KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS market in Kazakhstan in January of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, February 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) 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). At that only operations of CS sale and purchase at the secondary market, excluding work of brokers with state blocks of shares (SBS). The position of each participant is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 29 companies participated in making CS purchase and sale deals 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, unless otherwise specified). The stake of these operators in January was 86.6% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in January December trade 2005 2004 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 4 Turan Alem Securities JSC 27.8 2 7 PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC 11.9 3 1 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 11.7 4 2 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 7.4 5 8 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 7.3 6 9 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 6.4 7 3 AIM JSC 4.2 8 26 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 3.6 9 6 Financial Company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 3.2 10 5 RG Securities LLP 3.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-02-03]