KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in March and the first 3 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 5, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in March, 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 (SBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 28 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, unless otherwise specified). Stake of these operators in March was 90.1% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position in Position in Stake in March February Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 35.1 2 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 18.2 3 4 Almaty Investment Management JSC 14.0 4 2 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.7 5 - Halyk Securities JSC 4.6 6 12 DERBES SECURITIES JSC 3.8 7 5 RG Securities JSC 3.0 8 15 Pervyi Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.6 9 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 2.3 10 25 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 1.9 Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to February 2006 are Halyk Securities JSC, DERBES SECURITIES JSC, Pervyi Brokerskiy Dom JSC and APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, they have replaced PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in February), KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT (Almaty, the eighth position in February), Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in February) and Global Securities (Kazakhstan) JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in February). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 3 months of 2006. A total of 35 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 90.0% of gross-turnover of deals of shares purchase and sale on KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------- ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 42.1 2 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 11.8 3 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 9.0 4 Almaty Investment Management JSC 7.6 5 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 5.5 6 Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) 3.428 7 RG Securities JSC 3.426 8 Company CAIFC JSC 3.40 9 Halyk Securities JSC 2.0 10 DERBES SECURITIES JSC 1.7 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-04-05]