KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS in Kazakhstan in October and in the first 10 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, November 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in October 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 35 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase on KASE in October. 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 October was 72.7% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position Stake in October in September Brief title trade 2005 2005 of a company volume, % ------------ ------------ ----------------------------------- --------- 1 3 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 11.7 2 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 10.5 3 8 Pervyi Brokerski Dom JSC 9.0 4 9 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 7.9 5 16 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.7 6 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 6.09 7 4 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 6.05 8 15 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 5.7 9 13 Almaty Investment Management JSC 5.1 10 7 RG Securities JSC 3.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of top ten relative to September 2005 became PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC, APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC and Almaty Investment Management JSC, they have replaced Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in September), General Asset management JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in September) and PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in September). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for the first ten months of 2005. 46 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 68.5% 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 19.8 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 11.0 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 7.3 4 RG Securities JSC 6.4 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 4.67 6 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.65 7 Almaty Investment Management JSC 4.1 8 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 3.9 9 Halyk Finance JSC 3.7 10 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.1 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-11-03]