Purchase of Own Securities

Bankers Investment Trust PLC
17 January 2000




             THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
                             
          Market Purchase of Company's Own Shares

Notification  is  given  that  pursuant  to  the  authority
granted  at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company
held  on  18  June  1999 and sanctioned at  Separate  Class
Meetings  on 18 June 1999 and 25 June 1999 respectively  to
make market purchases of the Company's own shares of 25p, a
market purchase of 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 25p each in
the  capital of the Company was made today at  a  price  of
298.0p per share.

The total number of shares in issue is now 151,800,000.



For further information please contact:

Stephen Westwood
Henderson Investors Limited
Telephone: [phone]

Vicki Staveacre
Henderson Investors Press Office
Telephone: [phone]