Director Shareholding

Liontrust Asset Management PLC
29 June 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 on 28 June 2001 6,881 ordinary shares in
the Company at a price of 405p per share ('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 94 ordinary shares, taking his total holding to
479,396 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.46 per cent. of the
ordinary issued share capital of the Company.

29 June 2001



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