SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (97.60%)
|
||||||||
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY (17.43%)
|
||||||||
Auto Components (1.06%)
|
||||||||
Johnson Controls, Inc.
|
154,000
|
$
|
7,767,760
|
|||||
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.(a)
|
48,400
|
5,074,740
|
||||||
12,842,500
|
||||||||
Automobiles (0.51%)
|
||||||||
Ford Motor Co.
|
385,900
|
6,228,426
|
||||||
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure (5.17%)
|
||||||||
Carnival Corp.
|
247,850
|
11,857,144
|
||||||
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.(a)
|
9,875
|
6,424,082
|
||||||
Marriott International, Inc., Class A
|
189,101
|
15,188,592
|
||||||
McDonald's Corp.
|
63,000
|
6,138,720
|
||||||
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
|
70,341
|
5,757,411
|
||||||
Starbucks Corp.
|
180,791
|
17,120,908
|
||||||
62,486,857
|
||||||||
Household Durables (1.96%)
|
||||||||
Lennar Corp., Class A
|
54,590
|
2,828,308
|
||||||
PulteGroup, Inc.
|
413,529
|
9,192,750
|
||||||
Taylor Morrison Home Corp., Class A(a)
|
71,159
|
1,483,665
|
||||||
Toll Brothers, Inc.(a)
|
258,677
|
10,176,353
|
||||||
23,681,076
|
||||||||
Internet & Catalog Retail (2.05%)
|
||||||||
Amazon.com, Inc.(a)
|
36,278
|
13,499,044
|
||||||
priceline.com, Inc.(a)
|
9,680
|
11,268,972
|
||||||
24,768,016
|
||||||||
Media (3.29%)
|
||||||||
CBS Corp., Class B
|
59,019
|
3,578,322
|
||||||
Comcast Corp., Class A
|
109,912
|
6,206,731
|
||||||
The Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc.
|
128,075
|
2,833,019
|
||||||
News Corp., Class A(a)
|
305,600
|
4,892,656
|
||||||
News Corp., Class B(a)
|
112,445
|
1,784,502
|
||||||
Omnicom Group, Inc.
|
93,825
|
7,316,474
|
||||||
Time Warner Cable, Inc.
|
24,956
|
3,740,405
|
||||||
The Walt Disney Co.
|
90,298
|
9,471,357
|
||||||
39,823,466
|
||||||||
Multi-Line Retail (0.75%)
|
||||||||
Dollar General Corp.(a)
|
119,789
|
9,029,695
|
||||||
Specialty Retail (1.91%)
|
||||||||
The Home Depot, Inc.
|
77,739
|
8,831,928
|
||||||
Office Depot, Inc.(a)
|
482,550
|
4,439,460
|
||||||
Staples, Inc.
|
297,632
|
4,846,937
|
SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued)
|
||||||||
Specialty Retail (continued)
|
||||||||
Tiffany & Co.
|
57,315
|
$
|
5,044,293
|
|||||
23,162,618
|
||||||||
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods (0.73%)
|
||||||||
NIKE, Inc., Class B
|
46,099
|
4,625,112
|
||||||
Under Armour, Inc., Class A(a)
|
52,800
|
4,263,600
|
||||||
8,888,712
|
||||||||
CONSUMER STAPLES (3.99%)
|
||||||||
Beverages (1.01%)
|
||||||||
Diageo PLC(b)
|
28,189
|
3,116,858
|
||||||
Monster Beverage Corp.(a)
|
24,900
|
3,446,035
|
||||||
PepsiCo, Inc.
|
60,000
|
5,737,200
|
||||||
12,300,093
|
||||||||
Food & Staples Retailing (1.14%)
|
||||||||
Costco Wholesale Corp.
|
44,775
|
6,783,189
|
||||||
CVS Health Corp.
|
68,000
|
7,018,280
|
||||||
13,801,469
|
||||||||
Food Products (0.60%)
|
||||||||
Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.
|
71,900
|
7,228,107
|
||||||
Household Products (0.59%)
|
||||||||
The Procter & Gamble Co.
