KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's CS market in Kazakhstan in March and the first 3 months of 2004

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 6, 04/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has determined activity rating of companies - operators of the KASE corporate securities (CS) market in Kazakhstan for March 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 transactions at the 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 March 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 (3) KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd. JSC (Almaty) 19.6 2 (4) KG Securities LLP (Karaganda) 16.2 3 (1) TuranAlem Securities JSC (Almaty) 15.7 4 (2) RG Securities LLP (Almaty) 12.6 5 (9) Central - Asian Trust Company LLP (Almaty) 10.8 6 (13) Kazkommerts Securities OJSC (Almaty) 5.7 7 (8) MONEY EXPERTS JSC (Almaty) 5.0 8 (12) PAMO ZHETISU JSC (Almaty) 4.7 9 (17) State accumulative pension fund CJSC (Almaty) 1.9 10 (14) Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty) 1.6 11 ( -) Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 1.5 12 (5) Alliance Investment Management JSC (Almaty) 1.3 13 (11) Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC (Almaty) 1.2 14 (15) Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty) 0.8 15 (- ) Tsesnabank JSC (Astana) 0.7 16 (19) Fondoviy service JSC (Almaty) 0.3 17 (7) Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty) 0.2 18 (6) Kazakhstan financial company OJSC (Almaty) 0.0383 19 ( -) CAIFC company CJSC (Almaty) 0.0377 20 (18) Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty) 0.03 21 (20) RBNT SECURITIES CJSC (Almaty) 0.02 22 (10) PAMC ABN AMRO Asset Management CJSC (Almaty) 0.01 23 ( -) Financial company Greenwich Capital Management OJSC (Almaty) 0.001 --------------------------------------------------------------- Rating of leading operators made in similar way, but for the first 3 months of 2004, is given below. -------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Brief title of the company gross volume, % -------- ----------------------------------- --------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 21.3 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd. JSC 15.1 3 RG Securities LLP 12.6 4 KG Securities LLP 10.7 5 Central - Asian Trust Company LLP 7.9 5 Alliance Investment Management JSC 6.0 7 Kazkommerts Securities OJSC 3.7 8 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.83 9 MONEY EXPERTS JSC 2.79 10 PAMC ABN AMRO 2.7 Asset Management CJSC -------------------------------------------------------------- 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. [2004-04-06]