KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's CS market in Kazakhstan in February and the first two months of 2004

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, March 5, 04/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has determined activity rating of companies - operators of the KASE corporate securities (CS) market in Kazakhstan for February of 2004. Position of company in the list is determined in accordance with the stake of deals it has concluded in total gross-turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares and bonds). Moreover, only CS purchase and sale operations at secondary market excluding work of brokers with state blocks of shares (SBS), are taken into account. Position of each trade participant is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. Below is the full list of operators, which worked in this stock exchange's market's sector in February of 2004. In parentheses is position of correspondent broker in January of 2004. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stake in trades Position Brief title of the company gross volume, % -------- --------------------------------------------- --------------- 1 (1) TuranAlem Securities JSC (Almaty) 28.8 2 (8) RG Securities LLP (Almaty) 20.9 3 (3) KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd. JSC (Almaty) 16.5 4 (5) KG Securities LLP (Almaty) 8.2 5 (4) Alliance Investment Management JSC (Almaty) 7.3 6 (12) Kazakhstan financial company OJSC (Almaty) 3.7 7 (19) Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty) 3.0 8 (15) MONEY EXPERTS JSC (Almaty) 2.1 9 (2) Central - Asian Trust Company LLP (Almaty) 1.8 10 (7) PAMC ABN AMRO Asset Management CJSC (Almaty) 1.511 11 (-) Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty) 1.510 12 (13) PAMO ZHETISU JSC (Almaty) 1.2 13 (10) Kazkommerts Securities OJSC (Almaty) 1.1 14 (16) Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty) 1.0 15 (-) Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 0.7 16 (11) Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty) 0.4 17 (-) State accumulative pension fund CJSC (Almaty) 0.1 18 (21) Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty) 0.0349 19 (20) Fondoviy service JSC (Almaty) 0.0345 20 (-) RBNT SECURITIES CJSC (Almaty) 0.02 21 (6) APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty) 0.005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rating of leading operators made in similar way, but for the first 2 months of 2004, is given below. -------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Brief title of the company gross volume, % -------- ----------------------------------- --------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 24.0 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd. JSC 12.9 3 RG Securities LLP 12.5 4 Alliance Investment Management JSC 8.3 5 KG Securities LLP 8.0 6 Central - Asian Trust Company LLP 6.5 7 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.2 8 PAMC ABN AMRO Asset Management CJSC 4.0 9 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 3.0 10 Kazkommerts Securities OJSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- One should take into consideration the fact that because of narrowness of Kazakhstan CS market, conducting of one rather large deal at KASE significantly influence position of a given participant in the tables, which were worked out by the methods described above. [2004-03-05]