KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector for February and the first 2 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, March 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has composed the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in Kazakhstan for February of 2005. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by them in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). Position of each participant is expressed in the currency of payments - tenge. A total of 34 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals at KASE in February, excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of 10 most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in January of 2005. The stake of these operators in February was 66.8% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in February January trades 2005 2005 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 9 Alliance Bank JSC 11.8 2 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.6 3 11 Eurasian bank JSC 7.8 4 14 Bank CenterCredit JSC 7.6 5 2 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 6.9 6 10 PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC 6.7 7 22 TuranAlem Securities JSC 5.9 8 4 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.4 9 17 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 3.6 10 13 RG Securities JSC 3.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten in comparison with January of 2005 are: Eurasian bank JSC, Bank CenterCredit JSC, PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC, TuranAlem Securities JSC, PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC and RG Securities JSC, they have replaced Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty, the 3rd position in January), State accumulative pension fund JSC (Almaty, the 5th position in January), APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the 6th position in January), Central-Asian Trust Company JSC (Almaty, the 7th position in January) and PAIMO ZETYSU JSC (Almaty, the 8th position in January). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category for the first 2 months of 2005. 35 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 13.1 2 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 8.9 3 Alliance Bank JSC 7.2 4 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 7.0 5 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.8 6 Eurasian bank JSC 5.5 7 PAIMO Premier Asset Management JSC 5.3 8 State accumulative pension fund JSC 4.42 9 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.360 10 Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.355 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-03-03]