BOSTON, Sep 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Below is the August 2019 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star Growth Fund, Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203240833/composite ASG +1.43%
Liberty All-Star Growth Fund, Inc.
Ticker: ASG
Monthly Update, August, 2019
Investment Approach:
Fund Style: All-Cap Growth
Fund Strategy: Combines three growth style investment managers, each with a distinct capitalization focus (small-, mid- and large-cap) selected and continuously monitored by the Fund's Investment Advisor.
Investment Managers:
Weatherbie Capital, LLC
Small-Cap Growth
Congress Asset Management Company, LLP
Mid-Cap Growth
Sustainable Growth Advisers, LP
Large-Cap Growth
Top 20 Holdings at Month-End
(30.8% of equity portfolio)
1 FirstService Corp. 2.1%
2 Insulet Corp. 2.0%
3 Chegg, Inc. 1.9%
4 Nevro Corp. 1.8%
5 Paylocity Holding Corp. 1.8%
6 Microsoft Corp. 1.6%
7 Yum! Brands, Inc. 1.5%
8 Alphabet, Inc. 1.5%
9 salesforce.com, Inc. 1.4%
10 Casella Waste Systems, Inc. 1.4%
11 Abbott Laboratories 1.4%
12 Planet Fitness, Inc. 1.4%
13 Visa, Inc. 1.4%
14 PayPal Holdings, Inc. 1.4%
15 HEICO Corp. 1.4%
16 Autodesk, Inc. 1.4%
17 UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.4%
18 Equinix, Inc. 1.4%
19 Amazon.com, Inc. 1.3%
20 FleetCor Technologies, Inc. 1.3%
Holdings are subject to change.
Monthly Performance:
Performance NAV Market Price Discount
Beginning of month value $6.05 $5.92 -2.1%
End of month value $5.96 $5.91 -0.8%
Performance for month -1.49% -0.17%
Performance year-to-date 28.22% 43.08%
Net Assets at Month-End ($millions)
Total $223.8
Equities $221.5
Percent Invested 98.9%
Sector Breakdown (% of equity portfolio)*
Information Technology 30.6%
Health Care 19.8%
Consumer Discretionary 16.4%
Industrials 14.0%
Consumer Staples 4.3%
Real Estate 4.3%
Communication Services 4.2%
Financials 3.4%
Materials 2.8%
Energy 0.2%
Total Market Value 100.0%
*Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).
New Holdings
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
IHS Markit, Ltd.
Sun Communities, Inc.
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
Holdings Liquidated
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