As of the end of August, six investment intermediaries in Bulgaria have more than 100 COBOS certificates, shows BSE data made available to profit.bg.

The top 3 intermediaries continue to be Karoll, Elana Trading and BenchMark Finance, followed by Ug Market and Bulgarian Post Bank.

Sofia International Securities recently joined the list of intermediaries with more than 100 certificates. Capman and Popularna Kasa are next with 98 and 97 certificates respectively.

Bora Invest and Zagora Finarcoop also make it in the top 10, as well as Varchev Finance and Real Finance, followed by Standard Investment (whose clients dropped to 13 last month).

Other investment intermediaries in the top 20 are BG Proinvest, Bulbrokers, FFBH, Somoni International Brokerage, Status Invest, KD Securities and MKB Unionbank.

Positiva, Fiko Invest and Beta Corp remian outside our chart.

At the end of August the number of issued certificates stood at 3639, or 230 more than the previous month.

NoInvestment Intermediary31 July 200831 July 2007Difference1Karoll933873602Elana Trading AD607566413BenchMark Finance AD562525374Ug Market AD162139235CB Bulgarian Post Bank141129126Sofia International Securities1059967Capman AD989358Popularna Kasa 95979259Bora Invest AD8582310Zagora Finarcoop 7871711Varchev Finance6057312Real Finance AD5953613Standard Investment5871-1314BG Proinvest AD5552315Bulbrokers AD5252016First Financial Brokerage House5146517Somoni Financial Brokerage5151018Status Invest AD5049119KD Securities4444020MKB Unionbank AD38344