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Series I shares | Invesco V.I. Balanced-Risk Allocation Fund
Fund Summary - Invesco V.I. Balanced-Risk Allocation Fund - Series I shares
Investment Objective
The Fund’s investment objective is total return with a low to moderate correlation to traditional financial market indices.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that are incurred, directly or indirectly, when a variable product owner buys, holds, or redeems interest in an insurance company separate account that invests in the Series I shares of the Fund but does not represent the effect of any fees or other expenses assessed in connection with your variable product, and if it did, expenses would be higher. Fees and expenses of Invesco Cayman Commodity Fund IV Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fund (Subsidiary), are included in this table.
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees -
Series I shares
Invesco V.I. Balanced-Risk Allocation Fund
Class: Series I shares
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)   
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is less)   
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses -
Series I shares
Invesco V.I. Balanced-Risk Allocation Fund
Class: Series I shares
Management Fees 0.92%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses 0.30%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.02%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.24%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement [1] 0.50%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 0.74%
[1] The Adviser has contractually agreed, through at least June 30, 2013, to waive advisory fees and/or reimburse expenses of Series I shares to the extent necessary to limit Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding certain items discussed below) of Series I shares to 0.72% of average daily nets assets. In determining the Adviser's obligation to waive advisory fees and/or reimburse expenses, the following expenses are not taken into account, and could cause the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement to exceed the number reflected above: (i) interest; (ii) taxes; (iii) dividend expense on short sales; (iv) extraordinary or non-routine items, including litigation expenses; and (v) expenses that the Fund has incurred but did not actually pay because of an expense offset arrangement. Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are also excluded in determining such obligation. Unless the Board of Trustees and Invesco Advisers, Inc. mutually agreed to amend or continue the fee waiver agreement, it will terminate on June 30, 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.

This Example does not represent the effect of any fees or expenses assessed in connection with your variable product, and if it did, expenses would be higher.

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
Series I shares Invesco V.I. Balanced-Risk Allocation Fund Class: Series I shares
76 344 633 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. 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 142% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
The Fund invests primarily in derivative instruments and other financially-linked instruments whose performance is expected to correspond to U.S. and international fixed income, equity and commodity markets. The Fund invests in derivatives and other financially-linked instruments such as futures; swap agreements, including total return swaps; and may also invest in U.S. and foreign government debt securities; the Subsidiary, exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes.

The Fund’s international investments will generally be in developed countries, but may also include emerging market countries. The Fund’s fixed income investments are generally considered to be investment grade while the Fund’s commodity markets exposure will generally be in the precious metals, agriculture, livestock, energy and industrial metals sectors.

The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary and exchange-traded funds to gain exposure to commodity markets. The Subsidiary, in turn, will invest in futures, swaps, exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes.

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.

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.

Swap agreements are contracts between two parties pursuant to which one party agrees with the other party to exchange the returns (or differentials in returns) earned or realized on a particular asset such as a commodity, calculated with respect to a “notional amount.” The payment streams are calculated by reference to an agreed upon notional amount. Commodity total return 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.

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 value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease in tandem 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 on the settlement date or by payment of a cash settlement amount on the settlement date.

Exchange-traded funds 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.

Exchange-traded notes are senior, unsecured, unsubordinated debt securities whose returns are linked to the performance of a particular market, benchmark or strategy. Exchange-traded notes are traded on an exchange; however, investors can also hold the exchange-traded notes 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.

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

When executing the investment process described above, the management team can purchase derivatives. By using derivatives, the Fund is able to gain greater exposure to assets within each class than would be possible using cash instruments, and thus seeks to balance the amount of risk each asset class contributes to the Fund.

In attempting to meet its investment objective, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities.
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 and the Subsidiary may engage in frequent trading of portfolio securities. Active trading results in added expenses and may result in a lower return.

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 potentially 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.

Credit Risk. The issuers 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 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 an exchange-traded fund generally presents the same primary risks as an investment in a mutual fund. In addition, exchange-traded funds 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 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 may invest are leveraged. The more a Fund 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 underlying assets, 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 asset.

Foreign Securities Risk. The 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.

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 and the Subsidiary purchase or sell 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 and the Subsidiary could lose more than it invested. Leverage created from borrowing or certain types of transactions or instruments, including derivatives, 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 it is unable to sell at the preferred time or price and could lose its 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 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 Statement of Additional Information, 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
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 bar chart and performance table below do not reflect charges assessed in connection with your variable product; if they did, the performance shown would be lower. The Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of its future performance.

The returns shown include (i) the returns of Series I shares of Invesco Van Kampen V.I. Global Tactical Asset Allocation Fund (the first predecessor fund) for the period June 1, 2010 to May 2, 2011, the date the first predecessor fund was reorganized into the Fund, and (ii) the returns of Class I shares of the Van Kampen Life Investment Trust Global Tactical Asset Allocation Portfolio (the second predecessor fund) for the period prior to June 1, 2010, the date the second predecessor fund was reorganized into the first predecessor fund. The second predecessor fund was advised by Van Kampen Asset Management. Returns of Series I shares of the Fund will be different from the returns of the predecessor funds as they have different expenses.

All performance shown assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains.

Annual Total Returns
Bar Chart
Best Quarter (ended September 30, 2010): 10.98%

Worst Quarter (ended June 30, 2010): -7.36%
Average Annual Total Returns (for the periods ended December 31, 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns - Series I shares Invesco V.I. Balanced-Risk Allocation Fund
1 Year
Since Inception
Inception Date
Series I:
10.92% 16.30% Jan. 23, 2009
MSCI World Index:
(5.54%) 15.02% Jan. 31, 2009
Custom VI Balanced Risk Allocation Index:
0.83% 12.37% Jan. 31, 2009