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Few days before opening of investors' Week the PanSlovenian Shareholders` Association (VZMD) issued a special magazine “investo Expo” (to view click on the magazine cover) – about the world's largest international meeting of investors' representatives from the 19^th to the 23^rd of September in Slovenia and international investors' exposition investo Expo that will revolve around the main event International Investors' Conference on Financial Education. The main events, will be held at the prestigious Slovenian cultural and congress center Cankar Hall (Cankarjev dom) in Ljubljana, where along opening speakers, Minister of Finance, Janez Šušteršič, Ph.D., Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Radovan Žerjav, M.Sc., Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel Erjavec, President of Constitutional Court, Prof. Ernes Petrič, Ph.D., numerous international shareholders' representatives and other panelists, such as Tim Shakesby, Policy Analyst in the Asset Management Unit, European Comission, Klaus Struwe, Member of the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), Susannah Haan, Secretary General of EuropeanIssuers, Marco Becht, Executive Director of the European Corporate Governance Institute, France Arhar, Ph.D., General Manager of Slovenian Banking Association, Keith Miles, OBE, FCA, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and President of the British-Slovene Society, Boris Cizelj, Ph.D., President of the Slovenian Business & Research Association in Brussels, Matjaž Gantar, M.Sc., Chairman of the Board KD Group, Andrej Šketa, MBA, President of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE), Breda Kutin, President of the Slovene Consumers' Association, and many others will attend.

Investors' Week, comprising of over 100 representatives of investors from around the world, will be organized by the VZMD – PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association and prominent international organizations, including EuroFinuse – European Federation of Financial Services Users, Euroshareholders – European Organization of Shareholders Associations, and the WFI – World Federation of Investors. This will mark the first time that all three prominent organizations and their members will meet simultaneously.

Fifty-five national associations of investors and shareholders, which together just in Europe embody over 4 million individual investors, along with other numerous eminent international functionaries will meet in Slovenia.

All institutions, companies, and individuals from Slovenia and worldwide are welcome to take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to expand and realize their interests and business plans.

Cooperation entitles presentations at the two-day investo Expo, where numerous Slovenian and foreign companies, projects, and relevant organizations will be showcased and also actively participate.

They will have the possibility of having their presentations and commercial materials enclosed in the special magazine about investment opportunities and potentials in the Region and broader and their presentations and projects, for which they are seeking partners for, published on the recognized investo.international website.

EIOPA program in the last four years represented its members in Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, France, Lebanon, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey and has an even more ambitious, active plan for the future, especially in the international investment environment, at investment expositions, conferences, and presentations.

For further information contact VZMD by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., call on + 386 31 770 771 or visit website www.investo.international.

Don't miss the opportunity to participate at the event, where the investors' world will meet in Ljubljana!

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The event is organised by the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders' Association, a group specialising in representing small shareholders at annual general meetings, in conjunction with the European Federation of Financial Services Users and the World Federation of Investors.

The seventh Bled Strategic Forum, which was held from Saturday under the title Europe and the New World Order, ended on Monday. Among over 400 participants from the spheres of politics, business and science from more than 50 countries, the VZMD President, Kristjan Verbič, M.Sc., also participated at the events in the context of the Strategic Forum, and at the business lunch with the Secretary General of OECD, José Ángel Gurría (organized by the Network of Ideas), and presented investo.si – Invest to Slovenia and »investors' Week« - the world's largest international meeting of investors' representatives from the 19^th to the 23^rd of September in Slovenia (VIDEO INVITATION click on right picture), and international investors' exposition »investo Expo« that will revolve around the main event "EuroFinuse International Investors' Conference on Financial Education" (click for the program of the major happening at Ljubljana Cankar Hall).

