After a successful and high-profile international investors' conference and exposition "investo Expo" – which was organized within the "investors' Week" by PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD) in Ljubljana Cankar Hall (Cankarjev dom) – investo.tv publishes the full clip of the 4^th panel, entitled "Barriers to Shareholders Engagement - Report on Cross-border Proxy Voting". The panellists were: Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of EuroFinuse, Susannah Haan, Secretary General of EuropeanIssuers, Christane Hoelz, Director North-Rhine Westfalia of DSW and Henning Wegener Managing Director of AMEC.

EuroFinuse, the European Federation of Financial Services Users, in which PanSlovenian Shareholders` Association - VZMD collaborates as an active member and is represented in the Board of Directors by its President Mr. Kristjan Verbič, M.Sc., welcomes Consultation from the European Commission on Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) – Long-Term Investments. They focus their response to the consultation on the part of long-term investments that are crucial for individual shareholders and retail investors, who they represent (for further information click the picture above).

EuroFinuse is shortlisted for the 2012 European Public Affairs Awards. You can support them by casting your vote here!

Yesterday the International Conference on Benefits and Challenges of Public Private Partnerships for improving Energy Efficiency was held at Grand Hotel Union in Ljubljana, organized by International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE) and international network Knowledge Economy Network (KEN). Exceptional conference was also attended by numerous distinguished guests, among whom were the Vice-president of European Investment Bank (EIB), Anton Rop, M.Sc., President of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, prof. Ernest Petrič, Ph.D., representative of European Commission, Stefano Panighetti, representative of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Rainer Stifter, representative of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Karim Dahou, Director general of ICPE, Janez Podobnik, President of KEN, Boris Cizelj, Ph.D., and many other representatives of organizations and institutions from the fields of economy, entrepreneurship and diplomacy.

We Invite you to view exclusive video report of investo.tv, with statements of prominent guests.

After a successful and high-profile international investors' conference and exposition "investo Expo" – which was organized within the "investors' Week" by PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD) inLjubljana Cankar Hall (Cankarjev dom) – investo.tv publishes the full clip of the 5^th panel, entitled "Competitiveness of Slovenia as seen from Foreign Direct Investors", prepared by the Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Entrepreneurship and Foreign Investments – JAPTI. At the panel – in addition to Igor Plestenjak, CEO of JAPTI, the first one who addressed the participants – Matej Skočir, M.Sc., Head of the Foreign Investment Department at JAPTI, Matija Rojec, Ph.D, professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Peter Stanovnik, Ph.D., from the Institute for Economic Research, and Simon Mastnak, M.Sc.,CEO of Masset Consulting, also took part in the panel.

During the next few days on the websites VZMD.TV and investo.tv, in addition to already published video reports of intense happening at the "investors' Week", also video reports of the remaining panels, which took place at an international investors' conference and "investo Expo" exposition, will be published.

In the course of the Investor's Week, the world's largest meeting of investor representatives and shareholders, which was organized by the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association (VZMD) within its investo.si - Invest to Slovenia program from 19 to 23 September in Slovenia, the Ljubljana declaration was adopted and presented at the end of the international investor conference and investo Expo exposition in Cankar Hall in Ljubljana. The declaration introduces the unification of two European associations protecting rights and interests of shareholders, investors, and financial services users - Euroshareholders and EuroFinuse, comprising 50 national organizations, which represent over 4 million individual shareholders and investors.

Upon opening of the second day of the international investor conference and investo Expo fair in Cankar Hall in Ljubljana, the VZMD award "Polet" was granted already for the second time for "Model corporate governance of multinational corporations" to 
Gorenje enterprise. The award was handed over by Roger Ganser, the president of the World Federation of Investors (WFI), Uroš Rožič, State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Kristijan Verbič, the president of VZMD, and it was received by Jure Marjanovič, the Board Secretary, on behalf of Gorenje.

The award for the "model corporate governance of multinational corporation" was already the second award granted by VZMD as a part of the two-day international investor conference and investo Expo fair, while the traditional VZMD and Euroshareholders award for "Shareholder-friendly company" was received by the pharmaceutical company Krka at the mayor's reception in Ljubljana castle the previous evening. The award was handed over by Jella Benner-Heinacher, the president of Euroshareholders, and Kristjan Verbič, and was received by Peter Skubic, deputy CFO, on behalf of Krka.

During the international investor conference and investo Expo fair, which was partly supported by the European Commission, 5 panels were debating the current and most significant local, European and global issues regarding financial and capital markets, reforms and investments with the participation of  prominent international and national experts, whereby 18 of the most renown Slovenian companies and institutions were introduced to over a hundred foreign participants from 55 countries as well as to other guests and visitors.

Due to the resounding success and acknowledgment VZMD received in view of efficient execution of the Investor's week and Investo Expo the Ljubljana declaration is certainly the most significant milestone in the protection of rights and interests of shareholders, investors, and financial services users and respective regulations in the European Community. Through the Ljubljana declaration, which brings together all European associations protecting rights and interests of shareholders, investors, and financial services users as of January 1st 2013, the Slovenian capital shall be recorded in the chronicles of shareholding, investing and regulating of financial and capital markets in the European Community.

The proclamation of Ljubljana declaration acknowledges the work and activities of VZMD co-workers,  as well as the preparation of all bilateral and multilateral gatherings which brought about the unanimous decision of the merger at the two separate meetings of Euroshareholders and EuroFinuse in Cankar hall in Ljubljana on 21 September. This historic decision is known as the "Ljubljana declaration".

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