KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's shares market in Kazakhstan in February and the first 2 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, March 6, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's shares market in February, 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 (GBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 29 companies participated in making in KASE's shares purchase and sale deals. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, if the other is not given). Stake of these operators in February was 92.3% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in February January Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 44.5 2 9 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 15.7 3 5 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 10.2 4 6 Almaty Investment Management JSC 6.7 5 11 RG Securities JSC 5.0 6 - PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.25 7 19 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 2.23 8 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 2.1 9 14 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 2.0 10 4 Global Securities Kazakhstan JSC 1.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to January 2006 became RG Securities JSC, PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC, Kazakhstan financial company JSC and Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC, they have replaced Company CAIFC JSC (Almaty, the third position in January), Halyk Securities JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in January), Pervyi Brokerski Dom JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in January) and Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in January). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 2 months of 2006. A total of 32 companies participated in making deals in this period. Stake of best "ten best" was 92.0% of gross-turnover of deals of shares purchase and sale in KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------- ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 44.7 2 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 10.6 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 9.5 4 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 6.9 5 Almaty Investment Management JSC 5.3 6 Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) 4.5 7 Company CAIFC JSC 4.0 8 RG Securities JSC 3.6 9 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 1.42 10 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 1.41 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-03-06]