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Investing for New Zealand

NZD $79741465521.395

Find out more about the NZ Super Fund’s performance benchmarks and how it has performed since investing began in 2003. Monthly and annual data is provided.

NZ Super Fund Performance

NZ Super Fund explained

The NZ Super Fund will help pay the cost of universal pensions for future generations of New Zealanders.

About the Guardians

A growth investor

In keeping with its long-term investment horizon, the NZ Super Fund is weighted towards growth assets such as shares.

How we invest

Sustainable investment delivering strong returns for all New Zealanders

For the first time we can report our performance on a 20 year rolling basis. It's great to be able to say we've come through all the market ups and downs well ahead of our performance benchmark. But this is just the beginning and we're looking forward to what the next 20 years will bring.

 

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at a glance
Rate of return P.A

10.1%

before nz tax, after costs
Value added

$17.8b

vs passive benchmark
Figures as at 31 October 2024
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20 December 2024

Guardians welcomes Auckland Council approval for Beachlands rezoning

13 December 2024

New Guardians Board Member Appointed
14 November 2024

Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation terminates Devon Funds Management mandate
24 October 2024

Guardians releases 2024 Annual Report

How we invest

Learn more about our investment beliefs and policies, reference portfolio approach to investing and process for appointing and monitoring external investment managers.

Sustainable investment

We integrate environmental, social and governance factors into our investment process and ownership activities.

Investment performance

Find out how our investments are performing.

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Taranaki Offshore Wind

The NZ Super Fund and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners are excited to accelerate efforts to bring large scale offshore wind to South Taranaki – supporting New Zealand’s 2030 renewable energy ambitions, and a clean energy transition for the Taranaki region.

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Climate change

We factor the risks and opportunities stemming from climate change into our investment strategies and ownership practices. Our goal is to make the NZ Super Fund more resilient to climate-related risk.

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Elevate NZ Venture Fund

In 2019 legislation passed by Parliament established a fifteen year venture capital fund, administered by the Guardians under a new mandate, run separately from the NZ Super Fund.

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The NZ Super Fund story

Created in 2001 after an extensive public and Parliamentary debate, the Fund is a way for New Zealand to save now in order to make future superannuation costs more affordable. It’s needed because New Zealand’s population is getting older.

We do not manage people’s private savings

The NZ Super Fund invests Government capital contributions, and the returns from those investments, to contribute to the Government's cost of paying superannuation entitlements in the future.

Note: Be aware some scammers claim to represent the NZ Super Fund, particularly through social media. We do not invest on behalf of private individuals and we will never contact individuals with investment opportunities.

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