/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.

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Month    Accounts Accounts in Gross turnover, Share in gross
of 2021     in CD     deals *      bn tenge *   turnover, %*
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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           54.4
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* 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]