/IRBIS, March 1, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of companies - leading operators of the KASE government bonds market for February 2001. The rating is made according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). The rating included purchase-sale deals (41.0% of the secondary market) and direct and reverse repo operation (59.0%). The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments, i.e. tenge.

In total, 21 companies participated in trades with GB at KASE (banks, broker-dealer companies, pension assets management companies and SAPF). Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order.

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Position  Position  Brief title of a company                     Share in
      in   in 2000                                                  gross
 January                                                        volume of
    2001                                                        trades, %
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       1         5  State Accumulative Pension Fund CJSC, SAPF       12.9
                    (Almaty)
       2         3  Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)                     12.3
       3         1  Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)              11.8
       4         2  AMB CJSC (Almaty)                                11.5
       5        10  TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                           7.9
       6         6  Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                       5.7
       7         7  Caspian Bank OJSC (Almaty)                        5.6
       8         4  KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty)                     5.4
       9         9  Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty)                   5.3
      10        11  Pension Asset Management Company of Halyk         4.1
                    Bank of Kazakhstan CJSC
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