Month End Portfolio Info

British Assets Trust PLC
17 November 2005

British Asset Trust plc

ALL DATA AS AT 31st October 2005

THIS DATA WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE F&C ASSET MANAGEMENT WEBSITE, http://
www.fandc.com/ AND THE ZEROCHARGETM WEBSITE, http://www.zerocharge.co.uk/ FROM
APPROXIMATELY 18th November 2005.


Top ten equity holdings                                                %

                                                             
1          BP                                                        6.2

2          Vodafone                                                  4.8

2          Royal Dutch Shell                                         4.6

3          HSBC                                                      4.5

4          GlaxoSmithKline                                           4.1

5          Royal Bank of Scotland                                    2.6

6          AstraZeneca                                               1.7

7          HBOS                                                      1.6

8          Standard Life European Private Equity Trust               1.4

9          Barclays                                                  1.4

            Total                                                   32.9



Country breakdown                                                      %


1          UK                                                       68.0

2          Europe (ex UK)                                            4.8

3          North America                                            10.6

4          Japan                                                     4.9

5          Far East (ex Japan)                                       3.0

6          Corporate Bonds                                           6.3

7          Cash                                                      2.4


            Total                                                  100.0


Actual gearing:    122.2

Potential gearing: 127.3

                      This information is provided by RNS
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