KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector for March and the first 3 months of 2004

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 2, 04/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) composed traditional list of companies - leading operators of the KASE in government securities (GS) purchase-sale market by the results of March 2004. Companies are ranked according to individual portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). The position of each participant is expressed in the currency of payments - tenge. A total of 27 companies participated in trades with GS at KASE in March (banks, broker-dealer companies, pension assets management companies, SAPF, non-banking financial organizations), excluding the National Bank of Kazakhstan. Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order of their shares in total deals volume and its positions in February of 2004. Top 10 operators controlled 82.5% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Share in in March in Feb trades 2004 2004 Brief title of a company volume, % -------- -------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 36.4 2 2 PAMO ZHETYSU JSC 8.9 3 4 RG Securities LLP 7.9 4 10 Eurasian bank JSC 6.1 5 3 ATFBank JSC 5.7 6 6 State accumulative pension fund CJSC 4.6 7 5 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.7 8 13 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.1 9 11 Alliance Bank JSC 3.03 10 7 PAMC ABN AMRO Asset Management CJSC 2.96 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Among newcomers of the top ten are: Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC and Alliance Bank JSC; they replaced DB ABN AMRO BANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty, eighth position in February) and NURBANK OJSC(Almaty, ninth position in February). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category for the first 3 months of 2004. 31 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Share in trades Position Brief title of a company volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 29.5 2 PAMC ZHETISU JSC 12.6 3 RG Securities LLP 7.8 4 ATFBank JSC 7.6 5 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 6.1 6 Eurasian Bank JSC 4.6 7 State Accumulative Pension Fund CJSC 3.8 8 Kazkommertsbank JSC 3.1 9 Alliance Bank JSC 3.0 10 PAMC ABN AMRO Asset Management CJSC 2.8 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2004-04-02]