Below is the April 2008 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (
April 2008 Monthly Update
Premium /
Performance NAV Market Price (Discount)
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Beginning of month value $7.06 $6.39 (9.5%)
Distributions - -
End of month value $7.45 $6.74 (9.5%)
Performance for month 5.5% 5.5%
Performance year-to-date (5.2%) (1.6%)
For daily data visit the Fund's website at www.all-starfunds.com or call
1-800-241-1850. The Fund's daily NAV is also available by using the
symbol XUSAX. Past performance cannot predict future results.
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Net Assets at Month-End ($millions)
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Total $1,330.6
Equities $1,278.0
Preferred Stocks & Convertible
Bonds $7.2
Percent Invested 96.6%
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Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (28.6% of portfolio)
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(Rank from previous month)
1 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1) 2.3% 11 Morgan Stanley (13) 1.4%
2 Freddie Mac (2) 2.0% 12 Schlumberger Ltd. (8) 1.3%
3 Citigroup, Inc. (6) 1.8% 13 Dell, Inc. (11) 1.3%
4 Arch Coal, Inc. (10) 1.6% 14 Consol Energy, Inc. (22) 1.3%
5 Fannie Mae (5) 1.5% 15 Google, Inc., Class A (17) 1.2%
6 Annaly Capital 1.4% 16 Bank of America Corp. (15) 1.2%
Management, Inc. (12) 17 Amazon.com, Inc. (19) 1.2%
7 Devon Energy Corp. (7) 1.4% 18 QUALCOMM, Inc. (18) 1.2%
8 Johnson & Johnson (9) 1.4% 19 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (23) 1.2%
9 Genzyme Corp. (4) 1.4% 20 Navistar International 1.1%
10 General Electric Co. (3) 1.4% Corp. (20)
Holdings are subject to change
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Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) * New Holdings
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Financials 23.0% Accenture Ltd., Class A
Information Technology 18.8% Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Health Care 13.3% China Mobile Ltd.
Consumer Discretionary 12.3% Corning, Inc.
Industrials 10.9% Costco Wholesale Corp.
Energy 10.2% Kohl's Corp.
Consumer Staples 6.7% Procter & Gamble Co.
Materials 1.7% Southwest Airlines Co.
Utilities 1.8% Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.
Telecommunication 1.3%
Services
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100.0%
Holdings Liquidated
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Best Buy Co., Inc.
Honeywell International, Inc.
Legg Mason, Inc.
PepsiCo, Inc.
SanDisk Corp.
Schering-Plough Corp.
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Sprint Nextel Corp.
State Street Corp.
United Technologies Corp.
* 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: For Information Contact: Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund 1-800-241-1850 www.all-starfunds.com