Director Shareholding

Liontrust Asset Management PLC
11 March 2002

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

11 March 2002

Andrew Yates, a director of the Company, is a participant of the Company's
Employee Share Ownership Plan ('the ESOP') and on 8 March 2002 was allocated 90
ordinary shares at a price of 415p per share. This takes his total holding to
480,292 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.44 per cent. of the
ordinary issued share capital of the Company.



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