Fatum holds pension
seminar this Friday
PHILIPSBURG--Pension experts, representatives of workers and trade unions, politicians, tax advisers, human resource managers, financial managers and other stakeholders will gather at the Belair Beach Hotel this Friday to discuss pension related issues in Fatum’s first Pension Seminar.
Attendance is open and free of charge but registration is strongly recommended, Fatum said in a press release.
“As ageing problems and problems related to unfavorable proportional figures on retired citizens versus the employed arise, pension plans become more and more hot topics,” it was stated in the release.
“This means that a decreasing number of employed people are paying for a basic pension provision to benefit the others – the elderly. Consequently, governments see themselves confronted with complex financial gaps and issues.”
How best to maintain or even improve our pension system is one of the questions Fatum is hoping to get answered at the seminar. “If we do not anticipate developments, we leave future generations with a heavy burden. We think this is irresponsible. Therefore, we are highly motivated to think and act proactively.
“Figures in the Dutch Antilles indicate an anything but saturated market with regard to pension and arrangements. Groups having pension arrangements carry mainly employed workers who are working for larger and older companies. Possibilities for the self-employed with regard to fiscal possibilities are very limited. Same goes for an employee without a pension arrangement. This is from the social point of view an undesirable situation.
“Hence, employees who do not have a pension arrangement are not ready to take their own responsibility based on the same fiscal benefits as employees who do have a pension arrangement. We think time has come to plead for proper, modernized and flexible pension legislation.”
Persons interested in signing up can visit Fatum’s Website at
www.pension.an.
