KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds 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 corporate bonds 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 (GBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 32 companies in June 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). Stake of these operators in February was 79.2% 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 7 TuranAlem Securities JSC 16.9 2 - Kazakhstan financial company JSC 13.3 3 3 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 11.40 4 1 RG Securities JSC 11.37 5 17 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.0 6 16 Bank TuranAlem JSC 5.1 7 6 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 4.7 8 13 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 3.3 9 22 Temirbank JSC 2.8 10 19 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 2.4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to May 2006 became Kazakhstan financial company JSC, Kazkommertsbank JSC, Bank TuranAlem JSC, Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC, Temirbank JSC and Kazkommerts Invest JSC, having replaced Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty, the second position in May), KG Securities JSC (Karaganda, the fourth position in May), KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in May), Almaty Invest Management JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in May), PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management Bank JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in May) and BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in May). -------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------- ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 18.1 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.10 3 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz 8.08 4 RG Securities JSC 8.0 5 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.8 6 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 5.0 7 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 4.9 8 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.2 9 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 3.7 10 Kazkommertsbank JSC 3.2 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-07-04]