BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Jan 18, 2012) - Below is the December 2011 Monthly Update for the
Liberty All-Star® Equity Fund. (
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund Monthly Update Ticker: USA December 2011 Monthly Performance Performance NAV Market Price Discount --- ------------ -------- Beginning of month value $5.09 $4.31 15.3% Distributions (Ex-Date December 14) $0.08 $0.08 End of month value $4.99 $4.22 15.4% Performance for month -0.39% -0.30% Performance year-to-date -6.73% -8.09% Past performance cannot predict future results Net Assets at Month-End ($millions) Total $911.8 Equities $898.4 Percent Invested 98.5% Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (30.4% of equity portfolio) (Rank from previous month) 1 Apple, Inc. (1) 3.0% 2 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (5) 2.1% 3 QUALCOMM, Inc. (2) 2.1% 4 Cisco Systems, Inc. (3) 2.0% 5 Google, Inc., Class A (4) 2.0% 6 Wells Fargo & Co. (7) 1.9% 7 ACE Ltd. (6) 1.8% 8 Dell, Inc. (8) 1.5% 9 The Western Union Co. (10) 1.4% 10 The Allstate Corp. (11) 1.3% 11 Staples, Inc. (13) 1.3% 12 Exxon Mobil Corp. (46) 1.3% 13 BP PLC (9) 1.3% 14 Visa, Inc., Class A (12) 1.2% 15 State Street Corp. (14) 1.1% 16 Microsoft Corp. (24) 1.1% 17 American Tower Corp., Class A (16) 1.0% 18 Hewlett-Packard Co. (15) 1.0% 19 SunTrust Banks, Inc. (29) 1.0% 20 Carnival Corp. (21) 1.0% Holdings are Subject to Change Sector Breakdown (% of equity portfolio)* Information Technology 25.4% Financials 19.5% Energy 14.6% Consumer Discretionary 10.6% Health Care 8.8% Industrials 8.0% Consumer Staples 6.4% Materials 3.5% Utilities 1.8% Telecommunication Services 1.4% 100.0% *Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). New Holdings Holdings Liquidated Brown & Brown, Inc. Broadcom Corp., Class A Citrix Systems, Inc. Colgate-Palmolive Co. CSX Corp. Edison International Dollar General Corp. Expedia, Inc. General Mills, Inc. Textron, Inc. Pharmasset, Inc. Texas Instruments, Inc.
Contact Information:
Contact Information:
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
1-800-241-1850
www.all-starfunds.com