KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in September and within the first 9 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, October 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in September, 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 33 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE in September. 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 September was 88.9% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in September August Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- -------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 20.7 2 3 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 18.9 3 16 Kazkommerts Securities (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 17.7 4 22 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 7.5 5 11 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 5.6 6 - Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC 5.5 7 - Eurasian bank JSC 5.0 8 4 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 3.4 9 6 Centras Securities JSC 2.5 10 20 Financial company Alliance Capital JSC 2.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC), PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC, Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC, Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC, Eurasian bank JSC and Financial company Alliance Capital JSC, have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to August of 2006, having replaced Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities (Almaty, first position in August), RBNT SECURITIES CJSC (Almaty, fifth position in August), DERBES SECURITIES JSC (Almaty, seventh position in August), Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty, eighth position in August), BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) (Almaty, ninth position in August) and KG Securities JSC (Karaganda, tenth position in August). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 9 months of 2006. A total of 46 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 79.7 % 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 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem TuranAlem Securities JSC 31.6 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 14.2 3 (Karaganda) Kazkommerts Invest JSC 6.0 4 KG Securities JSC 5.3 5 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CentreCredit)* 4.9 6 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC* 4.7 7 Kazkommerts Securities (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 4.4 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 3.4 9 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.9 10 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 2.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * - former name of RG Securities JSC [2006-10-03]