(Foto: STA; OECD, Pariz 2011)

A month before opening of investors' Week - the world's largest international meeting of investors' representatives from the 19^th to the 23^rd of September in Slovenia (VIDEO INVITATION click on left picture) and international investors' exposition investo Expo that will revolve around the main event International Investors' Conference on Financial Education – organizer, the PanSlovenian Shareholders` Association (VZMD), announces Preliminary Program of main events, which will be held at the prestigious Slovenian cultural and congress center Cankar Hall (Cankarjev dom) in Ljubljana, where along opening speakers,Minister of Finance, Janez Šušteršič, Ph.D., Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Radovan Žerjav, M.Sc., Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel Erjavec, President of Constitutional Court, Prof. Ernes Petrič, Ph.D., numerous international shareholders' representatives and other panelists, such as Tim Shakesby, Policy Analyst in the Asset Management Unit, European Comission, Klaus Struwe, Member of the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), Susannah Haan, Secretary General of EuropeanIssuers, Marco Becht, Executive Director of the European Corporate Governance Institute, France Arhar, Ph.D., General Manager of Slovenian Banking Association, Keith Miles, OBE, FCA, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and President of the British-Slovene Society, Boris Cizelj, Ph.D., President of the Slovenian Business & Research Association in Brussels, Matjaž Gantar, M.Sc., Chairman of the Board KD Group, Andrej Šketa, MBA, President of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE), Breda Kutin, President of the Slovene Consumers' Association, and many others will attend.

Investors' Week, comprising of over 100 representatives of investors from around the world, will be organized by the VZMD – PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association and prominent international organizations, including EuroFinuse – European Federation of Financial Services Users,Euroshareholders – European Organization of Shareholders Associations, and the WFI – World Federation of Investors. This will mark the first time that all three prominent organizations and their members will meet simultaneously.

Fifty-five national associations of investors and shareholders, which together just in Europe embody over 4 million individual investors, along with other numerous eminent international functionaries will meet in Slovenia.

All institutions, companies, and individuals from Slovenia and worldwide are welcome to take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to expand and realize their interests and business plans.

Cooperation entitles presentations at the two-day investo Expo, where numerous Slovenian and foreign companies, projects, and relevant organizations will be showcased and also actively participate.

They will have the possibility of having their presentations and commercial materials enclosed in the special magazine about investment opportunities and potentials in the Region and broader and their presentations and projects, for which they are seeking partners for, published on the recognized investo.international website.

investo.si program in the last four years represented its members in Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, France, Lebanon, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey and has an even more ambitious, active plan for the future, especially in the international investment environment, at investment expositions, conferences, and presentations.

For further information contact VZMD by e-mail at info@invest-to.net, call on + 386 31 770 771 or visit website www.invest-to.net.

Don't miss the opportunity to participate at the event, where the investors' world will meet in Ljubljana!

Centre for eGovernance Development for South East Europe (CeGD) released publication Beyond smart, inclusive, sustainable – Report of the 13^thBled Forum, where among numerous international experts, businessmen and government officials, VZMD representatives actively participated and presentedinvesto.si – Invest to Slovenia. (click to watch the VIDEO)

The numerous participants were very enthusiastic about the upcoming "Investors' Week" 2012, which will be hosted by the VZMD through its investo.si – Invest to Slovenia program, and will be taking place from the 19^th to the 23^rd of September in Ljubljana. It will comprise of almost 100 representatives and over 55 national associations of investors and shareholders, including members of EuroFinuse – European Federation of Financial Services Users, Euroshareholders – European Organization of Shareholders Associations, and the WFI – World Federation of Investors, which together just in Europe embody over 4 million individual investors and shareholders.

