KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS in Kazakhstan in December 2005 and in 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, January 5, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in December 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 36 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase on KASE in December. 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 82.7% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position Stake in December in November Brief title trade 2005 2005 of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 23.2 2 3 Almaty Investment Management JSC 12.1 3 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 10.6 4 14 Central-Asian Trust Company JSC 8.5 5 17 Temirbank JSC 5.7 6 13 RG Securities JSC 5.4 7 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 5.1 8 9 Pervyi Brokerski Dom JSC 4.5 9 6 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.2 10 12 Alliance Bank JSC 3.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of top ten relative to November 2005 became Central-Asian Trust Company JSC, Temirbank JSC, RG Securities JSC and Alliance Bank JSC, they have replaced KG Securities JSC (Karaganda, the fourth position), APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the fifth position), BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, the seventh position) and Kazakhstan financial company JSC (Almaty, the tenth position). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "P" and "H" category for 2005. 46 companies participated in deals making in this period. Stake of "the best ten" was 69.6% 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 22.2 2 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 10.6 3 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 6.5 4 RG Securities JSC 5.8 5 Almaty Investment Management JSC 5.7 6 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 4.6 7 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 4.1 8 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 4.0 9 Halyk Finance JSC 3.2 10 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-01-05]