KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS in Kazakhstan in July and in the first seven months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, August 4, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in July 2005. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares and bonds). At that only operations of CS sale and purchase at the secondary market were taken into account, 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 on KASE in July. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty, unless otherwise specified). The stake of these operators in July was 77.3% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position Stake in July in June Brief title trade 2005 2005 of a company volume, % ------------ -------- -------------------------------- --------- 1 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 29.2 2 5 RG Securities JSC 8.6 3 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 7.5 4 14 Halyk Finance JSC 6.3 5 9 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 5.2 6 8 AIM JSC 5.1 7 4 General Asset management JSC 4.8 8 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.0 9 - PAIMO ALFA TRUST JSC 3.4 10 17 Alliance Bank JSC 3.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to June 2005 became Halyk Finance JSC, PAIMO ALFA TRUST JSC and Alliance Bank JSC, they have replaced Turan Alem Securities JSC (Almaty, the first position in June), PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management (Almaty, the seventh position in June) and Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in June). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for the first seven months of 2005. 45 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 74.1% gross-turnover of transactions in sale and purchase of CS on KASE. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief title Stake in gross- tion of a company volume of trades, % ----- ------------------------------------ ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 20.6 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 14.1 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 8.8 4 RG Securities JSC 6.7 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.04 6 AIM JSC 4.99 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.5 8 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 3.5 9 General Asset management JSC 3.1 10 Alliance Bank JSC 2.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-08-04]