Quarterly portfolio disclosure

Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc
                  Stock Exchange Announcement - 2 February 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  January
2006, its 10 largest investments were:

                                 % of gross
                                   assets
F&C Private Equity Trust            13.2
BP                                   6.5
HSBC Holdings                        5.3
Royal Dutch Shell                    4.9
GlaxoSmithKline                      4.4
Vodafone Group                       4.0
Royal Bank of Scotland               3.6
BHP Billiton                         2.8
Anglo American                       2.7
AstraZeneca                          2.4



For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252