7 posts found.
Year selected: 2024
CFO Insight into Q3 2024
The first three quarters of the year have been marked by stable growth. At the end of Q3, the Finnfund portfolio value reached EUR 744 million, with an increase of EUR 22 million (+3%) from the end of last year. During the first nine months of the year, Finnfund made 15 new investment decisions, worth […]
Read moreNovember 15, 2024
CFO Insight into Q2 2024
The first half of the year was marked by active origination. Finnfund made 13 new investment decisions, reaching a value of EUR 116 million. Our portfolio grew by EUR 34 million from the year-end of 2023, landing at EUR 756 million. The USD and EUR reference rates continued to remain at a high level. This […]
Read moreSeptember 10, 2024
Taking Finnfund’s biodiversity work to the next level
This spring and summer, bees were again very few in my garden, and alarming news about declining species populations, 69% on average (WWF Living Planet), made it to the headlines. Everywhere I’ve been to, I see signs of human influence and habitat conversion. On the positive side, some success stories have been reported too, such as […]
Read moreAugust 26, 2024
Opportunities in Ukraine – Finnfund targets projects where Finnish companies are involved
Over two years have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine. At the moment, Russia occupies almost a fifth of Ukraine’s territory, and there is no resolution in sight. There are multiple different scenarios for the future, but the core expectation among international analysts is a protracted war. The conflict is likely to change into a stalemate […]
Read moreAugust 5, 2024
CFO Insight into Q1 2024
Our Annual Report 2023 has been published. As Jaakko Kangasniemi, Finnfund’s CEO and Managing Director, puts it: happy to say that despite the global and local economic and political challenges, the year was a successful one. As explained further in the Annual Report and our press release, in 2023, Finnfund exceeded its target for new […]
Read moreJune 24, 2024
Impact investor is never (completely) satisfied
When you are in the business of impact investing and work on impact and sustainability, you can never be completely satisfied with your current stage. The industry has been evolving very rapidly from pretty niche do-good-businesses to credible and powerful mainstream investment strategies of large asset owners. The one who stays still gets rapidly pushed […]
Read moreApril 19, 2024
Gender-based violence and harassment can be difficult to identify
Gender analysis is an integral part of each investment decision at Finnfund, and one of the aspects that we aim to mitigate is the possibility of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the potential investee company. It is one of the most harmful forms of gender inequality and unfortunately affects millions of women and girls […]
Read moreFebruary 29, 2024