KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in April and within the first 5 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, June 5, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in May , 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 50 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE in May. 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 May was 87.7% of turnover of the open exchange market of equity instruments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in May April Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 2 VISOR Capital JSC 30.6 2 10 The daughter organization of JSC Bank TuranAlem 17.9 TuranAlem Securities JSC 3 4 BCC Invest JSC (the subsidiary organization of Bank 10.1 CenterCredit JSC) 4 1 Almaty Investment Management JSC 8.1 5 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (the daughter organization of 5.4 Kazkommertsbank JSC) 6 14 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.7 7 3 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 3.9 8 13 Astana-Finance JSC 2.9 9 5 Investment financial House RESMI JSC 2.3 10 12 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 1.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to April 2007 became PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC, Astana-Finance JSC and Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC having replaced the following companies: Kazkomemrts Invest JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in April); Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in April); Almaty financial center JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in April); Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 5 months of 2007. A total of 55 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 81.8% gross-turnover of stock purchase and sale deals on KASE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posi- Brief name of Share in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 VISOR Capital JSC 17.09 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 17.08 3 The daughter organization of BankTuranAlem JSC 15.9 TuranAlem Securities JSC 4 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 9.0 5 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 8.6 6 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 4.4 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 3.6 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.2 9 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 2.1 10 RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP 1.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-05]