SSIF total assets reach JD11.19 billion in 2020

The Social Security Investment Fund's (SSIF) total assets grew at the end of 2020 to reach JD 11.19 billion, compared with JD 10.99 billion at the end of 2019, according to the preliminary financial statements,
SSIF CEO Kholoud Saqqaf said that the strategic distribution of the Fund’s investments in various vital sectors has enhanced the resilience of the fund in facing the negative repercussions of the pandemic by maintaining the value of assets.
The CEO said that the Fund’s assets were invested in money market instruments by 13 per cent, bonds by 58.2 per cent, loans by 3.6, equity by 14.5 per cent, real estate by 6.5 per cent and tourism by 2.6 per cent.
According to preliminary financial statements, the income achieved by the end of 2020 totaled some JD 497 million, mainly from investment revenues in fixed income tools such as bonds, bank deposits and loans that totaled JD 453.4 million.
Saqqaf attributed the drop of income by the end of 2020, compared with the income earned by the end of 2019 of JD556 million, to the economic repercussions of the pandemic on the national economy.
Such repercussions include a decrease in the profits of some companies, the drop of interest rates on fixed income tools, the decline in the performance of the Amman Stock Exchange, as well as the large drop in the performance of the tourism sector, she added.
As stipulated in the SSIF strategic plan for 2019-2021, which is endorsed by the board of directors of the Social Security Corporation, the Fund in 2020 expanded its real estate investments to JD 717 million through buying additional real estate properties nationwide with a total value of JD 60 million. 
As for investment in the bond portfolio, which constitutes 58.2 per cent of the fund’s overall portfolio, the value of revenues of the bond portfolio totaled some JD 379 million by the end of 2020 with a rate of 6.1 per cent.