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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act file number 811-22793
Invesco Securities Trust
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
11 Greenway Plaza,
Suite 1000 Houston, Texas 77046
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Philip A. Taylor
11 Greenway Plaza,
Suite 1000 Houston, Texas 77046
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (713) 626-1919
Date of fiscal year end: 10/31
Date of reporting period: 10/31/14
Item 1. Report to Stockholders.

Letters to Shareholders
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Philip Taylor | | Dear Shareholders: This annual report includes information about your Fund, including performance data and a complete list of its investments as of the close of the reporting period. Inside, your Fund’s portfolio managers discuss how they managed your Fund and the factors that affected its performance during the reporting period. I hope you find this report of interest. During the reporting period covered by this report, the US economy showed signs of continued improvement. After contracting in the first quarter of 2014, the economy expanded strongly in the second quarter and unemployment trended lower. Much of the credit for this improvement goes to the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), which undertook an extraordinary asset purchase program following the global financial crisis. The Fed’s goal was to jumpstart the economy by encouraging banks to lend more, businesses to hire more and consumers to |
spend more. Signs of a stronger US economy prompted the Fed to reduce, or “taper,” its asset purchase program. Despite this, interest rates remained near historical low levels due largely to heavy investor demand for bonds. While signs of economic improvement were evident in the US, European economies showed signs of weakening. That, together with geopolitical uncertainty and worries about the first diagnosed cases of Ebola outside of Africa, caused increased volatility in US and European equities. |
Extended periods of market strength can lull investors into complacency – just as prolonged periods of market weakness or volatility can discourage investors from initiating long-term investment plans. That’s why Invesco has always encouraged investors to work with a professional financial adviser who can stress the importance of starting to save and invest early and the importance of adhering to a disciplined investment plan – when times are good and when they’re uncertain. A financial adviser who knows your unique financial situation, investment goals and risk tolerance can be an invaluable partner as you seek to achieve your financial goals. He or she can offer a long-term perspective when markets are volatile and time-tested advice and guidance when your financial situation or investment goals change.
Timely information when and where you want it
Invesco’s efforts to help investors achieve their financial objectives include providing individual investors and financial professionals with timely information about the markets, the economy and investing – whenever and wherever they want it.
Our website, invesco.com/us, offers a wide range of market insights and investment perspectives. On the website, you’ll find detailed information about our funds, including prices, performance, holdings and portfolio manager commentaries. You can access information about your individual Invesco account whenever it’s convenient for you; just complete a simple, secure online registration. Use the “Log In” box on our home page to get started.
Invesco’s mobile app for iPad® (available free from the App StoreSM) allows you to obtain the same detailed information about your Fund and the same investment insights from our investment leaders, market strategists, economists and retirement experts on the go. You also can watch portfolio manager videos and have instant access to Invesco news and updates wherever you may be.
In addition to the resources accessible on our website and through our mobile app, you can obtain timely updates to help you stay informed about the markets, the economy and investing by connecting with Invesco on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook. You can access our blog at blog.invesco.us.com. Our goal is to provide you the information you want, when and where you want it.
Have questions?
For questions about your account, feel free to contact an Invesco client services representative at 800 959 4246. For Invesco-related questions or comments, please email me directly at phil@invesco.com.
All of us at Invesco look forward to serving your investment management needs for many years to come. Thank you for investing with us.
Sincerely,

Philip Taylor
Senior Managing Director, Invesco Ltd.
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Bruce Crockett | | Dear Fellow Shareholders: There are a variety of factors that can impact investment performance, many of which are uncontrollable by us as investors. These factors can include various economic trends and geopolitical developments. While the members of the Invesco Funds Board, which I chair, can’t dictate the performance of the Invesco funds, be assured that your Board works diligently throughout the year to focus on how your investments are managed. Our job is to represent you and your interests on a variety of fund management-related matters. We regularly monitor how the portfolio management teams of the Invesco funds are performing in light of ever-changing and often unpredictable economic and market conditions. We review the investment strategies and investment process employed by each fund’s management team as explained in the fund’s prospectus. |
| | Perhaps our most significant responsibility is conducting the annual review of the funds’ |
advisory and sub-advisory contracts with Invesco Advisers and its affiliates. This annual review, which is required by the Investment Company Act of 1940, focuses on the nature and quality of the services Invesco provides as the adviser to the Invesco funds and the reasonableness of the fees that it charges for those services. Each year, we spend months carefully reviewing information from Invesco that allows us to evaluate the quality of its services and the reasonableness of its fees. We also use information from a variety of independent sources, including materials provided by the independent senior officer of the Invesco funds, who reports directly to the independent trustees on the Board. Additionally, we meet with legal counsel and review performance and fee data prepared for us by Lipper Inc., an independent, third-party firm widely recognized as a leader in its field.
After a careful review, the members of the Invesco Funds Board approved the continuation of advisory and sub-advisory contracts with Invesco Advisers and its affiliates. Be assured that your Board will continue working on behalf of fund shareholders, keeping your needs and interests uppermost in our minds.
As always, please contact me at bruce@brucecrockett.com with any questions or concerns you may have. On behalf of the Board, we look forward to continuing to represent your interests and serving your needs.
Sincerely,

Bruce L. Crockett
Independent Chair
Invesco Funds Board of Trustees
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Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance
Performance summary
For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014, Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund underperformed the Custom Balanced Risk Aggressive Allocation Broad Index and the Custom Balanced Risk Aggressive Allocation Style Index, its broad market benchmark and style-specific benchmark, respectively. Positive absolute performance from strategic equity and fixed income positioning drove results for the reporting period.
Your Fund’s long-term performance appears later in this report.
Fund vs. Indexes
Total returns, 10/31/13 to 10/31/14
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Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund | | | 6.11 | % |
Custom Balanced Risk Aggressive Allocation Broad Indexq (Broad Market Index) | | | 14.00 | |
Custom Balanced Risk Aggressive Allocation Style Indexq (Style-Specific Index) | | | 7.62 | |
Lipper Flexible Portfolio Funds Indexn (Peer Group Index) | | | 7.27 | |
Source(s): qInvesco, FactSet Research Systems Inc.; nLipper Inc.
Market conditions and your Fund
During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014, global markets produced mixed results due to volatility from a variety of geopolitical issues, but the Fund ended the reporting period in positive territory. Tactical positioning within fixed income through the use of swaps and futures boosted results while active positioning through the use of swaps and futures within commodities and equities slightly hurt results. The net effect was a positive contribution from our tactical allocation.
Developed equity markets began the reporting period on a positive note, helped by central bank stimulus. Bond markets drifted lower as investors preferred risky assets over perceived “safe-haven” assets.* Commodity prices began the reporting period mixed, with agricultural and energy commodities posting mild gains while industrial and precious metals prices retreated.
Equities were largely negative during the first quarter of 2014 with only select markets, such as Europe and the US, breaking into positive territory at the end
of March. Overall, equities started the new year on their weakest note since 2009. Government bonds generated attractive returns as investors avoided the volatility in equity and commodity markets and geopolitical uncertainty. Commodities started 2014 with mixed results, with precious metals and the agricultural complexes up strongly, while industrial metals prices languished.
The Fund finished the first half of 2014 strongly as all three asset classes posted positive results for the second quarter. Bond markets saw yields decline as geopolitical concerns out of Russia and the Middle East created greater demand for perceived “safe-haven” assets. Contraction in the US economy and generally weak European economic data also benefited bonds. Equities posted strong results as investors continued to overlook weaker-than-expected fundamental data and the potential for geopolitical issues to erupt into wider conflicts. Across the commodity complexes, energy led results as uncertainty in the Middle East drove crude oil prices higher. Precious metals
prices also advanced, benefiting from safe-haven demand.
Performance in the third quarter was mixed. Investments in government bond futures led results as all six markets in which the Fund was invested (Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US) ended in positive territory for the quarter. Factors driving bond yields lower included ongoing geopolitical concerns resulting from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as well as heighted terrorist activity in Iraq. Investments in developed-market equity futures delivered mixed results for the quarter as Japanese, European and US large-cap equities generally rose while US small cap, UK and Hong Kong stocks generally declined. Investments in commodities through swaps and futures weighed heavily on Fund results for the quarter, with the asset class underperforming bonds and equities. Agricultural commodities were particularly weak, driven by substantial price declines in soybeans, soymeal and soybean oil, the result of expected increases in global production.
The fiscal year ended with significant volatility across asset classes, the result of central bank actions and economic data releases. Investments in bond futures were the top contributor to results as yields across all six markets in which the Fund invests fell during October. Bonds produced gains as investors sought refuge from volatility, Ebola pandemic fears and economic uncertainty. Investments in equity futures also contributed to results, but not uniformly. European and UK issues declined while US and developed Asia equities posted gains. Commodities finished flat for the month on mixed results across complexes. Agriculture was the clear leader
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Target Risk Allocation and Notional Asset Weights† |
By asset class |
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| | Risk | | % of Total Net Assets |
Asset Class | | Allocation* | | as of 10/31/14** |
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Equities | | 29.95% | | 42.26% |
Fixed Income | | 49.98 | | 134.00 |
Commodities | | 20.07 | | 34.59 |
† | Risk contribution is measured as the standard deviation of each asset class as a percentage of total portfolio standard deviation. The risk contribution of each underlying asset determines the dollar-weighting of the asset. Standard deviation measures a fund’s range of total returns and fluctuations over a defined period of time. |
* | Based on the expected market exposure. |
** | Due to the use of leverage, the percentages may not equal 100%. |
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Total Net Assets | | $ | 104.2 million | |
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as prices climbed on strong demand, especially for soybeans and soymeal. Industrial metals also saw prices rise while precious metals prices pulled back. Energy prices declined in October, the result of excess supply and waning demand. Saudi Arabia further complicated matters by cutting the price of oil sold to the US, a move widely believed to be targeted at making oil production from shale less attractive.
Please note that our strategy is principally implemented with derivative instruments that include futures, commodity-linked notes and total return swaps. Therefore, all or most of the performance of the strategy, both positive and negative, can be attributed to these instruments. Derivatives can be a cost-effective way to gain exposure to asset classes. However, derivatives may amplify traditional investment risks through the creation of leverage and may be less liquid than traditional securities.
Thank you for your continued commitment to Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund.
* | So-called “safe-haven” assets do not imply risk-free investing. |
The views and opinions expressed in management’s discussion of Fund performance are those of Invesco Advisers, Inc. These views and opinions are subject to change at any time based on factors such as market and economic conditions. These views and opinions may not be relied upon as investment advice or recommendations, or as an offer for a particular security. The information is not a complete analysis of every aspect of any market, country, industry, security or the Fund. Statements of fact are from sources considered reliable, but Invesco Advisers, Inc. makes no representation or warranty as to their completeness or accuracy. Although historical performance is no guarantee of future results, these insights may help you understand our investment management philosophy.
See important Fund and, if applicable, index disclosures later in this report.
