KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in March and within the first 3 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, April 5, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in March, 2007. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares on the main floor of KASE an on the special trading floor of the regional financial center of Almaty) in the secondary market. Position of each participant of trades is computed in Kazakhstan tenge. While preparing the rating, information only on deals, closed on stock exchange by open trade method, was used. A total of 38 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their shares in total deals volume (all headquarters are located in Almaty). Share of these operators in March was 89.8% of turnover of the open exchange market of equity instruments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in February January Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------------ --------- 1 10 The daughter organization of JSC Bank TuranAlem 35.5 TuranAlem Securities JSC 2 2 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 12.8 3 1 Almaty Investment Management JSC 8.2 4 5 BCC Invest JSC (the subsidiary organization of Bank 7.8 CenterCredit JSC) 5 - RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP 6.62 6 3 VISOR Capital JSC 6.57 7 17 Halyk Finance JSC 4.4 8 - Daughter organization of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan Halyk Capital JSC 3.1 9 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (the daughter organization of 3.0 Kazkommertsbank JSC) 10 6 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 1.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to Febraury 2007 became RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP (subsidiary of Investment Financial House RESMI JSC, participant of RFCA), Halyk Finance JSC and Daughter organization of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan Halyk Capital JSC, having replaced the following companies: APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in February); Financial company Alliance Capital JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in February); MONEY EXPERTS JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in February). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 3 months of 2007. A total of 44 companies (their headquarters are situated in Almaty, if other is not specified) participated in performing deals within this period. The stake of "ten best" was 80.5% gross-turnover of stock purchase and sale deals on KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Share in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 The daughter organization of BankTuranAlem JSC 22.2 TuranAlem Securities JSC 2 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 13.0 3 Almaty Investment Management JSC 12.1 4 VISOR Capital JSC 8.6 5 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 7.9 6 RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP 3.9 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 3.52 8 Tsesna Capital JSC 3.50 9 Halyk Finance JSC 3.0 10 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-04-05]