The forthcoming pension reform greatly worried the inhabitants of Russia, figuring out how to secure a comfortable old age. After all, the government announced not only the rise of the retirement age, but also the refusal to calculate pensions with the help of points. Senior research fellow at the Institute for Economic Policy, member of the board of the Liberal Mission Foundation Sergei Zhavoronkov is confident that only personal investment will save the situation. He said that "now there are many professional companies that will help with investments" and advised working Russians to invest money in currency, real estate and bank deposits, but only within the limits of the insurance limit, writes "Free Press". The expert also believes that as long as the retirement age of people in uniform (military, rescuers, MVD, FSB and prosecutors for whom it has not changed) will not be equated to the average Russian, talking about raising it for the entire population can not be. "Privileged strata will still be able to retire at 35 years of age. They are recruited with a higher education at 22, plus 20 years of experience, but after all the year goes for one and a half, at 35 they are retired, "said Zhavoronkov.

Earlier, the chairman of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, proposed to transform the cash savings for future pensioners into long-term investments. In her opinion, such a step would be a boon for the pensioners themselves. She noted that the changes in regulation made it possible for non-state pension funds to increase investments in the real sector by almost two times - to 958 billion rubles, PRIME reported.. "Assets of pension funds are almost 3.9 trillion rubles. Our task is to ensure the transformation of these large funds into long-term investments, "she said..