KASE determined top purchase and sale GS market operators in March and initial 3 months of 2009

03.04.09 14:42
/KASE, April 3, 09/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) determined top operators of purchase and sale government securities (GS) market in March of 2009 (except for the Kazakhstan National Bank). 28 companies made deals on the market in March 2009. The table below shows top-10 KASE category "K" members (all headquartered in Almaty, unless specified otherwise). The top10 accounted for 69.9 % of trades volume of the market. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank in: ---------- Calculation base Ka: Activity ---------------- Mar. Feb. indicator ---- ---- ---- 2009 2009 Company short name (Ka) V N D ---- ---- -------------------------------- --------- ---- ---- ---- 1 1 Tengry Finance 3.00 1.00 1.00 0.80 2 2 IFG CONTINENT 2.01 0.56 0.60 0.85 3 11 Centras Securities 1.31 0.28 0.27 0.77 4 3 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan 0.68 0.10 0.12 0.56 5 24 Kazpost 0.61 0.19 0.19 0.23 6 14 Astana-finance (Astana) 0.58 0.26 0.24 0.08 7 7 Subsidiary of BTA Bank BTA Securities 0.48 0.12 0.13 0.23 8 - Open accumulative pension fund Otan (Subsidiary of ATFBank) 0.47 0.12 0.12 0.23 9 - Alliance Bank 0.47 0.15 0.09 0.23 10 4 ASYL-INVEST 0.45 0.17 0.13 0.15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "top-10" newcomers relative to February 2009 are Centras Securities, Kazpost, Astana-finance, Open accumulative pension fund Otan (Subsidiary of ATFBank) and Alliance Bank, having replaced: - Eximbank Kazakhstan (the fifth in February); - Eurasian Bank (the sixth in February); - Eurasian Capital (Subsidiary of Eurasian Bank) (the eighth in February); - Pension Assets Management Organization Zhetysu (the ninth in February); - Brokerage company Astana-finance (the tenth in February). The table below indicates most active KASE category "K" operators during three initial months of 2009. 44 companies made deals on the market in the period. The "top-10" accounted for 66.2 % of trades volume on the GS purchase and sale market. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Calculation base Ka: Activity ---------------- indicator ---- ---- ---- Rank Company short name (Ka) V N D ---- -------------------------------- --------- ---- ---- ---- 1 Tengry Finance 3.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2 IFG CONTINENT 1.22 0.40 0.28 0.53 3 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan 1.16 0.54 0.18 0.44 4 ASYL-INVEST 0.72 0.18 0.17 0.37 5 Subsidiary of BTA Bank 0.66 0.14 0.20 0.33 BTA Securities 6 Centras Securities 0.58 0.12 0.11 0.35 7 Eurasian Capital (Subsidiary of Eurasian Bank) 0.48 0.18 0.08 0.21 8 Eximbank Kazakhstan 0.45 0.09 0.08 0.28 9 Pension Assets Management 0.41 0.18 0.09 0.14 Organization Zhetysu 10 Eurasian Bank 0.36 0.15 0.04 0.16 ------------------------------------------------------------------- KASE draws attention to have ranked GS market operators, as in the tables, according to the KASE internal document "Methodology of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange Members Activity Indicators Calculation of (Methodology) with account to principle amendments made by the KASE Board decision of February 23, 2009. The text of the Methodology is available on KASE website at address http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/members_activity_eng.pdf [2009-04-03]