Portfolio Update Quarterly

Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc
                   Stock Exchange Announcement - 2 August 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 31 July 2006,
its 10 largest investments were:

                                 % of gross
                                   assets
F&C Private Equity Trust            12.3
BP                                   7.5
HSBC Holdings                        5.6
GlaxoSmithKline                      5.1
Royal Dutch Shell                    4.3
Vodafone Group                       4.0
Royal Bank of Scotland               3.6
BG Group                             3.3
Anglo American                       2.8
BHP Billiton                         2.7



For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252