The manager of Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), has announced that its total assets grew to N1.02trn in 2022 up from the N919.73bn recorded in 2021.
According to the organization the growth was 10.5 per cent.
This was contained in a statement released on its 2022 full-year audited results released on Friday.
The statement said that its audited results for the 2022 financial year indicated that comprehensive income of N96bn in 2022 was made, representing a decline of 34 per cent relative to 147bn in 2021.
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It stated that this was due to strong macroeconomic headwinds, adding that the agency was able to outperform most global investment benchmarks and indices to deliver a respectable performance.
‘’The managing director and chief executive officer of the NSIA, Aminu Umar-Sadiq, said that the performance was recorded despite the challenges in the operating environment, ‘’the statement said.
Aminu in the statement noted that, “Against market expectations and internal forecast, the NSIA closed the 2022 financial year with a respectable performance. This result underscores the robustness of our diversified portfolio and the excellent commitment of the team.”
The highlights of NSIA’s activities and performance during the period under review also showed that it recorded its 10th year of continuous positive earnings in spite of volatility across markets.
In its 2022 report, the earnings of the NSIA Group was N96.96bn, a 34 per cent dip compared to N146.98bn recorded in 2021. The organization attributed the decrease to the performance of its Future Generations and Stabilization portfolios that are invested in emerging and developed financial market instruments.
On the other hand, its interest income, revenue from infrastructure business, and management fees earned from fiduciary activities, increased by 34.5 per cent (₦15.7bn) year-over-year.
“As we look to the future, NSIA is resolute in its commitment to delivering increased investments in critical sectors of the economy, driving growth across its funds, and attracting third-party capital into Nigeria’s infrastructure sector. In 2023, we will be resourcing our various platforms targeted at emerging sectors – renewable energy, sustainability, innovation, and healthcare – which will ensure the Authority achieves its dual objectives of delivering financial returns and impactful social outcomes,” he added.
NSIA said that the 2022 fiscal year was marked by unprecedented shocks, such as the COVID-19 lockdown in China, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, food and energy crises, supply-chain disruptions, soaring inflation, and monetary policy tightening, which impacted the financial markets.
In 2022, NSIA said that it reached a significant milestone in implementing its infrastructure strategy by delivering key projects. These projects cut across core sectors of focus and the implementation of specialized federal government initiatives.
They include projects in the agriculture sector, the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative. The opening of the Pandagric Novum farm, a joint venture between NSIA and Signature Agri Investment for the cultivation of maize and soybeans and connected to a 147,000 metric tons per annum capacity poultry feed mill.
In the technology sector, NSIA said it introduced the NSIA Prize for Innovation as a measure to stimulate the ingenuity of Nigerian innovators and technopreneurs to develop solutions that address real-world challenges with global application. The NPI program is a business enhancement initiative to support early-stage, growth-driven tech solutions through education, mentorship, and financing and recorded milestones in the gas industrialization sector, health care, power and road.
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