KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector for March and the first quarter of this year

/IRBIS, April 2, 03/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of companies - leading operators of the KASE's government securities (GS) purchase-sale market for March of 2003. The place of company in the list is given according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). At that, unlike 2002 only purchase-sale deals (11.0% of the secondary market) were taken into account because reverse and direct repo transactions (89.0% of stock exchange's secondary GS market) are considered in separate rating. The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 24 companies participated in trades with GB at KASE in March excluding the National Bank of Kazakhstan (banks, broker-dealer companies, pension assets management companies, SAPF, non-banking financial organizations). Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume and also their positions in February of 2003. The stake of these operators is 78.7% of the turnover of similar stock exchange's market's sector ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Stake in in Mar in Feb trades 2003 2003 Brief title of a company volume, % -------- -------- --------------------------------------------- --------- 1 13 RG Securities LLP (Almaty) 18.4 2 3 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 16.4 3 4 State accumulative pension fund CJSC (Almaty) 8.25 4 9 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 8.23 5 10 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 5.2 6 12 Bank CenterCredit (Almaty) 5.1 7 6 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC (Almaty) 4.5 8 20 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd. LLP (Almaty) 4.4 9 18 PAMC ZHETYSU CJSC (Almaty) 4.3 10 1 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 3.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" in comparison with February of 2003 are RG Securities LLP, Bank CenterCredit OJSC, KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd. LLP and PAMC ZHETYSU CJSC, they have replaced AMB OJSC (Almaty, the second position in February), HSBC Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty, the fifth position in February) KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty, the seventh position in February) and Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty, the eighth position in February). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "К" category in the sector for the first quarter of 2003. A total of 27 companies took part in making of deals in this period, besides the National Bank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief name Stake in volume of trades, % Position of company -------- ------------------------------------ ---------------------------- 1 AMB OJSC 17.7 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 14.1 3 Eurasian bank CJSC 10.6 4 Company of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan on pension assets management CJSC 8.1 5 State accumulative pension fund CJSC 7.6 6 RG Securities LLP 6.5 7 HSBC Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 5.6 8 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 4.3 9 Nurbank OJSC 4.1 10 TEMIRBANK OJSC 3.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-04-02]