement concerned everyone, hence the decision by the trust to take the campaign to both formal and informal sector workers in all 10 regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Launch<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch brought together market associations and companies from the informal sector and we specifically did a presentation for them to know that we are actually involving them and not only formal sector workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also translated all our materials into local languages and will soon go out to let ordinary Ghanaians know that, whether in the formal or informal sector, you can also earn a pension income,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Importance<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Planning, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), Mr Ernest Amartey-Vonde, said there were two stages in life that a person would not escape: death and retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody will die and if you don\u2019t die, you will retire one day and there is, therefore, the need to prepare for these two. For a good number of people, pension becomes important when they are close to the age where they are about to exit from their active working life. When people are nearing the retirement age, that is when they start running to SSNIT in a bid to change their retiring ages due to poor planning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amartey-Vonde further stated that each day marked how closer a person was getting to retirement and advised those who wanted to have successful retirement lives to start planning now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPension planning is good as it tackles accommodation, health and other challenges when you are no longer in active service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was for those reasons that the NPRA had intensified its educational campaign on pensions and commended the Beige Trust for its initiative.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Planning<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Beige Bank, Mr Kofi Otutu Adu Larbi, wondered why some people did not plan their retirement when they knew it is unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all going on a journey and we should make sure that we have no regrets when we arrive at our destination. We need to have an understanding of money and proper financial independence in order to live comfortable retirement lives,\u201d he stated, adding that \u201cthe money you earn today, no matter how little it is, is seed for tomorrow\u2019s harvest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Saturday, 10 February 2018 Source: Graphic.com.gh 2018-02-10 Campaign seeks to target about two million people to enable them to retire comfortably The BEIGE Pension Trust has launched a one-year nationwide campaign to educate workers in both the formal and the informal sectors on the need to start planning their retirement. 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