/IRBIS, Apr 2, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of companies - leading operators of the KASE government bonds market for March 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 (28.3% of the secondary market) and direct and reverse repo operation (71.7%). 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        4 AMB CJSC (Almaty)                               29.4
       2        3 Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)             13.5
       3       10 Pension Asset Management Company of Halyk
                  Bank of Kazakhstan CJSC                         10.8
       4        2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)                     6.6
       5        1 State Accumulative Pension Fund CJSC, SAPF
                  (Almaty)                                         6.2
       6        6 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                      5.2
       7        9 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty)                  4.1
       8        5 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                          3.8
       9       11 PAMC JETYSU CJSC (Almaty)                        3.3
      10       13 Pension Assets Management Company Ak niet
                  CJSC (Almaty)                                    2.6
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