KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in Kazakhstan in October and within the first 10 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, November 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's share market in October, 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 36 companies participated in making shares purchase and sale deals on KASE in October. 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 84.9% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in October September Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 12 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 18.6 2 16 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 15.6 3 - Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 9.8 4 29 AO "Halyk Finance" 8.8 5 1 Almaty Investment Management JSC 8.3 6 8 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 6.0 7 6 Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC 5.9 8 3 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC 4.9 9 13 АО "VISOR Capital" 3.9 10 2 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC, BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC), Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC, Halyk Finance JSC and VISOR Capital JSC have become the newcomers of "active ten" relative to September of 2006, having replaced PAIMO Baylik asset management (Almaty, fourth position in September), Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC (Almaty, fifth position in September), Eurasian Bank JSC (Almaty, seventh position in September), Centras Securities JSC (Almaty, ninth position in September) and Financial company Alliance Capital JSC (Almaty, tenth position in September). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 10 months of 2006. A total of 47 companies participated in making deals in this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 76.5 % 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 29.5 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 13.2 3 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CentreCredit)* 6.6 4 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 5.5 5 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC* 4.9 6 KG Securities JSC 4.6 7 Kazkommerts Securities (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 4.5 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.9 9 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.7 10 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-11-03]