SINPF

About the Fund

A national savings institution built to turn working years into a secure retirement — for every Solomon Islander in the formal workforce.

What SINPF is

The Solomon Islands National Provident Fund (SINPF) is the country's mandatory retirement savings institution. Established under the National Provident Fund Act in 1973, the Fund collects regular contributions from employers and employees, invests them prudently, and pays benefits back to members at retirement — and at the other key moments the Act allows.

Put simply: SINPF holds the savings of the Solomon Islands workforce, grows them over a lifetime of work, and returns them when members need them most.

Who the Fund serves

Every formal-sector worker in Solomon Islands is a member of the Fund, from the first day of their first job to the last day of their career — and beyond. Today the Fund looks after the savings of over 210,000 active members and holds around SI$ 4.8 billion in assets on their behalf.

Members never carry the Fund's running costs out of their own balance. Every dollar contributed stays working for the member who contributed it.

What the Fund stands for

Four principles that sit behind every decision — from how contributions are collected to how benefits are paid.

Members first

Every decision — every investment, every rule, every expense — is tested against one question: does it serve members' savings?

Prudence

The Fund takes only the risks its Investment Policy Statement allows. Discipline is a feature, not a limit.

Transparency

Members, employers and the public can see how the Fund is run — through annual reports, audited financials, and regular updates from the Board.

Long-term thinking

The Fund invests for decades, not headlines. The timeframe that matters is the length of a member's working life.

How membership works

Membership in SINPF is built on three straightforward moves:

  • Contributions. Each payday, a share of a member's wage is contributed to the Fund — part from the employee, part from the employer — under the rates set by the National Provident Fund Act.
  • Growth. Those contributions are pooled and invested by the Fund's Investment Department, under the rules of the Investment Policy Statement. Each year, the Board credits members' accounts with their share of the returns earned.
  • Benefits. When a member reaches retirement — or qualifies for any of the other benefits the Act allows — the Fund pays out what has been saved and earned, in full.

Between contribution and benefit, the Fund's single job is to protect the real value of members' savings and grow them responsibly over the long run.

Go deeper

Four doorways into the detail behind how the Fund works.