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

^{Published on 2009-08-11 10:30:14, Last Modified on 2009-08-11 10:30:23 - Market Wire}
 

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

 July 2009 Monthly Update Performance NAV Market Price Discount ----------- --- ------------ -------- Beginning of month value $4.36 $3.46 20.6% Distributions - - End of month value $4.70 $3.87 17.7% Performance for month 7.8% 11.8% Performance year-to-date 16.5% 16.7% For daily data visit the Fund's website at [ www.all-starfunds.com ] or call 1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using the symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Assets at Month-End ($millions) ----------------------------------- Total $859.4 Equities $851.2 Preferred Stocks $0.7 Percent Invested 99.1% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (27.9% of portfolio) ------------------------------------------------- (Rank from previous month) 1 Dell, Inc.(1) 2.3% 11 The Allstate Corp. (11) 1.3% 2 Bank of America Corp.(3) 2.1% 12 Capital One Financial 3 Microsoft Corp.(12) 2.0% Corp.(24) 1.2% 4 QUALCOMM, Inc.(2) 2.0% 13 JPMorgan Chase & Co.(14) 1.2% 5 Chesapeake Energy Corp.(5) 1.5% 14 Arch Coal, Inc.(23) 1.1% 6 Visa, Inc., Class A(6) 1.4% 15 J.C. Penney 7 Magna International, Inc., Co., Inc.(15) 1.1% Class A(7) 1.4% 16 WellPoint, Inc.(67) 1.1% 8 Annaly Capital 17 RRI Energy, Inc.(21) 1.1% Management, Inc.(8) 1.4% 18 Morgan Stanley(16) 1.0% 9 Research In Motion 19 Google, Inc., Ltd.(18) 1.4% Class A(19) 1.0% 10 Corning, Inc.(10) 1.3% 20 Apple, Inc.(9) 1.0% Holdings are subject to change --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) * New Holdings ----------------------------------- ------------ Information Technology 26.7% Adobe Systems, Inc. Financials 16.6% Citrix Systems, Inc. Consumer Discretionary 14.1% CME Group, Inc. Energy 12.9% EXCO Resources, Inc. Health Care 11.9% Fiserv, Inc. Industrials 7.8% iShares Russell 1000 Value Consumer Staples 5.0% Index Fund Materials 2.8% NetApp, Inc. Utilities 2.2% O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. ------- Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. 100.0% Holdings Liquidated ------------------- Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Citigroup, Inc. (Preferred) EQT Corp. International Business Machines Corp. McDonald's Corp. Range Resources 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.