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

^{Published on 2009-09-11 07:14:47 - Market Wire}
 

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

 August 2009 Monthly Update Performance NAV Market Price Discount --- ------------ -------- Beginning of month value $4.70 $3.87 17.7% Distributions (Ex-Date August 26) $0.07 $0.07 End of month value $4.87 $3.87 20.5% Performance for month 5.1% 1.8% Performance year-to-date 22.4% 18.8% For daily data visit the Fund's website at [ www.all-starfunds.com ] or call 1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using the symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Assets at Month-End ($millions) Total $889.5 Equities $891.8 Preferred Stocks $0.7 Percent Invested 100.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (27.7% of portfolio) (Rank from previous month) 1 Dell, Inc. (1) 2.5% 11 Magna International, Inc., 2 Bank of America Corp. (2) 2.4% Class A (7) 1.2% 3 Microsoft Corp. (3) 2.0% 12 Corning, Inc. (10) 1.1% 4 QUALCOMM, Inc. (4) 1.9% 13 RRI Energy, Inc. (17) 1.1% 5 Chesapeake Energy Corp. (5) 1.5% 14 Forest Oil Corp. (21) 1.1% 6 Visa, Inc., Class A (6) 1.4% 15 Genzyme Corp. (23) 1.1% 7 Annaly Capital 16 Arch Coal, Inc. (14) 1.1% Management, Inc. (8) 1.3% 17 The Boeing Co. (27) 1.1% 8 The Allstate Corp. (11) 1.3% 18 J.C. Penney Co., Inc. (15) 1.1% 9 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (13) 1.3% 19 Google, Inc., Class A (19) 1.0% 10 Research In Motion Ltd. (9) 1.2% 20 Apple, Inc. (20) 1.0% Holdings are subject to change --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) * New Holdings Information Technology 26.1% ------------ Financials 17.9% CVS Caremark Corp. Consumer Discretionary 13.7% Joy Global, Inc. Energy 12.7% Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Health Care 11.6% Pulte Homes, Inc. Industrials 8.1% Sigma-Aldrich Corp. Consumer Staples 5.0% Materials 2.6% Holdings Liquidated Utilities 2.3% ------------------- ------ Akamai Technologies, Inc. 100.0% Centex Corp. Marvell Technology Group Ltd. * 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.