8th December, 2023
By Rukayat Adeyemi
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) recovered N24.8 billion of funds unremitted by employers in the third quarter of 2023.
Oguche Agudah, Chief Executive Officer of Pension Funds Operators Association of Nigeria (PenOp) made the declaration on Friday in Lagos.
He spoke at a media parley with the theme: “At the dawn of 20 years of pension reform, what are the gains’’?
Agudah said PenCom recovered N23.3 billion of such funds in the third quarter of 2022, while it recovered N2.23 billion in the third quarter of 2021.
He said also that the pensions industry recorded an Asset under Management of N17.35 trillion in the second quarter of 2023.
It made investments of N349.97 billion in infrastructure in the second quarter of 2023, up from the N333.02 billion invested in the corresponding quarter of 2022, Agudah added.
Investments in infrastructure, he also said, represented 2.02 per cent of total investments made in the second quarter of 2023.
Agudah said the industry also invested N1.54 trillion in the equities market in the third quarter of 2023.
This, he explained, represented 8.88 per cent of total investments, as against the N964.84 billion invested in the corresponding quarter of 2022.
He said the pension industry would focus more on micro-pensions and revise its investment guidelines in 2024 when it celebrates the 20th year of pension reforms.
In his remarks, Mr Lanre Idris, Head, Media Committee, PenOp, noted that the pensions industry had recorded enormous transformation and progress in the last 20 years of reforms.
He stressed that the collective efforts of stakeholders had changed the face of the industry through reforms and evolution of ideas