KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in July and within the first 7 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, August 3, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in July, 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 57 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE in July. 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 79.9% of turnover of the open exchange market of equity instruments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Stake in in July in June Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % -------- -------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 15 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter 17.2 organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 2 3 VISOR Capital JSC 14.4 3 5 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 10.8 4 4 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC 7.4 TuranAlem Securities JSC 5 17 First Brokers' House JSC 6.9 6 2 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 6.3 7 28 IFG KONTINENT JSC 6.0 8 9 Bank TuranAlem JSC 4.6 9 6 Verniy Capital JSC 3.3 10 14 ATFBank JSC 2.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to June 2007 became Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC), First Brokers' House JSC, IFG KONTINENT JSC and ATFBank JSC having replaced the following companies: - Financial company Alliance Capital JSC (Almaty, the first position in June); - Asyl Invest JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in June); - Halyk Finance JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in June); - RBNT SECURITIES JSC (Almaty, tenth position in June). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 7 months of 2007. A total of 62 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 85.9% gross-turnover of stock purchase and sale deals on KASE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Share in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ------------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 Financial company Alliance Capital JSC 44.8 2 VISOR Capital JSC 9.2 3 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC 7.5 TuranAlem Securities JSC 4 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization 5.7 of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 5 Almaty Investment Management JSC 4.8 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.0 7 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter 3.0 organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 8 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 2.9 9 Verniy Capital JSC 2.3 10 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 1.8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-08-03]