/KASE, March 26, 14/ – From March 26, 2014, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (hereinafter – KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of March 20, 2014 defined new restrictive and adjustment coefficients for shares, included in the representative list of KASE Index.

In the period from February 27 to March 20, 2014 the weight of shares of KAZAKHMYS PLС (London) (NIN – GB00B0HZPV38, trade code – GB_KZMS) in the combined market value of shares of all titles quoted in the representative list of KASE Index, exceeded 0.2. According to the Methodology of stock market indicators calculation, namely, due to an increase in the portion of these shares in the influence on KASE Index to 22.2 % as of March 20, 2014 the values of restrictive and adjustment coefficients for purposes of comparability of values for KASE Index calculation were changed.

The table below features new restrictive coefficients and those effective before March 26.

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                                As of March 26, 2014                       
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                                Restrictive   Weight  Restrictive  Weight 
        Issuer          Ticker  coefficient  in index coefficient in index
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Bank CenterCredit        CCBN    1.0000000     3.9     1.0000000    3.6   
KAZAKHMYS PLC           GB_KZMS  0.1121510     15.0    0.1734025    22.6  
Halyk Savings Bank of                          15.0    0.1734025    22.6  
Kazakhstan               HSBK    0.2197682                                
Kcell                    KCEL    0.1969782     15.0    0.1811894    12.8  
Kazkommertsbank          KKGB    1.0000000     6.1     1.0000000    5.6   
Kazakhtelecom            KZTK    0.8884388     15.0    0.8463990    13.2  
KazTransOil              KZTO    0.5435802     15.0    0.5706011    14.6  
KazMunaiGas Exploration                        15.0    0.0670748    14.1  
Production               RDGZ    0.0637283                                
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In addition, by the mentioned Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation decision from March 26, 2014 at the KASE index calculation shall be used the new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 2.1182406.

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 on 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; HSBK – Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan; KCEL – Kcell; KKGB – Kazkommertsbank; KZTK – Kazakhtelecom; KZTO – KazTransOil; RDGZ – KazMunaiGas Exploration Production.

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

[2014-03-26]