KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase- sale sector for March and the first 3 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 1, 05/ - Kazakhsan stock exchange (KASE) has composed the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in Kazakhstan for March 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 March, 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 67.0% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in March February trades 2005 2005 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 14 ATFBank JSC 11.2 2 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.3 3 16 APF Halyk Bank Kazakhstan JSC 9.9 4 1 Alliance Bank JSC 5.8 5 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.6 6 3 Eurasian Bank JSC 5.5 7 4 Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.9 8 7 TuranAlem Securities JSC 4.71 9 22 APF GNPF JSC 4.68 10 15 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 4.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten in comparison with February of 2005: ATFBank JSC, APF Halyk Bank Kazakhstan JSC, APF GNPF JSC, KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT that replaced: Premier Asset Management JSC (Almaty, 6- th position), Halyk Bank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, 8-th position), PAIMC ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC (Almaty, 9-th position) and RG Securities JSC (Almaty, 10-th positions). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category for the first 3 months of 2005. 39 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 12.2 2 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 7.8 3 Alliance Bank JSC 6.7 4 APF Halyk Bank Kazakhstan JSC 6.2 5 Halyk Saving Bank Kazakhstan JSC 5.59 6 Kazkommertsbank JSC 5.56 7 Eurasian bank JSC 5.5 8 ATFBank JSC 5.3 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.55 10 APF GNPF JSC 4.51 ------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-01]