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 | | Scott Wolle Chartered Financial Analyst, Portfolio Manager, is lead manager of Invesco Balanced-Risk |
Aggressive Allocation Fund. He joined Invesco in 1999. Mr. Wolle earned a BS in finance from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business. |
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 | | Mark Ahnrud Chartered Financial Analyst, Portfolio Manager, is manager of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive |
Allocation Fund. He joined Invesco in 2000. Mr. Ahnrud earned a BS in finance and investments from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business. |
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 | | Chris Devine Chartered Financial Analyst, Portfolio Manager, is manager of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive |
Allocation Fund. He joined Invesco in 1998. Mr. Devine earned a BA in economics from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the University of Georgia. |
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 | | Scott Hixon Chartered Financial Analyst, Portfolio Manager, is manager of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive |
Allocation Fund. He joined Invesco in 1994. Mr. Hixon earned a BBA in finance from Georgia Southern University and an MBA in finance from Georgia State University. |
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 | | Christian Ulrich Chartered Financial Analyst, Portfolio Manager, is manager of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive |
Allocation Fund. He joined Invesco in 2000. Mr. Ulrich earned the equivalent of a BBA from the KV Zurich Business School in Zurich, Switzerland. |
Assisted by the Invesco Global Asset Allocation Team
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Your Fund’s Long-Term Performance
Results of a $10,000 Investment – Oldest Share Class(es) since Inception
Fund data from 2/25/13; index data from 2/28/13

Past performance cannot guarantee comparable future results.
The data shown in the chart include reinvested distributions and Fund expenses including management fees.
Index results include reinvested dividends. Performance of the peer group, if applicable, reflects fund expenses and management fees; performance of a market index does not. Performance
shown in the chart and table(s) does not reflect deduction of taxes a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or sale of Fund shares.
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Average Annual Total Returns | |
As of 10/31/14 | | | | |
Inception (2/25/13) | | | 5.74 | % |
1 Year | | | 6.11 | |
The performance data quoted represent past performance and cannot guarantee comparable future results; current performance may be lower or higher. Performance figures reflect reinvested distributions and changes in net asset value. Shares of the Fund are sold at net asset value without a sales charge. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that you may have a gain or loss when you sell shares.
The net annual Fund operating expense ratio as of the date of the Fund’s
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Average Annual Total Returns | |
As of 9/30/14 | | | | |
Inception (2/25/13) | | | 4.63 | % |
1 Year | | | 6.63 | |
most recent prospectus was 1.21%.1 The total annual Fund operating expense ratio as of the date of the Fund’s most recent prospectus was 1.41%. The expense ratios presented above may vary from the expense ratios presented in other sections of this report that are based on expenses incurred during the period covered by this report.
1 | Total annual Fund operating expenses after any contractual fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by the adviser in effect through at least February 29, 2016. See current prospectus for more information. |
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Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund’s investment objective is to provide total return with a low to moderate correlation to traditional financial market indices.
n | | Unless otherwise stated, information presented in this report is as of October 31, 2014, and is based on total net assets. |
n | | Unless otherwise noted, all data provided by Invesco. |
n | | To access your Fund’s reports/prospectus, visit invesco.com/fundreports. |
Principal risks of investing in the Fund
n | | Commodity-linked notes risk. The Fund’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 risk of loss of interest and principal, lack of a secondary market and risk of greater volatility, that do not affect traditional equity and debt securities. If payment of interest on a commodity-linked note is linked to the value of a particular commodity, commodity index or other economic variable, the Fund might not receive all or a portion of the interest due on its investment if there is a loss of value of the underlying variable to which the interest is linked. To the extent that the amount of the principal to be repaid upon maturity is linked to the value of a particular commodity, commodity index or other economic variable, the Fund might not receive all or a portion of the principal at maturity of the investment. A liquid secondary market may not exist for the commodity-linked notes the Fund buys, which may make it difficult for the Fund to sell them at an acceptable price or to accurately value them. Commodity-linked notes are also subject to the credit risk of the issuer. If the issuer becomes bankrupt or otherwise fails to pay, the Fund could lose money. The value of the commodity-linked notes the Fund buys may fluctuate significantly because the values of the underlying investments to which they are linked are themselves volatile. Additionally, commodity-linked notes employ “economic” leverage that does not result in the possibility of a fund incurring obligations beyond its investment, but that nonetheless permit a fund to gain exposure that is greater than would be the case in an unlevered security. The particular terms of a commodity-linked note may create economic leverage by requiring payment by the |
| | issuer of an amount that is a multiple of the price increase or decrease of the underlying commodity, commodity index, or other economic variable. For example, a three times leveraged note will change by a magnitude of three for every percentage change (positive or negative) in the value of the underlying commodity, index or other economic variable. Such economic leverage will increase the volatility of the value of these commodity-linked notes and the Fund to the extent it invests in such notes. The Fund does not segregate assets or otherwise cover investments in securities with economic leverage. |
n | | Commodity risk. The Fund will concentrate in investments in commodities. The Fund’s significant investment exposure to the commodities markets and/ or a particular sector of the commodities markets, which may subject the Fund 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. Certain commodities may be produced in a limited number of countries and may be controlled by a small number of producers or groups of producers. As a result, political, economic and supply related events in such countries could have a disproportionate impact on the prices of such commodities. Because the Fund’s performance is 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. |
n | | Commodity 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 (upon which only the fund that received the private letter ruling can rely), 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 suspended issuance in July 2011 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. |
n | | Correlation risk. Changes in the value of two investments or asset classes may not track or offset each other in the manner anticipated by the portfolio managers. Because the Fund’s investment strategy seeks to balance risk across three asset classes and, within each asset class, to balance risk across different countries and commodities, to the extent either the three asset classes or the selected countries and |
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This report must be accompanied or preceded by a currently effective Fund prospectus, which contains more complete information, including sales charges and expenses. Investors should read it carefully before investing.
NOT FDIC INSURED | MAY LOSE VALUE | NO BANK GUARANTEE
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| commodities are correlated in a way not anticipated by the portfolio managers the Fund’s risk allocation process may not succeed in achieving its investment objective. |
n | | Credit risk. The issuers of instruments in which the Fund invests may be unable to meet interest and/or principal payments. An issuer’s securities may decrease in value if its financial strength weakens, which may reduce its credit rating and possibly its ability to meet its contractual obligations. |
n | | Currency/exchange rate risk. The dollar value of the Fund’s foreign investments will be affected by changes in the exchange rates between the dollar and the currencies in which those investments are traded. The Fund may buy or sell currencies other than the US dollar in order to capitalize on anticipated changes in exchange rates. There is no guarantee that these investments will be successful. |
n | | Derivatives risk. A derivative is an instrument whose value depends largely on (and is derived from) the value of an underlying security, currency, commodity, interest rate, index or other asset (each referred to as an underlying asset). In addition to risks relating to the underlying assets, the use of derivatives may include other, possibly greater, risks, which are described below. These risks are greater for the Fund than most other mutual funds because the Fund will implement its investment strategy primarily through derivative instruments rather than direct investments in stocks and bonds. |
| - | Counterparty Risk. Certain derivatives do not trade on an established exchange (referred to as over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives) and are simply financial contracts between the Fund and a counterparty. When the Fund is owed money on an OTC derivative, the Fund is dependent on the counterparty to pay or, in some cases, deliver the underlying asset, unless the Fund can otherwise sell its derivative contract to a third party prior to its expiration. Many counterparties are financial institutions such as banks and broker-dealers and their creditworthiness (and ability to pay or perform) may be negatively impacted by factors affecting financial institutions generally. In addition, in the event that a counterparty becomes bankrupt or insolvent, the Fund’s ability to recover the collateral that the Fund has on deposit with the counterparty could be delayed or impaired. For derivatives traded on a centralized exchange, the Fund generally is dependent upon the |
| solvency of the relevant exchange clearing house (which acts as a guarantor for each contractual obligation under such derivatives) for payment on derivative instruments for which the Fund is owed money. |
| - | Leverage Risk. Many derivatives do not require a payment up front equal to the economic exposure created by owning the derivative, which creates a form of leverage. As a result, an adverse change in the value of the underlying asset could result in the Fund sustaining a loss that is substantially greater than the amount invested in the derivative. Leverage may therefore make the Fund’s returns more volatile and increase the risk of loss. The Fund segregates or earmarks liquid assets with a value at least equal to the amount that the Fund owes the derivative counterparty each day, if any, or otherwise holds instruments that offset the Fund’s daily obligation under the derivatives instrument. This process is sometimes referred to as “cover.” The amount of liquid assets needed as cover will fluctuate over time as the value of the derivative instrument rises and falls. If the value of the Fund’s derivative positions or the value of the assets used as cover |
| unexpectedly decreases, the Fund may be forced to segregate additional liquid assets as cover or sell assets at a disadvantageous time or price to meet its derivative obligations or to meet redemption requests, which could affect management of the Fund and the Fund’s returns. In certain market conditions, losses on derivative instruments can grow larger while the value of the Fund’s other assets fall, resulting in the Fund’s derivative positions becoming a larger percentage of the Fund’s investments. |
| - | Liquidity Risk. There is a smaller pool of buyers and sellers for certain derivatives, particularly OTC derivatives, than more traditional investments such as stocks. These buyers and sellers are often financial institutions that may be unable or unwilling to buy or sell derivatives during times of financial or market stress. Derivative instruments may therefore be less liquid than more traditional investments and the Fund may be unable to sell or exit its derivative positions at a desirable time or price. This risk may be more acute under adverse market conditions, during which the Fund may be most in need of liquidating its derivative positions. To the extent that the Fund is unable |
| to exit a derivative position because of market illiquidity, the Fund may not be able to prevent further losses of value in its derivatives holdings and the liquidity of the Fund and its ability to meet redemption requests may be impaired to the extent that a substantial portion of the Fund’s otherwise liquid assets must be used as margin or cover. Another consequence of illiquidity is that the Fund may be required to hold a derivative instrument to maturity and take or make delivery of the underlying asset that the Adviser would otherwise have attempted to avoid. |
| - | Other Risks. Compared to other types of investments, derivatives may be harder to value and may also be less tax efficient, as described under the “Taxes” section of the prospectus. In addition, changes in government regulation of derivative instruments could affect the character, timing and amount of the Fund’s taxable income or gains, and may limit or prevent the Fund from using certain types of derivative instruments as a part of its investment strategy, which could make the investment strategy more costly to implement or require the Fund to change its investment strategy. To the extent that the Fund uses derivatives for hedging or to gain or limit exposure to a particular market or market segment, there may be imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative instrument and the value of the instrument being hedged or the relevant market or market segment, in which case the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. There is also the risk that during adverse market conditions, an instrument which would usually operate as a hedge provides no hedging benefits at all. The Fund’s use of derivatives may be limited by the requirements for taxation of the Fund as a regulated investment company. |
