Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation

Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC ("the Company")

Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation - Share Buybacks

The Company announces that it is satisfied that all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have in the period leading up to the announcement of the annual results in respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2016 has previously been, and will continue to be, notified via a regulatory information service. Therefore the Company is not prohibited from dealing in its own securities.

If in the period leading up to the announcement of the annual results the Directors of the Company come into the possession of any inside information, this will be notified to an RIS before any such transactions are undertaken.

Name of contact and telephone number for enquiries:

Hugh Potter

For and on behalf of F&C Investment Business Limited, Secretary

Telephone: 020 7628 8000

4 January 2017