The Future
In early 2011 the Government of Kazakhstan announced a program of “Peoples’ IPOs”, to list a portion of the shares of some of the country’s leading national companies through Initial Public Offerings on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), in mid to late 2012. Air Astana was selected to be amongst the first to be listed on account of its consistent record of growth and profitability and because of its corporate governance standards (rated GAMMA 6 by Standard & Poor’s in 2011). As of February 2012 details remain to be defined, in particular changes to the shareholding structure, which has been in place since the birth of the airline, but which will have to change if a public listing is to take place.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)