Top Ten Holdings

F&C Capital & Income Inv Tst PLC
02 January 2004


The Stock Exchange

RNS

Old Broad Street

London

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2 January 2004

Dear Sir

F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust PLC

The top ten holdings and all holdings over 5% of gross assets as at 31 December
2003 were:

Stock                                                     % of gross assets

GlaxoSmithKline                                                         6.1
BP                                                                      5.6
Vodafone Group                                                          4.7
HSBC Holdings                                                           4.5
Shell Transport & Trading                                               3.9
Barclays Bank                                                           3.7
Royal Bank of Scotland Group                                            3.3
Abbey National                                                          2.5
Scottish & Southern Energy                                              2.3
AstraZeneca                                                             2.3


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