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

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, May 4, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in April 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 30 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase at KASE in April. 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 was 82.9% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in April March trade 2005 2005 Brief title of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Turan Alem Securities JSC 15.8 2 21 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz 13.5 3 4 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 11.7 4 9 Alliance Bank JSC 9.354 5 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 9.353 6 5 RG Securities LLP 6.1 7 12 Temirbank JSC 5.7 8 7 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.2 9 2 AIM JSC 3.8 10 10 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to March 2005 were Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC and Temirbank JSC having replaced Kazakhstan Development Bank JSC (Astana, sixth position in March) and Kazakhstan Financial Company JSC (Almaty, eights position in March). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for first four months of 2005. 39 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 79.7% 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 26.1 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 10.2 3 KG Securities JSC 9.7 4 AIM JSC 6.6 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.4 6 RG Securities LLP 5.3 7 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz 4.7 8 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.2 9 Alliance Bank JSC 3.7 10 OCIMPA Premier Asset management JSC 3.6 ------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-05-04]