KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in April and the first 4 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, May 4, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in April, 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 33 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 87.8% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in April March Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ---------------------------------- --------- 1 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 47.4 2 7 RG Securities JSC 6.9 3 - Temirbank JSC 6.8 4 9 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 6.3 5 2 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 6.1 6 14 Kazkommerts Securities JSC 4.3 7 3 Almaty Investment Management JSC 3.5 8 19 Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) 2.8 9 12 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 1.92 10 4 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 1.91 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Temirbank JSC, Kazkommerts Securities JSC, Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) and KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC have become The newcomers of "active ten" relative to March of 2006, having replaced Halyk Securities JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in March), Derbes Securities JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in March), Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in March) and APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty, the tenth position in March). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 4 months of 2006. A total of 36 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 87.0% 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 44.4 2 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 9.4 3 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 5.95 4 Almaty Investment Management JSC 5.85 5 RG Securities JSC 4.9 6 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 4.0 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.6 8 Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) 3.1 9 Temirbank JSC 3.0 10 Company CAIFC JSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-05-04]