KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS in Kazakhstan for February and in the first two months of 2005

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, March 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in February 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). 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 31 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase at KASE in February. Below is the list of 10 most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty). The stake of these operators in February was 83.6% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in February January trade 2005 2005 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Turan Alem Securities JSC 29.2 2 4 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 13.1 3 7 AIM JSC 9.3 4 10 RG Securities LLP 8.0 5 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 7.1 6 6 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.3 7 12 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.2 8 11 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.02 9 22 APF of Halyk Bank JSC 3.01 10 5 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 2.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to January 2005 were Kazkommerts Invest JSC, Halyk savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC and APF of Halyk Bank JSC having replaced OCIMPA Premier Asset Management JSC (Almaty, second position in January), OCIMPA Zhetysu JSC (Almaty, eights position in January) and REAL-INVEST.kz Financial Company JSC (Almaty, ninths position in January). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for first two months of 2005. 34 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 82.7% gross-turnover of transactions in sale and purchase of CS at KASE. -------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in gross Position Brief title of a company volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ -------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 28.4 2 KG Securities JSC 9.8 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 9.7 4 OCIMPA Premier Asset management JSC 7.0 5 AIM JSC 6.4 6 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.9 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 5.25 8 RG Securities LLP 5.15 9 REAL-INVEST.kz financial company JSC 2.6 10 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.5 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-03-03]