Directorate change

Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc
                                 ("the Company")
                                   21 May 2010


With effect from the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company
held earlier today the Board of Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc
announce the retirement of Mr Douglas Kinloch Anderson as a non-executive
director of the Company.


Tamsin Hooton
Martin Currie Investment Management Limited
Company Secretary

21 May 2010