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Liberty All-Star(R) Growth Fund, Inc. August 2012 Monthly Update


Published on 2012-09-13 07:02:13 - Market Wire
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Liberty All-Star® Growth Fund, Inc. August 2012 Monthly Update

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

       
Liberty All-Star Growth Fund     Monthly Update
Ticker: ASG     August 12
       
Monthly Performance  
Performance NAV Market Price Discount
Beginning of month value $4.34 $3.91 9.9%
Distributions (Ex-Date August 1) $0.06 $0.06  
End of month value $4.48 $4.07 9.2%
Performance for month 4.61% 5.63%  
Performance year-to-date 10.45% 12.09%  
Past performance cannot predict future results    
 
       
Net Assets at Month-End ($millions)    
Total $101.0    
Equities $99.8    
Percent Invested 98.8%    
     
Top 20 Holdings at Month-End  
  (34.4% of equity portfolio)  
  (Rank from previous month)  
1 Apple, Inc. (1) 3.4%
2 Salesforce.com, Inc. (3) 2.4%
3 ACE Ltd. (2) 2.2%
4 Oceaneering International, Inc. (4) 2.0%
5 QUALCOMM, Inc. (6) 2.0%
6 American Tower Corp., Class A (5) 1.9%
7 Core Laboratories N.V. (9) 1.9%
8 ARM Holdings PLC (8) 1.8%
9 IHS, Inc., Class A (7) 1.7%
10 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (10) 1.7%
11 Fastenal Co. (11) 1.7%
12 Signature Bank (12) 1.5%
13 Liquidity Services, Inc. (17) 1.4%
14 Precision Castparts Corp. (29) 1.4%
15 Google, Inc., Class A (16) 1.4%
16 LKQ Corp. (20) 1.2%
17 Schlumberger Ltd. (18) 1.2%
18 Allergan, Inc. (21) 1.2%
19 Baidu, Inc. (15) 1.2%
20 Amazon.com, Inc. (23) 1.2%
  Holdings are subject to change.  
 
 
Sector Breakdown (% of equity portfolio)*
 Information Technology 31.9%
 Industrials 15.5%
 Consumer Discretionary 14.0%
 Health Care 11.5%
 Financials 10.0%
 Energy 8.9%
 Materials 2.9%
 Consumer Staples 2.8%
 Telecommunication Services 1.9%
 Utilities 0.6%
 Total Market Value 100.0%
*Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).
   
  
New HoldingsHoldings Liquidated
 Roper Industries, Inc. FleetCor Technologies, Inc.
 Starbucks Corp. Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
  VCA Antech, Inc.

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