KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in April and within the first 4 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, May 4, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in April, 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 41 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE in April. 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 April was 91.3% of turnover of the open exchange market of equity instruments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in March February Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 3 Almaty Investment Management JSC 37.6 2 6 VISOR Capital JSC 18.1 3 11 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 10.3 4 4 BCC Invest JSC (the subsidiary organization of Bank 9.7 CenterCredit JSC) 5 2 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 7.2 6 17 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 2.4 7 9 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (the daughter organization of 1.84 Kazkommertsbank JSC) 8 18 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 1.82 9 21 Almaty financial center JSC 1.2 10 1 The daughter organization of JSC Bank TuranAlem 1.1 TuranAlem Securities JSC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to March 2007 became RBNT SECURITIES JSC, Kazkommerts Invest JSC, Accumulative pension fun SAPF JSC, Almaty financial center JSC, having replaced the following companies: RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP (Almaty, participant of RFCA, the fifth position in March); Halyk Finance JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in March); Daughter organization of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan Halyk Capital JSC (Almaty, participant of RFCA, the eighth position in March); First Broker's House JSC Almaty, tenth position in March). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 4 months of 2007. A total of 49 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 81.69% gross-turnover of stock purchase and sale deals on KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Share in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 Almaty Investment Management JSC 20.6 2 The daughter organization of BankTuranAlem JSC 15.1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 3 VISOR Capital JSC 11.8 4 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 11.1 5 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 8.5 6 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 4.6 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 3.0 8 RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP 2.6 9 Tsesna Capital JSC (Astana) 2.4 10 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-05-04]