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

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^{Published in Business and Finance on Monday, June 8th 2009 at 11:23 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-06-08 11:24:07 by Market Wire}  

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - June 8, 2009) - Below is the May 2009 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (NYSE: [ USA ])

 May 2009 Monthly Update Performance NAV Market Price Discount ----------- --- ------------ -------- Beginning of month value $4.24 $3.39 20.0% Distributions (Ex-Date May 6) $0.06 $0.06 End of month value $4.40 $3.46 21.4% Performance for month 5.2% 3.8% Performance year-to-date 9.0% 4.4% For daily data visit the Fund's website at [ www.all-starfunds.com ] or call 1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using the symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Assets at Month-End ($millions) ----------------------------------- Total $797.5 Equities $795.5 Preferred Stocks $2.2 Percent Invested 100.0% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (28.1% of portfolio) ------------------------------------------------- (Rank from previous month) 1 Dell, Inc. (1) 2.3% 11 Annaly Capital Management, 2 QUALCOMM, Inc. (9) 1.9% Inc. (12) 1.2% 3 Bank of America Corp. (8) 1.8% 12 Walgreen Co. (10) 1.2% 4 Apple, Inc. (5) 1.7% 13 Google, Inc., Class A (15) 1.2% 5 Chesapeake Energy 14 Morgan Stanley (21) 1.2% Corp. (7) 1.7% 15 Arch Coal, Inc. (25) 1.2% 6 Cisco Systems, Inc. (3) 1.6% 16 Corning, Inc. (16) 1.2% 7 Visa, Inc., Class A (4) 1.6% 17 The Walt Disney Co. (72) 1.1% 8 Microsoft Corp. (11) 1.3% 18 Monsanto Co. (22) 1.1% 9 The Allstate Corp. (17) 1.3% 19 Gilead Sciences, Inc. (2) 1.1% 10 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (13) 1.3% 20 Schlumberger Ltd. (56) 1.1% Holdings are subject to change --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) * New Holdings --------------------------------- ------------ Information Technology 27.3% Aetna, Inc. Financials 16.0% National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. Consumer Discretionary 14.6% State Street Corp. Energy 13.4% Health Care 11.4% Holdings Liquidated Industrials 6.5% ------------------- Consumer Staples 5.5% Becton, Dickinson and Co. Materials 2.9% Chico's FAS, Inc. Utilities 2.4% Mastercard, Inc., Class A --------- Merck & Co., Inc. 100.0% Schering-Plough Corp. Symantec 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.