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AXA Sigorta is the official sponsor of TVF

AXA Sigorta is the ciety. With the mission of helping people lead better lives, we
first “Official Insur- attach great importance to partnerships that will encourage
ance Sponsor” for people to have a more active lifestyle and do exercise. In this
Turkish Volleyball respect, we are insuring Turkish Volleyball Federation as a
Federation, in addi- real inspiration for us with their achievements. I believe that
tion to becoming the our Federation will maintain this great achievement without
title sponsor of the having to think about logistic processes and continue to gain
Cup Volley tourna- new triumphs on the global platform by supporting young play-
ment for 2018-2019 ers. We will always support them during this entire process.”
season. Within the Ölken added that they will also insure the employees of the
scope of this agree- Federation based on their own evaluations.
ment, AXA will insure
all immovable proper-
ties belonging to and used by TVF, as well as tribunes and the
audience against any negative circumstances during volleyball
games. Cooperation between AXA Sigorta and Turkish Volley-
ball Federation was announced by Yavuz Ölken, CEO of AXA
Sigorta, on 26 December 2018 following the AXA Sigorta Cup
Volley Women’s Category Draw at AXA Sigorta Head Office.

Stating that they were pleased to have a chance to support vol-
leyball, the shining star of Turkish sports, Yavuz Ölken said:
“In addition to fulfilling our insurance responsibilities which
is our core business, we believe we have to offer much more
as a company that is sensitive to the requirements of our so-

BES may finance Turkish economy in the future

Pension Monitoring Center (EGM) organized a panel at the
Ali Coşkun Conference Hall of Sakarya Chamber of Com-
merce and Industry (SATSO) within the scope of the project
called “We are meeting for your retirement, Turkey is get-
ting BES’ed”. Moderated by the journalist Noyan Doğan, the
panel was hosted by SATSO and attended by Deniz Yurtsev-
en, Board Member of EGM and CEO of MetLife Emeklilik
ve Hayat; Akgün Altuğ, Chairman of the Sakarya Chamber
of Commerce and Industry; Şükrü Bodur, Vice Chairman of
Sakarya Organized Industrial Site; and İshak Satış, 1st Board
Member of Sakarya Organized Industrial Site.

Deniz Yurtseven, Board Member of EGM, talked about the
progress and current status of Individual Pension System
(BES), which was launched in 2013, and Auto Enrollment
System (OKS), which was launched in 2017. He said: “In “We must save both for ourselves and our economy”
terms of statistics, we have reached 7 million participants and
86 billion TL fund size in BES. With the initiation of OKS, 5 Underlining that savings-based systems are highly important
million more people joined the savings system; increasing the for national economy and welfare of individuals, Yurtseven
number of people that are currently saving for their future up said: “I think that it is important for small-scale companies to
to 12 million. Considering that we have reached nearly 5 bil- join the system. This will increase the fund size in the system;
lion TL of fund size on auto enrollment side, overall fund size and I believe that it will come to a level that will finance Turk-
is seen to have reached approximately 90 billion TL. As the ish economy through money markets. Therefore, regardless of
knowledge and consciousness increase over time, and we see the company we work at, we must definitely consider joining
that it does, I believe that new participants will remain in the the pension system both for our personal welfare and for the
system for longer.”
future of our country. We must certainly save for our future.”