KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector for January of 2003

/IRBIS, February 3, 03/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of companies - leading operators of the KASE government securities (GS) purchase-sale market for January of 2003. The place in the list is given according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). At that, unlike 2002 only purchase-sale deals (12.7% of the secondary market) were taken into account because reverse and direct repo transactions (87.3% of stock exchange's secondary GS market). The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 25 companies participated in trades with GB at KASE in August excluding the National Bank of Kazakhstan (banks, broker-dealer companies, pension assets management companies, SAPF, non-banking financial organizations), which controlled 93.5% of corresponding sector's turnover of stock exchange's market. Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order of their shares in total deals volume and also their positions in December of 2002, which have been calculated by new methods. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Share in in Jan in Dec trades 2003 2002 Brief title of a company volume, % -------- -------- --------------------------------------------- --------- 1 4 AMB OJSC (Almaty) 33.7 2 11 Pension assets management company of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 19.8 3 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 15.6 4 - TuranAlem Securities OJSC (Almaty) 6.2 5 - HSBC Bank Kazakhstan LLP (Almaty) 4.5 6 7 State accumulative pension fund CJSC (Almaty) 4.3 7 3 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 3.0 8 8 RG Securities LLP (Almaty) 2.7 9 12 TEMIRBANK OJSC 2.2 10 5 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 1.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-02-03]