KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in May and the first 5 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, June 2, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in May, 2006. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares). At that, only operations of purchase and sale in secondary market are taken into account, excluding work of brokers with government blocks of shares (SBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 29 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, unless otherwise specified). Stake of these operators in March was 91.4% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in April March Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 7 Almaty Investment Management JSC 28.2 2 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 23.6 3 15 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 11.0 4 9 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 9.4 5 17 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.2 6 2 RG Securities JSC 4.0 7 4 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.08 8 5 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 3.06 9 6 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter 2.7 organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 10 14 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC and Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to April of 2006, having replaced Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the third position in April), Global Securities JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in April), Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in April). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 5 months of 2006. A total of 36 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 85.0 % of gross-turnover of deals of shares purchase and sale on KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------- ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 39.0 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 11.6 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 7.7 4 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 5.4 5 RG Securities JSC 4.69 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.69 7 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan 3.52 8 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.48 9 Temirbank JSC 2.53 10 Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) 2.48 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-06-02]