FINC 456 — Pensions and Social Insurance
Finance · University of Ghana
This course aims at making the students aware of the need for an effective social security system and provides the background to pension schemes. The course will expose students to the difference between social insurance and private individual insurances. It outlines the key issues involved in the organisation of social security schemes and discusses the characteristic features of the main employee benefit schemes. Specific topics include: the concept of social security and the development of pension schemes, legislative framework on retirement and other benefit schemes, forms of pension schemes, organisation and design of pension schemes and social insurance schemes.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- FINC 401 — Investment Fundamentals
- FINC 402 — Monetary Theory
- FINC 403 — Bank Management
- FINC 404 — International Finance and Banking
- FINC 405 — Banking Operations
- FINC 406 — Financial Markets
- FINC 407 — Labour Economics
- FINC 408 — Microfinance
- FINC 451 — Introduction to Actuarial Science
- FINC 452 — Property and Pecuniary Insurance
- FINC 453 — Elements of Risk and Insurance
- FINC 454 — Assurance of the Person
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).