Portfolio Update - Monthly

Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust plc
                    Stock Exchange Announcement - 2 May 2006


In accordance with the Listing Rules, which require, inter alia, UK-listed
investment companies to notify to a Regulatory Information Service, within two
business days of the end of each calendar month, a list of all investments in
other investment companies that do not have a stated investment policy to invest
no more than 15% of their gross assets in other UK-listed investment companies
as at the last business day of that month, Martin Currie Portfolio Investment
Trust plc announces that, as at 28 April 2006, its investments in such other
investment companies were:

                                 % of gross
                                   assets
F&C Private Equity Trust plc        11.7%



For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252