| Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund is weighing asset sales, loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a move into local-currency borrowing as it seeks to reduce its $17.3 billion debt load.
“We expect to gradually optimize our debt, but it’s complicated in the coming 12 months with the weak economy,” Yelena Bakhmutova, the managing director of Samruk-Kazyna, said by phone from the Kazakh capital, Astana. “The biggest challenge for us is the drop in business activity, the pace of gross domestic product growth.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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