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Invesco Global Markets Strategy Fund
Fund Summary
Investment Objective(s)
The Fund’s investment objective is to seek a positive absolute return over a complete economic and market cycle.
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 V 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 Global Markets Strategy Fund
Class H1
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 Global Markets Strategy Fund
Class H1
Management Fees 1.50%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses [1] 0.64%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses [1] 0.01%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses [1] 2.15%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement [2] 0.14%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 2.01%
[1] "Other Expenses," "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses" and "Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] Invesco Advisers, Inc. (Invesco or the Adviser) has contractually agreed, through at least October 31, 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 Class H1 shares to 2.00% 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 October 31, 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 Global Markets Strategy Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
Class H1
204 660
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. No portfolio turnover rate is disclosed because the Fund had not yet commenced operations prior to the date of this prospectus.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest in three asset categories: equity, fixed income and commodities. The portfolio management team selects the appropriate assets for each asset category, allocates them based on their proprietary risk management and portfolio construction techniques, and then applies a process of active positioning that seeks to improve expected returns. The Fund’s equity exposure will be achieved through investments in derivatives that track equity indices from developed and/or emerging market countries. The Fund’s fixed income exposure will be achieved through derivative investments in issuers in developed markets that are rated investment grade or unrated but deemed to be investment grade quality by Invesco Advisers, Inc. (Adviser), including (but not limited to) U.S. and foreign government debt securities having intermediate (5 – 10 years) and long (10 plus years) term duration. The Fund’s commodity exposure will be achieved through investments in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodity futures, exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and commodity-linked notes, some or all of which will be owned through a wholly-owned Cayman subsidiary. The commodity investments will be focused in four sectors of the commodities market: energy, precious metals, industrial metals and agriculture/livestock.

      Exposure to equity, fixed income and commodities markets will be achieved through derivatives, which will include (but are not limited to) futures and swap agreements, including total return swaps. The Fund’s derivative positions may be both long and short. A long derivative position involves the Fund buying a derivative with the anticipation of a price increase of the underlying asset, and a short derivative position involves the Fund writing (selling) a derivative with the anticipation of a price decrease of the underlying asset. Derivatives such as futures and swaps create leverage in the Fund’s portfolio because such investments may give rise to losses that exceed the amount the Fund has invested in those instruments. The Fund’s use of derivatives and the leveraged investment exposure created by the use of derivatives are expected to be significant.

      The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, in issuers located in at least three different countries, including the U.S. The Fund will invest, under normal circumstances, at least 40% of its net assets in issuers outside the United States.

      The Fund will invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary to gain exposure to commodities markets. The Subsidiary, in turn, will invest in futures, swaps, commodity-linked notes, ETFs and ETNs. The Subsidiary is advised by the Adviser, has the same investment objective as the Fund and generally employs the same investment strategy. Unlike the Fund, however, the Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivatives and other securities that may provide leveraged and non-leveraged exposure to commodities. The Subsidiary holds cash and can invest in cash equivalent instruments, including affiliated money market funds, some or all 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.

      The Fund generally will maintain as margin or collateral for the Fund’s obligations under derivative transactions in the range of 40% to 80% of its total assets (including assets held by the Subsidiary) in cash and cash equivalent instruments, including affiliated money market funds. The larger the value of the Fund’s derivative positions, as opposed to positions held in non-derivative instruments, the more the Fund will be required to maintain cash and cash equivalents as margin or collateral for such derivatives.

      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.

      Commodity swaps are two party contracts in which the parties agree to exchange the return or interest rate on one instrument for the return of a particular commodity, commodity index or commodities futures or options contract. The notional amount of a swap is based on the nominal or face amount of a referenced asset that is used to calculate payments made on that swap; the notional amount typically is not exchanged between counterparties. The parties to the swap use variations in the value of the underlying asset to calculate payments between them through the life of the swap.

      A futures contract is a standardized agreement between two parties to buy or sell a specific quantity of an underlying instrument or commodity at a specific price at a specific future time. The contracts are traded on a futures exchange, which acts as an intermediary between the two parties. The value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease with the value of the underlying instrument or commodity. Futures contracts are bilateral agreements, with both the purchaser and the seller equally obligated to complete the transaction. Depending on the terms of the particular contract, futures contracts are settled through either physical delivery of the underlying instrument or commodity or by payment of a cash settlement amount.

      Commodity-linked notes are notes issued by a bank or other sponsor that 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.

      ETFs are traded on an exchange and generally hold a portfolio of securities, commodities and/or currencies that are designed to replicate (i) a specified market or other index, (ii) a basket of securities, commodities or currencies, or (iii) a particular commodity or currency.

      ETNs are senior, unsecured, unsubordinated debt securities issued by a bank or other sponsor, the returns of which are linked to the performance of a particular market, benchmark or strategy. ETNs are traded on an exchange; however, investors can also hold the ETN until maturity. At maturity, the issuer pays to the investor a cash amount equal to the principal amount, subject to the day’s market benchmark or strategy factor.