n | | Developing/emerging markets securities risk. The prices of securities issued by foreign companies and governments located in developing/emerging market countries may be impacted by certain factors more than those in countries with mature economies. For example, developing/emerging market countries may experience higher rates of inflation or sharply devalue their currencies against the US dollar, thereby causing the value of investments issued by the government or companies located in those countries to decline. Governments in developing/emerging market countries may be relatively less |
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| stable. The introduction of capital controls, withholding taxes, nationalization of private assets, expropriation, social unrest, or war may result in adverse volatility in the prices of securities or currencies. Other factors may include additional transaction costs, delays in settlement procedures, and lack of timely information. |
n | | Exchange-traded funds risk. An investment by the 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 risks that do not apply to mutual funds: (1) the market price of an exchange-traded fund’s shares may trade above or below their net asset value; (2) an active trading market for the exchange-traded fund’s shares may not develop or be maintained; (3) trading an exchange-traded fund’s shares may be halted if the listing exchange’s officials deem such action appropriate; (4) an exchange-traded fund may not be actively managed and may not accurately track the performance of the reference asset; (5) an exchange-traded fund would not necessarily sell a security because the issuer of the security was in financial trouble unless the security is removed from the index that the exchange-traded fund seeks to track; and (6) the value of an investment in an exchange-traded fund will decline more or less in correlation with any decline in the value of the index the exchange-traded fund seeks to track. Investments in 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 the Fund invests in such leveraged exchange-traded funds, the more this leverage will magnify any losses on those investments. |
n | | 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 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. |
n | | Foreign securities risk. The dollar value of the Fund’s foreign investments may be affected by changes in the exchange rates between the dollar and the currencies in which those investments are traded. The value of the Fund’s foreign investments may be adversely affected by political and social instability in their home countries, by changes in economic or taxation policies in those countries, or by the difficulty in enforcing obligations in those countries. Foreign companies generally may be subject to less stringent regulations than US companies, including financial reporting requirements and auditing and accounting controls. As a result, there generally is less publicly available information about foreign companies than about US companies. Trading in many foreign securities may be less liquid and more volatile than US securities due to the size of the market or other factors. |
n | | 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. One measure of this sensitivity is called duration. The longer the duration of a particular bond, the greater is its price sensitivity is to interest rates. Similarly, a longer duration portfolio of securities has greater price sensitivity. Falling interest rates may also prompt some issuers to refinance existing debt, which could affect the Fund’s performance. |
n | | Liquidity risk. A security is considered to be illiquid if the Fund is unable to sell such security at a fair price within a reasonable amount of time. A security may be deemed illiquid due to a lack of trading volume in the security or if the security is privately placed and not traded in any public market or is otherwise restricted from trading. The Fund may be unable to sell illiquid securities at the time or price they desire and could lose their entire investment in such securities. Further, certain restricted securities require special registration, liabilities and costs, and could pose valuation difficulties. The Fund’s significant use of derivative instruments may cause liquidity risk to be greater than other mutual funds that invest in more traditional assets such as stocks and bonds, which trade on markets with more market participants. |
n | | US government obligations risk. The Fund may invest in obligations issued |
| | by US 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. |
n | | Volatility risk. The Fund may have investments that appreciate or decrease significantly in value over short periods of time. This may cause the Fund’s net asset value per share to experience significant increases or declines in value over short periods of time. |
About indexes used in this report
n | | The Custom Balanced Risk Aggressive Allocation Broad Index consists of 75% S&P 500 Index and 25% Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index. |
n | | The Custom Balanced Risk Aggressive Allocation Style Index consists of 75% MSCI World Index and 25% Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index. |
n | | The Lipper Flexible Portfolio Funds Index is an unmanaged index considered representative of flexible portfolio funds tracked by Lipper. |
n | | The S&P 500® Index is an unmanaged index considered representative of the US stock market. |
n | | The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index is an unmanaged index considered representative of the US investment grade, fixed-rate bond market. |
n | | The MSCI World IndexSM is an unmanaged index considered representative of stocks of developed countries. The index return is computed using the net return, which withholds applicable taxes for non-resident investors. |
n | | The Fund is not managed to track the performance of any particular index, including the index(es) described here, and consequently, the performance of the Fund may deviate significantly from the performance of the index(es). |
n | | A direct investment cannot be made in an index. Unless otherwise indicated, index results include reinvested dividends, and they do not reflect sales charges. Performance of the peer group, if applicable, reflects fund expenses; performance of a market index does not. |
Other information
n | | The returns shown in management’s discussion of Fund performance are based on net asset values (NAVs) calculated for shareholder transactions. Generally accepted accounting principles require adjustments to be made to the net assets of the Fund at period end for financial reporting purposes, and as such, the NAVs for shareholder transactions and the returns based on those NAVs may differ from the NAVs and returns reported in the Financial Highlights. |
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Consolidated Schedule of Investments
October 31, 2014
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| | Interest Rate | | | Maturity Date | | | Principal Amount | | | Value | |
U.S. Treasury Securities–58.02% | |
U.S. Treasury Bills–32.90%(a) | |
U.S. Treasury Bills(b) | | | 0.05 | % | | | 12/04/14 | | | $ | 3,190,000 | | | $ | 3,190,000 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills(c)(d) | | | 0.05 | % | | | 12/11/14 | | | | 1,840,000 | | | | 1,840,075 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills | | | 0.10 | % | | | 01/08/15 | | | | 5,000,000 | | | | 4,999,954 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills(c)(d) | | | 0.10 | % | | | 01/08/15 | | | | 1,400,000 | | | | 1,399,987 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills | | | 0.05 | % | | | 01/15/15 | | | | 7,500,000 | | | | 7,499,923 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills(c)(d) | | | 0.05 | % | | | 01/15/15 | | | | 2,100,000 | | | | 2,099,978 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills(b) | | | 0.05 | % | | | 01/22/15 | | | | 7,000,000 | | | | 6,999,999 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills(d) | | | 0.05 | % | | | 01/22/15 | | | | 1,950,000 | | | | 1,950,000 | |
U.S. Treasury Bills | | | 0.06 | % | | | 01/29/15 | | | | 4,300,000 | | | | 4,299,947 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 34,279,863 | |
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U.S. Treasury Notes–25.12%(e) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U.S. Treasury Notes | | | 0.07 | % | | | 01/31/16 | | | | 5,090,000 | | | | 5,090,090 | |
U.S. Treasury Notes(b)(d) | | | 0.07 | % | | | 01/31/16 | | | | 1,660,000 | | | | 1,660,029 | |
U.S. Treasury Notes | | | 0.09 | % | | | 04/30/16 | | | | 15,575,000 | | | | 15,580,252 | |
U.S. Treasury Notes(d) | | | 0.09 | % | | | 04/30/16 | | | | 1,540,000 | | | | 1,540,519 | |
U.S. Treasury Notes | | | 0.09 | % | | | 07/31/16 | | | | 2,310,000 | | | | 2,310,955 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 26,181,845 | |
Total U.S. Treasury Securities (Cost $60,452,882) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 60,461,708 | |
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| | | | | | | | Shares | | | | |
Money Market Funds–40.47% | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Liquid Assets Portfolio–Institutional Class(f) | | | | | | | | | | | 14,613,288 | | | | 14,613,288 | |
Premier Portfolio–Institutional Class(f) | | | | | | | | | | | 14,613,288 | | | | 14,613,288 | |
STIC (Global Series) PLC–U.S. Dollar Liquidity Portfolio (Ireland)–Institutional Class(d)(f) | | | | | | | | | | | 12,948,378 | | | | 12,948,378 | |
Total Money Market Funds (Cost $42,174,954) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 42,174,954 | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS–98.49% (Cost $102,627,836) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 102,636,662 | |
OTHER ASSETS LESS LIABILITIES–1.51% | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1,575,189 | |
NET ASSETS–100.00% | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 104,211,851 | |
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Open Futures Contracts | |
Futures Contracts | | Type of Contract | | | | | Number of Contracts | | | Expiration Month | | | Notional Value(g) | | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Brent Crude(d) | | | Long | | | | | | 23 | | | | April-2015 | | | | 2,020,780 | | | $ | (207,788 | ) |
Gas Oil(d) | | | Long | | | | | | 5 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 370,625 | | | | 1,889 | |
Gasoline Reformulated Blendstock Oxygenate Blending(d) | | | Long | | | | | | 27 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 2,435,605 | | | | (13,651 | ) |
WTI Crude(d) | | | Long | | | | | | 27 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 2,174,580 | | | | (272,298 | ) |
Subtotal — Commodity Risk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (491,848 | ) |
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Australian 10 Year Bonds | | | Long | | | | | | 240 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 25,933,387 | | | | 692,681 | |
Canada 10 Year Bonds | | | Long | | | | | | 153 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 18,604,659 | | | | 94,174 | |
Euro Bonds | | | Long | | | | | | 94 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 17,775,900 | | | | 222,167 | |
Japan 10 Year Bonds | | | Long | | | | | | 12 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 15,656,308 | | | | 90,630 | |
Long Gilt | | | Long | | | | | | 88 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 16,204,054 | | | | 367,182 | |
U.S. Treasury 20 Year Bonds | | | Long | | | | | | 85 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 11,992,969 | | | | 158,909 | |
Subtotal — Interest Rate Risk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 1,625,743 | |
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See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Futures Contracts | | Type of Contract | | | | | Number of Contracts | | | Expiration Month | | | Notional Value(g) | | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50 Index | | | Long | | | | | | 234 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 9,092,920 | | | $ | (335,864 | ) |
E-Mini S&P 500 Index | | | Long | | | | | | 50 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 5,028,500 | | | | 68,862 | |
FTSE 100 Index | | | Long | | | | | | 83 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 8,638,224 | | | | (350,216 | ) |
Hang Seng Index | | | Long | | | | | | 54 | | | | November-2014 | | | | 8,335,947 | | | | 201,944 | |
Russell 2000 Index Mini | | | Long | | | | | | 34 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 3,981,400 | | | | 37,510 | |
Topix Tokyo Price Index | | | Long | | | | | | 60 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 7,142,730 | | | | 235,747 | |
Subtotal — Market Risk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (142,017 | ) |
Total Future Contracts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 991,878 | |
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Open Over-the-Counter Total Return Swap Agreements | |
Swap Agreements | | Type of Contract | | | Counterparty | | Number of Contracts | | | Termination Date | | | Notional Value(g) | | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Receive a return equal to Barclays Commodity Strategy 1452 Excess Return Index and pay the product of (i) 0.33% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | Barclays Capital Inc. | | | 16,500 | | | | May-2015 | | | | 8,798,158 | | | $ | 109,412 | |
Receive a return equal to Monthly Rebalance Commodity Excess Return Index and pay the product of (i) 0.52% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | Cargill, Inc. | | | 1,710 | | | | August-2015 | | | | 1,579,891 | | | | 0 | |
Receive a return equal to CIBC Silver Index and pay the product of (i) 0.11% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | CIBC World Markets Corp. | | | 29,100 | | | | February-2015 | | | | 3,042,047 | | | | (217,301 | ) |
Receive a return equal to Goldman Sachs Alpha Basket B765 Excess Return Strategy and pay the product of (i) 0.45% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | Goldman Sachs International | | | 6,050 | | | | June-2015 | | | | 3,236,135 | | | | 0 | |
Receive a return equal to J.P. Morgan Bespoke Commodity 165 Index and pay the product of (i) 0.49% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | | | 12,030 | | | | June-2015 | | | | 7,553,992 | | | | 500,728 | |
Receive a return equal to S&P GSCI Gold Excess Return Index and pay the product of (i) 0.09% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | | | 52,400 | | | | October-2015 | | | | 5,484,058 | | | | (325,394 | ) |
Receive a return equal to S&P GSCI Aluminum Dynamic Roll Excess Return Index and pay the product of (i) 0.38% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365(d) | | | Long | | | Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. | | | 4,800 | | | | October-2015 | | | | 543,015 | | | | 30,091 | |
Subtotal — Commodity Risk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 97,536 | |
Receive a return equal to the Japan 10 Year Bond Futures multiplied by the number of index units multiplied by 1,000,000 | | | Long | | | Bank of America Securities LLC | | | 2 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 2,609,385 | | | | 13,402 | |
