Martin Currie Enhanced Income Trust plc
              Stock Exchange Announcement - 5 January 2004
                                    
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 quarter, a list  of
all  investments  held  by them with a value  greater  than  5%  of  the
company's gross assets and at least the company's 10 largest investments
as  at  the  last  business day of that quarter, Martin Currie  Enhanced
Income  Trust plc announces that, as at 31 December 2003, its 10 largest
investments were:

                                    % of gross assets
HSBC Holdings                             5.85%
Intermediate Capital Group                5.72%
Kelda Group                               5.05%
Boots Group                               5.00%
Scottish & Southern Energy                4.93%
British American Tobacco                  4.84%
Lloyds TSB Group                          4.07%
Scottish & Newcastle                      3.42%
London Merchant Securities                3.41%
SIG                                       3.32%


For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252