Kazakhstan pension funds' investments: sovereign bonds of USA and SAR

/IRBIS, Yelena Korpusenko, April 11, 06/ - Following bonds were included in the register of securities, purchased by Kazakhstan pension market's subjects. ---------------------------------------------------- Issuer Government of USA Bond type: US treasury bill Debt type: sovereign ISIN: US912795XE69 Code in the register: USA_U010606 Issue currency: USD Issue volume in issue currency: 50,698,000,000 Payment date (circulation start): December 1, 05 Circulation term: 6 months Maturity date: June 1, 06 Type of coupon: discounted bond Price at the primary offering: 95.49% Time basis at yield calculation: actual/360 Current quotations on the market prices (bid / offer) 95.45 / 95.46 yield (bid / offer) 4.64 / 4.63 ---------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer Government of South-African Republic Debt type: sovereign ISIN: ZAG000017997 Code in the register: SAGBZ280208 Issue currency: ZAR (rand SAR) Issue volume in issue currency: 71,228,111,050 Payment date (circulation start): April 20, 01 Circulation term: 2505 days (6.7 years) Maturity date: February 28, 08 Type of coupon: semi-annual Coupon rate: 10.00% APR Coupon payments dates: February 28 and August 28 annually* Price at the primary offering: n/d Time basis: actual/365 Credit ratings: Moody's A2 S&P A+ Fitch A composite A Current quotations on the market prices (bid / offer) 104.8269 / 104.8802 yield (bid / offer) 7.18 / 7.15 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * first coupon is short Data about the structure of bonds, current prices and yield at the market are given in accordance with the information of BLOOMBERG agency. [2006-04-11]