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24TH SEPTEMBER '09
Final Results

REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT                           

Blue Planet Worldwide Financials Investment Trust plc

Preliminary Announcement
for year ended 31 July 2009

For a full text of the announcement click here:

2009 Blue Planet Worldwide Preliminary Announcement

The unedited full text of those parts of the Report and Accounts for the year
ended 31 July 2009 which require to be published by DTR 4.1 is set out below.

Financial Record and Key Performance Indicators

As at 31 July                                      2009      2008        2007        2006       2005
                                                                             
Total assets less other current   15,504     25,425     50,850    40,382   23,759
liabilities (£'000)                                                          
                                                                             
Loans (£'000)                                  (4,366)   (7,036)    (19,884)   (13,897)  (7,000)
                                                                             
Shareholders' funds (£'000)        11,138    18,389     30,966     26,485    16,759
                                                                             
Net asset value per share (p)       79.13     129.52     216.76     185.79    117.56
                                                                             
Share price (p) - (Bid)                     59.00     107.00      180.00    162.00     86.00
                                                                             
Discount (%)                                      25.4           17.4         17.0         12.8         26.8
                                                                             
Gearing (%)*                                        4.9            26.3         63.8         40.7         41.4
                                                                             
Year to 31 July                                  2009           2008       2007        2006       2005
                                                                             
Revenue available for                        287             600      (427)          385          202
shareholders (£'000)****                                                     
                                                                             
Revenue return per share (p)          2.03            4.20      (3.00)         2.70        1.42
                                                                             
Total return per share (p)            (47.53)       (87.45)       32.89       69.33       41.56
                                                                             
Total dividends per share (net)      1.20             3.22             -            2.10         1.40
(p)                                                                          
                                                                             
Dividend yield on our shares          2.03              3.00             -           1.30         1.63
(%)                                                                          
                                                                             
Dividend yield on Benchmark         2.93             4.00            2.65        2.51         2.49
Index (%)                                                                    
                                                                             
Expenses ratio - net basis (%)        5.01            1.69            3.69        3.79        3.82
**                                                                           
                                                                             
Expenses ratio - gross basis          3.35             1.08            2.19        2.21         2.52
(%) ***                                                                      

The Board believes the above KPI's are of most interest to shareholders in
monitoring the performance of the Company

* Net debt as a percentage of shareholders' funds

** Net basis - Administrative expenses as a percentage of the average net asset
value of the Company

*** Gross basis - Administrative expenses as a percentage of the average gross
asset value of the Company

**** 2008 Includes VAT recovered of £202,500

Portfolio Information

As at 31 July 2009                                         Valuation      2009
                                                                             
                                                                 (£)      % of
                                                                     Portfolio
                                                                             
Equities                                                                     
                                                                             
     61,696 BP Global Financials-A Class      Eire        £2,396,647     15.2%
                                                                             
  6,099,000 URSA Bank                         Russia      £1,478,507      9.4%
                                                                             
     81,285 Bank Vozrozhdenie                 Russia      £1,060,203      6.7%
                                                                             
     80,003 Hartford Financial Services       United        £788,398      5.0%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
    224,927 Union Bank Of India               India         £654,872      4.1%
                                                                             
     75,770 LIC Housing Finance               India         £580,746      3.7%
                                                                             
    359,327 Allied Irish Banks Plc            Eire          £542,558      3.4%
                                                                             
    345,160 South Indian Bank (P-Notes)       India         £514,735      3.3%
                                                                             
     42,200 Axis Bank Limited                 India         £481,767      3.1%
                                                                             
  1,019,350 Bank Rakyat Indonesia             Indonesia     £445,543      2.8%
                                                                             
    141,820 Federal Bank Ltd                  India         £424,117      2.7%
                                                                             
     42,320 Banco Santander SA                Spain         £366,794      2.3%
                                                                             
    368,000 Bank of Communications Co Ltd     Hong Kong     £271,020      1.7%
                                                                             
    516,500 China Construction Bank Corp      Hong Kong     £248,805      1.6%
                                                                             
     28,628 Punjab National Bank Ltd          India         £246,166      1.6%
                                                                             
    582,500 China CITIC Bank                  Hong Kong     £242,376      1.5%
                                                                             
    779,500 Bank of China Ltd                 Hong Kong     £231,676      1.5%
                                                                             
    705,050 Bank Mandiri                      Indonesia     £177,462      1.1%
                                                                             
    615,100 Bank Central Asia                 Indonesia     £139,061      0.9%
                                                                             
  5,635,213 Raiffeisen Bank Aval              Ukraine       £132,693      0.8%
                                                                             
     89,760 Yapi Ve Kredi Bankasi             Turkey        £111,759      0.7%
                                                                             
     34,300 Turkyie Halk Bankasi              Turkey        £108,859      0.7%
                                                                             
     51,450 Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS        Turkey        £107,813      0.7%
                                                                             
      4,200 Lincoln National Corporation      United         £53,251      0.4%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
      1,890 Prudential Financial Inc          United         £49,995      0.3%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
      2,451 MetLife Inc.                      United         £49,774      0.3%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
        510 Goldman Sachs Group Inc.          United         £49,761      0.3%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
        122 Bank of America Corp              United          £1,075      0.0%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
        171 HSBC Holdings Plc                 United          £1,035      0.0%
                                              Kingdom                        
                                                                             
         59 National Bank of Greece S.A.      Greece          £1,022      0.0%
                                                                             
         36 Credit Suisse                     Switzerland     £1,017      0.0%
                                                                             
         44 JP Morgan Chase & Co              United          £1,012      0.0%
                                              States                         
                                                                             
      2,261 Royal Bank of Scotland Group      United          £1,012      0.0%
                                              Kingdom                        
                                                                             
         23 BNP Paribas                       France          £1,002      0.0%
                                                                             
Listed                                                    11,962,533     75.8%
Investments                                                                  
                                                                             
Cash                                                       3,821,813     24.2%
                                                                             
Total                                                     15,784,346    100.0%

At 31 July 2009 the portfolio yield, as reported to the Association of
Investment Companies, was 5.53% (2008 - 3.85%). The yield represents the income
from investments as a percentage of the cost of the portfolio.

Classification of Portfolio

At 31 July 2009

                              Investment    Other                Total    Total
                                                                              
                      Banks    Companies  Finance        Cash     2009     2008
                                                                              
                          %            %        %           %        %        %
                                                                              
India                  14.8            -      3.7         0.1     18.6     27.1
                                                                              
Eire                    3.4         15.2        -           -     18.6      9.0
                                                                              
Russia                 16.1            -        -           -     16.1     34.6
                                                                              
Hong Kong               6.3            -        -         6.2     12.5        -
                                                                              
United States           0.3            -      6.0           -      6.3      7.3
                                                                              
Europe                    -            -        -         5.3      5.3        -
                                                                              
Indonesia               4.8            -        -           -      4.8        -
                                                                              
Australia                 -            -        -         3.1      3.1        -
                                                                              
Norway                    -            -        -         3.1      3.1        -
                                                                              
Switzerland             0.0            -        -         3.1      3.1        -
                                                                              
Canada                    -            -        -         3.1      3.1        -
                                                                              
Spain                   2.3            -        -           -      2.3        -
                                                                              
Turkey                  2.1            -        -         0.0      2.1        -
                                                                              
Ukraine                 0.8            -        -           -      0.8      1.4
                                                                              
United Kingdom          0.0            -        -         0.2      0.2      4.2
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