KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in February and in the first 2 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Aslan Juasov, March 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has composed the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in Kazakhstan in February, 2006. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by them in total gross-turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). Position of each participant is expressed in the currency of payments - tenge. A total of 27 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in February, excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in January, 2006. The stake of these operators in February was 95.0% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in February January trades 2006 2006 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 SB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC 29.6 2 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 16.9 3 2 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 16.6 4 5 Kazkommertsbank JSC 13.1 5 10 Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 9.4 6 6 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 2.5 7 4 ATFBank JSC 2.05 8 21 Temirbank JSC 2.01 9 25 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 1.9 10 15 TuranAlem Securities JSC 1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten relative to January, 2006 are Temirbank JSC, PAIMO Zhetysu JSC and TuranAlem Securities JSC, they have replaced from top-10 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in January), ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in January) and RG Securities JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in January). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category in 2 months of 2006. 28 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 SB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC 26.9 2 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 17.8 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 14.1 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 11.5 5 Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 6.03 6 ATFBank JSC 5.98 7 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 3.8 8 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 2.1 9 RG Securities JSC 2.0 10 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 1.7 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-03-03]