Receive a return equal to Euro – Bund EUR Excess Return Index and pay the product of (i) 0.30% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 360 multiplied by (iii) mid spot price for converting one Euro to an amount of USD | | | Long | | | Barclays Capital Inc. | | | 33,000 | | | | December-2014 | | | EUR | 5,925,833 | | | | (45,103 | ) |
Receive a return equal to U.S. Long Bond Treasury Index and pay the product of (i) 0.35% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 360 | | | Long | | | Barclays Capital Inc. | | | 2,000 | | | | December-2014 | | | | 480,497 | | | | (10,920 | ) |
See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Swap Agreements | | Type of Contract | | | Counterparty | | Number of Contracts | | | Termination Date | | | Notional Value(g) | | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Receive a return equal to the LIFFE Long Gilt Futures multiplied by 0.01% of the Notional Value | | | Long | | | Goldman Sachs International | | | 65 | | | | December-2014 | | | $ | 11,968,904 | | | $ | 239,803 | |
Receive a return equal to Macquarie CGB 10 Year Index and pay the product of (i) 0.34% of the Notional Value multiplied by (ii) days in the period divided by 365 multiplied by (iii) mid spot price for converting one CAD to an amount of USD | | | Long | | | Macquarie Bank Ltd. | | | 47,000 | | | | July-2015 | | | CAD | 8,003,207 | | | | (16,163 | ) |
Subtotal — Interest Rate Risk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 181,019 | |
Receive a return equal to the Hang Seng Index Futures multiplied by the Notional Value | | | Long | | | Goldman Sachs International | | | 5 | | | | November-2014 | | | | 771,847 | | | | 22,632 | |
Subtotal — Market Risk | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 22,632 | |
Total Swap Agreements | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 301,187 | |
Investment Abbreviations:
| | |
CAD | | – Canadian Dollar |
EUR | | – Euro |
USD | | – U.S. Dollar |
Index Information:
| | |
Barclays Commodity Strategy 1452 Index | | – Barclays Commodity Strategy 1452 Index is a commodity index that provides exposure to future contracts on copper. |
Monthly Rebalance Commodity Excess Return Index | | – Monthly Rebalance Commodity Excess Return Index is comprised of four commodity indices that provide exposure to various components of the agriculture markets. The underlying commodities comprising the indices are: Sugar, Soybean, Soybean Meal and Live Cattle. |
CIBC Silver Index | | – CIBC Silver Index is a commodity index that provides exposure to future contracts on silver. |
Goldman Sachs Alpha Basket B765 Excess Return Strategy | | – Goldman Sachs Alpha Basket B765 Excess Return Strategy is a basket of four indices that provide exposure to various components of the agriculture markets. The underlying commodities comprising the indices are: Sugar, Soybean, Soybean Meal and Cotton. |
J.P. Morgan Bespoke Commodity 165 Index | | – JP Morgan Bespoke Commodity 165 Index is comprised of four commodity indices that provide exposure to various components of the agriculture markets. The underlying commodities comprising the indices are: Soybean, Soybean Meal, Seasonal Sugar and Live Cattle. |
S&P GSCI Gold Excess Return Index | | – S&P GSCI Gold Excess Return Index is commodity index composed of future contracts on gold. |
S&P GSCI Aluminum Dynamic Roll Excess Return Index | | – S&P GSCI Aluminum Dynamic Roll Excess Return Index is commodity index composed of future contracts on aluminum. |
Notes to Consolidated Schedule of Investments:
(a) | Security traded on a discount basis. The interest rate shown represents the discount rate at the time of purchase by the Fund. |
(b) | All or a portion of the value was pledged as collateral to cover margin requirements for open futures contracts. See Note 1I and Note 4. |
(c) | All or a portion of the value was designated as collateral to cover margin requirements for swap agreements. See Note 1J and Note 4. |
(d) | The investment is owned by the Subsidiary. See Note 5. |
(e) | Interest or dividend rate is redetermined periodically. Rate shown is the rate in effect on October 31, 2014. |
(f) | The money market fund and the Fund are affiliated by having the same investment adviser. |
(g) | Notional value is denominated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. |
See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities
October 31, 2014
| | | | |
Assets: | | | | |
Investments, at value (Cost $60,452,882) | | $ | 60,461,708 | |
Investments in affiliated money market funds, at value and cost | | | 42,174,954 | |
Total investments, at value (Cost $102,627,836) | | | 102,636,662 | |
Receivable for: | | | | |
Variation margin — futures | | | 795,127 | |
Dividends and interest | | | 1,967 | |
Swaps receivables | | | 558,319 | |
Unrealized appreciation on swap agreements — OTC | | | 916,068 | |
Investment for trustee deferred compensation and retirement plans | | | 6,016 | |
Total assets | | | 104,914,159 | |
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Liabilities: | | | | |
Payable for: | | | | |
Accrued fees to affiliates | | | 17,474 | |
Accrued trustees’ and officers’ fees and benefits | | | 1,734 | |
Accrued other operating expenses | | | 61,606 | |
Trustee deferred compensation and retirement plans | | | 6,613 | |
Unrealized depreciation on swap agreements — OTC | | | 614,881 | |
Total liabilities | | | 702,308 | |
Net assets applicable to shares outstanding | | $ | 104,211,851 | |
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Net assets consist of: | | | | |
Shares of beneficial interest | | $ | 91,327,153 | |
Undistributed net investment income (loss) | | | 5,136,104 | |
Undistributed net realized gain | | | 6,446,702 | |
Net unrealized appreciation | | | 1,301,892 | |
| | $ | 104,211,851 | |
| |
Net Assets: | | | | |
Class A | | $ | 104,211,851 | |
|
Shares outstanding, $0.01 par value per share, with an unlimited number of shares authorized: | |
Outstanding | | | 10,078,642 | |
Net asset value per share | | $ | 10.34 | |
See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Consolidated Statement of Operations
For the year ended October 31, 2014
| | | | |
Investment income: | |
Dividends from affiliated money market funds | | $ | 15,223 | |
Interest | | | 33,945 | |
Total investment income | | | 49,168 | |
| |
Expenses: | | | | |
Advisory fees | | | 1,148,680 | |
Administrative services fees | | | 50,000 | |
Custodian fees | | | 8,745 | |
Transfer agent fees | | | 21,756 | |
Trustees’ and officers’ fees and benefits | | | 25,227 | |
Professional services fees | | | 89,745 | |
Other | | | 2,655 | |
Total expenses | | | 1,346,808 | |
Less: Fees waived | | | (145,980 | ) |
Net expenses | | | 1,200,828 | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | (1,151,660 | ) |
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Realized and unrealized gain (loss) from: | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) from: | | | | |
Investment securities | | | 805 | |
Foreign currencies | | | (8,023 | ) |
Futures contracts | | | 11,735,984 | |
Swap agreements | | | (680,245 | ) |
| | | 11,048,521 | |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of: | | | | |
Investment securities | | | 5,593 | |
Futures contracts | | | (3,777,685 | ) |
Swap agreements | | | 38,424 | |
| | | (3,733,668 | ) |
Net realized and unrealized gain | | | 7,314,853 | |
Net increase in net assets resulting from operations | | $ | 6,163,193 | |
See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements which are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets
For the year ended October 31, 2014 and the period February 25, 2013 (commencement date) through October 31, 2013
| | | | | | | | |
| | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $ | (1,151,660 | ) | | $ | (809,241 | ) |
Net realized gain (loss) | | | 11,048,521 | | | | (486,807 | ) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | | (3,733,668 | ) | | | 5,035,560 | |
Net increase in net assets resulting from operations | | | 6,163,193 | | | | 3,739,512 | |
Distributions to shareholders from net realized gains | | | (6,051,907 | ) | | | — | |
Share transactions–net | | | (4,940,614 | ) | | | 105,301,667 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets | | | (4,829,328 | ) | | | 109,041,179 | |
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Net assets: | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of year | | | 109,041,179 | | | | — | |
End of year (includes undistributed net investment income (loss) of $5,136,104 and $329,370, respectively) | | $ | 104,211,851 | | | $ | 109,041,179 | |
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
October 31, 2014
NOTE 1—Significant Accounting Policies
Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund (the “Fund”) is a series portfolio of Invesco Securities Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust is organized as a Delaware statutory trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end series management investment company authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest. The assets, liabilities and operations of each portfolio are accounted for separately. Information presented in these consolidated financial statements pertains only to the Fund. Matters affecting each portfolio or class will be voted on exclusively by the shareholders of such portfolio or class.
The Fund will seek to gain exposure to the commodity markets primarily through investments in the Invesco Cayman Commodity Fund VI Ltd. (the “Subsidiary”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands. The Subsidiary was organized by the Fund to invest in commodity-linked derivatives. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary.
The Fund’s investment objective is to provide total return with a low to moderate correlation to traditional financial market indices.
The Fund’s shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), which means that the Fund’s shares may not be sold publicly. However, the Trust may sell the Fund’s shares through private placements pursuant to available exemptions from registration under the 1933 Act. Shares of the Fund are sold only to other investment companies.
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the Fund in the preparation of its consolidated financial statements.
A. | Security Valuations — Securities, including restricted securities, are valued according to the following policy. |
Debt obligations (including convertible securities) and unlisted equities are fair valued using an evaluated quote provided by an independent pricing service. Evaluated quotes provided by the pricing service may be determined without exclusive reliance on quoted prices, and may reflect appropriate factors such as institution-size trading in similar groups of securities, developments related to specific securities, dividend rate (for unlisted equities), yield (for debt obligations), quality, type of issue, coupon rate (for debt obligations), maturity (for debt obligations), individual trading characteristics and other market data. Debt obligations are subject to interest rate and credit risks. In addition, all debt obligations involve some risk of default with respect to interest and/or principal payments.
A security listed or traded on an exchange (except convertible securities) is valued at its last sales price or official closing price as of the close of the customary trading session on the exchange where the security is principally traded, or lacking any sales or official closing price on a particular day, the security may be valued at the closing bid price on that day. Securities traded in the over-the-counter market are valued based on prices furnished by independent pricing services or market makers. When such securities are valued by an independent pricing service they may be considered fair valued. Futures contracts are valued at the final settlement price set by an exchange on which they are principally traded. Listed options are valued at the mean between the last bid and ask prices from the exchange on which they are principally traded. Options not listed on an exchange are valued by an independent source at the mean between the last bid and ask prices. For purposes of determining net asset value per share, futures and option contracts generally are valued 15 minutes after the close of the customary trading session of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).
Investments in open-end and closed-end registered investment companies that do not trade on an exchange are valued at the end of day net asset value per share. Investments in open-end and closed-end registered investment companies that trade on an exchange are valued at the last sales price or official closing price as of the close of the customary trading session on the exchange where the security is principally traded.
Swap agreements are fair valued using an evaluated quote provided by an independent pricing service. Evaluated quotes provided by the pricing service are valued based on a model which may include end of day net present values, spreads, ratings, industry, and company performance.
Foreign securities’ (including foreign exchange contracts) prices are converted into U.S. dollar amounts using the applicable exchange rates as of the close of the NYSE. If market quotations are available and reliable for foreign exchange-traded equity securities, the securities will be valued at the market quotations. Because trading hours for certain foreign securities end before the close of the NYSE, closing market quotations may become unreliable. If between the time trading ends on a particular security and the close of the customary trading session on the NYSE, events
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occur that the Adviser determines are significant and make the closing price unreliable, the Fund may fair value the security. If the event is likely to have affected the closing price of the security, the security will be valued at fair value in good faith using procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. Adjustments to closing prices to reflect fair value may also be based on a screening process of an independent pricing service to indicate the degree of certainty, based on historical data, that the closing price in the principal market where a foreign security trades is not the current value as of the close of the NYSE. Foreign securities’ prices meeting the approved degree of certainty that the price is not reflective of current value will be priced at the indication of fair value from the independent pricing service. Multiple factors may be considered by the independent pricing service in determining adjustments to reflect fair value and may include information relating to sector indices, American Depositary Receipts and domestic and foreign index futures. Foreign securities may have additional risks including exchange rate changes, potential for sharply devalued currencies and high inflation, political and economic upheaval, the relative lack of issuer information, relatively low market liquidity and the potential lack of strict financial and accounting controls and standards.
Securities for which market prices are not provided by any of the above methods may be valued based upon quotes furnished by independent sources. The last bid price may be used to value equity securities. The mean between the last bid and ask prices is used to value debt obligations, including corporate loans.
