KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in Kazakhstan in August and within the period of the first 8 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, September 5, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in August, 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 34 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 August was 75.1% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in August July Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ---------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 17.2 2 3 Daughter organization Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 13.1 3 10 MONEY EXPERTS JSC 7.7 4 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 6.4 5 2 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 5.8 6 35 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 5.5 7 16 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.7 8 9 Almaty investmwent Management JSC 4.6 9 15 ATFBank JSC 4.5 10 14 RG Securities JSC 3.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to July 2006 became Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC, PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC, ATFBank JSC and RG Securities JSC, having replaced KG Securities JSC (Karaganda, fifth position on July), Temirbank (Almaty, sixth position in July), Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty, seventh position in July) and BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, eighth position in July). 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 eight months of year 2006. 46 companies took part in making deals within this period. Stake of these "active ten" was 69.2% of turnover of purchase and sales deals on KASE. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ----------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 Daughter organization Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 17.2 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.0 3 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 7.23 4 RG Securities JSC 7.20 5 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.3 6 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 5.7 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 5.1 8 KG Securities JSC 4.73 9 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 4.66 10 Kazkommertsbank JSC 3.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-09-05]