|
87,500
|
7,169,750
|
||||||
Personal Products (0.65%)
|
||||||||
The Estee Lauder Cos., Inc., Class A
|
94,327
|
7,844,233
|
||||||
ENERGY (10.01%)
|
||||||||
Energy Equipment & Services (2.31%)
|
||||||||
Baker Hughes, Inc.
|
66,300
|
4,215,354
|
||||||
Schlumberger Ltd.
|
139,415
|
11,632,787
|
||||||
Weatherford International Ltd.(a)
|
988,830
|
12,162,609
|
||||||
28,010,750
|
||||||||
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (7.70%)
|
||||||||
Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
|
62,372
|
5,165,025
|
||||||
BP PLC(b)
|
244,301
|
9,554,612
|
||||||
Chesapeake Energy Corp.(c)
|
845,186
|
11,967,834
|
||||||
Chevron Corp.
|
58,000
|
6,088,840
|
||||||
ConocoPhillips
|
86,500
|
5,385,490
|
||||||
Devon Energy Corp.
|
139,559
|
8,416,803
|
||||||
EOG Resources, Inc.
|
55,601
|
5,098,056
|
||||||
Exxon Mobil Corp.
|
44,775
|
3,805,875
|
||||||
Murphy Oil Corp.
|
94,175
|
4,388,555
|
||||||
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
|
86,500
|
6,314,500
|
SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued)
|
||||||||
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (continued)
|
||||||||
Peabody Energy Corp.(c)
|
1,192,725
|
$
|
5,868,207
|
|||||
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A(b)
|
154,493
|
9,215,508
|
||||||
SM Energy Co.
|
54,844
|
2,834,338
|
||||||
WPX Energy, Inc.(a)
|
825,256
|
9,020,048
|
||||||
93,123,691
|
||||||||
FINANCIALS (27.74%)
|
||||||||
Banks (0.39%)
|
||||||||
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc.
|
539,370
|
4,768,031
|
||||||
Capital Markets (6.51%)
|
||||||||
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.(a)
|
23,772
|
5,105,750
|
||||||
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
|
33,696
|
4,408,785
|
||||||
The Charles Schwab Corp.
|
349,919
|
10,651,534
|
||||||
Franklin Resources, Inc.
|
117,500
|
6,030,100
|
||||||
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
|
34,275
|
6,442,672
|
||||||
Morgan Stanley
|
357,175
|
12,747,576
|
||||||
State Street Corp.
|
359,846
|
26,459,476
|
||||||
UBS Group AG(a)
|
370,400
|
6,952,408
|
||||||
78,798,301
|
||||||||
Commercial Banks (5.06%)
|
||||||||
Barclays PLC(b)
|
261,781
|
3,814,149
|
||||||
BB&T Corp.
|
205,000
|
7,992,950
|
||||||
Comerica, Inc.
|
55,614
|
2,509,860
|
||||||
First Republic Bank
|
101,737
|
5,808,165
|
||||||
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
|
70,666
|
6,588,898
|
||||||
Regions Financial Corp.
|
725,353
|
6,854,586
|
||||||
SunTrust Banks, Inc.
|
441,478
|
18,140,331
|
||||||
Wells Fargo & Co.
|
174,000
|
9,465,600
|
||||||
61,174,539
|
||||||||
Consumer Finance (2.41%)
|
||||||||
American Express Co.
|
46,000
|
3,593,520
|
||||||
Capital One Financial Corp.
|
101,000
|
7,960,820
|
||||||
Visa, Inc., Class A
|
268,132
|
17,538,514
|
||||||
29,092,854
|
||||||||
Diversified Financial Services (5.14%)
|
||||||||
Bank of America Corp.
|
517,200
|
7,959,708
|
||||||
Citigroup, Inc.
|
418,729
|
21,572,918
|
||||||
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
|
422,320
|
25,584,146
|
||||||
Voya Financial, Inc.
|
162,620
|
7,010,548
|
||||||
62,127,320
|
||||||||
Insurance (6.52%)
|
||||||||
ACE Ltd.
|
84,900
|
9,465,501
|
SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued)
|
||||||||
Insurance (continued)
|
||||||||
The Allstate Corp.