Securities for which market quotations are not readily available or became unreliable are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by or under the supervision of the Trust’s officers following procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. Issuer specific events, market trends, bid/ask quotes of brokers and information providers and other market data may be reviewed in the course of making a good faith determination of a security’s fair value.
The Fund may invest in securities that are subject to interest rate risk, meaning the risk that the prices will generally fall as interest rates rise and, conversely, the prices will generally rise as interest rates fall. Specific securities differ in their sensitivity to changes in interest rates depending on their individual characteristics. Changes in interest rates may result in increased market volatility, which may affect the value and/or liquidity of certain of the Fund’s investments.
Valuations change in response to many factors including the historical and prospective earnings of the issuer, the value of the issuer’s assets, general economic conditions, interest rates, investor perceptions and market liquidity. Because of the inherent uncertainties of valuation, the values reflected in the consolidated financial statements may materially differ from the value received upon actual sale of those investments.
B. | Securities Transactions and Investment Income — Securities transactions are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains or losses on sales are computed on the basis of specific identification of the securities sold. Interest income (net of withholding tax, if any) is recorded on the accrual basis from settlement date. Dividend income (net of withholding tax, if any) is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Bond premiums and discounts are amortized and/or accreted for financial reporting purposes. |
The Fund may periodically participate in litigation related to Fund investments. As such, the Fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received are included in the Consolidated Statement of Operations as realized gain (loss) for investments no longer held and as unrealized gain (loss) for investments still held.
Brokerage commissions and mark ups are considered transaction costs and are recorded as an increase to the cost basis of securities purchased and/or a reduction of proceeds on a sale of securities. Such transaction costs are included in the determination of net realized and unrealized gain (loss) from investment securities reported in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets and the net realized and unrealized gains (losses) on securities per share in the Consolidated Financial Highlights. Transaction costs are included in the calculation of the Fund’s net asset value and, accordingly, they reduce the Fund’s total returns. These transaction costs are not considered operating expenses and are not reflected in net investment income reported in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets, or the net investment income per share and ratios of expenses and net investment income reported in the Consolidated Financial Highlights, nor are they limited by any expense limitation arrangements between the Fund and the investment adviser.
C. | Country Determination — For the purposes of making investment selection decisions and presentation in the Consolidated Schedule of Investments, the investment adviser may determine the country in which an issuer is located and/or credit risk exposure based on various factors. These factors include the laws of the country under which the issuer is organized, where the issuer maintains a principal office, the country in which the issuer derives 50% or more of its total revenues and the country that has the primary market for the issuer’s securities, as well as other criteria. Among the other criteria that may be evaluated for making this determination are the country in which the issuer maintains 50% or more of its assets, the type of security, financial guarantees and enhancements, the nature of the collateral and the sponsor organization. Country of issuer and/or credit risk exposure has been determined to be the United States of America, unless otherwise noted. |
D. | Distributions — Distributions from net investment income and net realized capital gain, if any, are generally declared and paid annually and recorded on the ex-dividend date. The Fund may elect to treat a portion of the proceeds from redemptions as distributions for federal income tax purposes. |
E. | Federal Income Taxes — The Fund intends to comply with the requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”), necessary to qualify as a regulated investment company and to distribute substantially all of the Fund’s taxable earnings to shareholders. As such, the Fund will not be subject to federal income taxes on otherwise taxable income (including net realized capital gain) that is distributed to shareholders. Therefore, no provision for federal income taxes is recorded in the consolidated financial statements. |
The Fund recognizes the tax benefits of uncertain tax positions only when the position is more likely than not to be sustained. Management has analyzed the Fund’s uncertain tax positions and concluded that no liability for unrecognized tax benefits should be recorded related to uncertain tax positions. Management is not aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will change materially in the next 12 months.
The Subsidiary is classified as a controlled foreign corporation under Subchapter N of the Internal Revenue Code. Therefore, the Fund is required to increase its taxable income by its share of the Subsidiary’s income. Net investment losses of the Subsidiary cannot be deducted by the Fund in the current period nor carried forward to offset taxable income in future periods.
The Fund files tax returns in the U.S. Federal jurisdiction and certain other jurisdictions. Generally the Fund is subject to examinations by such taxing authorities for up to three years after the filing of the return for the tax period.
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F. | Accounting Estimates — The financial statements are prepared on a consolidated basis in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), which requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period including estimates and assumptions related to taxation. Actual results could differ from those estimates by a significant amount. The accompanying financial statements reflect the financial position of the Fund and its Subsidiary and the results of operations on a consolidated basis. All inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. |
In addition, the Fund monitors for material events or transactions that may occur or become known after the period-end date and before the date the consolidated financial statements are released to print.
G. | Indemnifications — Under the Trust’s organizational documents, each Trustee, officer, employee or other agent of the Trust, and under the Subsidiary’s organizational documents, the directors and officers of the Subsidiary, are indemnified against certain liabilities that may arise out of the performance of their duties to the Fund and/or the Subsidiary, respectively. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Fund enters into contracts, including the Fund’s servicing agreements, that contain a variety of indemnification clauses. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred. The risk of material loss as a result of such indemnification claims is considered remote. |
H. | Structured Securities — The Fund may invest in structured securities. Structured securities are a type of derivative security whose value is determined by reference to changes in the value of underlying securities, currencies, interest rates, commodities, indices or other financial indicators (“reference instruments”). Most structured securities are fixed-income securities that have maturities of three years or less. Structured securities may be positively or negatively indexed (i.e., their principal value or interest rates may increase or decrease if the underlying reference instrument appreciates) and may have return characteristics similar to direct investments in the underlying reference instrument. |
Structured securities may entail a greater degree of market risk than other types of debt securities because the investor bears the risk of the reference instruments. In addition to the credit risk of structured securities and the normal risks of price changes in response to changes in interest rates, the principal amount of structured notes or indexed securities may decrease as a result of changes in the value of the underlying reference instruments. Changes in the daily value of structured securities are recorded as unrealized gains (losses) in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. When the structured securities mature or are sold, the Fund recognizes a realized gain (loss) on the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
I. | Futures Contracts — The Fund may enter into futures contracts to manage exposure to interest rate, equity and market price movements and/or currency risks. A futures contract is an agreement between two parties (“Counterparties”) to purchase or sell a specified underlying security, currency or commodity (or delivery of a cash settlement price, in the case of an index future) for a fixed price at a future date. The Fund currently invests only in exchange-traded futures and they are standardized as to maturity date and underlying financial instrument. Initial margin deposits required upon entering into futures contracts are satisfied by the segregation of specific securities or cash as collateral at the futures commission merchant (broker). During the period the futures contracts are open, changes in the value of the contracts are recognized as unrealized gains or losses by recalculating the value of the contracts on a daily basis. Subsequent or variation margin payments are received or made depending upon whether unrealized gains or losses are incurred. These amounts are reflected as receivables or payables on the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities. When the contracts are closed or expire, the Fund recognizes a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the proceeds from, or cost of, the closing transaction and the Fund’s basis in the contract. The net realized gain (loss) and the change in unrealized gain (loss) on futures contracts held during the period is included on the Consolidated Statement of Operations. The primary risks associated with futures contracts are market risk and the absence of a liquid secondary market. If the Fund were unable to liquidate a futures contract and/or enter into an offsetting closing transaction, the Fund would continue to be subject to market risk with respect to the value of the contracts and continue to be required to maintain the margin deposits on the futures contracts. Futures contracts have minimal Counterparty risk since the exchange’s clearinghouse, as Counterparty to all exchange-traded futures, guarantees the futures against default. Risks may exceed amounts recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities. |
J. | Swap Agreements — The Fund may enter into various swap transactions, including interest rate, total return, index, currency and credit default swap contracts (“CDS”) for investment purposes or to manage interest rate, currency or credit risk. Such transactions are agreements between two parties. These agreements may contain among other conditions, events of default and termination events, and various covenants and representations such as provisions that require the Fund to maintain a pre-determined level of net assets, and/or provide limits regarding the decline of the Fund’s NAV over specific periods of time. If the Fund were to trigger such provisions and have open derivative positions at that time, the Counterparty may be able to terminate such agreement and request immediate payment in an amount equal to the net liability positions, if any. |
Interest rate, total return, index, and currency swap agreements are two-party contracts entered into primarily to exchange the returns (or differentials in rates of returns) earned or realized on particular predetermined investments or instruments. The gross returns to be exchanged or “swapped” between the parties are calculated with respect to a notional amount, i.e., the return on or increase in value of a particular dollar amount invested at a particular interest rate or return of an underlying asset, in a particular foreign currency, or in a “basket” of securities representing a particular index. At the maturity date, a net cash flow is exchanged where the total return is equivalent to the return of the underlying reference less a financing rate, if any. As a receiver, the Fund would receive payments based on any positive total return and would owe payments in the event of a negative total return. As the payer, the Fund would owe payments on any net positive total return, and would receive payment in the event of a negative total return.
Changes in the value of swap agreements are recognized as unrealized gains (losses) in the Consolidated Statement of Operations by “marking to market” on a daily basis to reflect the value of the swap agreement at the end of each trading day. Payments received or paid at the beginning of the agreement are reflected as such on the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities and may be referred to as upfront payments. The Fund accrues for the fixed payment stream and amortizes upfront payments, if any, on swap agreements on a daily basis with the net amount, recorded as a component of realized gain (loss) on the Consolidated Statement of Operations. A liquidation payment received or made at the termination of a swap agreement is recorded as realized gain (loss) on the Consolidated Statement of Operations. The Fund segregates liquid securities having a value at least equal to the amount of the potential obligation of a Fund under any swap transaction. Entering into these agreements involves, to varying degrees, lack of liquidity and elements of credit, market, and Counterparty risk in excess of amounts recognized
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on the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Such risks involve the possibility that a swap is difficult to sell or liquidate; the Counterparty does not honor its obligations under the agreement and unfavorable interest rates and market fluctuations.
It is possible that developments in the swaps market, including potential government regulation, could adversely affect the Fund’s ability to terminate existing swap agreements or to realize amounts to be received under such agreements.
K. | Other Risks — The Fund will seek to gain exposure to commodity markets primarily through an investment in the Subsidiary and through investments in exchange traded funds and commodity-linked derivatives. The Subsidiary, unlike the Fund, may invest without limitation in commodities, commodity-linked derivatives and other securities, such as exchange traded notes, that may provide leverage and non-leveraged exposure to commodity markets. The Fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments. |
The Fund is non-diversified and may invest in securities of fewer issuers than if it were diversified. Thus, the value of the Fund’s shares may vary more widely and the Fund may be subject to greater market and credit risk than if the Fund invested more broadly.
L. | Leverage Risk — Leverage exists when a Fund can lose more than it originally invests because it purchases or sells an instrument or enters into a transaction without investing an amount equal to the full economic exposure of the instrument or transaction. |
M. | Collateral — To the extent the Fund has designated or segregated a security as collateral and that security is subsequently sold, it is the Fund’s practice to replace such collateral no later than the next business day. |
NOTE 2—Advisory Fees and Other Fees Paid to Affiliates
The Trust has entered into a master investment advisory agreement with Invesco Advisers, Inc. (the “Adviser” or “Invesco”). Under the terms of the investment advisory agreement, the Fund pays an advisory fee to the Adviser less the amount paid by the Subsidiary to the Adviser based on the annual rate of the Fund’s average daily net assets as follows:
| | | | | | |
Average Daily Net Assets | | Rate |
First $250 million | | | 1 | .10% | | |
Next $250 million | | | 1 | .075% | | |
Next $500 million | | | 1 | .05% | | |
Next $1.5 billion | | | 1 | .025% | | |
Next $2.5 billion | | | 1 | .00% | | |
Next $2.5 billion | | | 0 | .975% | | |
Next $2.5 billion | | | 0 | .95% | | |
Over $10 billion | | | 0 | .925% | | |
For the year ended October 31, 2014, the effective advisory fees incurred by the Fund was 1.10%.
