UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Item 1.  Reports to Stockholders.

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Shareholder Letter

March 31, 2008

To Our Shareholders:

Despite strong long-term net asset value (NAV) performance and growing distributions to shareholders, the market price discount to NAV for the Clough Global Equity Fund remains wide. In our opinion, this discount seems unreasonable given the total return generated by the Fund and shared with investors via distributions. We note the performance below.

·            During the 12 months ended March 31, 2008, the Fund’s total return, assuming reinvestment of all distributions, was 6.2% based on the NAV and 0.9% based on the market price. That compares to a -5.1% return for the S&P 500 for the same period.

·            Since the Fund’s inception on April 27, 2005, the total growth in net asset value assuming reinvestment of all distributions has been 40.8%, this compares to a cumulative total return of 21.5% for the S&P 500 through March 31, 2008.

·            The Fund’s compound annual return since inception is 12.5% compared to 6.9% for the S&P 500 through March 31, 2008.

·            The Fund’s quarterly distribution has increased from $0.30 per share at inception to $0.45 per share today. Total distributions since inception have been $5.84 and the shares offer a yield of 9.3%, based on market price, as of April 30, 2008.

It is our expectation that, over time, the current discounts to NAV will be reduced if the Fund continues to generate strong, positive total returns, and grow its distributions.

As of March 31, 2008, the Fund had 72% of its investments in common stocks with the balance primarily invested in yield oriented securities. Close to half the Fund’s equity investments are in companies located outside the United States. The Fund’s largest fixed income holdings were high quality, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae-backed mortgage securities and US Treasuries. Outside the US, our equity investments are concentrated primarily in Asian markets and in Brazil.

The primary investment themes represented in the Fund continue to be driven by what we have called the “globalization trade,” which consists of investments in global energy and selected materials and infrastructure suppliers.

The “globalization trade” continues to work despite universal claims in the media and elsewhere that the move up in emerging markets and commodities is both speculative, driven solely by financial flows, and bound to reverse. Will emerging markets succumb to contagion from bank issues in the US or will they respond to their own internal demand cycles? We still think the latter and have maintained investments in Taiwan, Korea, Brazil and even Russia. Conventional wisdom claims a global recession will bring an end to growth in those economies, but our research continues to suggest that rapid urbanization and the emergence of domestic consumer credit cycles are far more important.

The infrastructure needs of heavily populated and high savings rate countries like India and China are a powerful stimulant to global demand. Morgan Stanley forecasts that $21 trillion will need to be spent on infrastructure in emerging markets in the next decade, 67% of which will be spent in Asia. Similar cycles are emerging in the Middle East, Russia and Latin America. Investment in energy resources alone could amount to enormous sums

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as deep water exploration projects proliferate and new pipeline systems are built. In Asia, property inflation is just getting underway.

The financial markets are responding, rightly we think, more to the effects of China’s 45% (and rapidly rising) urbanization rate and its high savings culture than to fears of western recession. First, these equities markets traditionally fall apart during global market corrections but this time they have not. Taiwanese equities, after stagnating through much of the decade, are rallying strongly and Brazilian equities have held near their highs. Quality spreads in their bond markets are more narrow than they are for US and European markets. Some, like Taiwan and Korea, have changed from immature markets dominated by external portfolio flows to more sophisticated bourses which respond increasingly to domestic savings and investment flows that are growing by the day. It is important to note the subprime crisis is primarily a US issue. Asian and Brazilian economies are relatively unlevered, with favorable trade and budget surpluses. Growth is increasingly determined by these internal factors. We think there could be a major reassessment of P/E multiples for these markets as growth in the developed economies slows and their internal growth becomes more visible. If the United Nations’ estimate that emerging markets will account for nearly three quarters of the world’s urban population by 2015 is correct, it is worth our while to invest in that.

The one market that became egregiously overvalued is China’s domestic market, but now it has corrected nearly 50%. That may be enough if Chinese officials respond to a slowing world economy by reversing their restrictive policies. We think they may as inflation pressures ease. We have covered the bulk of our short positions in the mainland companies trading in Hong Kong. Shares in Hong Kong now sell at the same P/E multiple as US shares, despite stronger growth and strong financial and household balance sheets.

Our investments in selected materials producers are allied to the growth in the emerging world. As the global slowdown begins to affect more of the developed world, which industries will have pricing power? We think it will continue to be selectively in the commodity sector. Combined with supply limitations affecting commodities like oil, natural gas, copper and now steel, these sectors have once again become stock market leaders, even though recession fears dominate the stream of market commentary. We still think the evidence points to the fact that high prices are not eliciting new supplies because global reserves of oil, gas and other commodities are overstated and risks of sustained shortages are real. New supplies may be available, but they are harder to extract and of lower quality. In Russia and Mexico, crude oil production is declining and purported new OPEC supplies are conspicuous by their failure to emerge.

Demand for basic services like electricity, transportation, water and power should not only increase in the emerging world, but if our research is right, it will swamp the availability of new commodities supplies. It is a very legitimate question as to whether chronic shortages of basic commodities may be with us for a long time. On the agricultural front, rice shortages are already begetting “beggar thy neighbor” export restrictions. Although we doubt in some instances current elevated prices are sustainable, particularly in the grains, new higher ranges of sustained pricing compared to historic levels do appear likely.

Recently we have built exposure to North American steel producers. In the midst of a severe auto recession, North America is proving to be a great place to manufacture steel,

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particularly the structural product used in infrastructure investment. Outdated facilities have been closed and there has been meaningful consolidation globally. China’s steel consumption is rising at double digit rates, so while it used to be a major exporter of steel, higher marginal costs are restricting further exports. Imports have been responsible for at least 20% of US supplies, so as they fall off, US suppliers can price higher. Some US steel producers are integrated into iron ore and coke (coal), perhaps the two most supply restricted commodities in the world.

