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Summary Prospectus   September 10, 2014
LDRI  

PowerShares LadderRite 0-5 Year

Corporate Bond Portfolio

  The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

 

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Before you invest, you may wish to review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus and other information about the Fund online at www.invescopowershares.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling Invesco Distributors, Inc. at (800) 983-0903 or by sending an e-mail request to info@powershares.com. The Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated August 15, 2014 (as each may be amended or supplemented), are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

 

Investment Objective

The PowerShares LadderRite 0-5 Year Corporate Bond Portfolio (the “Fund”) seeks investment results that generally correspond (before fees and expenses) to the price and yield of the NASDAQ LadderRite® 0-5 Year USD Corporate Bond Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fund Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.

 

Annual Fund Operating Expenses       
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value
of your investment)
     
Management Fees     0.22%   
Other Expenses(1)     0.00%   
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses     0.22%   

 

(1) “Other Expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.

This example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:

 

1 Year   3 Years
$23   $71

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will cause the Fund to incur additional

transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund’s performance. At the date of this Prospectus, the Fund has not yet commenced operations and turnover data therefore is not available.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund generally will invest at least 80% of its total assets in U.S. and foreign investment grade corporate bonds that comprise the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index measures potential returns of a theoretical portfolio of fixed income securities with a yield curve based upon remaining effective terms to maturity of five years or less. Using a “laddered strategy,” The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (the “Index Provider”) includes in the Underlying Index a portfolio of bonds with short- to intermediate-term maturities, meaning that it divides the components of the Underlying Index into five equally weighted groups of bonds with staggered terms to maturity in an annual, sequential (“laddered”) structure from zero to five years.

Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, the Index Provider selects such bonds issued by companies domiciled in the U.S. and other developed countries for inclusion in the Underlying Index that: (i) are denominated in U.S. dollars; (ii) pay fixed amounts of taxable interest; (iii) are rated as “investment grade” by at least one of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“S&P”), Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or Fitch Ratings Inc. (“Fitch”) (i.e., have a grade of BBB- or higher from Fitch or S&P or of Baa3 or higher from Moody’s); (iv) have an outstanding face value of at least $500 million; and (v) have five years or less to maturity. Bonds must have an initial term to maturity of at least one year to be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. As of the date of this prospectus, the Underlying Index may include bonds from companies domiciled in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The Fund does not purchase all of the securities in the Underlying Index; instead, the Fund utilizes a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.

 

 

 

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Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund.

The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.

Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a fixed-income security resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of most fixed-income securities go down. The current historically low interest rate environment increases the risk that interest rates will again rise, which could adversely affect the Fund. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities typically are more sensitive to changes in interest rates, making them more volatile than securities with shorter maturities. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a security will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Debt instruments are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which may be reflected in credit ratings. There is a possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security.

Changing Fixed-Income Market Conditions. The current historically low interest rate environment was created in part by the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and certain foreign central banks keeping the federal funds and equivalent foreign rates at or near zero. There is a risk that interest rates will rise when the FRB and central banks raise these rates. This risk is heightened due to the potential “tapering” of the FRB’s quantitative easing program and other similar foreign central bank actions. This tapering and eventual increase in the federal funds and equivalent foreign rates may expose fixed-income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed-income investments, particularly those with longer maturities. In addition, decreases in fixed-income dealer market-making capacity may also potentially lead to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the fixed- income markets. As a result, the value of the Fund’s investments and share price may decline. Changes in central bank policies could also result in higher than normal shareholder redemptions, which could potentially increase portfolio turnover and the Fund’s transaction costs.

Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice

comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs.

Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Bond Risk. The Fund will invest in bonds with short or intermediate terms (i.e., five years or less) until maturity. The amount of time until a fixed income security matures can lead to various risks, including changes in interest rates over the life of a bond. Short-term and intermediate-term fixed income securities generally provide lower returns than longer-term fixed income securities. The average maturity of the Fund’s investments will affect the volatility of the Fund’s share price.

Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when a particular investment is difficult to purchase or sell. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities or portfolio securities become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the Fund because the Fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.

Call Risk. If interest rates fall, it is possible that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons will “call” (or prepay) their bonds before their maturity date. If an issuer exercised such a call during a period of declining interest rates, the Fund may have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, the Fund’s net investment income could fall.

Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.

Valuation Time Risk. The Fund may invest a portion of its assets in foreign bonds and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of the non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on

the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the net asset value (“NAV”) of such Shares.

Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the

 

 

 

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Shares will decline, more or less, to the same extent as any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.

Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund’s NAV.

Geographic Concentration Risk. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its total assets in securities of issuers from a specific country or geographic region. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.

Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not exactly match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. Additionally, the Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund’s portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.

Sampling Risk. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development respecting an issuer of securities held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.

Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of the Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from its Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.

Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s performance.

Issuer-Specific Changes. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Performance

The Fund has not commenced operations and therefore does not have a performance history. Once available, the Fund’s performance information will be accessible on the Fund’s website at www.invescopowershares.com and will provide some indication of the risk of investing in the Fund.

Management of the Fund

Investment Adviser. Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).

Portfolio Managers. The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:

 

Name    Title with Adviser/Trust    Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard    Vice President and Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust    Since inception
Jeffrey W. Kernagis    Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser    Since inception
Gary Jones    Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Adviser    Since inception
Richard Ose    Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Adviser    Since inception
Philip Fang    Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Adviser    Since inception

Purchase and Sale of Shares

The Fund will issue and redeem Shares at NAV only with authorized participants (“APs”) and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”), or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.

Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares will be listed for trading on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”) and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions will be taxable, generally as either ordinary income or long-term capital gains. A sale of Shares may result in capital gain or loss.

 

 

 

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