KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in August and within the first 8 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, September 6, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in August, 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 49 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE in August. 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 80.1% of turnover of the open exchange market of equity instruments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Stake in in August in July Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % --------- -------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 4 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC 21.8 TuranAlem Securities JSC 2 38 Astana-Finance JSC (Astana) 14.2 3 13 Asia Broker Services JSC 10.9 4 8 Bank TuranAlem JSC 7.4 5 9 Verniy Capital JSC 5.2 6 3 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization 4.9 of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 7 21 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 4.3 8 11 Asyl Invest JSC 4.1 9 18 Centras Securities JSC 3.8 10 16 Investment Financial House RESMIJSC 3.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to July 2007 became Astana-Finance JSC, Asia Broker Services JSC, RBNT securities JSC, Asyl Invest JSC, Centras Securities JSC and Investment Financial House RESMI JSC, having replaced the following companies: - Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) (Almaty, the first position in July); - VISOR Capital JSC (Almaty, the second position in July); - First Brokers House JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in July); - Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, sixth position); - IFG KONTINENT JSC (Almaty, seventh position); - ATFBank JSC (Almaty, tenth position). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 8 months of 2007. A total of 64 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 83.7% 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 42.3 2 VISOR Capital JSC 8.8 3 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 8.3 4 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 5.6 5 Almaty Investment Management JSC 4.6 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.8 7 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 2.92 8 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 2.90 9 Verniy Capital JSC 2.5 10 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 1.9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-09-06]