|
66,717
|
$
|
4,748,249
|
|||||
American International Group, Inc.
|
253,105
|
13,867,623
|
||||||
Assured Guaranty Ltd.
|
246,096
|
6,494,473
|
||||||
Axis Capital Holdings Ltd.
|
156,000
|
8,046,480
|
||||||
First American Financial Corp.
|
110,452
|
3,940,927
|
||||||
Genworth Financial, Inc., Class A(a)
|
197,100
|
1,440,801
|
||||||
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
|
238,295
|
9,965,497
|
||||||
MetLife, Inc.
|
304,725
|
15,403,849
|
||||||
Willis Group Holdings PLC
|
115,350
|
5,557,563
|
||||||
78,930,963
|
||||||||
Real Estate Investment Trusts (1.30%)
|
||||||||
American Tower Corp.
|
130,160
|
12,254,564
|
||||||
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
|
158,413
|
2,870,444
|
||||||
Paramount Group, Inc.
|
31,582
|
609,533
|
||||||
Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc., Class A
|
522
|
9,714
|
||||||
15,744,255
|
||||||||
Real Estate Management & Development (0.41%)
|
||||||||
Forest City Enterprises, Inc., Class A(a)
|
193,469
|
4,937,329
|
||||||
HEALTH CARE (12.88%)
|
||||||||
Biotechnology (3.44%)
|
||||||||
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(a)
|
71,188
|
12,336,880
|
||||||
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.(a)
|
60,545
|
7,545,118
|
||||||
Celgene Corp.(a)
|
87,530
|
10,090,458
|
||||||
Gilead Sciences, Inc.(a)
|
118,492
|
11,627,620
|
||||||
41,600,076
|
||||||||
Health Care Equipment & Supplies (1.65%)
|
||||||||
Baxter International, Inc.
|
93,875
|
6,430,438
|
||||||
Hologic, Inc.(a)
|
168,900
|
5,577,922
|
||||||
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.
|
68,000
|
7,991,360
|
||||||
19,999,720
|
||||||||
Health Care Providers & Services (2.09%)
|
||||||||
Catamaran Corp.(a)
|
159,548
|
9,499,488
|
||||||
Cigna Corp.
|
80,500
|
10,419,920
|
||||||
Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc.(a)
|
71,252
|
2,732,514
|
||||||
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings(a)
|
21,175
|
2,669,956
|
||||||
25,321,878
|
||||||||
Health Care Technology (1.54%)
|
||||||||
athenahealth, Inc.(a)(c)
|
54,000
|
6,447,060
|
||||||
Cerner Corp.(a)
|
166,668
|
12,210,098
|
||||||
18,657,158
|
SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued)
|
||||||||
Life Sciences Tools & Services (1.27%)
|
||||||||
Illumina, Inc.(a)
|
46,800
|
$
|
8,687,952
|
|||||
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
|
49,500
|
6,649,830
|
||||||
15,337,782
|
||||||||
Pharmaceuticals (2.89%)
|
||||||||
Abbott Laboratories
|
107,925
|
5,000,165
|
||||||
Actavis PLC(a)
|
22,995
|
6,843,772
|
||||||
Johnson & Johnson
|
66,500
|
6,689,900
|
||||||
Perrigo Co. PLC
|
48,365
|
8,006,826
|
||||||
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(b)
|
134,200
|
8,360,660
|
||||||
34,901,323
|
||||||||
INDUSTRIALS (4.64%)
|
||||||||
Aerospace & Defense (1.27%)
|
||||||||
The Boeing Co.
|
4,095
|
614,578
|
||||||
Bombardier, Inc., Class B
|
795,158
|
1,574,413
|
||||||
Precision Castparts Corp.
|
32,223
|
6,766,830
|
||||||
Textron, Inc.
|
144,901
|
6,423,461
|
||||||
15,379,282
|
||||||||
Building Products (0.32%)
|
||||||||
Masco Corp.
|
142,896
|
3,815,323
|
||||||
Electrical Equipment (0.72%)
|
||||||||
Eaton Corp. PLC
|
129,000
|
8,764,260
|
||||||
Machinery (1.46%)
|
||||||||
Caterpillar, Inc.
