KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase- sale sector in December and in 2004

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, January 5, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) composed traditional list of companies - leading operators of the exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in December of 2004. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it 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 32 companies participated in trades with GS at KASE in December. Below is the list of 10 most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in November of 2004. The stake of these operators in December was 92.9% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in December November trade 2004 2004 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 39.4 2 2 General asset Management JSC 32.8 3 5 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.1 4 3 ATFBank JSC 3.8 5 9 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 3.2 6 4 Alliance Bank JSC 3.0 7 7 PAIMO ZHETYSU JSC 2.2 8 6 Eurasian bank JSC 1.6 9 8 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 1.3 10 14 Kazkommertsbank JSC 1.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of "the active ten" in comparison with November of 2004 is Kazkommertsbank JSC, it has replaced PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC (Almaty, the 10th position in November). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category for 2004. 42 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. ------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trade Position Brief title of a company volume, % -------- ----------------------------------- -------------- 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 33.7 2 General Asset Management JSC 12.5 3 ATFBank JSC 7.8 4 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 6.2 5 PAIMO ZHETYSU JSC 5.7 6 RG Securities JSC 4.8 7 Alliance Bank JSC 3.6 8 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 3.3 9 Eurasian Bank JSC 3.2 10 DB ABN AMRO BANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-01-05]