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

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, September 2, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in August 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 were taken into account, excluding work of brokers with state blocks of shares (SBS). The position of each participant is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 38 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase on KASE in August. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty, unless otherwise specified). The stake of these operators in August was 81.2% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position Stake in August in July Brief title trade 2005 2005 of a company volume, % ------------ -------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 16 TuranAlem Securities JSC 26.3 2 4 Halyk Finance JSC 10.8 3 2 RG Securities JSC 8.6 4 32 APF SAPF JSC 8.4 5 1 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 6.2 6 - Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 5.7 7 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 4.3 8 28 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.8 9 11 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 3.6 10 30 Bank TuranAlem JSC 3.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to July 2005 became TuranAlem Securities JSC, APF SAPF JSC, Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC, APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC and Bank TuranAlem JSC, they have replaced Kazakhstan financial company JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in July), AIM JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in July), General Asset management JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in July), Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in July), PAIMO ALFA TRUST JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in July) and Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in July). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for the first eight months of 2005. 45 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 72.2% gross-turnover of transactions in sale and purchase of CS on KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief title Stake in gross- tion of a company volume of trades, % ----- ------------------------------------ ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 21.8 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 12.4 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 7.9 4 RG Securities JSC 7.1 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 4.7 6 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.19 7 AIM JSC 4.18 8 Halyk Finance JSC 4.1 9 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 3.0 10 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-09-02]