AIICO Pensions Managers hosts PDOs, retirees in North Central

In line with its plan to improve the quality of its services, and to continuously keep clients up-to-date with information, AIICO Pension Managers Limited recently organized an enlightenment forum for Pension Desk Officers (PDOs) in Abuja.
AIICO Pension Managers Limited is a licensed pension fund administrator with over 40 locations spread across Nigeria. APML is managed by seasoned and well-tested executives with vast experience in Pension Administration, Risk Management, Banking, Capital Market and Asset Management.
 PDOs from organisations in and around the Abuja axis were invited and the level of participation by way of questions and answer and the feedback received gave credence to the quality of enlightenment received by participants. Managing Director of AIICO Pension Managers Limited (APML) Mr. Eguarekhide Longe, while welcoming participants to the forum, stated that the event was organised as part of APML’s resolve to continuously satisfy and respond to the yearnings of clients, especially the PDOs who are the drivers of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) processes in their various organisations.
According to Longe, part of the reason why the Forum was organised was to engage the PDOs on the challenges they face in discharging their duties and also to ensure that both the PDOs and APML were on the same page.
Participants were enlightened on various issues including the use of the Electronic Pension Contribution Collection System (EPCCOS) for seamless remittance of pension contributions, updates on the Benefit Administration processes; updates on new guidelines issued by PenCom and general challenges encountered by PDOs and RSA holders.
Nigerian Security & Civil Defence Corps’s PDO, Barr. Ezon, who spoke on behalf of other participants, thanked the management of APML for the opportunity given them for the event. He assured organisers that the lessons learnt at the forum would help enhance their jobs as PDOs and ultimately help to sustain the pension industry.
AIICO Pensions Managers were not done with the PDOs but they also held a Forum for retirees of the company. For the management of APML, retired employees require knowledge of three basic facts of life which had been the undoing of most retired workers in the country.
At the Retirees Forum, APML management enlightened retirees on three key but basic facts of life which are management of finances after retirement, need to maintain healthy living after retirement and what it called retiring the AIIOC way.
At the forum, APML harped on the importance of investing hard earned savings of the retirees for future use after service. On the issue of healthy living, APML informed its retirees as well as serving personnel that the right attitude to eating, performing light body exercises on a daily basis or routinely, taking time out to rest and subjecting oneself to routine medical check-ups should be part of their retirement chores.
As pensions managers, the company also urged the retirees not to be oblivious of the need for retirement benefit financial plans as approved by the National Pension Commission and National Insurance Commission.
Several APML bigwigs, ranging from the Managing Director, Mr. Longe, Regional Controller (North), Mr. Sani Mustapha, and some others shared their wealth of knowledge at the twin events.