KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in June and the first 6 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, July 4, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in June, 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 29 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE in June. 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 June was 87.6% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in June May Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- -------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Almaty Investment Management JSC 27.8 2 4 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 12.5 3 5 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 10.8 4 6 RG Securities JSC 8.9 5 24 Financial company Alliance Capital JSC 6.5 6 10 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 5.4 7 - Savings pension fund SSPF JSC 4.7 8 - Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC 4.4 9 9 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 3.7 10 20 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 2.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Financial company Alliance Capital JSC, Savings pension fund SSPF JSC, Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC and Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to May of 2006, having replaced TuranAlem Securities JSC (Almaty, the second position in May), SPF Halyk Bank JSC (Almaty, the third position in May), Kazakhstan financial company JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in May) and KG securities JSC (Karaganda, the eighth position in May). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 6 months of 2006. A total of 36 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 82.5 % 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 34.1 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 13.8 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 7.0 4 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 6.3 5 RG Securities JSC 5.3 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.2 7 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan 3.2 8 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.1 9 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 3.0 10 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter 2.6 organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) ---------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-07-04]