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INVESCO International Allocation Fund
Fund Summaries - INVESCO INTERNATIONAL ALLOCATION FUND
Investment Objective(s)
The Fund’s investment objective is long-term growth of capital.
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
INVESCO International Allocation Fund
Class R5
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
INVESCO International Allocation Fund
Class R5
Management Fees none
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses 0.22%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.88%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.10%
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 $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
INVESCO International Allocation Fund Class R5
112 350 606 1,340
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 11% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
The Fund is a “fund of funds,” and invests its assets in other underlying mutual funds advised by Invesco Advisers, Inc. (Invesco and/or the Adviser) and exchange-traded funds advised by Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC (PowerShares Capital) (the underlying funds). Invesco and PowerShares Capital are affiliates of each other as they are both indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd. The Fund invests its assets in a selection of underlying funds that invest primarily in global or international securities. The underlying funds may invest a portion of their assets in securities of domestic issuers. The Fund’s target allocation is to invest 100% of its total assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities. A portion of the underlying fund’s assets may be invested in fixed-income securities.

      In complying with their investment policies, certain underlying funds may also invest in synthetic securities that have economic characteristics similar to an underlying fund’s direct investments.

      In attempting to meet their investment objectives, certain underlying funds engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities.

      The Adviser uses a three-step process to create the Fund’s portfolio including: (1) a strategic asset allocation by the Adviser among broad asset classes; (2) the actual selection by the Adviser of underlying funds to represent the broad asset classes and the determination by the Adviser of target weightings in these underlying funds; in the case where there are multiple funds in a broad asset class, the Adviser balances the amount of active risk contributed by each underlying fund in order to determine the allocation; and (3) the ongoing monitoring of the Fund’s asset class allocations, underlying funds and target weightings in the underlying funds.

      The Adviser rebalances the Fund’s investments in the underlying funds on an annual basis to keep them at their target weightings. Although the Adviser has the ability to rebalance on a more frequent basis if it believes it is appropriate to do so, the Fund’s asset class weightings may not match the above percentage weightings during a quarter due to market fluctuations, cash flows and other factors. The Adviser may change the Fund’s asset class allocations, the underlying funds or the target weightings in the underlying funds without shareholder approval. A list of the underlying funds and their target weightings is located in the Fund’s SAI.
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 risk of investing in the Fund is that the Fund’s performance depends on the performance of the multiple underlying funds in which it invests, and it is subject to the risks of the underlying funds. The underlying funds may change their investment objectives, policies or practices and may not achieve their investment objectives, which may cause the Fund to withdraw its investments therein at a disadvantageous time. The principal risks of investing in the underlying funds, and therefore the Fund, are:

      Concentration Risk. To the extent an underlying fund invests a greater amount in any one sector or industry, an underlying fund’s performance will depend to a greater extent on the overall condition of the sector or industry, and there is increased risk to an underlying fund if conditions adversely affect that sector or industry.

      Derivatives Risk. 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. An underlying fund may lose more than the cash amount invested on investments in derivatives. Investors should bear in mind that, while an underlying 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.

      Developing/Emerging Markets Securities Risk. Securities issued by foreign companies and governments located in developing/emerging countries may be affected more negatively by inflation, devaluation of their currencies, higher transaction costs, delays in settlement, adverse political developments, the introduction of capital controls, withholding taxes, nationalization of private assets, expropriation, social unrest, war or lack of timely information than those in developed countries.

      Dividend Paying Security Risk. Securities that pay high dividends as a group can fall out of favor with the market, causing such companies to underperform companies that do not pay high dividends. Also changes in the dividend policies of the companies in the Underlying Index and the capital resources available for such companies’ dividend payments may affect the Fund.

      Exchange-Traded Funds Risk. An investment by the Fund or underlying fund in exchange-traded funds generally presents the same primary risks as an investment in a mutual fund. In addition, an exchange-traded fund may be subject to the following: (1) a discount of the exchange-traded fund’s shares to its net asset value; (2) failure to develop an active trading market for the exchange-traded fund’s shares; (3) the listing exchange halting trading of the exchange-traded fund’s shares; (4) failure of the exchange-traded fund’s shares to track the referenced index; and (5) holding troubled securities in the referenced index. Exchange-traded funds may involve duplication of management fees and certain other expenses, as the Fund or underlying fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of any expenses paid by the exchange-traded funds in which it invests. Further, certain of the exchange-traded funds in which the Fund or underlying fund may invest are leveraged. The more the Fund or underlying fund invests in such leveraged exchange-traded funds, the more this leverage will magnify any losses on those investments.

      Financial Services Sector Risk. The financial services sector is subject to extensive government regulation, which may change frequently. In addition, the profitability of businesses in the financial services sector depends on the availability and cost of money and may fluctuate significantly in response to changes in government regulation, interest rates and general economic conditions. Businesses in the financial sector often operate with substantial financial leverage.

