Liberty All-Star(R) Equity Fund June 2009 Monthly Update

• Press Release
• Source: ALPS Advisors, Inc.
• On 4:41 pm EDT, Thursday July 9, 2009

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - 07/09/09) -

Below is the June 2009 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star� Equity Fund. (NYSE:USA - News)

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                           June 2009 Monthly Update


 Performance                             NAV     Market Price      Discount
 -----------                             ---     ------------      --------
     Beginning of month value           $4.40        $3.46           21.4%
     Distributions                        -            -
     End of month value                 $4.36        $3.46           20.6%
     Performance for month              (0.9%)        0.0%
     Performance year-to-date            8.0%         4.4%

     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                             $796.4
     Equities                          $780.0
     Preferred Stocks                    $3.1

     Percent Invested                   98.3%
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     Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (28.2% of portfolio)
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          (Rank from previous month)

        1 Dell, Inc. (1)          2.6%   11 The Allstate Corp. (9)     1.3%
        2 QUALCOMM, Inc. (2)      2.0%   12 Microsoft Corp. (8)        1.2%
        3 Bank of America                13 Walgreen Co. (12)          1.2%
          Corp. (3)               2.0%   14 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (10)  1.2%
        4 Cisco Systems, Inc. (6) 1.6%   15 J.C. Penney Co., Inc. (26) 1.1%
        5 Chesapeake Energy              16 Morgan Stanley (14)        1.1%
          Corp. (5)               1.5%   17 The Walt Disney Co. (17)   1.1%
        6 Visa, Inc., Class A (7) 1.5%   18 Research In Motion
        7 Magna International,              Ltd. (23)                  1.1%
          Inc., Class A (22)      1.4%   19 Google, Inc., Class A (13) 1.1%
        8 Annaly Capital                 20 Schlumberger Ltd. (20)     1.1%
          Management, Inc. (11)   1.4%
        9 Apple, Inc. (4)         1.4%
       10 Corning, Inc. (16)      1.3%

          Holdings are subject to change
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 Sector Breakdown (% of portfolio) *        New Holdings
 -----------------------------------        ------------
          Information Technology    27.3%   Fluor Corp.
          Financials                15.9%   Rockwell Automation, Inc.
          Consumer Discretionary    14.7%
          Energy                    12.5%
          Health Care               11.7%   Holdings Liquidated
          Industrials                7.1%   -------------------
          Consumer Staples           5.7%   AutoZone, Inc.
          Materials                  2.7%   iShares Russell 1000 Value
          Utilities                  2.4%    Index Fund
                               ----------   SYSCO Corp.
                                   100.0%   VeriSign, 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:
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
1-800-241-1850
www.all-starfunds.com