Energy continues to be a major area of emphasis for the Fund. It is worth nothing that exposure to crude oil is difficult to acquire on the New York Stock Exchange. The large capitalization integrated oil companies are actually short crude given their large downstream operations. There are three major securities that efficiently capture oil exposure in our view, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., Hess Corp, and Occidental Petroleum Corp., all of which are Fund holdings.

Since the negatives for the financial markets are repeated incessantly in the press, it is worth noting the silver lining that will emerge from US deleveraging. The stock of global savings should accelerate as US households cease borrowing to inflate the housing base and rebuild their depleted savings. While the US is nursing its credit wounds, many Asian and Middle Eastern economies are building huge amounts of investable resources. We may find the net stock of investable funds exceeds the supply of high return investments. Cash sitting in US money market accounts in the US alone stands at $3.5 trillion, foreign exchange reserves in China, Japan, Brazil and Russia stand at an aggregate $4 trillion. Moreover, the major US stock indexes have been declining throughout the decade. All through the decade, nominal interest rates have remained low and now they are heading lower, limiting returns from bonds. In a world of limited investment opportunity and growing liquidity, the surprise may be how well global equities do in the years ahead.

The strength we see in the emerging world contrasts sharply with weakness in the developed markets. Both US and UK consumers are heavily levered, their banking systems are shaky, home prices are falling, defaults are rising, credit is being restricted and a long period of deleveraging has begun. The bottom line is their financial sectors, which dominate their economies, are shrinking. Since growing economies require an ever increasing supply of credit, we think both economies are unlikely to expand much in real terms under such conditions.

On top of that, the Fed may be exacerbating the credit contraction in the US. By making collateralized loans more available to banks and now to broker-dealers (via so-called system repurchase agreements and Term Auction Facilities (TAFs) which essentially expand discount window advances), the Fed has provided these institutions with massive injections of short-term liquidity. While this prevents the forced selling of bad assets into a weak market, it does little to improve the strength of the borrowing institution and likely further damages its solvency. This is because in order to maintain Fed Funds at the targeted rate, the Fed has to drain a similar amount of non borrowed or free reserves from the banking system. It has simply replaced free reserves with borrowed or temporary reserves that must be paid back. This policy forces weak institutions to keep illiquid assets, be it a mortgage, home equity loan or credit card debt, on their balance sheets. These continue to deteriorate in value, further eroding capital and dragging out the crisis. When it comes time to repay or extend those borrowings, the institution will have lost even more of its capital and be less able to create new credit. Persistent weakness in financial equities reflects this dynamic.

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We suspect the Federal Reserve will ultimately reduce bank rates further, allowing financial institutions to rebuild profitability and capital via leveraging the government yield curve. Then weak assets can be repriced, markets can eventually clear and financial companies can strengthen their balance sheets.

The balance of the Fund’s equity positions consists of large capitalization US-based companies with dominant market positions and global platforms, strong balance sheets and high cash flows, such as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems. Our short hedges are still focused on weakly capitalized financial and consumer companies. Credit issues are bound to affect a number of small and mid-sized banks which have migrated from markets they know to ones they don’t and whose balance sheets will become more stressed.

The Fund continues to maintain exposures in fixed income markets, providing asset diversification and yield. The structural case for low interest rates on a global basis and a steeper yield curve in the developed financial markets remains strong. For now, we have limited exposure to US and other sovereign debt, simply because we feel returns may be modest at best from these levels. At the same time, we have witnessed sharp increases in credit spreads in virtually all fixed income markets. While there are undoubtedly opportunities that may emerge from these dislocations, we have chosen to maintain our exposure in higher quality positions from a credit risk perspective. The bond positions we have are principally thirty-year AAA Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities, which are currently offering attractive spreads to treasuries while maintaining ample liquidity during the credit market dislocations. We have also added higher yielding preferred stocks of financial institutions offering attractive income and total return in a large and liquid market.

In closing, we recently announced that we have a plan to refinance the auction market preferred stock (AMPS) that has historically been the source of the bulk of the Fund’s borrowings. We were pleased to be in position to replace those AMPS with an overnight collateralized borrowing agreement which provides the Fund with a lower cost of financing. The AMPS refinancing has begun and will continue over the course of the next few weeks.

We thank you for investing in the Clough Global Equity Fund and we invite you to visit www.cloughglobal.com for updates. If you have questions about your investment, please call 1-877-256-8445.

Sincerely,

Charles I. Clough, Jr.

Clough Capital Partners, L.P. is a Boston-based investment management firm that has approximately $3.3 billion under management. For equities, the firm uses a global and theme-based investment approach based on identifying chronic shortages and growth opportunities. For fixed-income, Clough believes changing economic fundamentals help reveal potential global credit market opportunities based primarily on flow of capital into or out of a country. Clough was founded in 2000 by Chuck Clough and partners James Canty and Eric Brock. These three are the portfolio managers for the Clough Global Equity Fund.

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PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION

March 31, 2008

* As a percentage of total investments, not including securities sold short or any foreign cash balances.

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders and Board of
Directors of Clough Global Equity Fund:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Clough Global Equity Fund (the “Fund”), including the statement of investments, as of March 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for periods presented. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of March 31, 2008, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Clough Global Equity Fund as of March 31, 2008, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for the periods presented, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Denver, Colorado
May 22, 2008

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS

March 31, 2008

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