/KASE, December 14, 12/ - From December 19, 2012, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of December 14, 2012 defined new parameters of shares, included to the KASE index representative list.

As was announced earlier the quantity of common shares (NIN - KZ1C33870011, trade code - HSBK) of JSC "Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan" (Almaty) was increased after their split at a ratio of 1:10.

The mentioned increase in the quantity of common shares of JSC "Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan" has brought about a need for an adjustment of coefficients restricting the share of influence on KASE Index value made by price parameters of shares of all titles included in the representative list of KASE Index.

The table below shows new shares parameters and those effective till December 14, influencing the KASE index value.

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          Effective from December 19, 2012  Effective till December  91, 2012
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                          free restrictive                  free  restrictive
               offered   float coefficient       offered   float coefficient
Ticker          shares (Fi), %        (Ri)        shares (Fi), %          Ri)
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CCBN       162,456,800    27.2   1.0000000   162,456,800    27.2    1.0000000
GB_ENRC  1,287,750,000    18.6   0.0626656 1,287,750,000    18.6    0.0572234
GB_KZMS    535,420,180    43.1   0.0247255   535,420,180    43.1    0.0274928
HSBK    10,911,224,990    24.7   0.1231651 1,091,122,499    24.7    0.1533350
KKGB       778,625,062     7.3   1.0000000   778,625,062     7.3    1.0000000
KZTK        10,734,997    21.2   0.3326874    10,734,997    21.2    0.3785752
RDGZ        70,093,212    38.5   0.0213554    70,093,212    38.5    0.0241665
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In addition, by the mentioned Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation decision from December 19, 2012, at the KASE index calculation shall be used the new adjustment coefficient (K) value - 4.9324643. Till the mentioned date K equaled 4.5631774.

NOTES TO TABLE

KASE Index - KASE share market index, showing change of prices of shares listed on the representative list for calculation of the index with account to capitalization of issuers and number of free floating shares (free float). One stock may not exceed 15 % weight in the index. KASE Index is calculated within a trading day as deals in the representing stocks are concluded. In case no deals, parameters of which are required for calculation of the KASE Index were made in the stock during a trading day, for purposes of such calculation, results of the last resultant trading session will be used.

The Methodology of index calculation is regulated by the KASE internal document "Methodology of Stock Market Indicators Calculation", available at the KASE website at: see more

The page on the index is available at: see more

Ticker shows: issuer code of security trading on KASE (first 4 symbols, - common share code); share category (if the fifth symbol is "p", preferred share); share issue order number (if required, the sixth symbol is a digit). Issuers code: CCBN - Bank CenterCredit; GB_KZMS - KAZAKHMYS PLC; GB_ENRC - EURASIAN NATURAL RESOURCES CORPORATION PLC; HSBK - Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan;
KKGB - Kazkommertsbank; KZTK - Kazakhtelecom; RDGZ - KazMunaiGas Exploration Production.

Offered shares - parameter, which is determined independently by KASE on the basis of listing company share register extract data or information provided by the company as a number of outstanding shares of a listing company net of those redeemed. KASE is taking into account the number of outstanding shares, which is confirmed by documents available on KASE.

Free float (Fi), % - parameter, determined by KASE as a number of shares not owned by the state, issuer management and shareholders owning five or more percent of common shares of the issuer, except for shareholders in regard of which the Risk committee made a decision that such shareholders shall not be deemed as strategic (institutioanl investors, nominal holders, and entities performing functions of settlement service etc.).

Restrictive coefficient (Ri) - parameter limiting weight of influence of one stock on index value to fifteen percent.

[2012-12-14]