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

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, October 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds 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 (GBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 31 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 September was 86.6% 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 10 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 20.4 2 1 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 14.2 3 21 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 12.4 4 13 BANK CASPIAN JSC 11.9 5 8 Almaty Investment Management JSC 9.6 6 2 Daughter organization Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 4.9 7 7 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.1 8 9 ATFBank JSC 3.5 9 12 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 3.2 10 19 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 2.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to August 2006 became Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC, BANK CASPIAN JSC, BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) and Kazkommerts Invest JSC having replaced MONEY EXPERTS JSC (Almaty, third position in August), Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty, fourth position in August), Kazakhstan financial company (Alamty, fifth position in August) and Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty, sixth position in August). 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 nine months of year 2006. 49 companies took part in making deals within this period. Stake of these "active ten" was 68.2% 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 16.3 2 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC* 8.2 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 7.4 4 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 6.7 5 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 6.3 6 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.1 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.7 8 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 4.6 9 KG Securities JSC 4.5 10 Almaty Investment Management JSC 3.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- * former name of RG Securities JSC [2006-10-03]