Portfolio Update - Quarterly Disclosure

Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc
                    Stock Exchange Announcement - 2 May 2006


In accordance with the Listing Rules, which require, inter alia, UK-listed
investment companies to notify to a Regulatory Information Service, within two
business days of the end of each quarter, a list of all investments held by them
with a value greater than 5% of the company's gross assets and at least the
company's 10 largest investments as at the last business day of that quarter,
Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc announces that, as at 28 April
2006, its 10 largest investments were:

                                 % of gross
                                   assets
F&C Private Equity Trust            11.7
BP                                   6.3
HSBC Holdings                        5.2
GlaxoSmithKline                      4.6
Vodafone Group                       4.2
Royal Dutch Shell                    4.1
Royal Bank of Scotland               3.5
BHP Billiton                         2.9
Anglo American                       2.8
AstraZeneca                          2.6



For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252