Khaberni - The president of the Social Security Investment Fund, Ezzedine Kanakrieh, stated that the fund's assets have reached 18 billion dinars, accounting for more than 45% of the Gross Domestic Product.
Kanakrieh added, during the Government Communication Forum on Tuesday, that the fund invests most of its money in the Jordanian economy, distributed across various vital economic sectors.
He noted that the assets have recorded a historic growth since the fund began its operations in 2003, where they increased from 1.6 billion dinars to 17.9 billion dinars by the end of September of the current year.
Kanakrieh added that the growth rate of the assets since the beginning of the year was 10.6%, achieving a net income from the investment portfolios valued at 809 million dinars, and the returns of the investment portfolios during the third quarter of the current year were 809.6 million dinars.
Kanakrieh explained that the growth rate of total income reached 133.5%, amounting to 1.6 billion dinars.
Kanakrieh clarified that the fund finances the Tafilah Hospital, the Madouneh Customs Center, and the Amman-Zarqa rapid bus, and that the fund is a major partner in the national water carrier project, in addition to its interest in studying projects of the economic modernization vision.
Kanakrieh indicated that the fund aims to achieve worthwhile and sustainable returns on the invested funds within acceptable risk levels, provide necessary liquidity to meet the future obligations of the Social Security Corporation, contribute to the growth of the national economy, and comply with standards of sound governance and transparency of disclosure.
Kanakrieh said that the fund invests in domestic bonds due to their importance in achieving steady and stable returns from interests appropriate to the characteristics of the retirement funds obligations represented by fixed pensions for retirees, in addition to investing in government bonds being considered low-risk investments, which contribute to reducing the total risks that the fund may face. He added that the fund is a major investor in the banking, industry, and services sectors, and work is ongoing to expand investment in mining sector projects.
Kanakrieh pointed out that approximately 57.8% of the fund's assets are invested in government bonds, representing about 10.3 billion dinars mostly in local bonds issued by the government.
Kanakrieh stated that the total stock portfolio amounted to about 3.2 billion dinars at the end of the third quarter of 2025, including investments in public joint-stock companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange valued near 3 billion dinars, and these investments represent about 13% of the total market value of the exchange.
Regarding real estate investment, Kanakrieh referred to the investment in the real estate sector through the ownership of lands and commercial complexes in various provinces, with the real estate portfolio amounting to about 894.4 million dinars at the end of the third quarter of the current year.
