In December the number of accounts of individuals involved in transactions with shares on KASE decreased by 49.2%

/KASE, January 24, 2019/ – In December 2018, the number of accounts of individuals involved in transactions with shares on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has decreased by 49.2 % as compared to the previous month. The percentage of individuals in the gross turnover of shares in monetary terms decreased to 39.3% from 48.3% in November 2018. As of the end of December, there were 116,824 personal accounts opened by individuals at the Central Securities Depository (hereinafter – CSD), which is by 560 accounts more than at the end of the previous month. Below is the information on the dynamics of the number of individual accounts opened with the CSD involved in share trades on KASE ("Accounts in transactions"), gross-turnover of trade in shares in such accounts, their transaction percentage in the total gross-turnover of trade in shares in the mentioned month. --------------------------------------------------------------- Share in total Month Accounts Accounts in Gross-turnover, gross of 2018 with CD transactions* bn tenge* turnover, %* --------- -------- ------------- --------------- -------------- January 109,611 2,642 12.3 58.5 February 109,937 2,846 10.9 49.5 March 110,201 2,667 19.1 49.3 April 110,547 2,389 12.7 60.4 May 110,974 2,594 8.7 64.9 June 109,716 2,379 7.7 40.8 July 109,993 2,294 4.8 43.9 August 110,603 2,316 7.3 63.6 September 111,848 2,931 8.0 63.7 October 113,679 3,176 5.8 47.8 November 116,264 4,533 7.1 48.3 December 116,824 2,302 4.2 39.3 --------------------------------------------------------------- *without special trading sessions and major transactions **without taking into account results of subscription to ordinary shares of BAST (gross-turnover – KZT8.9 bn, the share of individuals in the gross turnover – 59.9 %) ***without taking into account results of subscription to ordinary shares of Bank of Astana (gross-turnover – KZT16.2 bn, the share of individuals in the gross turnover – 50.5 %) [2019-01-24]