OREANDA-NEWS. From August 3, 2015, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of August 3, 2015 defined new parameters of shares, included in the representative list of KASE index – portions of shares in free circulation, and restrictive
coefficients.

The table below shows new share parameters and those effective till August 3, influencing the KASE Index value.

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             Effective from August 3, 2015       Effective till August 3, 2015
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                          free restrictive                   free  restrictive
           outstanding   float coefficient    outstanding   float coefficient
Ticker          shares (Fi), %        (Ri)         shares (Fi), %         (Ri)
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CCBN       162,456,800    26.6   1.0000000    162,456,800    26.6    1.0000000
GB_KZMS    458,379,033    57.3   0.2472139    458,379,033    57.3    0.1424443
HSBK    10,911,130,670    26.6   0.2956899 10,911,155,090    26.6    0.2594563
KCEL       200,000,000    25.0   0.4563716    200,000,000    25.0    0.3565781
KEGC       260,000,000    10.0   1.0000000    260,000,000    10.0    1.0000000
KKGB       797,507,227     3.5   1.0000000    797,507,227     3.5    1.0000000
KZTK        10,714,929    23.1   1.0000000     10,710,201    23.0    1.0000000
KZTO       384,635,599    10.0   1.0000000    384,635,599    10.0    0.8102620
RDGZ        67,693,075    36.3   0.1345278     67,693,075    36.3    0.0799945
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In addition, by the mentioned Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation decision from August 3, 2015 at the KASE index calculation shall be used the new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 1.3305018. Before the said date the value was 1.6678480.

NOTES TO TABLE

KASE Index – KASE share market index, showing change of prices of shares listed on the representative list for calculation of the index with account to capitalization of issuers and number of free floating shares (free float). One stock may not exceed 15 % weight in the index. KASE Index is calculated within a trading day as deals in the representing stocks are concluded. In case no deals, parameters of which are required for calculation of the KASE Index were made in the stock during a trading day, for purposes of such calculation, results of the last resultant trading session will be used.

The Methodology of index calculation is regulated by the KASE internal document "Methodology of Stock Market Indicators Calculation", available at the KASE website at: http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/indicators_met_eng.pdf

The page on the index is available at: http://www.kase.kz/en/index_kase

Ticker shows: issuer code of security trading on KASE (first 4 symbols, – common share code); share category (if the fifth symbol is "p", preferred share);  share issue order number (if required, the sixth symbol is a digit). Issuers code:  CCBN – Bank CenterCredit; GB_KZMS – KAZAKHMYS PLC; HSBK – Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan; KCEL – Kcell; KEGC – Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company "KEGOC" JSC (KEGC); KKGB – Kazkommertsbank; KZTK – Kazakhtelecom; KZTO – KazTransOil; RDGZ – KazMunaiGas Exploration Production.

Outstanding shares – parameter, which is determined independently by KASE on the basis of listing company share register extract data or information provided by the company as a number of outstanding shares of a listing company net of those redeemed. KASE is taking into account the number of outstanding shares, which is confirmed by documents available on KASE.

Free float (Fi), % – parameter, determined by KASE as a number of shares not owned by the state, issuer management and shareholders owning five or more percent of common shares of the issuer, except for shareholders in regard of which the Risk committee made a decision that such shareholders shall not be deemed as strategic (institutioanl investors, nominal holders, and entities performing functions of settlement service etc.).

Restrictive coefficient (Ri) – parameter limiting weight of influence of one stock on index value to fifteen percent.