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ALPS Advisers, Inc.: Liberty All-Star(R) Equity Fund November 2008 Monthly Update

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  Published in Business and Finance on Thursday, December 4th 2008 at 14:14 GMT by Market Wire
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Below is the November 2008 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (NYSE: [ USA ])

 November 2008 Monthly Update Performance NAV Market Price Discount ----------- ----- ------------ ---------- Beginning of month value $4.66 $3.86 17.2% Distributions - - End of month value $4.18 $3.12 25.4% Performance for month (10.3%) (19.2%) Performance year-to-date (44.0%) (51.5%) For daily data visit the Fund's website at [ www.all-starfunds.com ] or call 1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using the symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Assets at Month-End ($millions) ----------------------------------- Total $746.8 Equities $722.3 Preferred Stocks & Convertible Bonds $1.5 Percent Invested 96.9% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (29.2% of portfolio) ------------------------------------------------- (Rank from previous month) 1 Bank of America Corp. (1) 2.5% 11 Capital One Financial Corp. (14) 1.3% 2 The Procter & Gamble Co. (3) 2.2% 12 Genentech, Inc. (16) 1.2% 3 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (4) 2.0% 13 Chevron Corp. (25) 1.1% 4 Dell, Inc. (7) 1.9% 14 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (17) 1.1% 5 Genzyme Corp. (5) 1.8% 15 Google, Inc., Class A (13) 1.1% 6 Annaly Capital Management, 16 C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (6) 1.8% Inc. (27) 1.1% 7 Gilead Sciences, Inc. (19) 1.6% 17 Staples, Inc. (15) 1.1% 8 Microsoft Corp. (8) 1.5% 18 J.C. Penney Co., Inc. (20) 1.1% 9 Johnson & Johnson (9) 1.4% 19 Devon Energy Corp. (24) 1.0% 10 McDonald's Corp. (10) 1.4% 20 Wells Fargo & Co. (31) 1.0% Holdings are subject to change --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) * New Holdings ----------------------------------- ------------ Financials 19.7% ACE Ltd. Information Technology 18.8% Apollo Group, Inc., Class A Health Care 18.0% Johnson Controls, Inc. Consumer Discretionary 14.5% Rockwell Automation, Inc. Consumer Staples 8.8% WellPoint, Inc. Industrials 8.2% Energy 7.9% Holdings Liquidated Utilities 2.1% ------------------- Materials 2.0% Adobe Systems, Inc. ------ Hewlett-Packard Co. 100.0% Medtronic, Inc. The Progressive Corp. St. Jude Medical, Inc. * Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is a closed-end fund and does not continuously offer shares.