Annual General Meeting was held 26th August

CFA Society Finland organized the Annual General meeting on August 26th. The meeting and dinner were held in Restaurant Sipuli, with a chance to attend virtually. Around 20 member joined us at Sipuli, where we had seated attendees in a larger banquet room to provide enough space for everyone, concerning the recommendations at hand.

Society Chair Antti Raappana, CFA opened the meeting and Kati Eriksson, CFA was elected as the Chair for the meeting. The highlights from last yer were discussed as the Board Report was presented. Treasurer for FY21 Dan Anttila, CFA, introduced the financial report. The budget and action plan for next year were went over as well.

Electing the new board is an important part of the AGM. The chair of the Nomination Committee Miia Hukari, CFA introduced the proposal for the Board FY22. The proposal was unanimously supported by the attendees. Antti Raappana, CFA continues as Chair, Niina Arkko, CFA and Toni Iivonen, CFA nominated as Vice presidents, with Dan Anttila, CFA, Harri Kojonen, CFA and Hanna Savinainen, CFA continuing as board members. Hanna Haavanlammi, CFA and Joonas Huttunen, CFA were elected as new board members.

As we are excited to start the fall with the new board, we are sad to say goodbye to departing board members, Matti Ilmanen, CFA, Tiina Smolander, CFA and Peter Lindström, CFA. Antti was happy to award departing gifts with warm thanks on behalf of the Board and Society.

Many thanks to the participants of the AGM. We hope to see our members more regularly from now on, as well as keeping virtual programming as an importnat part of future operations to offer inclusivity ad easy access to members further away.