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

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 1, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in March 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 34 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase at KASE in March. 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 84.6% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in March February trade 2005 2005 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Turan Alem Securities JSC 31.5 2 3 AIM JSC 10.0 3 2 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 9.71 4 5 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 9.67 5 4 RG Securities LLP 4.9 6 20 Development Bank of Kazakhstan 4.8 7 6 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 4.5 8 10 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 3.9 9 13 Alliance Bank JSC 3.0 10 8 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to February 2005 were Kazakhstan Development Bank JSC, Alliance Bank JSC having replaced Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, seventh position in February) and APF of Halyk Bank JSC (Almaty, ninth position in February). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for first three months of 2005. 38 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 81.0% 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 29.4 2 KG Securities JSC 9.8 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 9.7 4 AIM JSC 7.5 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.5 6 RG Securities LLP 5.1 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.84 8 OCIMPA Premier Asset management JSC 4.78 9 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.5 10 Alliance Bank JSC 2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-04-01]