Holding(s) in Company

F&C Latin American Inv Trust PLC
23 September 2005


HOLDINGS IN COMPANY

1) Name of company

F&C Latin American Investment Trust PLC

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest

Friends Provident group

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect
of holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it
is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

F&C Asset Management plc, a subsidiary of the Friends Provident
group, is interested in the following Shares:

(i) Discretionary holdings:

a) University of Cambridge Amalgamated Fund: 2,500,000 shares (3.12%)
b) Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC: 8,098,940 shares (10.11%)
c) F&C Smaller Companies PLC: 500,000 shares (0.62%)
d) Goodwood Pension Scheme: 100,000 shares (0.12%)


(ii) Non discretionary holdings

e) F&C Private Investor Plan: 4,250,165 shares (5.30%)
f) F&C Pension Savings Scheme: 454,960 shares (0.57%)
g) F&C ISA Plan: 719,671 shares (0.90%)
h) F&C PEP Plan: 82,751 shares (0.10)


4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder,
the number of shares held by each of them

a) Chase Nominees Limited
b) Chase Nominees Limited
c) Chase Nominees Limited
d) Chase Nominees Limited
e) Puddle Dock Nominees Limited
f) BNY (OCS) Nominees Limited
g) Puddle Dock Nominees Limited
h) Puddle Dock Nominees Limited

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

Not given

6) Percentage of issued class

Not given

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

Not applicable

8) Percentage of issued class

Not applicable

9) Class of security

Ordinary shares of 25 pence each

10) Date of transaction

Not given

11) Date company informed

22 September 2005

12) Total holding following this notification

16,706,487

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

20.85%

14) Any additional information

The Friends Provident Life Office, as holding company of F&C Asset
Management plc, is also interested in the shares referred to above.

15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

David Fallon
Tel: [phone]

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

David Fallon
For and on behalf of F&C Management Limited, Secretary


Date of notification: 23 September 2005


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