      The Fund will seek to provide capital loss protection during down markets. The portfolio management team’s active three-step investment process is designed to balance the risk across equities, fixed income and commodities such that no one asset class drives the portfolio’s performance.

      The first step in the investment process involves asset selection within the three asset classes of equities, fixed income and commodities. The management team selects representative investments to gain exposure to each of the three asset classes from a universe of over fifty investments. The selection process (1) evaluates a particular investment’s theoretical case for long-term excess returns relative to cash; (2) screens the identified investments against minimum liquidity criteria; and (3) reviews the expected correlation among the investments and the expected risk for each investment to determine whether the selected investments are likely to improve the expected risk adjusted return of the Fund.

      The second step involves portfolio construction. The management team uses proprietary estimates for risk and correlation to determine the weighting for each asset class and the respective investments within each asset class to achieve a risk-balanced portfolio. Periodically, the management team re-estimates the risk contributed by each asset class and investment and re-balances the portfolio; the portfolio also may be rebalanced when new investments are introduced to the Fund.

      Using a systematic approach based on fundamental principles, the portfolio management team then analyzes the asset classes and investments, considering the following factors: valuation, economic environment and investor positioning. Regarding valuation, the portfolio managers seek to determine whether asset classes and investments are attractively priced relative to fundamentals. Next, the portfolio managers assess the economic environment and consider the effect that monetary policy and other determinants of economic growth, inflation and market volatility will have on the asset classes and investments. Lastly, the portfolio managers assess the impact of historic price movements for the asset classes and investments on likely future returns.

      Utilizing the foregoing results in the portfolio construction process, the portfolio managers determine tactical over-weight (buying additional assets relative to the strategic allocation) and under-weight (selling assets relative to the strategic allocation) positions for the asset classes and investments. The portfolio managers then attempt to control the frequency, depth and duration of portfolio losses and manage the risk contribution from the various asset classes and investments. Lastly, the portfolio managers calculate the estimated risk of the portfolio and scale the positions accordingly in order to construct a portfolio with a targeted risk percentage. Under-weight positions in derivatives can become short derivative positions when the size of the negative tactical position is larger than the strategic allocation. The size and number of short derivative positions held by the Fund will vary with the market environment. In some cases there will be no short derivative positions in the Fund. In other cases the net short derivative exposure of the Fund (i.e., short positions exceed long positions) could be 50% of net asset value or higher.
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:

      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 are 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.

      Counterparty Risk. Counterparty risk is the risk that the other party to the contract will not fulfill its contractual obligations, which may cause losses or additional costs to the Fund and the Subsidiary.

      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.

      Currency/Exchange Rate Risk. The dollar value of the Fund’s and the Subsidiary’s foreign investments will be affected by changes in the exchange rates between the dollar and the currencies in which those investments are traded.

      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 may 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 and the Subsidiary 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.

      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.

      Exchange-Traded Funds Risk. An investment by the Fund and the Subsidiary 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 or maintain 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 asset; and (5) holding troubled securities in the referenced index or basket of investments. Exchange-traded funds may involve duplication of management fees and certain other expenses, as the Fund and the Subsidiary indirectly bear their proportionate share of any expenses paid by the exchange-traded funds in which they invest. Further, certain of the exchange-traded funds in which the Fund and the Subsidiary may invest are leveraged. The more the Fund and the Subsidiary invest in such leveraged exchange-traded funds, the more this leverage will magnify any losses on those investments.

      Exchange-Traded Notes Risk. Exchange-traded notes are subject to credit risk, including the credit risk of the issuer, and the value of the exchange-traded note may drop due to a downgrade in the issuer’s credit rating, despite the underlying market benchmark or strategy remaining unchanged. The value of an exchange-traded note may also be influenced by time to maturity, level of supply and demand for the exchange-traded note, volatility and lack of liquidity in the underlying market, changes in the applicable interest rates, changes in the issuer’s credit rating, and economic, legal, political, or geographic events that affect the referenced underlying market or strategy. Exchange-traded notes are also subject to counterparty risk.

      Foreign Securities Risk. The Fund’s and the Subsidiary’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.

       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 may be 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. The Subsidiary is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (1940 Act), and, except as otherwise noted in this prospectus, is not subject to the investor protections of the 1940 Act. 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 Internal Revenue Service has issued a number of private letter rulings to other mutual funds (including to another Invesco fund), which indicate that income from a fund’s investment in certain commodity linked notes and 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 to the Fund retroactively), 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
No performance information is available for the Fund because it has not yet completed a full calendar year of operations. In the future, the Fund will disclose performance information in a bar chart and performance table. Such disclosure will give some indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by comparing the Fund’s performance with a broad measure of market performance and by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year.