KASE determined the leading stock exchange operators of the stock market in Kazakhstan in October and within the first 11 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, December 5, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in November, 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 November. Below is the list of ten most active operators which controlled 96.7% of this sector, in descending order of their shares in total deals volume. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in November October name trade 2007 2007 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Verniy Capital JSC 86.1 2 11 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC 4.3 TuranAlem Securities JSC 3 23 Centras Securities JSC 1.4 4 6 Asia Broker Services JSC 0.9 5 12 IFG KONTINENT JSC 0.79 6 13 Halyk Finance JSC 0.785 7 55 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 0.781 8 8 ABS SECURITIES LLP 0.7 9 17 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 0.5 10 4 VISOR Capital JSC 0.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The newcomers of the "active ten" relative to October of 2007 had become Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC, Centras Securities JSC, IFG CONTINENT JSC, Halyk Finance JSC, Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC and RBNT SECURITIES JSC, having replaced: Almaty financial center JSC (Almaty, second position in October); BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank Centercredit JSC (Almaty, third position); Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) (Almaty, fifth position); Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC (Almaty, seventh position); Assyl Invest JSC (Almaty, ninth position); PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (daughter organization of Eurasian bank 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 11 months of 2007. A total of 68 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 84.3% gross-turnover of stock purchase and sale deals on KASE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name Stake in gross volume - tion of the company of trades, % ----- -------------------------------------- ----------------------- 1 Verniy Capital JSC 29.1 2 Financial Company Alliance Capital JSC 26.2 3 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 7.3 4 VISOR Capital JSC 6.1 5 BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.3 6 Almaty Investment Management JSC 3.1 7 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 2.5 8 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkomemrtsbank JSC 2.3 9 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 2.0 10 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-12-05]