Blog | | Kaisa Alavuotunki, Juho Uusihakala

The risk of not investing: Failing to provide digital access poses risks to achieving SDGs

The risk of not investing. That is how one could summarise the linkage between digital access and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The role of internet connectivity for sustainable and inclusive development is highlighted in several SDGs. Over two thirds of the SDG targets can be directly enhanced by digital technologies. And failing […]

Blog | | Tangeni Shatiwa

Stronger US dollar under Trump 2.0 – what are the impacts on emerging and developing markets?

Earlier last month, Donald Trump made a remarkable political comeback by being re-elected as the 47th President of the United States. As the Republican party have also managed to maintain control of the US House of Representatives while gaining control of the US Senate, the incoming Trump administration will have significant influence over the US […]

Blog | | Olli Sinnemaa

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 […]

Blog | | Olli Sinnemaa

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 […]

Blog | | Patrik Bredbacka

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 […]

Blog | | Anne Valto

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 the […]

Blog | | Olli Sinnemaa

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 investments, making 35 new […]

Blog | | Kaisa Alavuotunki

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 […]

Blog | | Olli Sinnemaa

CFO insight into Q3 2023

Finnfund’s investment portfolio continued to grow in the third quarter of 2023, reaching a value of EUR 729 million, which is an increase of EUR 31 million (+4%) from the year-end 2022. During the first nine months of the year, 28 new investment decisions were made worth EUR 221 million.​ In the third quarter of the year, […]

Blog | | Aleksi Koskikallio

Cracking the climate risk code in credit risk management

Climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy lead to costs for companies. They are therefore one factor determining companies’ credit or investment risk. For the financial sector, climate risk and how to handle it in credit risk analysis has been a hot topic for some years now. It is not an easy task, […]

Blog | | Sylvie Fraboulet-Jussila, Päivi Michael

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

As the world is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is time for us at Finnfund to reflect on our work with human rights. Thru our human rights due diligence processes, we have identified and mitigated the actual and potential adverse human rights impacts […]

Blog | | Elina Happonen

How investing in digital infrastructure and solutions helps reduce the gender gap

Finnfund’s Digital Infrastructure and Solutions team was established only a couple of years ago, but we have a great spirit of getting things done and we have achieved a lot already during our first years of operation. We have identified three needs or issues that our investments seek to solve: 1) access to basic mobile […]