Now investing and saving for retirement is also children’s thing. The city of children, Kidzania, opened the First Retirement Savings Center where the kidzos who win throughout their day can grow and thus obtain a performance, as happens in the world of adults with affores.
This center was inaugurated by Aphore Sura in Kidzania Cuicuilco and is designed for children Learn from the functioning of Aforesthe importance of anticipating a pension and about the Retirement Savings System in Mexico (SAR). There they will have access to interactive and didactic material to learn about savings, afore and retirement.
Emilio Bertrán, general director at Afore Sura stressed the importance of including children in the Learning financial concepts Because that generates lessons that will have benefits in adult life.
“The best place to foster Savings culture and the importance of retirement They are the boys and girls of our country, ”said Bertrán.
For his part, Julio Carranza, the president of the National Commission for the Retirement Savings System (Consar), highlighted the benefits of creating a healthy financial culture from childhood.
“It is not a matter of adults only, it is important Create good habits from children For small decisions to give them a better future, ”said Carranza.
Financial Education on a day to day
To develop an optimal financial culture, it is necessary to reinforce in the day to day and with the support of adults surrounding the child. The general director of Afore Sura expects parents to observe their children’s concerns and help foster financial education.
“Many of them are very small, the father sees him enter the Retirement Center in Kidzania and we hope they tell him what did you learn? How many kidzos did you receive? And that at home they reinforce what they learned with other resources, ”said Bertrán and recommended putting into practice what they learned with Sundays or countertops that give their children.
The president of the Consar called for the use of the savings instruments dedicated to childhoodsespecially agrees children, aimed at starting savings prior to the start of the working life of the minor.
“With one investment of 50 pesos and using the CURP you can open a Afore Children In any administrator, 125,000 children already have an Afore Children’s account, ”said Julio Carranza.
