Director Shareholding

Liontrust Asset Management PLC
25 May 2001

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

Liontrust Asset Management PLC ('the Company') has been informed that
Liontrust Trustees Limited, on behalf of the Company's Employee Share
Ownership Plan ('the ESOP'), acquired 1,294 ordinary shares in the Company at
a price of 415p per share on 25 May ('the purchase').


Andrew Yates, a director of the Company, is a participant of the ESOP and will
benefit from the purchase. The purchase increases his interest in the share
capital of the Company by 95 ordinary shares, taking his total holding to
479,302 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.46 per cent. of the
ordinary issued share capital of the Company.

25 May 2001



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