KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in January of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, February 2, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) composed the list of companies - leading operators of the exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in January of 2005. 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 34 companies, excluding National Bank, participated in trades with GS at KASE in January. 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 December of 2004. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in January December trade 2005 2004 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 15.6 2 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 10.0 3 10 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.9 4 15 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 8.4 5 20 State accumulative pension fund JSC 6.1 6 3 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 5.2 7 14 Central-Asian Trust Company JSC 4.9 8 7 PAIMO ZHETYSU JSC 4.671 9 6 Alliance Bank JSC 4.670 10 11 PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC 4.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of "the active ten" in comparison with December of 2004 are Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC, State accumulative pension fund JSC, Central-Asian Trust Company JSC, PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC, they have replaced General Asset management JSC (Almaty, the 2nd position in December), ATFBank JSC (Almaty, the 4th position in December), Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty, the 8th position in December) and PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC (Almaty, the 9th position in December). [2005-02-02]