|
64,000
|
5,121,920
|
||||||
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
|
52,825
|
6,274,553
|
||||||
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
|
65,550
|
6,250,848
|
||||||
17,647,321
|
||||||||
Trading Companies & Distributors (0.55%)
|
||||||||
Fastenal Co.
|
99,492
|
4,122,451
|
||||||
HD Supply Holdings, Inc.(a)
|
81,516
|
2,539,631
|
||||||
6,662,082
|
||||||||
Transportation Infrastructure (0.32%)
|
||||||||
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, Inc.
|
271,629
|
3,903,309
|
||||||
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (20.09%)
|
||||||||
Communications Equipment (1.71%)
|
||||||||
Cisco Systems, Inc.
|
263,000
|
7,239,075
|
||||||
QUALCOMM, Inc.
|
193,900
|
13,445,026
|
||||||
20,684,101
|
||||||||
Computers & Peripherals (1.72%)
|
||||||||
Hewlett-Packard Co.
|
461,400
|
14,377,224
|
SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued)
|
||||||||
Computers & Peripherals (continued)
|
||||||||
Stratasys Ltd.(a)(c)
|
122,555
|
$
|
6,468,453
|
|||||
20,845,677
|
||||||||
Electronic Equipment & Instruments (1.16%)
|
||||||||
Avnet, Inc.
|
4,671
|
207,860
|
||||||
Corning, Inc.
|
209,425
|
4,749,759
|
||||||
TE Connectivity Ltd.
|
127,000
|
9,095,740
|
||||||
14,053,359
|
||||||||
Internet Software & Services (6.89%)
|
||||||||
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.(a)(b)
|
46,250
|
3,849,850
|
||||||
CoStar Group, Inc.(a)
|
31,459
|
6,223,534
|
||||||
Equinix, Inc.
|
33,006
|
7,685,447
|
||||||
Facebook, Inc., Class A(a)
|
233,788
|
19,220,880
|
||||||
Google, Inc., Class A(a)
|
12,340
|
6,844,998
|
||||||
Google, Inc., Class C(a)
|
23,010
|
12,609,480
|
||||||
LinkedIn Corp., Class A(a)
|
33,420
|
8,350,321
|
||||||
Mercadolibre, Inc.
|
32,076
|
3,929,952
|
||||||
Pandora Media, Inc.(a)
|
106,968
|
1,733,951
|
||||||
Rackspace Hosting, Inc.(a)
|
148,255
|
7,648,476
|
||||||
Yelp, Inc.(a)
|
110,722
|
5,242,687
|
||||||
83,339,576
|
||||||||
IT Services (0.39%)
|
||||||||
Teradata Corp.(a)
|
106,000
|
4,678,840
|
||||||
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment (1.52%)
|
||||||||
ARM Holdings PLC(b)
|
139,120
|
6,858,616
|
||||||
Intel Corp.
|
200,050
|
6,255,564
|
||||||
Micron Technology, Inc.(a)
|
193,619
|
5,252,883
|
||||||
18,367,063
|
||||||||
Software (6.65%)
|
||||||||
FireEye, Inc.(a)(c)
|
68,772
|
2,699,301
|
||||||
Microsoft Corp.
|
344,500
|
14,005,647
|
||||||
Mobileye N.V.(a)
|
161,410
|
6,784,062
|
||||||
Oracle Corp.
|
191,025
|
8,242,729
|
||||||
Salesforce.com, Inc.(a)
|
382,406
|
25,548,545
|
||||||
ServiceNow, Inc.(a)
|
115,000
|
9,059,700
|
||||||
Splunk, Inc.(a)
|
90,900
|
5,381,280
|
||||||
Symantec Corp.
|
372,712
|
8,708,416
|
||||||
80,429,680
|
||||||||
Technology Hardware & Equipment (0.05%)
|
||||||||
Apple, Inc.
|
4,891
|
608,587
|
SHARES
|
MARKET VALUE
|
|||||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued)
|
||||||||
MATERIALS (0.75%)
|
||||||||
Chemicals (0.75%)
|
||||||||
Ecolab, Inc.
