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Institutional Class Prospectus | Invesco Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund
Fund Summary - Invesco Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund - Class Institutional
Investment Objective(s)
The Fund’s investment objective is to provide a high level of current income, with liquidity and safety of principal.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees -
Institutional Class Prospectus
Invesco Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund
Class Institutional
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is less) none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses -
Institutional Class Prospectus
Invesco Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund
Class Institutional
Management Fees 0.47%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses 0.16%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.63%
Example.
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem 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. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - (USD $)
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Institutional Class Prospectus Invesco Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund Class Institutional
64 202 351 786
Portfolio Turnover.
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 395% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal market conditions, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (the “Adviser”), the Fund’s investment adviser, seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment objective by investing at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in mortgage-backed securities of any maturity or type guaranteed by, or secured by collateral that is guaranteed by, the U.S. government, its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored corporations (a “Federal Agency”), and in mortgage-backed securities privately issued in the United States. In complying with the 80% investment requirement, the Fund may include synthetic securities that have economic characteristics similar to the Fund’s direct investments that are counted toward the 80% investment requirement.

Generally, mortgage-backed securities consist of government mortgage pass-through securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, multiclass pass-through securities, private mortgage pass-through securities, stripped mortgage securities and inverse floaters.

In attempting to meet its investment objective, the Fund engages in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities.

The portfolio managers utilize an appropriate benchmark index in structuring the portfolio. The portfolio managers then decide on risk factors to use in managing the Fund relative to that benchmark. In doing so, the portfolio managers consider recommendations from a team of independent specialists in positioning the Fund to generate alpha (specific factors affecting the return on investments in excess of the benchmark). The portfolio managers generally rely upon a different team of specialists for trade execution and for assistance in determining the most efficient way (in terms of cost-efficiency and selection) to implement those recommendations. Although a variety of specialists provide input in the management of the Fund, the portfolio managers retain responsibility for ensuring the Fund is positioned appropriately in terms of risk exposures and position sizes. The portfolio managers rely on the specialists for adjusting the Fund’s risk exposures and security selection. Decisions to purchase or sell securities will typically depend on economic fundamentals, credit-related fundamentals, market supply and demand dynamics, market dislocations, and situation-specific opportunities. The purchase and sale of securities may be related to a decision to alter the Fund’s macro risk exposure (e.g., duration, yield, curve positioning, sector exposure), need to limit or reduce the Fund’s exposure to a particular security or issuer, degradation of an issuer’s credit quality, or general liquidity needs of the Fund.

The Fund may purchase and sell securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis. The Fund may borrow money for investment purposes. The Fund can invest in derivatives, including interest rate futures. The Fund uses interest rate futures to manage unwanted yield curve and aggregate duration exposures created by other investment decisions. These instruments may also be used to replicate cash investment strategies more efficiently. An interest rate futures contract is an exchange-traded contract in which the specified underlying security is either and interest-bearing fixed income security or an inter-bank deposit. Interest rate futures are based off an underlying security which is a debt obligation and moves in value as interest rates change.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
As with any mutual fund investment, loss of money is a risk of investing. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency. The risks associated with an investment in the Fund can increase during times of significant market volatility. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are:

Synthetic Securities Risk. Fluctuations in the values of synthetic securities may not correlate perfectly with the instruments they are designed to replicate. Synthetic securities may be subject to interest rate changes, market price fluctuations, counterparty risk and liquidity risk.

Active Trading Risk. The Fund engages in frequent trading of portfolio securities. Active trading results in added expenses and may result in a lower return and increased tax liability.

Market Risk. Market risk is the possibility that the market values of securities owned by the Fund will decline. The prices of debt securities tend to fall as interest rates rise, and such declines tend to be greater among debt securities with longer maturities or longer durations. The yields and market prices of U.S. government securities may move differently and adversely compared to the yields and market prices of the overall debt securities markets. U.S. government securities, while backed by the U.S. government, are not guaranteed against declines in their market prices.

Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk. The Fund may invest in mortgage- and asset-backed securities that are subject to prepayment or call risk, which is the risk that the borrower’s payments may be received earlier or later than expected due to changes in prepayment rates on underlying loans. Faster prepayments often happen when interest rates are falling. As a result, the Fund may reinvest these early payments at lower interest rates, thereby reducing the Fund’s income. Conversely, when interest rates rise, prepayments may happen more slowly, causing the security to lengthen in duration. Longer duration securities tend to be more volatile. Securities may be prepaid at a price less than the original purchase value. An unexpectedly high rate of defaults on the mortgages held by a mortgage pool may adversely affect the value of mortgage-backed securities and could result in losses to the Fund. The risk of such defaults is generally higher in the case of mortgage pools that include subprime mortgages. Subprime mortgages refer to loans made to borrowers with weakened credit histories or with lower capacity to make timely payments on their mortgages.

