July 2009 Monthly Update
Performance NAV Market Price Discount
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Beginning of month value $4.36 $3.46 20.6%
Distributions - -
End of month value $4.70 $3.87 17.7%
Performance for month 7.8% 11.8%
Performance year-to-date 16.5% 16.7%
For daily data visit the Fund's website at www.all-starfunds.com or
call 1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using
the symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results.
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Net Assets at Month-End ($millions)
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Total $859.4
Equities $851.2
Preferred Stocks $0.7
Percent Invested 99.1%
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Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (27.9% of portfolio)
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(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
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Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) * New Holdings
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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
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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.
Contact Information: Contact Information: Liberty All-Star Equity Fund 1-800-241-1850 www.all-starfunds.com