KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's CS in Kazakhstan in January 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, February 2, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined leading operators of the exchange's market of corporate securities (CS) in January 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 41 companies participated in transactions of CS sale and purchase on KASE in January. 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 January was 85.3% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position Stake in January in December Brief title trade 2005 2005 of a company volume, % ------------ ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 48.1 2 - Bank TuranAlem JSC 13.7 3 3 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 7.2 4 11 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 3.9 5 6 RG Securities JSC 2.6 6 7 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.3 7 13 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.2 8 23 Company CAIFC JSC 1.82 9 26 Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) 1.80 10 - Kazkommertsbank JSC 1.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of top ten relative to December 2005 became Bank TuranAlem JSC, KG Securities JSC, APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, Company CAIFC JSC, Global Securities JSC (Kazakhstan) and Kazkommertsbank JSC, they have replaced Almaty Investment Management JSC (Almaty, the second position in December), Central-Asian Trust Company JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in December), Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in December), Pervyi Brokerski Dom JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in December), Kazkommerts Invest JSC (the ninth position in December) and Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position). [2006-02-02]