For the past six years, IIEF's Global Shareholder Activism Conferences have provided an opportunity to share information, examine trends and legal rulings, share success stories and formulate strategies for improving corporate governance.

Each conference brings together investors from a wide range of institutions - public, private, Taft-Hartley, U.S. and international, private equity and hedge funds - with some of today's leading academics and advisors on corporate governance and shareholder activism.

Increasing portfolio returns

Some institutional investors have been at the forefront in actively managing their investments and protecting shareholder interests. Their activism has resulted in increased returns in their portfolios, as well as positive changes in corporate governance. Shareholders have been increasingly successful in holding management and advisors responsible for misdeeds and pursuing and collecting recoveries for their losses.

Now shareholder activism is rapidly expanding around the world - to global institutions investing in U.S. and European based companies as well as to U.S. and global institutions investing outside of their home regions.

Empowering investors

IIEF Global Shareholder Activism Conferences have played an important role in this changing world. Participants leave our conferences armed with information, contacts, expert resources and new perspectives.

Comments from previous conference attendees

"Excellent conference. Great topics & panelists. Loved opposing views in sessions."

"Hearing the entrenched views of corporate management was very revealing and helpful."

"Found the seminar extremely useful and was very pleased with sessions and speaker selection."

"Excellent, substantive content."

"Consistent high level of session dialogue."

Enjoyed the fact that panels presented different and often opposing opinions."

"I've attended a number of such conferences; this was by far the best of breed."