KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS in Kazakhstan in June and in the first 6 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, July 5, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in June of 2005. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares and bonds). At that only operations of CS sale and purchase at the secondary market, excluding work of brokers with state blocks of shares (SBS). The position of each participant is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 32 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase on KASE in June. Below is the list of 10 most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty). The stake of these operators in June was 85.5% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in June May trade 2005 2005 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Turan Alem Securities JSC 33.6 2 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 10.4 3 4 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 8.9 4 13 General Asset management JSC 7.4 5 6 RG Securities JSC 7.2 6 26 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 5.3 7 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 3.7 8 15 AIM JSC 3.4 9 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.2 10 9 Temirbank JSC 2.4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to May of 2005 are APF of General Asset management JSC, Kazkommerts Invest JSC and AIM JSC, they have replaced APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the 3rd position in May), Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty, the 8th position in May) and Halyk Finance JSC (Almaty, the 10th position in May). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for the first 6 months of 2005. 42 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 75.3% gross-turnover of transactions in sale and purchase of CS on KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in gross Position Brief title of a company volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ -------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 25.3 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 10.3 3 KG Securities JSC 9.2 4 RG Securities JSC 6.2 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.6 6 AIM JSC 5.0 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.3 8 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 3.6 9 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.1 10 Alliance Bank JSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-07-05]