KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in August and within the first 8 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, September 4, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in August, 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 32 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE in August. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty). Stake of these operators in August was 93.9% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in July June Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem TuranAlem Securities JSC 64.1 2 3 Almaty Investment Management JSC 8.1 3 18 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.92 4 13 RG Securities JSC 3.90 5 6 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 3.7 6 1 Centras Securities JSC 3.3 7 15 DERBES SECURITIES JSC 2.1 8 5 Financial company "REAL-INVEST.kz" JSC 2.0 9 9 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CentreCredit JSC) 1.5 10 10 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 1.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazkommerts Invest JSC, RG Securities JSC, DERBES SECURITIES JSC, have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to July of 2006, having replaced Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in July), Company CAIFC JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in July), PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in July). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 8 months of 2006. A total of 40 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 80.7 % 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 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem TuranAlem Securities JSC 36.6 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 13.1 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 6.1 4 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CentreCredit)* 5.6 5 RG Securities JSC 4.9 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.9 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 2.8 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.73 9 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.71 10 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-09-04]