KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's CS market in Kazakhstan in August and the first 8 months of 2004

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, September 7, 04/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has determined activity rating of companies - operators of the KASE corporate securities (CS) market in Kazakhstan for August 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. A total of 22 companies took part in making of CS purchase and sale deals at KASE in August. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stake in total volume of deals (headquarter of the companies are in Almaty, unless otherwise specified). The stake of these operators in August was 99.0% of turnover of similar sector of exchange's market. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Stake in in August of in July of Brief name of trade 2004 2004 company volume, % ------------ ---------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 3 TuranAlem Securities JSC 67.2 2 2 AIM JSC 10.5 3 5 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 5.2 4 4 RG Securities LLP 3.7 5 8 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 3.6 6 9 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 3.4 7 10 OCIMPA Bailyk Asset Management JSC 1.9 8 1 Central - Asian Trust Company LLP 1.5 9 6 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 1.4 10 17 Bank CenterCredit JSC 0.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below is similar table of most active members of KASE of "Р" and "Н" categories in the sector in the first 8 months of 2004. A total of 36 companies took part in deals making. The stake of "the best ten" was 88.9% of gross-turnover of CS purchase and sale deals at KASE. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Brief title of the company gross volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 33.6 2 General Asset Management JSC 9.6 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 8.8 4 AIM JSC 8.3 5 Central - Asian Trust Company LLP 7.7 6 RG Securities LLP 7.6 7 KG Securities JSC 7.4 8 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.2 9 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 2.1 10 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 1.5 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2004-09-07]