On Wednesday, the PFR Capital Group's Strategy for 2026-2030 was presented by: PFR President Piotr Matczuk, Vice-President for Finance and Development Mariusz Jaszczyk and Vice-President for Investments Mikołaj Raczyński. Currently, the strategy from 2021, from the time of the PiS government, is in force.
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The PFR strategy defines the mission as follows: – We invest responsibly, mobilizing capital and knowledge to realize the economic ambitions of Poles and strengthen the resilience of the economy.
The vision of the strategy is for PFR to be “a partner of first choice, setting quality standards in financing development and innovation – strengthening Poland's position among the world's largest economies“.
The broadly understood goals of PFR, as Mikołaj Raczyński says, are: development of Polish enterprises and the Polish capital marketso that it is able to independently finance investments in the long term. – We do not want to compete with the private sector, but to complement it – explains Raczyński. This is to be achieved, among other things, by developing PFR Deep Tech.
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According to Raczyński, the dual use sector, i.e. dual use – civil and military – will be one of the key areas in PFR's activities. — Today, Poland is in a window of opportunity that allows defense spending to be transformed into a new economic leg – argues Raczyński.
As Piotr Matczuk declares, ESG is important to PFR, including sustainable development and social activities, such as increasing the availability of premises and counteracting housing exclusion. So far, it has allocated PLN 2.9 billion for the construction of apartments for rent, including in cooperation with local governments.
Strategic directions of PFR's activities
In line with the strategy the value of investment assets managed by PFR may increase by 50 to even 100 percent in the coming five years. According to the strategy, in 2030 the value of investments managed by PFR may amount to PLN 43 billion.
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The strategic directions of PFR's activities include: economic and defense resilience, innovation and technological autonomy of the country, international competitiveness of Polish enterprises, long-term financial security of Poles, as well as energy transformation. In this case, investments in gas or nuclear are at stake – PFR is involved in talks on this matter.
Vice-President of PFR Mikołaj Raczyński
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The next strategic directions of activities are strategic investments in the field of investment and support for innovation, as well as building Polish capital in the country and abroad.
One of these directions is also support for strategic infrastructure investments (including Baltic Hub). — In the case of such large projects as, for example, CPK, we see our role in a point-by-point manner, says Mikołaj Raczyński.
Other strategic directions include: investments in local infrastructure, support for the energy transformation of the economy, investments in defense technologies and dual use, development of the innovation ecosystem, promotion of long-term savings under PPK and the development of the Polish capital market.
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— Within all these projects, we have priority for local content – Polish investments in Poland – emphasizes Mikołaj Raczyński.
He emphasizes that PFR operates as a fund, which means it exits individual investments over time and pays great attention to the efficiency of using funds in individual investments.