Credit Risk. Credit risk refers to an issuer’s ability to make timely payments of interest and principal. Credit risk should be low for the Fund because it invests primarily in obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities.

Income Risk. The income you receive from the Fund is based primarily on interest rates, which can vary widely over the short-and long-term. If interest rates drop, your income from the Fund may drop as well. The more the Fund invests in adjustable, variable or floating rate securities or in securities susceptible to prepayment risk, the greater the Fund’s income risk.

Prepayment Risk. If interest rates fall, the principal on debt securities held by the Fund may be paid earlier than expected. If this happens, the proceeds from a prepaid security would likely be reinvested by the Fund in securities bearing the new, lower interest rates, resulting in a possible decline in the Fund’s income and distributions to shareholders.

Extension Risk. The prices of debt securities tend to fall as interest rates rise. For mortgage-backed securities, if interest rates rise, borrowers may prepay mortgages more slowly than originally expected. This may further reduce the market value of the securities and lengthen their durations.

Derivative Instruments. The performance of derivative instruments is tied to the performance of an underlying currency, security, index or other instrument. In addition to risks relating to their underlying instruments, the use of derivatives may include other, possibly greater, risks. Derivatives involve costs, may be volatile, and may involve a small initial investment relative to the risk assumed. Risks associated with the use of derivatives include counterparty, leverage, correlation, liquidity, tax, market, interest rate and management risks. Derivatives may also be more difficult to purchase, sell or value than other investments. The Fund may lose more than the cash amount invested on investments in derivatives. Investors should bear in mind that, while the Fund intends to use derivative strategies, it is not obligated to actively engage in these transactions, generally or in any particular kind of derivative, if the investment manager elects not to do so due to availability, cost, market conditions or other factors.

Borrowing Risks. The Fund may borrow money for investment purposes, which is known as leverage. The Fund may use leverage to seek to enhance income to shareholders, but the use of leverage creates the likelihood of greater volatility in the net asset value of the Fund’s shares. To the extent that income from investments made with such borrowed money exceeds the interest payable and other expenses of the leverage, the Fund’s net income will be less than if the Fund did not use. The Fund’s use of leverage also may impair the ability of the Fund to maintain its qualification for federal income tax purposes as a regulated investment company.

U.S. Government Obligations Risk. The Fund may invest in obligations issued by U.S. Government agencies and instrumentalities that may receive varying levels of support from the government, which could affect the Fund’s ability to recover should they default.

Performance Information

The bar chart and performance table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the performance of the Fund from year to year as of December 31. The performance table compares the Fund’s performance to that of a broad-based securities market benchmark and a style specific benchmark. The Fund’s and Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund’s (the predecessor fund’s) past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of its future performance.

The returns shown prior to June 1, 2010 are those of the Class A shares of the predecessor fund. The predecessor fund was advised by Van Kampen Asset Management. Institutional Class shares’ returns of the Fund will be different from the predecessor fund as they have different expenses.

Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s Web site at www.invesco.com/us.

Annual Total Returns
Bar Chart
Institutional Class year-to-date (ended March 31, 2012): 1.69%

Best Quarter (ended June 30, 2011): 1.61%

Worst Quarter (ended March 31, 2011): 0.98%
Average Annual Total Returns (for the periods ended December 31, 2011)

Average Annual Total Returns - Institutional Class Prospectus Invesco Van Kampen U.S. Mortgage Fund
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Inception Date
Institutional Class shares:
[1] 5.38% 4.40% 4.14% Jun. 01, 2010
Return After Taxes on Distributions Institutional Class shares:
[1] 3.44% 2.66% 2.30% Jun. 01, 2010
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Institutional Class shares:
[1] 3.47% 2.72% 2.43% Jun. 01, 2010
Bank of America Merrill Lynch 1-10 year Treasury Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)
6.76% 6.06% 4.84%  
Barclays US Mortgage-Backed Securities Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)
6.23% 6.54% 5.69%  
[1] Institutional Class shares performance shown prior to the inception date is that of the predecessor fund's Class A shares and includes the 12b-1 fees applicable to Class A shares. The inception date of the predecessor fund's Class A shares is May 31, 1984.
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.