Directors Shareholding(s)

Martin Currie Portfolio Inv Tst PLC
7 February 2001



Schedule 11 - Notification of interests of Directors and Connected Persons

1   Name of company:
Martin Currie Portfolio Inv Ts

2   Name of director:
Douglas Kinloch Anderson

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of     
holding of the director named in 2 above or holding of that person's spouse or
children under the age of 18 or in respect of a non- beneficial interest:
As in 2 and spouse

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of 
shares held by each of them (if notified):
Douglas Kinloch Anderson - 16,560 ordinary, 33,535 as trustee , 34,882
ordinary
PEP shares
Deirdre Kinloch Anderson - 15,870 ordinary, 107,967 ordinary PEP shares

5   Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with  
the director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s):
Both Mr & Mrs D Kinloch Anderson

6   Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please  
indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non discretionary:


7   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
66

8   Percentage of issued class:
0.00002%

9   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:


10  Percentage of issued class:


11  Class of security:
ordinary 5p

12  Price per share:
see additional comments

13  Date of transaction:
see additional comments

14  Date company informed:
07 February 2001

15  Total holding following this notification:
208,814

16  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
0.07%

If a director has been granted options by the company, please complete the
following fields:

17  Date of grant:


18  Period during which or date on which exercisable:


19  Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option:


20  Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number:


21  Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price is to
be fixed at time of exercise:


22  Total number of shares or debentures over which options held following
this notification:


23  Contact name for queries:
Jan Wilson

24  Contact telephone number:
0131 479 4774

25  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
Martin Currie Investment Management Limited





Additional Information:
Holding change resultant from a dividend re investment and a tax reclaim
on the dividend re investment
Dividend re investment date 5 October 2000 dealing price £1.01
Tax reclaim date 23 November 2000 dealing price £1.005