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Liberty All-Star(R) Equity Fund July 2012 Monthly Update


Published on 2012-08-09 05:47:55 - Market Wire
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August 09, 2012 08:37 ET

Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund July 2012 Monthly Update

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Aug 9, 2012) - Below is the July 2012 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (NYSE: [ USA ])

  Liberty All-Star Equity Fund   Monthly Update
   Ticker: USA   July 12
    
    
Monthly Performance 
PerformanceNAVMarket PriceDiscount
 Beginning of month value$5.16$4.5112.6%
 Distributions-- 
 End of month value$5.13$4.6110.1%
 Performance for month-0.58%2.22% 
 Performance year-to-date5.98%13.02% 
Past performance cannot predict future results  
   
Net Assets at Month-End ($millions)
 Total$936.3
 Equities$914.5
 Percent Invested97.7%
  
Top 20 Holdings at Month-End 
  (31.2% of equity portfolio) 
  (Rank from previous month) 
1 Apple, Inc. (1) 4.1%
2 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2) 2.3%
3 QUALCOMM, Inc. (3) 2.3%
4 Google, Inc., Class A (4) 1.9%
5 Wells Fargo & Co. (5) 1.6%
6 ACE Ltd. (6) 1.6%
7 Schlumberger Ltd. (10) 1.5%
8 The Allstate Corp. (8) 1.4%
9 SunTrust Banks, Inc. (9) 1.3%
10 Citigroup, Inc. (12) 1.3%
11 State Street Corp. (7) 1.3%
12 Staples, Inc. (11) 1.3%
13 TE Connectivity Ltd. (13) 1.3%
14 Chesapeake Energy Corp. (15) 1.2%
15 American Tower Corp., Class A (17) 1.2%
16 Visa, Inc., Class A (18) 1.2%
17 Dell, Inc. (14) 1.1%
18 Baidu, Inc. (22) 1.1%
19 Cisco Systems, Inc. (16) 1.1%
20 Microsoft Corp. (20) 1.1%
  Holdings are subject to change. 
    
Sector Breakdown (% of equity portfolio)* 
 Information Technology24.2% 
 Financials20.7% 
 Energy14.8% 
 Consumer Discretionary12.1% 
 Health Care9.0% 
 Industrials7.7% 
 Consumer Staples5.5% 
 Materials2.9% 
 Telecommunication Services1.8% 
 Utilities1.3% 
 Total Market Value100.0% 
*Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). 
 
New Holdings
 Delphi Automotive PLC
 Engility Holdings, Inc.
 Equinix, Inc.
 Verisk Analytics, Inc., Class A
 W.R. Berkley Corp.
  
Holdings Liquidated
 Aon PLC
 Facebook, Inc., Class A
 Fidelity National Financial, Inc., Class A
 FMC Technologies, Inc.
 Walgreen Co.
  

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