In September, an international conference of investors and a meeting of the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users is going to take place in Ljubljana (BETTER FINANCE), which will be co-organized by the PanSlovenian Investors' & Shareholders' Association (VZMD) as one of the most active members. The World Federation of Investors (WFI) and other partner organizations, as well as numerous international experts, decision-makers and institution representatives, are invited to participate in the meeting, which is going to take place during the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council. Aside from the meeting of the Legal Committee of BETTER FINANCE, the highlight of the event will certainly be the International conference on measures for long-term participation of investors in EU capital markets and improvements to corporate governance.
The meeting of VZMD and BETTER FINANCE is going to take place in the course of the session of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) responsible for EU policies on taxation, economic policy and financial services regulation, in the beginning of September in Brdo pri Kranju. The ECOFIN Council is namely made up of economics and finance ministers of EU member states, while European commissioners responsible for the aforementioned fields also participate in the sessions. At the same time, in Ljubljana The Financial Forum of the European Think Tank EUROFI will take place, the sessions of which have been regularly visited by the VZMD President and member of the Executive Boards BETTER FINANCE and WFI, Mr. Kristjan Verbič, at the invitation of the organizers (Bucharest, Sofia, etc.).
As a longstanding member of EUROSHAREHOLDERS, BETTER FINANCE and WFI, VZMD has demonstrated its excellent organization of such high meetings and events in the past. Among other events they organized international annual meetings in Ljubljana already in 2008 (VIDEO) and again in 2012 (VIDEO), where – as part of the wider event Investors’ Week – close to 170 representatives and members of three of the largest world associations of individual investors met and adopted THE LJUBLJANA DECLARATION (VIDEO). Additionally, VZMD has been performing other activities for the members of its business-investor programs: investo.si and investo.international. In the past 8 years they carried out more than 60 international tours (VIDEO), which ensured active participation and presentation at more than 150 international business conferences and investor meetings, on 5 continents. This event will be again covered by the team of VZMD.tv, which has gathered a lot of experience in the past years with picturesque VIDEO reports on events abroad (VIDEO).
VZMD and BETTER FINANCE would like to extend the invitation to anyone interested to participate and enrich the program and are striving to carry out these events with direct participation if there is a good epidemiological forecast. Should this not be possible, the meetings will be virtual. More information on the events and participation opportunities will be given by VZMD in the coming weeks.
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