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ALPS Advisors, Inc.: Liberty All-Star(R) Equity Fund April 2009 Update

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^{Published in Business and Finance on Monday, May 11th 2009 at 8:36 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-05-11 08:37:13 by Market Wire}  

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - May 11, 2009) - Below is the April 2009 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (NYSE: [ USA ])

 April 2009 Monthly Update Performance NAV Market Price Discount ----------- ----- ------------ -------- Beginning of month value $3.71 $2.92 21.3% Distributions - - End of month value $4.24 $3.39 20.0% Performance for month 14.3% 16.1% Performance year-to-date 3.7% 0.6% For daily data visit the Fund's website at [ www.all-starfunds.com ] or call 1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using the symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Assets at Month-End ($millions) ---------------------------------- Total $768.9 Equities $748.6 Preferred Stocks $1.7 Percent Invested 97.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (28.3% of portfolio) ------------------------------------------------ (Rank from previous month) 1 Dell, Inc.(2) 2.2% 11 Microsoft Corp.(7) 1.4% 2 Gilead Sciences, Inc.(1) 1.8% 12 Annaly Capital 3 Cisco Systems, Inc.(3) 1.8% Management, Inc.(4) 1.3% 4 Visa, Inc., Class A(5) 1.6% 13 JPMorgan Chase & Co.(15) 1.3% 5 Apple, Inc.(11) 1.6% 14 Magna International, Inc., 6 J.C. Penney Co., Inc.(8) 1.6% Class A(17) 1.2% 7 Chesapeake Energy Corp.(6) 1.6% 15 Google, Inc., Class A(14) 1.2% 8 Bank of America Corp.(10) 1.5% 16 Corning, Inc.(36) 1.1% 9 QUALCOMM, Inc.(13) 1.4% 17 The Allstate Corp.(75) 1.1% 10 Walgreen Co.(44) 1.4% 18 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(12) 1.1% 19 International Business Machines Corp.(16) 1.1% 20 Amazon.com, Inc.(20) 1.0% Holdings are subject to change --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio)* New Holdings -------------------------------- ------------ Information Technology 27.6% Aflac, Inc. Consumer Discretionary 15.9% BMC Software, Inc. Financials 15.7% The DIRECTV Group, Inc. Health Care 12.6% McAfee, Inc. Energy 11.3% Zimmer Holdings, Inc. Industrials 6.8% Consumer Staples 5.5% Holdings Liquidated Materials 2.7% ------------------- Utilities 1.9% Amgen, Inc. ------ Apollo Group, Inc., Class A 100.0% Continental Airlines, Inc. (Convertible) Eli Lilly & Co. Exxon Mobil Corp. * 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.