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


Published on 2012-09-13 06:21:08 - Market Wire
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September 13, 2012 08:58 ET

Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund August 2012 Monthly Update

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Sep 13, 2012) - Below is the August 2012 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (NYSE: [ USA ])

       
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund    Monthly Update
Ticker: USA    August 12
       
       
       
       
Monthly Performance  
Performance NAV Market Price Discount
Beginning of month value $5.13 $4.61 10.1%
Distributions (Ex-Date August 1) $0.08 $0.08  
End of month value $5.24 $4.73 9.7%
Performance for month 3.70% 4.34%  
Performance year-to-date 9.90% 17.93%  
Past performance cannot predict future results    
 
       
Net Assets at Month-End ($millions)    
Total $956.9    
Equities $948.4    
Percent Invested 99.1%    
       
       
Top 20 Holdings at Month-End  
  (31.2% of equity portfolio)  
  (Rank from previous month)  
1 Apple, Inc. (1) 4.2%
2 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2) 2.3%
3 QUALCOMM, Inc. (3) 2.2%
4 Google, Inc., Class A (4) 2.0%
5 Wells Fargo & Co. (5) 1.5%
6 ACE Ltd. (6) 1.5%
7 Schlumberger Ltd. (7) 1.5%
8 The Allstate Corp. (8) 1.5%
9 SunTrust Banks, Inc. (9) 1.4%
10 Citigroup, Inc. (10) 1.4%
11 TE Connectivity Ltd. (13) 1.3%
12 State Street Corp. (11) 1.3%
13 Cisco Systems, Inc. (19) 1.2%
14 Chesapeake Energy Corp. (14) 1.2%
15 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (34) 1.2%
16 Visa, Inc., Class A (16) 1.1%
17 American Tower Corp., Class A (15) 1.1%
18 Devon Energy Corp. (22) 1.1%
19 Microsoft Corp. (20) 1.1%
20 MetLife, Inc. (25) 1.1%
  Holdings are subject to change.  
     
     
Sector Breakdown (% of equity portfolio)*
Information Technology 24.4%
Financials 21.1%
Energy 14.0%
Consumer Discretionary 12.0%
Health Care 9.6%
Industrials 8.1%
Consumer Staples 5.2%
Materials 2.8%
Telecommunication Services 1.7%
Utilities 1.1%
Total Market Value 100.0%
*Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).
   
   
New Holdings Holdings Liquidated - None
 KeyCorp  
 Monster Beverage Corp.  
 Starbucks Corp.  
 WPX Energy, Inc.  

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