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United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C.  20549

Form N-Q
Quarterly Schedule of Portfolio Holdings of Registered Management Investment Companies




811-1704

(Investment Company Act File Number)



Federated American Leaders Fund, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)



Federated Investors Funds
4000 Ericsson Drive
Warrendale, PA 15086-7561
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)


(412) 288-1900
(Registrant's Telephone Number)


John W. McGonigle, Esquire
Federated Investors Tower
1001 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3779
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(Notices should be sent to the Agent for Service)






Date of Fiscal Year End:  3/31/10


Date of Reporting Period:  Quarter ended 6/30/09







Item 1.                      Schedule of Investments
 


Federated American Leaders Fund, Inc.
 
Portfolio of Investments
 
June 30, 2009 (unaudited)
 
 
Shares
       
Value
     
COMMON STOCKS--97.5%
     
     
Consumer Discretionary--9.3%
     
 
603,915
 
Block (H&R), Inc.
 
$
10,405,455
 
199,710
 
McDonald's Corp.
   
11,481,328
 
816,000
 
Regal Entertainment Group
   
10,844,640
 
532,496
 
Time Warner, Inc.
   
13,413,574
 
534,900
1
Walt Disney Co.
   
12,479,217
     
TOTAL
   
58,624,214
     
Consumer Staples--10.5%
     
 
501,200
 
Altria Group, Inc.
   
8,214,668
 
406,515
 
H.J. Heinz Co.
   
14,512,586
 
288,820
 
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
   
15,142,833
 
487,230
 
Kraft Foods, Inc., Class A
   
12,346,408
 
149,300
 
Philip Morris International, Inc.
   
6,512,466
 
247,100
 
Reynolds American, Inc.
   
9,543,002
     
TOTAL
   
66,271,963
     
Energy--14.3%
     
 
410,515
 
Chevron Corp.
   
27,196,619
 
441,630
 
ConocoPhillips
   
18,574,958
 
370,900
 
Exxon Mobil Corp.
   
25,929,619
 
156,800
 
Hess Corp.
   
8,428,000
 
156,525
 
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
   
10,300,910
     
TOTAL
   
90,430,106
     
Financials--21.5%
     
 
294,100
1
AON Corp.
   
11,137,567
 
202,665
 
Ace Ltd.
   
8,963,873
 
387,600
 
Aflac, Inc.
   
12,050,484
 
680,745
 
BB&T Corp.
   
14,962,775
 
562,450
 
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
   
16,485,410
 
770,455
 
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
   
26,280,220
 
585,100
 
Loews Corp.
   
16,031,740
 
575,415
 
U.S. Bancorp
   
10,311,437
 
824,095
 
Wells Fargo & Co.
   
19,992,545
     
TOTAL
   
136,216,051
     
Health Care--12.9%
     
 
302,200
 
Abbott Laboratories
   
14,215,488
 
731,200
 
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
   
14,850,672
 
463,400
 
Covidien PLC
   
17,349,696
 
405,800
 
Johnson & Johnson
   
23,049,440
 
835,905
 
Pfizer, Inc.
   
12,538,575
     
TOTAL
   
82,003,871
     
Industrials--6.6%
     
 
195,600
 
3M Co.
   
11,755,560
 
828,550
 
General Electric Co.
   
9,710,606
 
149,470
 
Lockheed Martin Corp.
   
12,054,756
 
186,500
 
Northrop Grumman Corp.
   
8,519,320
     
TOTAL
   
42,040,242
     
Information Technology--6.7%
     
 
384,860
 
Hewlett-Packard Co.
   
14,874,839
 
173,800
 
IBM Corp.
   
18,148,196
 
654,230
1
Nokia Oyj, Class A, ADR
   
9,538,673
     
TOTAL
   
42,561,708
     
Materials--4.3%
     
 
287,470
 
Ball Corp.
   
12,982,145
 
214,000
 
Du Pont (E.I.) de Nemours & Co.
   
5,482,680
 
200,700
 
PPG Industries, Inc.
   
8,810,730
     
TOTAL
   
27,275,555
     
Telecommunication Services--4.0%
     
 
496,510
 
AT&T, Inc.
   
12,333,308
 
423,787
 
Verizon Communications, Inc.
   
13,022,975
     
TOTAL
   
25,356,283
     
Utilities--7.4%
     
 
1,189,200
 
Duke Energy Corp.
   
17,350,428
 
278,245
 
Exelon Corp.
   
14,248,926
 
500,615
1
Southern Co.
   
15,599,163
     
TOTAL
   
47,198,517
     
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS
(IDENTIFIED COST $762,019,697)
   
617,978,510
     
MUTUAL FUND—6.6%
     
 
41,755,144
2,3,4
Prime Value Obligations Fund, Institutional Shares, 0.72% (AT NET ASSET VALUE)
   
41,755,144
     
TOTAL INVESTMENTS—104.1%
(IDENTIFIED COST $803,774,841)5
   
659,733,654
     
OTHER ASSETS AND LIABILITIES – NET-(4.1)%6
   
(25,798,285)
     
TOTAL NET ASSETS—100%
 
$
633,935,369

1
All or a portion of these securities are temporarily on loan to unaffiliated broker/dealers.
 
As of June 30, 2009, securities subject to this type of arrangement and related collateral were as follows:
 
Market Value of Securities Loaned
Market Value of Collateral
 
$22,934,709
$24,705,663
2
Affiliated company.
3
7-Day net yield.
4
All or a portion of this security is held as collateral for securities lending.
5
At June 30, 2009, the cost of investments for federal tax purposes was $803,774,841. The net unrealized depreciation of investments for federal tax purposes was $144,041,187. This consists of net unrealized appreciation from investments for those securities having an excess of value over cost of $11,431,657 and net unrealized depreciation from investments for those securities having an excess of cost over value of $155,472,844.
6
Assets, other than investments in securities, less liabilities.

