Final Results
To: Stock Exchange For immediate release 27 March 2003 Martin Currie Pacific Trust plc Annual results for the year ended 28 February 2003 This has been a disappointing year for all equity investors. Markets have experienced what is on several counts the worst bear market since the 1930's. The excess valuations of the IT boom of the 1990's are a faded memory but the effects of global manufacturing over-capacity have yet to be washed out of the system. Consumer confidence in the US, hitherto the main prop of the world economy, is being battered by a number of worries, particularly the war in