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Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodity Strategy Fund
Fund Summaries - INVESCO BALANCED-RISK COMMODITY STRATEGY FUND
Investment Objective(s)
The Fund’s investment objective is to provide total return.
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. Fees and expenses of Invesco Cayman Commodity Fund III Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (Subsidiary), are included in the table.
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodity Strategy Fund
Class R5
Class R6
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) none none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is less) none 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 Balanced-Risk Commodity Strategy Fund
Class R5
Class R6
Management Fees 1.05% 1.05%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none none
Other Expenses [1] 0.16% 0.16%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.01% 0.01%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses [1] 1.22% 1.22%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement [2] 0.24% 0.24%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 0.98% 0.98%
[1] "Other Expenses" and "Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses" for Class R6 are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] Invesco Advisers, Inc. (Invesco or the Adviser) has contractually agreed, through at least February 28, 2013 to waive advisory fees and/or reimburse expenses to the extent necessary to limit Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement (excluding certain items discussed in the SAI) of each of Class R5 and Class R6 shares to 0.97% of average daily net assets. Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are also excluded in determining such obligation. Unless the Board of Trustees and Invesco mutually agree to amend or continue the fee waiver agreement, it will terminate on February 28, 2013.
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 Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodity Strategy Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class R5
100 363 647 1,456
Class R6
100 363 647 1,456
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 period November 30, 2010 to October 31, 2011 the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 0% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
The Fund invests, under normal conditions, in derivatives and other commodity-linked instruments whose performance is expected to correspond to the performance of the underlying commodity, without investing directly in physical commodities. Commodities are assets that have tangible properties, such as oil, metals, and agricultural products. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in derivatives and other commodity-linked instruments that provide exposure to the following four sectors of the commodities markets: agricultural, energy, industrial metals and precious metals.

      The Fund primarily will invest in the Subsidiary, commodity-based exchange-traded funds, commodity-linked notes and cash and cash equivalents. Commodity-linked notes generally pay a return linked to the performance of a commodities index or basket of futures contracts with respect to all of the commodities in an index. In some cases, the return will be based on a multiple of the performance of the index, and this embedded leverage will magnify the positive and negative return the Fund earns from these notes as compared to the index. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary.

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

The Fund invests in the Subsidiary in order to gain additional exposure to commodities. The Subsidiary, in turn, will invest in commodity-linked derivatives such as futures, swap agreements and in other commodity-linked instruments. In order to gain additional exposure to commodities, the Fund may also invest directly in futures, swaps and commodity-linked notes.

      The Fund will generally maintain in the range of 40% to 70% of its total assets (including assets invested in the Subsidiary) in cash and cash equivalent instruments including affiliated money market funds. Some of the cash holdings will serve as margin or collateral for the Fund’s obligations under derivative transactions. The larger the value of the Fund’s derivative positions, as opposed to positions held in non-derivative type instruments, the more the Fund will be required to maintain cash and cash equivalents as margin or collateral for such derivatives. The Fund’s investments in derivatives may create significant leveraged exposure to certain commodities. Leverage occurs when the investments in derivatives create greater economic exposure than the amount invested. This means that the Fund could lose more than originally invested in the derivative.

      The Subsidiary is advised by Invesco and has the same investment objective as the Fund and generally employs the same investment strategy. The Subsidiary, unlike the Fund, may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivatives and other securities that may provide leveraged and non-leveraged exposure to commodities. The Subsidiary also may hold cash and invest in cash equivalent instruments, including affiliated money market funds, some of which may serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary’s derivative positions. The Fund will be subject to the risks associated with any investment by the Subsidiary to the extent of the Fund’s investment in the Subsidiary.

      The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in any one issuer than a diversified fund can.

      Relative to index-based commodity funds that are passively managed, the Fund will seek to provide greater capital loss protection during down markets using the portfolio management team’s active three-step investment process.

      This three step investment process involves (1) selecting representative commodity assets to gain exposure to the agriculture, energy, industrial metals, and precious metals sectors; (2) estimating the risk correlation of the selected commodity assets to create a potential portfolio of investments; and (3) actively positioning the Fund’s commodity positions to reflect the near-term market environment, while remaining consistent with the balanced-risk long-term portfolio structure described above. The management team balances the opportunity for excess return from active positioning and the need to maintain commodity asset class exposure by setting controlled tactical ranges around the long-term commodity asset allocation.

      When executing the investment process described above, the portfolio managers may purchase commodity-linked derivative instruments, such as futures and/or swap contracts on different types of commodity assets. The portfolio managers purchase these commodity-linked derivatives to obtain both long and short commodity positions, in order to actively balance the risk associated with different types of commodity assets and sectors.
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:

      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.

      Commodity-Linked Notes Risk. The Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s investments in commodity-linked notes may involve substantial risks, including risk of loss of a significant portion of their principal value. In addition to risks associated with the underlying commodities, they may be subject to additional special risks, such as the lack of a secondary trading market and temporary price distortions due to speculators and/or the continuous rolling over of futures contracts underlying the notes. Commodity-linked notes are also subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party to the contract will not fulfill its contractual obligation to complete the transaction with the Fund or the Subsidiary.

      Commodity Risk. The Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s significant investment exposure to the commodities markets, and/or a particular sector of the commodities markets, may subject the Fund and the Subsidiary to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities, such as stocks and bonds. The commodities markets may fluctuate widely based on a variety of factors, including changes in overall market movements, domestic and foreign political and economic events and policies, war, acts of terrorism, changes in domestic or foreign interest rates and/or investor expectations concerning interest rates, domestic and foreign inflation rates and investment and trading activities of mutual funds, hedge funds and commodities funds. Prices of various commodities may also be affected by factors such as drought, floods, weather, livestock disease, embargoes, tariffs and other regulatory developments. The prices of commodities can also fluctuate widely due to supply and demand disruptions in major producing or consuming regions. Because the Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s performance is linked to the performance of volatile commodities, investors should be willing to assume the risks of potentially significant fluctuations in the value of the Fund’s shares.

