/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, December 5, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in November, 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 31 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE in November. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty). Stake of these operators in September was 83.8% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange.

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Position in Position in                                              Stake in
    October   September Brief name                                      trade
       2006        2006 of company                                  volume, %
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          1           1 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC
                        TuranAlem Securities JSC                         26.4
          2           - Bank TuranAlem JSC                               21.8
          3           5 Almaty Investment Management JSC                 10.0
          4           6 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC              9.1
          5           2 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization
                        of Bank CenterCredit JSC)                         3.8
          6          14 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC                         3.1
          7           8 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter
                        organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC)              2.5
          8           9 VISOR Capital JSC                                 2.5
          9          17 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC                              2.2
         10           4 Halyk Finance JSC                                 2.2
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Bank TuranAlem JSC, Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC and RBNT Securities JSC have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to October 2006, having replaced Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, third position in October), Eksimbank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, seventh position in October) and Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, tenth position in October).

Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 11 months of 2006. A total of 49 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 75.4% of gross-turnover of deals of shares purchase and sale on KASE.

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Posi- Brief name of                                Stake in gross
 tion company                                 volume of trades, %
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    1 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem
      TuranAlem Securities JSC                               29.1
    2 Almaty Investment Management JSC                       12.8
    3 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization
      of Bank CentreCredit)*                                  6.2
    4 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC                    5.5
    5 Kazkommerts Invest JSC                                  5.0
    6 Kazkommerts Securities (daughter
      organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC)                    4.2
    7 KG Securities JSC                                       4.1
    8 Bank TuranAlem JSC                                      3.0
    9 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC                               2.7
   10 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC                       2.7
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