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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES
Also known with its pioneer role and innovative
reputation in the sector with new products and
market tools; IS Investment established the
first hedge fund in Turkey, in November 2008.
IS Investment has been the first local
investment house to issue warrants, IS
Warrants were listed in ISE in December 2010.
IS Investment has won several awards,
including in the category of Euromoney
Awards for Excellence “Best Equity House“ in
2007 and 2008, “Best M&A House” in 2009
and finally “Best Investment Bank” in 2010.
Also IS Investment was given “Financial
Advisor of the Year in Turkey” award by
FT/mergermarket in 2010.
In 2010 IS Investment is…
• ISE Stock Market leader, with USD 57.9
billion trading volume and 6.9% market share.
• TurkDex Market leader with USD 65.9 billion
trading volume and 11.5% market share.
• ISE Securities L/B Market Leader with USD
942.2 million trading volume and 24.3%
market share.
• ISE Bonds&Bills Market Leader among
brokerage houses with USD 17.8 billion
trading volume and 20% market share.
• ISE Turkish Eurobonds Market leader among
brokerage houses, with USD 232.5 million
trading volume and 0.3% market share.
Since its establishment, IS Investment’s
international capital markets division continues
to provide direct access to financial markets
around the globe through its counterparty
network, and professional assistance through
which our clients have a better scope of
investment products for achieving a diversified
portfolio.
The latest liquidity crisis that crippled the
economies around the World, once again
highlighted the importance of diversification.
While the World's biggest economies have
been pushed deep into the arms of recession,
the biggest and most prominent financial firms
had disclosed holdings in problematic
mortgage backed securities, which stunned
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the World markets as there is no safe ground
among the companies that are a vital part of
the economic system. However, the ongoing
excessive measures that the major Central
Banks took in order to lessen the severity of
this worldwide crisis, created an
unprecedented rally in the financial markets
starting in the year 2009. With the help of its
extensive global markets coverage by a team
of professionals, IS Investment’s client were
fortunate enough to be positioned in the right
place and the right time.
IS Investment has been investing heavily on
improving our product mix in order to satisfy
the needs and spread out the single country
risks of our customers. As the latest liquidity
crisis put the international capital markets to
the foreground of investor's attentions, IS
Investment has already had an ever increasing
activity in these markets. IS Investment has
direct market access capabilities through the
major equity exchanges around the world and
also has execution facilities to emerging
markets like in Middle East and CIS region. In
equity markets, our activities are not only
limited to secondary market trading as we also
provide means for our customers to
participate in primary issues all around the
world and chance to invest in equity options
rather than directly in cash markets. In fixed
income markets, with a volume reaching
almost USD 3 billion in 2010, IS Investment
was rated as the top financial firm among the
other Turkish financial institutions based on
transactions booked outside the exchange.
Not only, as IS Investment, we concentrate
purely on Turkish Eurobonds, but also focus
heavily on high grade credits as well as credits
from emerging market economies like
Kazakhstan, Brazil, Russia and interact with
more than hundred counterparties around the
World. Latest being the Bank Pozitif’s 2014
maturity Eurobond issue, the syndication parts
that we have taken on the Eurobond issues
listed below demonstrate our commitment and
willingness to be a more active player in these
markets as a Turkish institution.
As the financial crisis have created roller-
coaster rides in the World markets, adding to
the ways of diversification, the opportunities
that keep on knocking increased the needs for
exchange-listed derivative instruments. In
order to facilitate our clients' needs for these
leveraged instruments, IS Investment launched
Trade Master International in the beginning of
2008, which is giving execution capabilities to
our investors for investing on their own in
major equity markets and more importantly in
futures markets like CBOT and CME. Also,
through our experienced traders, our
corporate clients can access to London Metal
Exchange (LME) in order to hedge their
physical exposures in industrial metals.
Rating ourselves by far as the top Turkish
institution in international capital markets, not
only IS Investment will work on improving its
abilities in organized exchanges around the
World, but also will pursue to provide access
to opportunities in emerging economies to its
clients whom IS Investment made believe the
importance of diversification with a little kick
in it.
CONTACT INFORMATION
IS INvESTMENT
Is Kuleleri, Kule-2 Kat: 12 4. Levent 34330 Istanbul-Turkey
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] isyatirim.com.tr / isinvestment.com
For International Capital Markets
For Turkish Capital Markets
For Almaty/Kazakhstan Rep. Office
Contact Name Mr. Ilkay Dalkilic
Contact Name Mr. Serkan Aran
Contact Name Mr. Samad Azimov
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