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

      Counterparty Risk. Many of the instruments that the Fund and the Subsidiary expect to hold may be subject to the risk that the other party to a contract will not fulfill its contractual obligations.

      Credit Risk. The issuer of instruments in which the Fund and the Subsidiary invest may be unable to meet interest and/or principal payments, thereby causing its instruments to decrease in value and lowering the issuer’s credit rating.

      Derivatives Risk. Derivatives may be more difficult to purchase, sell or value than other investments and may be subject to market, interest rate, credit, leverage, counterparty and management risks. A fund investing in a derivative could lose more than the cash amount invested or incur higher taxes. Over-the-counter derivatives are also subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party to the contract will not fulfill its contractual obligation to complete the transaction with the Fund. The derivative instruments and techniques that the Fund and the Subsidiary may principally use include:

      [ ] Swaps. A swap contract is an agreement between two parties pursuant to which the parties exchange payments at specified dates on the basis of a specified notional amount, with the payments calculated by reference to specified securities, indexes, reference rates, currencies or other instruments. Swaps are subject to credit risk and counterparty risk.

      [ ] Futures. A decision as to whether, when and how to use futures involves the exercise of skill and judgment and even a well conceived futures transaction may be unsuccessful because of market behavior or unexpected events.

      Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk refers to the risk that bond prices generally fall as interest rates rise; conversely, bond prices generally rise as interest rates fall. Specific bonds differ in their sensitivity to changes in interest rates depending on their individual characteristics, including duration.

      Leverage Risk. Leverage exists when the Fund or the Subsidiary purchases or sells an instrument or enters into a transaction without investing cash in an amount equal to the full economic exposure of the instrument or transaction and the Fund or the Subsidiary could lose more than it invested. Leverage created from borrowing or certain types of transactions or instruments may impair the Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s liquidity, cause them to liquidate positions at an unfavorable time, increase volatility or otherwise not achieve their intended objective.

      Liquidity Risk. The Fund and the Subsidiary may hold illiquid securities that they are unable to sell at the preferred time or price and could lose their entire investment in such securities.

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

      Market Risk. The prices of and the income generated by the Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s 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.

      Non-Diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in a single issuer. A change in the value of the issuer could affect the value of the Fund more than if it was a diversified fund.

      Subsidiary Risk. By investing in the Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments, including derivatives and commodities. Because the Subsidiary is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (1940 Act), the Fund, as the sole investor in the Subsidiary, will not have the protections offered to investors in U.S. registered investment companies. Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands, under which the Fund and the Subsidiary, respectively, are organized, could result in the inability of the Fund and/or the Subsidiary to operate as described in this prospectus and the SAI, and could negatively affect the Fund and its shareholders.

      Tax Risk. The tax treatment of commodity-linked derivative instruments may be adversely affected by changes in legislation, regulations or other legally binding authority. If, as a result of any such adverse action, the income of the Fund from certain commodity-linked derivatives was treated as non-qualifying income, the Fund might fail to qualify as a regulated investment company and be subject to federal income tax at the Fund level. The Fund has received a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service confirming that income derived from the Fund’s investment in a form of commodity-linked note constitutes qualifying income to the Fund. The Fund also has applied to the Internal Revenue Service for a private letter ruling relating to the Subsidiary. The Internal Revenue Service has issued a number of similar letter rulings (including to another Invesco fund), which indicate that income from a mutual fund’s investment in a wholly owned foreign subsidiary that invests in commodity-linked derivatives, such as the Subsidiary, constitutes qualifying income. However, the Internal Revenue Service has suspended issuance of any further private letter rulings pending a review of its position. Should the Internal Revenue Service issue guidance, or Congress enact legislation, that adversely affects the tax treatment of the Fund’s use of commodity-linked notes or the Subsidiary (which guidance might be applied retroactively to the Fund’s investment in the Subsidiary), it could limit the Fund’s ability to pursue its investment strategy and the Fund might not qualify as a regulated investment company for one or more years. In this event, the Fund’s Board of Trustees may authorize a significant change in investment strategy or Fund liquidation. The Fund also may incur transaction and other costs to comply with any new or additional guidance from the Internal Revenue Service.

      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/style specific securities market benchmark comprised of funds with investment objectives and strategies similar to 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): 0.20%
Best Quarter (ended December 31, 2011): 4.10%
Worst Quarter (ended September 30, 2011): -11.27%
Average Annual Total Returns (for the periods ended December 31, 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns Invesco Balanced-Risk Commodity Strategy Fund
1 Year
Since Inception
Inception Date
Class R5 shares:
(8.14%) 0.82% Nov. 30, 2010
Class R5 shares: Return After Taxes on Distributions
(8.14%) 0.82% Nov. 30, 2010
Class R5 shares: Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
(5.29%) 0.70% Nov. 30, 2010
Class R6 shares:
(8.59%) [1] 0.37% [1] Sep. 24, 2012
Dow Jones Commodity Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)
(13.32%) (3.75%)  
[1] Class R6 shares' performance shown prior to the inception date is that of the Class A shares, and includes the 12b-1 fees applicable to Class A shares. Class A shares' performance reflects any applicable fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements. The inception date of the Fund's Class A shares is November 30, 2010.
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.