Director Shareholding

Liontrust Asset Management PLC
16 April 2002

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

16 April 2002

Andrew Yates, a director of the Company, is a participant of the Company's
Employee Share Ownership Plan ('the ESOP') and on 12 April 2002 was allocated
100 ordinary shares at a price of 379p per share. This takes his total holding
to 480,392 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.44 per cent. of the
ordinary issued share capital of the Company.

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