KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in May and within the first 6 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, July 5, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in June, 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 June. 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 June was 95.3% of turnover of the open exchange market of equity instruments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position in Position in Stake in June May Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- -------------------------------------- --------- 1 16 Financial company Alliance Capital JSC 72.1 2 20 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 5.0 3 1 VISOR Capital JSC 4.8 4 2 The daughter organization 3.6 of JSC Bank TuranAlem TuranAlem Securities JSC 5 3 BCC Invest JSC 3.3 (the subsidiary organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 6 28 Verniy Capitak JSC 3.2 7 15 ASYL-INVEST JSC 1.3 8 25 Halyk Finance JSC 0.75 9 33 Bank TuranAlem JSC 0.73 10 7 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 0.70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to May 2007 became Financial company Alliance Capital JSC, Kazkommerts Invest JSC, Verniy Capital JSC, ASYL-INVEST JSC, Halyk Finance JSC and Bank TuranAlem JSC having replaced the following companies: Almaty Investment Management JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in May); Kazkommerts Securities JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in May); PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in May); Astana-Finance JSC (Astana, eighth position in May); Investment Financial House RESMI JSC (Almaty, ninth position in May); Perviy brokerskiy dom JSC (Almaty, tent position in May). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 6 months of 2007. A total of 60 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 88.6% 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 49.7 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 8.6 3 The daughter organization of 7.5 BankTuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 4 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of 5.4 Bank CenterCredit JSC) 5 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 5.1 6 RBNT SECURITIES CJSC 3.8 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC 3.0 (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.2 9 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 1.9 10 RESMI Investment House Almaty LLP 1.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-05]