KASE conducts award ceremony for participants of educational project among students "Exchange Simulator"

/KASE, December 20, 2020/ – On December 15, 2020 Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) conducted a ceremony to finish the student project "Exchange Simulator". The event took place online, in the Zoom. During one month, from November 16 to December 15, students from 40 universities (1,147 students) competed for the first places. Each of them had a virtual million tenge under trust management for concluding deals of sale-purchase of 10 most liquid shares (see the detailed list below). Based on the competition results, the following winners were determined: 1) Jokhangir Isakhanov, student of the Kazakh-German University – the final portfolio was KZT2,301,179; 2) Smail Smatov, student of Nazarbayev University – the final portfolio was KZT2,286,519; 3) Artem Ott, student of the Kazakh-German University – the final portfolio amounted to KZT1,988,934; 4) Dilmurat Nurakhmetov, student of University "Turan" – the final portfolio was KZT1,834,340; 5) Nursultan Zhalynbet, student of the University "Narkhoz" – the final portfolio amounted to KZT1,645,668; 6) Saken Mazhitov, student of Karaganda Economic University of Kazpotrebsoyuz – the final portfolio amounted to KZT1,571,463; 7) Sarra Ismailova, student of the International University of Information Technologies – the final portfolio amounted to KZT1,529,098; 8) Veronika Rotnova, student of the Kazakh-Russian International University – the final portfolio was KZT1,415,788; 9) Anastasia Melnikova, student of the University "Turan" – the final portfolio amounted to KZT1,412,795 tenge; 10) Dos Magazbekov, student of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University – the final portfolio amounted to KZT1,386,764. In 2020 the project enjoyed support from four partners – professional market participants. The winners will receive the following prizes: - BCC Invest, subsidiary of Bank CenterCredit – salaried placement for two student-winners; - Centras Securities – salaried placement for two student-winners; - Investment company "Freedom Finance" – general training for all students before the start of the trading on the subject of "How to invest, the art of investing" and in-depth training for five student-winners; - Refinitiv – access for one months for 100, who took the first places based on results of the trading, to the international terminal. This year the project is being implemented for the 12th time. The interest of students in the Exchange Simulator is growing – over the entire history of the project, more than eight and a half thousand students from 80 universities of Kazakhstan, countries of near and far abroad took part in it. Below is information on all concluded deals by instruments for the period from November 16 to December 15, 2020: -------------------------------------- Ticker Number of deals Volume, tenge ------- --------------- -------------- BAST 332 50,378,693 CCBN 1,587 386,303,554 GB_KZMS 2,387 956,017,235 HSBK 3,953 2,055,454,558 KCEL 1,366 359,121,853 KEGC 1,675 622,170,160 KZAP 1,839 1,064,566,126 KZTK 2,681 1,526,727,833 KZTO 3,770 1,952,711,766 RU_SBER 2,229 1,374,369,278 RU_VTBR 809 43,609,159 US_BAC_ 2,283 1,131,477,045 ------- --------------- -------------- Total 24,911 11,522,907,260 -------------------------------------- The total volume of deals following the results of training trades reached KZT11,522.9 mln, with 24,911 concluded. The maximum amount of deals per person was KZT1.568 mln, the maximum number of deals per participant was 1,147. The largest number of participants was represented by the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University – 165 users. The highest activity was shown by the students of the Kazakh-British Technical University – 72 % of active participants. For reference: The purpose of the project is to improve the financial literacy of young professionals and to let them acquire practical skills for working in the stock market. The main task of students is to form the best portfolio, which determines the winners of the competition. This competition has been held by the KASE group of companies since 2008. [2020-12-20]