The Tuvalu Trust Fund is an international sovereign wealth fund established to benefit Tuvalu, a small, central Pacific island nation, by providing income to cover shortfalls in the national budget, underpin economic development, and help the nation achieve greater financial autonomy. The Tuvalu Trust Fund was established in 1987 by the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. In the thirty years since the creation of the fund, the Government of Tuvalu has received distributions of AUD$100 million in absolute terms or AUD$154 million in 2017 values.