Appointment

Martin Currie Portfolio Inv Tst PLC
29 January 2001

Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc

               Stock Exchange Announcement - 29th January 2001


Headline - Appointment of a new non-executive director


The board of Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc is pleased to
announce the appointment of Mr Ben Thomson as a non-executive director of the
company, as of today's date.  Mr Thomson, who is aged thirty-seven years, is
chief executive of the Edinburgh investment banking firm, Noble & Company.  He
joined Noble & Company in 1990 and became chief executive in 1996.  Before
joining Noble & Company, he worked at Kleinwort Benson in London. Mr Thomson
was a director of Wellington Underwriting plc from 1994 until 1996.


There are no details on Mr Thomson which require to be disclosed in relation
to paragraph 6.F.2(b) to (g) of the listing rules.


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