Kazakhstan pension funds' investments: sovereign bonds of South African Republic

/IRBIS, Yelena Korpusenko, April 13, 05/ - Today the following bonds were included in the register of securities, purchased by Kazakhstan pension market's subjects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer Government of Republic of South Africa Type of debt: sovereign senior unsecured ISIN: ZAG000019878 Code in the register: SAGBZ211214 Issue currency: ZAR (rand RSA) Issue volume in issue currency: 25,192,726,340 Payment date (circulation starting): May 30, 03 Circulation term: 4161 days (11.4 years) Maturity date: Dec 21, 14 Type of coupon: semi-annual Coupon rate: 8.75% APR Dates of coupon payments: June 21 and December 21 of each year* Price at the primary floatation: n/a Time basis while yield calculation: actual/365 Credit ratings: Moody's A2 S&P A Fitch A- Current quotations at the market prices (bid / ask) 100.9912 / 101.1219 yield (bid / ask) 8.60 / 8.58 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * first coupon is short ----------------------------------------------------------- Issuer Government of the USA Type of bond: US Treasury bill Type of debt sovereign ISIN: US912795VQ18 Code in the register: USA_U080905 Issue currency: USD Issue volume in issue currency: 24 368 000 000 Payment date (circulation starting): March 10, 05 Circulation term: 6 months Maturity date: September 8, 05 Type of coupon: discount bond Price in the primary floatation: 97.065% Time basis in yield calculation: actual/360 Current quotations at the market: prices (ask / bid) 97.000 / 97.010 yield (ask / bid) 3.08 / 3.07 ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Issuer Government of Germany Type of bond treasury bonds Type of debt: sovereign ISIN: DE0001114775 Code in the register: GER_E140905 Issue currency: EUR Issue volume in issue currency: 6,000,000,000.00 Payment date (circulation starting): Mar 16, 05 Circulation term: 6 months Maturity date: Sep 14, 2005 Type of coupon: discount bond Price at the primary floatation: 98.9630% Time basis while yield calculation: actual/360 Current quotations at the market prices (ask / bid) 99.1100 / 99.1600 yield (ask / bid) 2.11 / 1.99 ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer Government of Germany Type of debt: sovereign senior unsecured ISIN: DE0001141380 Code in the register: DE__E180806 Issue currency: EUR Issue volume in issue currency: 14,000,000,000.00 Payment date (circulation starting): Feb 14, 03 Circulation term: 1984 days (5.4 yr) Maturity date: Aug 18, 2006 Coupon rate 4.50%APR Type of coupon: Aug 18 annually Price at the primary floatation: 100.50% Time basis while yield calculation: actual/actual Credit ratings: Moody's Aaa S&P AAA Fitch AAA Current quotations at the market prices (ask / bid) 102.86 / 102.91 yield (ask / bid) 2.30 / 2.27 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Data about the structure of bonds, current prices and yield at the market are given in accordance with the information of BLOOMBERG agency. [2005-04-13]