This will mark the first time that all three prominent organizations and its members will meet simultaneously. Numerous investors' representatives from many national organizations will visit Ljubljana including the Chairman of the WFI, Roger H. Ganser (USA), the President of the WFI, Jean-Pierre Paelinck (Belgium), the Vice Presidents of the WFI, Frank Fumio Kaneko (Japan), Robert Dannenberg (Brazil) and Aldo Sicurani (France), the Vice President of the Russian Federation of Investors, Aleksey Smirnov, the President of Euroshareholders and EuroFinuse, Jella Benner-Heinacher (Germany), the Secretary General of Euroshareholders, Guillaume Prache (Belgium), the Vice Presidents of Euroshareholders, Günther Mårder (Sweden) and Jan Maarten Slagter (the Netherlands), along with many others. The VZMD, through its investo.si program and along with other partners, will organize the first-ever" investo Expo", which will be a two-day investors' convention, held in prestigious Slovenian cultural and congress center Cankar Hall in Ljubljana, where a wide range of Slovenian and international industries and products will be presented and promoted with the hope of establishing new relations and capital for the participating guests. Furthermore, at the "investo Expo", conference sessions, discussion groups, and educational workshops will be offered for visitors and guests, providing a proactive approach to gain knowledge from experts.

We cordially invite all companies, institutions, and the Slovenian as well as international community in general to partake and participate at the event. We also warmly welcome your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas to truly make this a memorable experience for all participants who will be attending this event of the year, when the investors' world will meet in Ljubljana. (click to watch the VIDEO INVITATION)

Photo by CeGD – Peter Irman.

EuroFinuse, the European Federation of Financial Services Users, in which VZMD, PanSlovenian Shareholders` Association collaborates as an active member and is represented in the Board of Directors by its President Mr. Kristjan Verbič, M.Sc., is concerned about the reform of the European auditing market regulation that is currently debated at the European Parliament and concerns European financial services' users and shareholders of the European audited issuers.

EuroFinuse believes that the current economic damage, endured by shareholders of European banks which otherwise had good audit reports, calls for more proper functioning of the audit markets in Europe. This would result in favorable impact on both the European financial industry and audited companies of any kind in Europe.

To read complete Press Release please click on picture on the top.

Don't miss the opportunity to participate at the event, where the investors' world will meet in Ljubljana! Investors' Week- the world's largest international meeting of investors' representatives from the 19^th to the 23^rd of September in Slovenia!

Investors' Week, comprising of over 100 representatives of investors from around the world, will be organized by the VZMD – PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association and prominent international organizations, including EuroFinuse – European Federation of Financial Services Users, Euroshareholders – European Organization of Shareholders Associations, and the WFI – World Federation of Investors. This will mark the first time that all three prominent organizations and their members will meet simultaneously.

Fifty-five national associations of investors and shareholders, which together just in Europe embody over 4 million individual investors, along with other numerous eminent international functionaries will meet in Slovenia.

We welcome all institutions, companies, and individuals from Slovenia and worldwide to take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to expand and realize your interests and business plans!

Your cooperation entitles you be presented at the two-day investo Expo, where numerous Slovenian and foreign companies, projects, and relevant organizations will be showcased and also actively participate.

·        At the convention, which will be held at the prestigious Slovenian cultural and congress center, Cankar Hall, in Ljubljana, you have the opportunity to display your activities and projects in a booth and to actively participate at various round tables.

·        Your logotype will be printed in all materials and documents related to the event, your promotional materials will be included in a folder with official documents and will also be given to all participants.

·        You will have the possibility of having your presentation and commercial materials enclosed in the special magazine about investment opportunities and potentials in the Region and broader and your presentation and projects which you are seeking partners for published on the recognized investo.international website.

·        Your representatives will attend and participate at all the events.

·        Your promotion materials will be presented at important investors' conferences and meetings, organized with members of national and international investors and shareholders' organizations.

·        You will have the possibility of an exclusive interview, statement, or     presentation on investo.tv and for the annual affiliation fee of the investo.si program, which in the last four years represented its members in Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, France, Lebanon, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey and has an even more ambitious, active plan for the future, especially in the international investment environment, at investment expositions, conferences, and presentations.

For further information on the opportunities for cooperation contact us by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., call us on + 386 31 770 771 or visit our website www.invest-to.net.

Don't miss the opportunity to participate at the event, where the investors' world will meet in Ljubljana!