Director Shareholding

Liontrust Asset Management PLC
14 May 2002


14th May, 2002

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

Andrew Yates, a director of the Company, is a participant of the Company's
Employee Share Ownership Plan (the 'ESOP') and on 13 May 2002 was allocated 101
ordinary shares at a price of 369p per share. This takes his total holding to
480,493 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.44 per cent. of the
ordinary issued share capital of the Company.

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