The Subsidiary has entered into a separate contract with the Adviser whereby the Adviser provides investment advisory and other services to the Subsidiary. In consideration of these services, the Subsidiary pays an advisory fee to the Adviser based on the annual rate of the Subsidiary’s average daily net assets as set forth in the table above.
Under the terms of a master sub-advisory agreement between the Adviser and each of Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH, Invesco Asset Management Limited, Invesco Asset Management (Japan) Limited, Invesco Australia Limited, Invesco Hong Kong Limited, Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc., Invesco Canada Ltd. and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC (collectively, the “Affiliated Sub-Advisers”) the Adviser, not the Fund, may pay 40% of the fees paid to the Adviser to any such Affiliated Sub-Adviser(s) that provide(s) discretionary investment management services to the Fund based on the percentage of assets allocated to such Sub-Adviser(s).
The Adviser has contractually agreed, through at least February 29, 2016, 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 below) to 1.15% of average daily net assets, respectively. 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 reimbursement to exceed the numbers reflected above: (1) interest; (2) taxes; (3) dividend expense on short sales; (4) extraordinary or non-routine items, including litigation expenses; and (5) expenses that the Fund has incurred but did not actually pay because of an expense offset arrangement. Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not operating expenses of a Fund directly, but are fees and expenses, including management fees of the investment companies in which a Fund invests. As a result, the total annual fund operating expenses after expense reimbursement may exceed the expense limits above. Unless Invesco continues the fee waiver agreement, it will terminate on February 29, 2016. The fee waiver agreement cannot be terminated during its term.
Further, the Adviser has contractually agreed, through at least June 30, 2016, to waive the advisory fee payable by the Fund in an amount equal to 100% of the net advisory fees the Adviser receives from the affiliated money market funds on investments by the Fund of uninvested cash in such affiliated money market funds.
For the year ended October 31, 2014, the Adviser waived advisory fees of $145,980.
The Trust has entered into a master administrative services agreement with Invesco pursuant to which the Fund has agreed to pay Invesco for certain administrative costs incurred in providing accounting services to the Fund. For the year ended October 31, 2014, expenses incurred under the agreement are shown in the Consolidated Statement of Operations as Administrative services fees.
The Trust has entered into a transfer agency and service agreement with Invesco Investment Services, Inc. (“IIS”) pursuant to which the Fund has agreed to pay IIS a fee for providing transfer agency and shareholder services to the Fund and reimburse IIS for certain expenses incurred by IIS in the course of providing such services. IIS may make payments to intermediaries that provide omnibus account services, sub-accounting services and/or networking services. All fees payable by IIS to intermediaries that provide omnibus account services or sub-accounting are charged back to the Fund, subject to certain limitations approved by the Trust’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended October 31, 2014, the expenses incurred under the agreement are shown in the Statement of Operations as Transfer agent fees.
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The Trust has entered into a master distribution agreement with Invesco Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”) to serve as the distributor for the Fund’s shares. The Fund does not pay a distribution fee to IDI under the agreement.
Certain officers and trustees of the Trust are officers and directors of the Adviser, IIS and/or IDI.
NOTE 3—Additional Valuation Information
GAAP defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date, under current market conditions. GAAP establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation methods, giving the highest priority to readily available unadjusted quoted prices in an active market for identical assets (Level 1) and the lowest priority to significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), generally when market prices are not readily available or are unreliable. Based on the valuation inputs, the securities or other investments are tiered into one of three levels. Changes in valuation methods may result in transfers in or out of an investment’s assigned level:
| Level 1 — | Prices are determined using quoted prices in an active market for identical assets. |
| Level 2 — | Prices are determined using other significant observable inputs. Observable inputs are inputs that other market participants may use in pricing a security. These may include quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, loss severities, default rates, discount rates, volatilities and others. |
| Level 3 — | Prices are determined using significant unobservable inputs. In situations where quoted prices or observable inputs are unavailable (for example, when there is little or no market activity for an investment at the end of the period), unobservable inputs may be used. Unobservable inputs reflect the Fund’s own assumptions about the factors market participants would use in determining fair value of the securities or instruments and would be based on the best available information. |
The following is a summary of the tiered valuation input levels, as of October 31, 2014. The level assigned to the securities valuations may not be an indication of the risk or liquidity associated with investing in those securities. Because of the inherent uncertainties of valuation, the values reflected in the financial statements may materially differ from the value received upon actual sale of those investments.
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| | Level 1 | | | Level 2 | | | Level 3 | | | Total | |
Money Market Funds | | $ | 42,174,954 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 42,174,954 | |
U.S. Treasury Securities | | | — | | | | 60,461,708 | | | | — | | | | 60,461,708 | |
| | | 42,174,954 | | | | 60,461,708 | | | | — | | | | 102,636,662 | |
Futures Contracts* | | | 991,878 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 991,878 | |
Swap Agreements* | | | — | | | | 301,187 | | | | — | | | | 301,187 | |
Total Investments | | $ | 43,166,832 | | | $ | 60,762,895 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 103,929,727 | |
* | Unrealized appreciation. |
NOTE 4—Derivative Investments
Value of Derivative Investments at Period-End
The table below summarizes the value of the Fund’s derivative investments, detailed by primary risk exposure, held as of October 31, 2014:
| | | | | | | | |
| | Value | |
Risk Exposure/Derivative Type | | Assets | | | Liabilities | |
Commodity risk: | | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts(a) | | $ | 1,889 | | | $ | (493,737 | ) |
Swap agreements(b) | | | 640,231 | | | | (542,695 | ) |
Interest rate risk: | | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts(a) | | | 1,625,743 | | | | — | |
Swap agreements(b) | | | 253,205 | | | | (72,186 | ) |
Market risk: | | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts(a) | | | 544,063 | | | | (686,080 | ) |
Swap agreements(b) | | | 22,632 | | | | — | |
Total | | $ | 3,087,763 | | | $ | (1,794,698 | ) |
(a) | Includes cumulative appreciation (depreciation) of futures contracts. Only current day’s variation margin receivable is reported within the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities. |
(b) | Values are disclosed on the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities under the caption Unrealized appreciation on swap agreements — OTC and Unrealized depreciation on swap agreements — OTC. |
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Effect of Derivative Investments for the year ended October 31, 2014
The table below summarizes the gains (losses) on derivative investments, detailed by primary risk exposure, recognized in earnings during the period:
| | | | | | | | |
| | Location of Gain (Loss) on Consolidated Statement of Operations | |
| | Futures Contracts | | | Swap Agreements | |
Realized Gain (Loss): | | | | | | | | |
Commodity risk | | $ | (1,075,430 | ) | | $ | (3,321,679 | ) |
Interest rate risk | | | 7,822,976 | | | | 2,748,596 | |
Market risk | | | 4,988,438 | | | | (107,162 | ) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation): | | | | | | | | |
Commodity risk | | | (517,711 | ) | | | 428,758 | |
Interest rate risk | | | (838,343 | ) | | | (412,966 | ) |
Market risk | | | (2,421,631 | ) | | | 22,632 | |
Total | | $ | 7,958,299 | | | $ | (641,821 | ) |
The table below summarizes the average notional value of futures contracts and swap agreements outstanding during the period.
| | | | | | | | |
| | Futures Contracts | | | Swap Agreements | |
Average notional value | | $ | 177,516,315 | | | $ | 69,060,599 | |
Offsetting Assets and Liabilities
Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2011-11, Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities, which was subsequently clarified in Financial Accounting Standards Board ASU 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” is intended to enhance disclosures about financial instruments and derivative instruments that are subject to offsetting arrangements on the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities and to enable investors to better understand the effect of those arrangements on its financial position. In order for an arrangement to be eligible for netting, the Fund must have a basis to conclude that such netting arrangements are legally enforceable. The Fund enters into netting agreements and collateral agreements in an attempt to reduce the Fund’s Counterparty credit risk by providing for a single net settlement with a Counterparty of all financial transactions covered by the agreement in an event of default as defined under such agreement.
There were no derivative instruments subject to a netting agreement for which the Fund is not currently netting. The following tables present derivative instruments that are either subject to an enforceable netting agreement or offset by collateral arrangements as of October 31, 2014.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Assets: | |
| | Gross amounts presented in Consolidated Statement of Assets & Liabilities | | | Gross amounts offset in Consolidated Statement of Assets & Liabilities | | | Net amounts of assets presented in Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities | | | Collateral Received | | | | |
Counterparty(a) | | | | | Financial Instruments | | | Cash | | | Net Amount(b) | |
Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Bank of America Securities LLC | | $ | 13,402 | | | $ | (533 | ) | | $ | 12,869 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 12,869 | |
Goldman Sachs International | | | 262,306 | | | | — | | | | 262,306 | | | | — | | | | (262,306 | ) | | | — | |
Subtotal — Fund | | $ | 275,708 | | | $ | (533 | ) | | $ | 275,175 | | | $ | — | | | $ | (262,306 | ) | | $ | 12,869 | |
| | | | | | |
Subsidiary | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Barclays Capital Inc. | | $ | 108,060 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 108,060 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 108,060 | |
Cargill | | | 179,991 | | | | — | | | | 179,991 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 179,991 | |
Goldman Sachs International | | | 380,965 | | | | — | | | | 380,965 | | | | (318,403 | ) | | | — | | | | 62,562 | |
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | | | 499,662 | | | | (325,477 | ) | | | 174,185 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 174,185 | |
Morgan Stanley | | | 30,001 | | | | — | | | | 30,001 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 30,001 | |
Subtotal — Subsidiary | | $ | 1,198,679 | | | $ | (325,477 | ) | | $ | 873,202 | | | $ | (318,403 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | 554,799 | |
Total | | $ | 1,474,387 | | | $ | (326,010 | ) | | $ | 1,148,377 | | | $ | (318,403 | ) | | $ | (262,306 | ) | | $ | 567,668 | |
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Liabilities: | |
| | Gross amounts presented in Consolidated Statement of Assets & Liabilities | | | Gross amounts offset in Consolidated Statement of Assets & Liabilities | | | Net amounts of liabilities presented in Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities | | | Collateral Pledged | | | | |
Counterparty(a) | | | | | Financial Instruments | | | Cash | | | Net Amount(b) | |
Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Bank of America Securities LLC | | $ | 533 | | | $ | (533 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Barclays Capital Inc. | | | 55,033 | | | | — | | | | 55,033 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 55,033 | |
Macquarie Bank Ltd. | | | 16,363 | | | | — | | | | 16,363 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 16,363 | |
Subtotal — Fund | | $ | 71,929 | | | $ | (533 | ) | | $ | 71,396 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 71,396 | |
| | | | | | |
Subsidiary | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
CIBC World Markets Corp. | | $ | 217,475 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 217,475 | | | $ | (217,475 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | | | 325,477 | | | | (325,477 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Subtotal — Subsidiary | | $ | 542,952 | | | $ | (325,477 | ) | | $ | 217,475 | | | $ | (217,475 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Total | | $ | 614,881 | | | $ | (326,010 | ) | | $ | 288,871 | | | $ | (217,475 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | 71,396 | |
(a) | Swap agreements — OTC Counterparty. |
(b) | The Fund and the Subsidiary are recognized as separate legal entities and as such are subject to separate netting arrangements with the Counterparty. |
NOTE 5—Subsidiary Information
The Fund’s Consolidated Schedule of Investments includes the holdings, including any investments in derivatives, of both the Fund and the Subsidiary. The Fund’s Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities, Consolidated Statement of Operations and Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets include the account balances of both the Fund and the Subsidiary and all interfund transactions have been eliminated.
