Director Shareholding

St. James's Place Capital PLC
20 May 2005


St. James's Place Capital plc ('SJPC')

Sarah Bates, a non-executive director of SJPC today notified SJPC that she
purchased 13,500 SJPC ordinary shares of 15p each at a price of £2.15 each on 19
May 2005.


Following the above transaction, Mrs Bates' interests in ordinary shares of SJPC
are as follows:


Beneficial:                13,500
Non-beneficial:            nil




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