Director Shareholding

Liontrust Asset Management PLC
4 February 2002

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

Andrew Yates, a director of Liontrust Asset Management PLC, is a participant of
the Company's Employee Share Ownership Plan and on 1 February 2002 was allocated
92 ordinary shares at a price of 406.25p per share. This takes his total holding
to 480,202 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.44 per cent. of the
ordinary issued share capital of the Company.

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