The table below summarizes the financial information of the Subsidiary recognized in the consolidated financial statements referred to above.
| | | | |
Selected Financial Information | | Invesco Cayman Commodity Fund VI Ltd. (the “Subsidiary”) | |
Total assets | | $ | 24,080,087 | |
Total liabilities | | | 28,480 | |
Net assets | | | 24,051,607 | |
Total investment income | | | 11,452 | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | (269,582 | ) |
Net realized gain (loss) from: | | | | |
Investment securities | | | 651 | |
Futures contracts | | | (1,075,430 | ) |
Swap agreements | | | (3,321,679 | ) |
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of: | | | | |
Investment securities | | | 1,069 | |
Futures contracts | | | (517,711 | ) |
Swap agreements | | | 428,758 | |
Increase (decrease) in net assets | | $ | (4,753,924 | ) |
NOTE 6—Trustees’ and Officers’ Fees and Benefits
Trustees’ and Officers’ Fees and Benefits include amounts accrued by the Fund to pay remuneration to certain Trustees and Officers of the Fund. Trustees have the option to defer compensation payable by the Fund, and Trustees’ and Officers’ Fees and Benefits also include amounts accrued by the Fund to fund such deferred compensation amounts. Those Trustees who defer compensation have the option to select various Invesco Funds in which their deferral accounts shall be deemed to be invested. Finally, certain current Trustees were eligible to participate in a retirement plan that provided for benefits to be paid upon retirement to Trustees over a period of time based on the number of years of service. The Fund may have certain former Trustees who also participate in a retirement plan and receive benefits under such plan. Trustees’ and Officers’ Fees and Benefits include amounts accrued by the Fund to fund such retirement benefits. Obligations under the deferred compensation and retirement plans represent unsecured claims against the general assets of the Fund.
NOTE 7—Cash Balances
The Fund is permitted to temporarily carry a negative or overdrawn balance in its account with State Street Bank and Trust Company, the custodian bank. Such balances, if any at period end, are shown in the Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities under the payable caption Amount due custodian. To compensate the custodian bank for such overdrafts, the overdrawn Fund may either (1) leave funds as a compensating balance in the account so the custodian bank can be compensated by earning the additional interest; or (2) compensate by paying the custodian bank at a rate agreed upon by the custodian bank and Invesco, not to exceed the contractually agreed upon rate.
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NOTE 8—Distributions to Shareholders and Tax Components of Net Assets
Tax Character of Distributions to Shareholders Paid During the Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2014 and the Period February 25, 2013 (commencement date) through October 31, 2013:
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| | 2014 | | | 2013 | |
Ordinary income | | $ | 2,401,006 | | | $ | — | |
Long-term capital gain | | | 3,650,901 | | | | — | |
Total distributions | | $ | 6,051,907 | | | $ | — | |
Tax Components of Net Assets at Period-End:
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| | 2014 | |
Undistributed ordinary income | | $ | 8,327,346 | |
Undistributed long-term gain | | | 2,960,068 | |
Net unrealized appreciation — investments | | | 8,826 | |
Net unrealized appreciation — other investments | | | 1,594,233 | |
Temporary book/tax differences | | | (5,775 | ) |
Shares of beneficial interest | | | 91,327,153 | |
Total net assets | | $ | 104,211,851 | |
The temporary book/tax differences are a result of timing differences between book and tax recognition of income and/or expenses. The Fund’s temporary book/tax differences are the result of the trustee deferral of compensation and retirement plan benefits.
Capital loss carryforward is calculated and reported as of a specific date. Results of transactions and other activity after that date may affect the amount of capital loss carryforward actually available for the Fund to utilize. Capital losses generated in years beginning after December 22, 2010 can be carried forward for an unlimited period, whereas previous losses expire in eight tax years. Capital losses with an expiration period may not be used to offset capital gains until all net capital losses without an expiration date have been utilized. Capital loss carryforwards with no expiration date will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses instead of as short-term capital losses as under prior law. The ability to utilize capital loss carryforwards in the future may be limited under the Internal Revenue Code and related regulations based on the results of future transactions.
The Fund does not have a capital loss carryforward as of October 31, 2014.
NOTE 9—Investment Securities
The aggregate amount of long-term U.S. government obligations (other than short-term securities and money market funds, if any) purchased and sold by the Fund during the year ended October 31, 2014 was $26,177,338 and $0, respectively. Cost of investments on a tax basis includes the adjustments for financial reporting purposes as of the most recently completed federal income tax reporting period-end.
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Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) of Investment Securities on a Tax Basis | |
Aggregate unrealized appreciation of investment securities | | $ | 7,862,333 | |
Aggregate unrealized (depreciation) of investment securities | | | (7,853,507 | ) |
Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities | | $ | 8,826 | |
Cost of investments is the same for tax and financial reporting purposes.
NOTE 10—Reclassification of Permanent Differences
Primarily as a result of differing book/tax treatment of futures contracts, swap agreement income and net operating losses, on October 31, 2014, undistributed net investment income (loss) was increased by $5,958,394, undistributed net realized gain was decreased by $1,203,403 and shares of beneficial interest was decreased by $4,754,991. This reclassification had no effect on the net assets of the Fund.
NOTE 11—Share Information
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| | Summary of Share Activity | |
| | Year ended October 31, 2014(a) | | | February 25, 2013 (commencement date) through October 31, 2013 | |
| | Shares | | | Amount | | | Shares | | | Amount | |
Sold | | | 460,860 | | | $ | 4,606,485 | | | | 11,652,708 | | | $ | 116,430,896 | |
Issued as reinvestment of dividends | | | 645,881 | | | | 6,051,906 | | | | — | | | | — | |
Reacquired | | | (1,558,642 | ) | | | (15,599,005 | ) | | | (1,122,165 | ) | | | (11,129,229 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in share activity | | | (451,901 | ) | | $ | (4,940,614 | ) | | | 10,530,543 | | | $ | 105,301,667 | |
(a) | 100% of the outstanding shares of the Fund are owned by affiliated mutual funds. Affiliated mutual funds are other funds that are also advised by Invesco. |
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NOTE 12—Consolidated Financial Highlights
The following schedule presents financial highlights for a share of the Fund outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
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| | Net asset value, beginning of period | | | Net investment income (loss)(a) | | | Net gains on securities (both realized and unrealized) | | | Total from investment operations | | | Distributions from net realized gains | | | Net asset value, end of period | | | Total return(b) | | | Net assets, end of period (000’s omitted) | | | Ratio of expenses to average net assets with fee waivers and/or expenses absorbed | | | Ratio of expenses to average net assets without fee waivers and/or expenses absorbed | | | Ratio of net investment income (loss) to average net assets | | | Portfolio turnover(c) | |
Year ended 10/31/14 | | $ | 10.35 | | | $ | (0.11 | ) | | $ | 0.68 | | | $ | 0.57 | | | $ | (0.58 | ) | | $ | 10.34 | | | | 6.11 | % | | $ | 104,212 | | | | 1.15 | %(d) | | | 1.29 | %(d) | | | (1.10 | )%(d) | | | 0 | % |
Year ended 10/31/13(e) | | | 10.00 | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | 0.42 | | | | 0.35 | | | | — | | | | 10.35 | | | | 3.50 | | | | 109,041 | | | | 1.15 | (f) | | | 1.35 | (f) | | | (1.09 | )(f) | | | 0 | |
(a) | Calculated using average shares outstanding. |
(b) | Includes adjustments in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and as such, the net asset value for financial reporting purposes and the returns based upon those net asset values may differ from the net asset value and returns for shareholder transactions. Does not include sales charges and is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable. |
(c) | Portfolio turnover is calculated at the fund level and is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable. |
(d) | Ratios are based on average daily net assets (000’s omitted) of $104,425. |
(e) | Commencement date of February 25, 2013. |
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Trustees of Invesco Securities Trust
and Shareholders of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund:
In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated statement of assets and liabilities, including the consolidated schedule of investments, and the related consolidated statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund (hereafter referred to as the “Fund”) at October 31, 2014, the results of its operations for the year then ended, and the changes in its net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended and for the period February 25, 2013 (commencement of operations) through October 31, 2013, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These consolidated financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at October 31, 2014 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, and the application of alternative auditing procedures where confirmations of security purchases have not been received, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP
December 29, 2014
Houston, Texas
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Calculating your ongoing Fund expenses
Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or contingent deferred sales charges on redemptions, if any; and (2) ongoing costs, including distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees, and other Fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period May 1, 2014, through October 31, 2014.
In addition to the fees and expenses which the Fund bears directly, the Fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which your Fund invests. The amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by your Fund will vary because the underlying funds have varied expenses and fee levels and the Fund may own different proportions of the underlying funds at different times. Estimated underlying fund expenses are not expenses that are incurred directly by your Fund. They are expenses that are incurred directly by the underlying funds and are deducted from the value of the underlying funds your Fund invests in. The effect of the estimated underlying fund expenses that you bear indirectly are included in your Fund’s total return.
Actual expenses
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this table, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the table under the heading entitled “Actual Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical example for comparison purposes
The table below also provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return.
The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transaction costs, such as sales charges (loads) on purchase payments or contingent deferred sales charges on redemptions, if any. Therefore, the hypothetical information is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, expenses shown in the table do not include the expenses of the underlying funds, which are borne indirectly by the Fund. If transaction costs and indirect expenses were included, your costs would have been higher.
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Beginning Account Value (05/01/14) | | ACTUAL | | | HYPOTHETICAL (5% annual return before expenses) | | | Annualized Expense Ratio |
| Ending Account Value (10/31/14)1 | | | Expenses Paid During Period2 | | | Ending Account Value (10/31/14) | | | Expenses Paid During Period2 | | |
$1,000.00 | | $ | 1,040.20 | | | $ | 5.91 | | | $ | 1,019.41 | | | $ | 5.85 | | | 1.15% |
1 | The actual ending account value is based on the actual total return of the Fund for the period May 1, 2014 through October 31, 2014, after actual expenses and will differ from the hypothetical ending account value which is based on the Fund’s expense ratio and a hypothetical annual return of 5% before expenses. |
2 | Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio as indicated above multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 to reflect the most recent fiscal half year. |
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Approval of Investment Advisory and Sub-Advisory Contracts
The Board of Trustees (the Board) of Invesco Securities Trust is required under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, to approve annually the renewal of Invesco Balanced-Risk Aggressive Allocation Fund’s (the Fund) investment advisory agreements. During contract renewal meetings held on June 16-17, 2014, the Board as a whole, and the disinterested or “independent” Trustees, who comprise over 75% of the Board, voting separately, approved the continuance for the Fund of the Master Investment Advisory Agreement with Invesco Advisers, Inc. (Invesco Advisers and the investment advisory agreement) and the Master Intergroup Sub-Advisory Contract for Mutual Funds with Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH, Invesco Asset Management Limited, Invesco Asset Management (Japan) Limited, Invesco Australia Limited, Invesco Hong Kong Limited, Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc., Invesco Canada Ltd. and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC (collectively, the Affiliated Sub-Advisers and the sub-advisory contracts) for another year, effective July 1, 2014.
In evaluating the fairness and reasonableness of compensation under the Fund’s investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory contracts, the Board considered, among other things, the factors discussed below. The Board determined that continuation of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement and the sub-advisory contracts are in the best interest of the Fund and its shareholders and that the compensation payable to Invesco Advisers and the Affiliated Sub-Advisers under the agreements is fair and reasonable.