|
40,578
|
$
|
4,641,312
|
|||||
EI du Pont de Nemours & Co.
|
61,800
|
4,416,846
|
||||||
9,058,158
|
||||||||
UTILITIES (0.07%)
|
||||||||
Electric Utilities (0.07%)
|
||||||||
FirstEnergy Corp.
|
22,865
|
801,647
|
||||||
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS
|
||||||||
(COST OF $933,135,282)
|
1,180,819,253
|
|||||||
PAR VALUE/ SHARES
|
||||||||
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS (4.10%)
|
||||||||
REPURCHASE AGREEMENT (2.33%)
|
||||||||
Repurchase agreement with State Street Bank & Trust Co., dated 3/31/15, due 04/01/15 at 0.01%, collateralized by Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., 3.00%, 03/15/43, market value of $28,822,730 and par value of $36,880,000. (Repurchase proceeds of $28,250,008).
|
||||||||
(COST OF $28,250,000)
|
$
|
28,250,000
|
$
|
28,250,000
|
||||
INVESTMENTS PURCHASED WITH COLLATERAL FROM SECURITIES LOANED (1.77%)
|
||||||||
State Street Navigator Securities Lending Prime Portfolio, 0.16%
|
||||||||
(COST OF $21,371,894)
|
21,371,894
|
21,371,894
|
||||||
TOTAL SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS
|
||||||||
(COST OF $49,621,894)
|
49,621,894
|
|||||||
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (101.70%)
|
||||||||
(COST OF $982,757,176)(d)
|
1,230,441,147
|
|||||||
LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS (-1.70%)
|
(20,623,940
|
)
|
||||||
NET ASSETS (100.00%)
|
$
|
1,209,817,207
|
||||||
NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE
|
||||||||
(179,951,943 SHARES OUTSTANDING)
|
$
|
6.72
|
(a)
|
Non-income producing security.
|
(b)
|
American Depositary Receipt.
|
(c)
|
Security, or a portion of the security position, is currently on loan.
|
(d)
|
Cost of investments for federal income tax purposes is $990,005,434.
|
Gross unrealized appreciation
|
$
|
296,358,886
|
||
Gross unrealized depreciation
|
(55,923,173
|
)
|
||
Net unrealized appreciation
|
$
|
240,435,713
|
Level 1 – | Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments, unrestricted assets or liabilities that a Fund has the ability to access at the measurement date; |
Level 2 – | Quoted prices which are not active, quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable (either directly or indirectly) for substantially the full term of the asset or liability; and |
Level 3 – | Significant unobservable prices or inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments) where there is little or no market activity for the asset or liability at the measurement date. |
Valuation Inputs
|
||||||||||||||||
Investments in Securities at Value*
|
Level 1
|
Level 2
|
Level 3
|
Total
|
||||||||||||
Common Stocks
|
$
|
1,180,819,253
|
$
|
–
|
$
|
–
|
$
|
1,180,819,253
|
||||||||
Short Term Investment
|
–
|
28,250,000
|
–
|
28,250,000
|
||||||||||||
Investment Purchased with Collateral from Securities Loaned
|
21,371,894
|
–
|
–
|
21,371,894
|
||||||||||||
Total
|
$
|
1,202,191,147
|
$
|
28,250,000
|
$
|
–
|
$
|
1,230,441,147
|
* | See Schedule of Investments for industry classifications. |
(a) | The registrant's Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have evaluated the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) within 90 days of this filing and have concluded that the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures were effective, as of that date. |
(b) | There was no change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) during registrant's last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting. |
LIBERTY ALL-STAR EQUITY FUND
|
|||
By:
|
/s/ William Parmentier
|
||
William Parmentier
|
|||
President (principal executive officer)
|
|||
Date:
|
May 22, 2015
|
By:
|
/s/ William Parmentier
|
||
William Parmentier
|
|||
President (principal executive officer)
|
|||
Date:
|
May 22, 2015
|
||
By:
|
/s/ Kimberly Storms
|
||
Kimberly Storms
|
|||
Treasurer (principal financial officer)
|
|||
Date:
|
May 22, 2015
|