KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in July and the first 7 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, August 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in July, 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 27 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE in July. 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 July was 86.0% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in July June Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- -------------------------------------- --------- 1 21 Centras Securities JSC 27.8 2 11 TuranAlem Securities JSC 12.5 3 1 Almaty Investment Management JSC 10.8 4 6 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 8.9 5 10 Financial company "REAL-INVEST.kz" JSC 6.5 6 25 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 5.4 7 13 Company CAIFC JSC 4.7 8 3 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.4 9 2 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CentreCredit JSC) 3.7 10 12 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 2.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Centras Securities JSC, TuranAlem Securities JSC, RBNT SECURITIES CJSC, Company CAIFC JSC, and KG Securities JSC have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to May of 2006, having replaced RG Securities JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in June), Financial company Aliance Capital JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in June), Accumulative pension fund "SAPF" JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in June) and Eksimbank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in June), Kazkkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) (Almaty, ninth position in June) Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 7 months of 2006. A total of 37 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 80.1 % 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 32.9 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 13.8 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 6.7 4 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CentreCredit)* 6.1 5 RG Securities JSC 5.0 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.9 7 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 3.1 8 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.03 9 APF Narodniy Bank Kazakhstan JSC 2.99 10 Company CAIFC JSC 2.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-08-03]