KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in Kazakhstan in April and the first 4 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, May 4, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bonds market in April, 2006. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares). At that, only operations of purchase and sale in secondary market are taken into account, excluding work of brokers with government blocks of shares (GBS). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. A total of 39 companies in April participated in making in KASE's shares purchase and sale deals. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, if the other is not given). Stake of these operators in February was 74.9% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in April March Brief name trade 2006 2006 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz JSC 19.7 2 4 RG Securities JSC 12.3 3 7 TuranAlem Securities JSC 8.0 4 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 6.1 5 12 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 5.7 6 33 Bank Caspian JSC 5.5 7 9 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 5.3 8 11 Almaty Invest Management JSC 4.9 9 10 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.1 10 30 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to March 2006 became PAIMO Bailyk asset management JS, Bank Caspian JSC, Almaty Invest Management JSC and PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management, they have replaced Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the third position in March), Kazkommertskommerts JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in March) and KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in March). Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector in the first 4 months of 2006. A total of 44 companies participated in making deals in this period. Stake of best "ten best" was 72.3% of gross-turnover of deals of shares purchase and sale in KASE. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ------------------------------------ ------------------- 1 TuranAlem Securities JSC 22.3 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.9 3 Financial company REAL-INVEST.kz 9.2 4 RG Securities JSC 5.8 5 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 4.93 6 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.93 7 KG Securities JSC (Karaganda) 4.4 8 APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.5 9 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.2 10 Kazakhstan financial company JSC 3.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-05-04]