Government contributions to the NZ Super Fund were suspended between 2009 and 2017. In December 2017 contributions resumed.

The Government's statement on the resumption of contributions 

Our statement on the resumption of contributions 

Suspension of Government contributions

The table below summarises the capital contributions and Fund returns as at 30 June 2021, both with and without the capital contributions suspension. The methodology has been agreed with Treasury, uses publicly available Treasury material for all of the necessary data, including capital contributions, fund returns, and government debt instrument yields. It assumes that the same investment choices would have been made had contributions not been stopped; and that opportunities to add value would have been perfectly scalable.

^{* Assuming additional contributions would have earned the same return as the actual Fund did over this period.}