      Foreign Securities Risk. An underlying fund’s foreign investments may be affected by changes in a foreign country’s exchange rates, political and social instability, changes in economic or taxation policies, difficulties when enforcing obligations, decreased liquidity, and increased volatility. Foreign companies may be subject to less regulation resulting in less publicly available information about the companies.

      Fund of Funds Risk. The Fund’s performance depends on the underlying funds in which it invests, and it is subject to the risks of the underlying funds. Market fluctuations may change the target weightings in the underlying funds. The underlying funds may change their investment objectives, policies or practices and may not achieve their investment objectives, all of which may cause the Fund to withdraw its investments therein at a disadvantageous time.

      Geographic Concentration Risk. Because certain underlying funds emphasize investments in issuers in the developed countries of Western Europe, the Pacific Basin and Japan, these underlying funds’ performance is expected to be closely tied to social, political and economic conditions within countries in those regions and to be more volatile than the performance of more geographically diversified funds.

      Growth Investing Risk. Growth stocks tend to be more expensive relative to their earnings or assets compared with other types of stock. As a result they tend to be more sensitive to changes in their earnings and can be more volatile.

      Indexing Risk. Unlike many investment companies, an underlying fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of the underlying index of certain underlying exchange-traded funds. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell a security unless that security is removed from the underlying index.

      Investing in the European Union Risk. Many countries in the European Union are susceptible to high economic risks associated with high levels of debt, notably due to investments in sovereign debts of European countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain. One or more member states might exit the European Union, placing its currency and banking system in jeopardy. The European Union faces major issues involving its membership, structure, procedures and policies, including the adoption, abandonment or adjustment of the new constitutional treaty, the European Union’s enlargement to the south and east, and resolution of the European Union’s problematic fiscal and democratic accountability. Efforts of the member states to further unify their economic and monetary policies may increase the potential for the downward movement of one member state’s market to cause a similar effect on other member states’ markets. European countries that are part of the European Economic and Monetary Union may be significantly affected by the tight fiscal and monetary controls that the union seeks to impose on its members.

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

      Management Risk. The investment techniques and risk analysis used by the Fund’s and the underlying funds’ portfolio managers may not produce the desired results.

      Market Risk. The prices of and the income generated by the underlying funds’ securities may decline in response to, among other things, investor sentiment, general economic and market conditions, regional or global instability, and currency and interest rate fluctuations.

      Market Trading Risk. Risk is inherent in all investing. An investment in an underlying fund involves risks similar to those of investing in any underlying fund of equity or fixed-income securities traded on exchanges. You should anticipate that the value of the shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the underlying index of certain underlying exchange-traded funds.

      Non-Correlation Risk. An underlying fund’s return may not match the return of the underlying index of certain underlying exchange-traded funds for a number of reasons. For example, an underlying fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the underlying index of certain exchange-traded funds, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing an underlying fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the underlying index of certain underlying exchange-traded funds. In addition, the performance of an underlying fund and the underlying index of certain underlying exchange-traded funds may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between an underlying fund’s portfolio and the underlying index of certain underlying exchange-traded funds resulting from legal restrictions, cost or liquidity constraints.

      Non-Diversification Risk. Certain of the underlying funds are non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of their assets in a single issuer. A change in the value of the issuer could affect the value of an underlying fund more than if it was a diversified fund.

      Small- and Mid-Capitalization Risks. Stocks of small and mid-sized companies tend to be more vulnerable to adverse developments and may have little or no operating history or track record of success, and limited product lines, markets, management and financial resources. The securities of small and mid-sized companies may be more volatile due to less market interest and less publicly available information about the issuer. They also may be illiquid or restricted as to resale, or may trade less frequently and in smaller volumes, all of which may cause difficulty when establishing or closing a position at a desirable price.

      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.
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/style specific benchmark and a peer group benchmark comprised of funds with investment objectives and strategies similar to those of the Fund. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of its future performance. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s Web site at www.invesco.com/us.
Annual Total Returns
Bar Chart
Class R5 shares year-to-date (ended June 30, 2012): 1.76%
Best Quarter (ended June 30, 2009): 26.07%
Worst Quarter (ended December 31, 2008): -23.26%
Average Annual Total Returns (for the periods ended December 31, 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns INVESCO International Allocation Fund
1 Year
5 Years
Since Inception
Inception Date
Class R5 shares:
(8.34%) (2.42%) 3.13% Oct. 31, 2005
Class R5 shares: Return After Taxes on Distributions
(8.63%) (3.14%) 2.33% Oct. 31, 2005
Class R5 shares: Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
(5.06%) (2.12%) 2.54% Oct. 31, 2005
MSCI AC World Ex-US Index
[1] (13.71%) (2.92%) 2.76%  
MSCI EAFE Index
[1] (12.14%) (4.72%) 1.01%  
Lipper International Multi-Cap Core Funds Index
(11.97%) (2.70%) 2.47%  
[1] The Fund has elected to use the MSCI AC World Ex-US Index rather than the MSCI EAFE Index as its broad-based securities market/style specific benchmark because the MSCI AC World Ex-US Index more appropriately reflects the Fund's investment style.
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 arrangement, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.