KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in Kazakhstan in July and within the period of the first 7 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, August 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds 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 (GBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 37 companies in July participated in making deals in shares purchase and sale 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). Stake of these operators in July was 73.9% 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 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 15.9 2 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 13.8 3 7 TuranAlem Securities JSC 11.5 4 - Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.6 5 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 4.5 6 Temirbank JSC 4.2 7 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 4.0 8 BANK CASPIAN JSC 3.9 9 17 Almaty Investment Management JSC 3.8 10 19 MONEY EXPERTS JSC 3.7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to June 2006 became KG Securities JSC, BANK CASPIAN JSC, Almaty Investment Management JSC and MONEY EXPERTS JSC, having replaced PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, the third position in June), RG Securities JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in June), Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in June) and Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in June). The table is given below, characterizing the most active KASE members of "P" and "H" categories in the specified sector within the period of the first seven months of year 2006. 44 companies took part in making deals within this period. Stake of these "active ten" was 69.7% of turnover of purchase and sales deals on KASE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- --------------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 17.6 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.1 3 RG Securities JSC 7.5 4 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 7.4 5 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.4 6 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 5.0 7 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 4.9 8 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of 4.78 Bank CenterCredit JSC)* 9 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 4.75 10 Kazkommertsbank JSC 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * - the previous title of the company wasKIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC [2006-08-03]