INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF RETIREMENT INSURANCE AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN UKRAINE

The article attempts to provide an overview of world experience in functioning and development of retirement insurance system based on insurance principles. The world experience in the sphere of retirement insurance and realization of pension reforms in countries with different economic development will help to apply certain elements to Ukrainian pension program. The importance of functioning of multilevel pension models is considered in the study. The analysis has shown that pension models based on redistributive and accumulative pension programs give an opportunity to receive differential pensions to citizens of retirement age.