Number of individuals' accounts involved in deals with shares on KASE decreased by 9.6 % in May

/KASE, June 10, 2021/ – In April 2021, the number of accounts of individuals involved in deals with shares on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) decreased by 9.6 % compared with the previous month. The share of individuals in the gross turnover of shares in monetary terms decreased to 46.1 % from 50.3 % in April 2021. As of the end of May, there were 171,325 personal accounts opened by individuals at the Central Securities Depository (hereinafter – the CD), which is by 8,882 accounts more than at the end of the previous month. Below is the information on the dynamics of the number of individual accounts opened in the CD involved in trades in shares on KASE ("Accounts in deals"), gross-turnover of trades in shares in such accounts, their deal percentage in the total gross-turnover of trades in shares in the mentioned month. ------------------------------------------------------------ Month Accounts Accounts in Gross turnover, Share in gross of 2021 in CD deals * bn tenge * turnover, %* -------- -------- ----------- --------------- -------------- January 136,685 5,262 7.5 52.7 February 140,664 5,554 6.1 42.5 March 150,180 5,982 6.0 47.6 April 162,443 8,437 7.2 50.3 May 171,325 7,630 4.5 46.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ * Excluding major deals; with the account of special trading sessions on selling, offering or buyback of shares (the position of the initiator of the special trading sessions is excluded from calculations). [2021-06-10]