 
Note:        The categories of investments are shown as a percentage of total net assets at June 30, 2009.

Investment Valuation
In calculating its net asset value (NAV), the Fund generally values investments as follows:
·  
Equity securities listed on an exchange or traded through a regulated market system are valued at their last reported sale price or official closing price on their principal exchange or market.
·  
Shares of other mutual funds are valued based upon their reported NAVs.
·  
Fixed-income securities acquired with remaining maturities greater than 60 days are fair valued using price evaluations provided by a pricing service approved by the Board of Directors (the “Directors”).
·  
Fixed-income securities acquired with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are valued at their cost (adjusted for the accretion of any discount or amortization of any premium).
·  
Derivative contracts listed on exchanges are valued at their reported settlement or closing price.
·  
Over-the-counter (OTC) derivative contracts are fair valued using price evaluations provided by a pricing service approved by the Directors.
If the Fund cannot obtain a price or price evaluation from a pricing service for an investment, the Fund may attempt to value the investment based upon the mean of bid and asked quotations or fair value the investment based on price evaluations, from one or more dealers. If any price, quotation, price evaluation or other pricing source is not readily available when the NAV is calculated, the Fund uses the fair value of the investment determined in accordance with the procedures described below. There can be no assurance that the Fund could purchase or sell an investment at the price used to calculate the Fund’s NAV.

Fair Valuation and Significant Events Procedures
The Directors have authorized the use of pricing services to provide evaluations of the current fair value of certain investments for purposes of calculating the NAV. Factors considered by pricing services in evaluating an investment include the yields or prices of investments of comparable quality, coupon, maturity, call rights and other potential prepayments, terms and type, reported transactions, indications as to values from dealers and general market conditions. Some pricing services provide a single price evaluation reflecting the bid-side of the market for an investment (a “bid” evaluation). Other pricing services offer both bid evaluations and price evaluations indicative of a price between the prices bid and asked for the investment (a “mid” evaluation). The Fund normally uses bid evaluations for U.S. Treasury and Agency securities.
The Fund normally uses mid evaluations for other types of fixed-income securities and OTC derivative contracts. In the event that market quotations and price evaluations are not available for an investment, the fair value of the investment is determined in accordance with procedures adopted by the Directors.

The Directors also have adopted procedures requiring an investment to be priced at its fair value whenever the Adviser determines that a significant event affecting the value of the investment has occurred between the time as of which the price of the investment would otherwise be determined and the time as of which the NAV is computed. An event is considered significant if there is both an affirmative expectation that the investment’s value will change in response to the event and a reasonable basis for quantifying the resulting change in value. Examples of significant events that may occur after the close of the principal market on which a security is traded, or after the time of a price evaluation provided by a pricing service or a dealer, include:
·  
With respect to securities traded in foreign markets, significant trends in U.S. equity markets or in the trading of foreign securities index futures or options contracts.
·  
With respect to price evaluations of fixed-income securities determined before the close of regular trading on the NYSE, actions by the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee and other significant trends in U.S. fixed-income markets;
·  
Political or other developments affecting the economy or markets in which an issuer conducts its operations or its securities are traded; and
·  
Announcements concerning matters such as acquisitions, recapitalizations, litigation developments, a natural disaster affecting the issuer’s operations or regulatory changes or market developments affecting the issuer’s industry.
The Directors have approved the use of a pricing service to determine the fair value of equity securities traded principally in foreign markets when the Adviser determines that there has been a significant trend in the U.S. equity markets or in index futures trading. For other significant events, the Fund may seek to obtain more current quotations or price evaluations from alternative pricing sources. If a reliable alternative pricing source is not available, the Fund will determine the fair value of the investment using another method approved by the Directors.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2009, in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value:

 
Valuation Inputs
 
Level 1 –
Quoted Prices and
Investments in
Mutual Funds
 
Level 2 –
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
 
Level 3 –
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
 
 
 
 
Total
Equity Securities
       
    Domestic
$595,079,114
$---
$---
$595,079,114
    International
 22,899,396
 ---
 ---
22,899,396
Mutual Fund
 41,755,144
 ---
 ---
41,755,144
Total Securities
$659,733,654
$---
$---
$659,733,654


The following acronym is used throughout this portfolio:
 
ADR
--American Depositary Receipt



 
Item 2.                      Controls and Procedures

(a) The registrant’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in rule 30a-3(c) under the Act) are effective in design and operation and are sufficient to form the basis of the certifications required by Rule 30a-(2) under the Act, based on their evaluation of these disclosure controls and procedures within 90 days of the filing date of this report on Form N-Q.

(b) There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in rule 30a-3(d) under the Act) during the last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 3.                                Exhibits

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Registrant
Federated American Leaders Fund, Inc.
   
By
/S/ Richard A. Novak
 
Richard A. Novak
 
Principal Financial Officer
Date
August 20, 2009
   
   
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
   
By
/S/ J. Christopher Donahue
 
J. Christopher Donahue
 
Principal Executive Officer
Date
August 20, 2009
   
   
By
/S/ Richard A. Novak
 
Richard A. Novak
 
Principal Financial Officer
Date
August 20, 2009