On 18 October 2013 the international conference "The Financial Repression of Savers and Investors" will take place at the Vienna Insurance Group in Vienna, organized by Interessenverband für Anlege (Austrian investor society) and the European Federation of Financial Services Users (EuroFinUse).
At the conference, distinguished guests and participants will discuss the negative short and long term real returns on pensions savings, various taxations and increase thereof, the weaknesses in the protection of investors in the life and pension insurance. EuroFinUse recently published a study on this titled "The Real Return of Private Pensions", which points out a troubling statistic published by OECD and showing that real returns of private pension funds in the last five years were negative in many EU members. They also point out that the OECD study only deals with pension funds, but not with all of the costs, impact of taxation and some other aspects. Read more on the study HERE.
Pan-Slovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), which is among the most active members of EuroFinUse and whose President is a Board member of EuroFinUse, included among the panel speakers a representative of Slovenian insurance industry, expectedly Member of the Management board of Zavarovalnica Triglav, which is one of 26 companies participating in the VZMD investor programs.
As this year's European Business Angel Network Association (EBAN) conference EBAN 2013 in Vienna (click on the image right to watch the VIDEO REPORT) and the EuroFinUse international conference at the European Parliament (click on the image left to watch the VIDEO REPORT), this conference will also be monitored by the investo.tv team, which will prepare a video report.
As part of its international investors' programs invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors' Network (invest-to.net), VZMD will introduce the companies, institutions and investment projects included in the two programs.
VZMD invites all to communicate their esteemed interest in participating at the aforementioned and other events in 2013 to the investo.si program coordinator at VZMD by phone at ++386 31 770 771 or by sending e-mail to tratar@investo.si.
Other Related International Activities:
MOSCOW – At the Slovenian Embassy about a joint investors’ conference in the fall – an arrangement between the Russian Federation of Investors, VZMD and the Slovenian Embassy (Moscow, June 2013)
KAZAKHSTAN – a successful visit of the Slovenian business delegation in Kazakhstan – strong interest displayed in the international investors’ programs of the PanSlovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD): investo.si and investo.international (Astana, Almaty, June 2013)
WORLD BANK – President of VZMD and EuroFinUse Board Member speaker of the first panel at the international conference about audit reform and the importance of audit committees (Bucharest, June 2013)
VIDEO REPORT – Variegated happening at the 19th financial fair KAPITAL 2013 at Cankar Hall, along two-day presentation of the international investors’ programs and the lecture of VZMD President (Ljubljana, April 2013)
INDIA – visit of Slovenian government and business delegation – on the basis of Memorandum between ICPE and VZMD international investors' programs investo.si and investo.international also present (New Delhi, February 2013)
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO REPORT of “International Conference on Benefits and Challenges of Public Private Partnerships for improving Energy Efficiency” – key statements of prominent participants (Ljubljana, October, 2012)
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO REPORT from Slovenian - Azerbaijani Business Forum in Baku (Baku, January, 2013)
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO REPORT - Investors' week and the view of business potentials and investment opportunities during the visit of distinguished international guests at the Slovenian coast (Postojna, Koper, Piran, September, 2012)
VIDEO REPORT "Ljubljana declaration" – historic decision on unification of 50 organizations of shareholders and investors under one association and VZMD award »Polet« for »Model corporate governance in multinational corporation« to Gorenje company (Ljubljana, September 21, 2012)
Gala reception and dinner before International Conference on financial education and investors` exposition »investo Expo« (Ljubljana, September 19, 2012)
VIDEO REPORT - International Conference at the Brussels Stock Exchange Stimulated Investors' Representatives and Institutions to Participate at the Investors' Week 2012 in September in Slovenia(Brussels, March 2012)
"Slovenian Day at the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE)" Exceptional Interest of Funds, Investors, and the Financial Media for Slovenian Companies and Its Investment Environment - The Introduction of investo.si - Invest to Slovenia's Newly Founded Affiliate, investo.me - Invest to Montenegro (Warsaw, October 2011)
www.vzmd.si – More on the VZMD – PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association
www.vzmd.tv and www.investo.tv – Over 300 videos from VZMD.TV and investo.tv
www.investo.si – More on the investo.si – Invest to Slovenia Program
www.invest-to.net – More on the network of 55 national organizations of shareholders and investors – invest-to.net