The Board’s Fund Evaluation Process
The Board’s Investments Committee has established three Sub-Committees, each of which is primarily responsible for overseeing the management of a number of the funds advised by Invesco Advisers (the Invesco Funds). The Sub-Committees meet throughout the year to review the performance of their assigned Invesco Funds, including reviewing materials prepared under the direction of the independent Senior Officer, an officer of the Invesco Funds who reports directly to the independent Trustees. Over the course of each year, the Sub-Committees meet with portfolio managers for their assigned Invesco Funds and other members of management to review the performance, investment objective(s), policies, strategies, limitations and investment risks of these funds. The Sub-Committees meet regularly and at designated contract renewal meetings each year to conduct a review of the performance, fees, expenses and other matters related to their assigned Invesco Funds. Each Sub-Committee recommends to the Investments Committee, which in turn recommends to the full Board, whether and on what terms to
approve the continuance of each Invesco Fund’s investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory contracts for another year.
During the contract renewal process, the Trustees receive comparative performance and fee data regarding the Invesco Funds prepared by Invesco Advisers and Lipper Inc. (Lipper), an independent provider of investment company data. The Trustees also receive an independent written evaluation from the Senior Officer. The Senior Officer’s evaluation is prepared as part of his responsibility to manage the process by which the Invesco Funds’ proposed management fees are negotiated during the annual contract renewal process to ensure they are negotiated in a manner that is at arms’ length and reasonable. In addition to meetings with Invesco Advisers and fund counsel, the independent Trustees also discuss the continuance of the investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory contracts in separate sessions with the Senior Officer and with independent legal counsel.
The Trustees recognized that the advisory fee rates for the Invesco Funds are, in many cases, the result of years of review and negotiation. The Trustees’ deliberations and conclusions in a particular year may be based in part on their deliberations and conclusions regarding these same arrangements throughout the year and in prior years. The Trustees’ review and conclusions are based on the comprehensive consideration of all information presented to them and are not the result of any single determinative factor. Moreover, one Trustee may have weighed a particular piece of information or factor differently than another Trustee.
The discussion below serves as the Senior Officer’s independent written evaluation with respect to the Fund’s investment advisory agreement as well as a discussion of the material factors and related conclusions that formed the basis for the Board’s approval of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory contracts. Unless otherwise stated, this information is current as of June 17, 2014, and may not reflect consideration of factors that became known to the Board after that date.
Factors and Conclusions and Summary of Independent Written Fee Evaluation
A. | Nature, Extent and Quality of Services Provided by Invesco Advisers and the Affiliated Sub-Advisers |
The Board reviewed the advisory services provided to the Fund by Invesco Advisers under the Fund’s investment advisory agreement, the performance of Invesco Advisers in providing these services, and the credentials and experience of the officers and employees of Invesco Advisers who provide these services, including the Fund’s portfolio manager or
managers, with whom the Sub-Committees met during the year. The Board’s review of the qualifications of Invesco Advisers to provide advisory services included the Board’s consideration of Invesco Advisers’ investment process oversight, independent credit analysis and investment risk management. The Board also considered non-advisory services that Invesco Advisers and its affiliates provide to the Invesco Funds such as various back office support functions, equity and fixed income trading operations, internal audit, distribution and legal and compliance.
In determining whether to continue the Fund’s investment advisory agreement, the Board considered the benefits of reapproving an existing relationship and the greater uncertainty that may be associated with entering into a new relationship. The Board concluded that the nature, extent and quality of the services provided to the Fund by Invesco Advisers are appropriate and satisfactory and consistent with the terms of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement.
The Board reviewed the services that may be provided by the Affiliated Sub-Advisers under the sub-advisory contracts and the credentials and experience of the officers and employees of the Affiliated Sub-Advisers who provide these services. The Board noted that the Affiliated Sub-Advisers have offices and personnel that are located in financial centers around the world. As a result, the Affiliated Sub-Advisers can provide research and investment analysis on the markets and economies of various countries in which the Fund may invest, make recommendations regarding securities and assist with security trades. The Board concluded that the sub-advisory contracts benefit the Fund and its shareholders by permitting Invesco Advisers to use the resources and talents of the Affiliated Sub-Advisers in managing the Fund. The Board concluded that the nature, extent and quality of the services that may be provided by the Affiliated Sub-Advisers are appropriate and satisfactory and consistent with the terms of the Fund’s sub-advisory contracts.
Because the Fund was launched early in 2013, the Board did not consider Fund performance as a relevant factor in considering whether to approve the investment advisory agreement. The Board did not view Fund performance as a relevant factor in considering whether to approve the sub-advisory contracts for the Fund, as no Affiliated Sub-Adviser currently manages assets of the Fund.
C. | Advisory and Sub-Advisory Fees |
The Board compared the Fund’s effective advisory fee rate (the advisory fee rate after advisory fee waivers and before other expense limitations/waivers) to the effective advisory fee rates of other mutual funds advised by Invesco Advisers and its affiliates that are managed
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using an investment process substantially similar to the investment process used for the Fund. The Board noted that the effective advisory fee rate of the Fund was higher than the effective advisory fee rate of two mutual funds and three off-shore funds and lower than the effective advisory fee rate of one off-shore fund advised by Invesco Advisers and higher than the sub-adviser effective fee rate of a mutual fund sub-advised by Invesco Advisers managed using a similar investment process.
The Board noted that Invesco Advisers has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or limit expenses of the Fund through at least February 28, 2105 in an amount necessary to limit total annual operating expenses to a specified percentage of average daily net assets for each class of the Fund.
The Board also considered the fees charged by Invesco Advisers and the Affiliated Sub-Advisers to other client accounts with investment strategies comparable to those of the Fund. The Board noted that Invesco Advisers or the Affiliated Sub-Advisers may charge lower fees to large institutional clients. Invesco Advisers reviewed with the Board the significantly greater scope of services it provides to the Invesco Funds relative to certain other client accounts. These additional services include provision of administrative services, officers and office space, oversight of service providers, preparation of annual registration statement updates and financial information and regulatory compliance under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Invesco Advisers also reviewed generally the higher frequency of shareholder purchases and redemptions in the Invesco Funds relative to the flow of assets for other client accounts. Invesco Advisers advised the Board that advance notice of redemptions is often provided to Invesco Advisers by institutional clients. The Board did note that sub-advisory fee rates charged by the Affiliated Sub-Advisers to manage the Invesco Funds and to manage other client accounts tended to be more comparable, reflecting a more comparable scope of services. The Board concluded that the aggregate services provided to the Invesco Funds were sufficiently different from those provided to institutional clients to support the difference in fees.
The Board also considered the services that may be provided by the Affiliated Sub-Advisers pursuant to the sub-advisory contracts, as well as the fees payable by Invesco Advisers to the Affiliated Sub-Advisers pursuant to the sub-advisory contracts. The Board also noted that the sub-advisory fees are not paid directly by the Fund, but rather, are payable by Invesco Advisers to the Affiliated Sub-Advisers.
D. | Economies of Scale and Breakpoints |
The Board considered the extent to which there are economies of scale in the provision of advisory services to the Fund. The Board also considered whether the Fund benefits from economies of scale through contractual breakpoints in the Fund’s advisory fee schedule and was assisted in this review by a report from
the Senior Officer. The Board also noted that the Fund shares directly in economies of scale through lower fees charged by third party service providers based on the combined size of the Invesco Funds and other clients advised by Invesco Advisers.
E. | Profitability and Financial Resources |
The Board reviewed information from Invesco Advisers concerning the costs of the advisory and other services that Invesco Advisers and its affiliates provide to the Fund and the profitability of Invesco Advisers and its affiliates in providing these services for the year ended December 31, 2013. The Board received information from Invesco Advisers about the methodology used to prepare the profitability information. The Board considered the profitability of Invesco Advisers in managing the Fund and the Invesco Funds. The Board noted that Invesco Advisers continues to operate at a net profit from services Invesco Advisers and its subsidiaries provide to the Invesco Funds and the Fund. The Board did not deem the level of profits realized by Invesco Advisers and its affiliates from providing services to the Fund to be excessive given the nature, quality and extent of the services provided to the Invesco Funds. The Board received and accepted information from Invesco Advisers demonstrating that Invesco Advisers and each Affiliated Sub-Adviser are financially sound and have the resources necessary to perform their obligations under the investment advisory agreement and sub-advisory contracts.
F. | Collateral Benefits to Invesco Advisers and its Affiliates |
The Board considered various other benefits received by Invesco Advisers and its affiliates from the relationship with the Fund, including the fees received for their provision of transfer agency and distribution services to the Fund. The Board considered the performance of Invesco Advisers and its affiliates in providing these services and the organizational structure employed to provide these services. The Board also considered that these services are provided to the Fund pursuant to written contracts that are reviewed and approved on an annual basis by the Board; that the services are required for the operation of the Fund; that Invesco Advisers and its affiliates can provide services, the nature and quality of which are at least equal to those provided by others offering the same or similar services; and that the fees for such services are fair and reasonable in light of the usual and customary charges by others for services of the same nature and quality.
The Board considered the benefits realized by Invesco Advisers and the Affiliated Sub-Advisers as a result of portfolio brokerage transactions executed through “soft dollar” arrangements. Invesco Advisers noted that the Fund does not execute brokerage transaction through “soft dollar” arrangements to any significant degree.
The Board considered that the Fund’s uninvested cash and cash collateral from any securities lending arrangements may be invested in money market funds advised by
Invesco Advisers pursuant to procedures approved by the Board. The Board noted that Invesco Advisers receives advisory fees from these affiliated money market funds attributable to such investments, although Invesco Advisers has contractually agreed to waive through varying periods the advisory fees payable by the Invesco Funds with respect to investments in the affiliated money market funds. The waiver is in an amount equal to 100% of the net advisory fee Invesco Advisers receives from the affiliated money market funds with respect to the Fund’s investment in the affiliated money market funds of uninvested cash, but not cash collateral. The Board concluded that the amount of advisory fees received by Invesco Advisors from the Fund’s investment of uninvested cash and cash collateral from any securities lending arrangements in the affiliated money market funds are fair and reasonable.
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Tax Information
Form 1099-DIV, Form 1042-S and other year-end tax information provide shareholders with actual calendar year amounts that should be included in their tax returns. Shareholders should consult their tax advisors.
The following distribution information is being provided as required by the Internal Revenue Code or to meet a specific state’s requirement.
The Fund designates the following amounts or, if subsequently determined to be different, the maximum amount allowable for its fiscal year ended October 31, 2014:
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Federal and State Income Tax | |
Long-Term Capital Gain Distributions | | $ | 3,650,901 | |
Qualified Dividend Income* | | | 0.00 | % |
Corporate Dividends Received Deduction* | | | 0.00 | % |
U.S. Treasury Obligations* | | | 2.54 | % |
| * | The above percentages are based on ordinary income dividends paid to shareholders during the Fund’s fiscal year. |
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Non-Resident Alien Shareholders | |
Qualified Short-Term Gains | | $ | 2,401,006 | |
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Trustees and Officers
The address of each trustee and officer is Invesco Securities Trust (the “Trust”), 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77046-1173. The trustees serve for the life of the Trust, subject to their earlier death, incapacitation, resignation, retirement or removal as more specifically provided in the Trust’s organizational documents. Each officer serves for a one year term or until their successors are elected and qualified. Column two below includes length of time served with predecessor entities, if any.
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Name, Year of Birth and Position(s) Held with the Trust | | Trustee and/ or Officer Since | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years | | Number of Funds in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee | | Other Directorship(s) Held by Trustee During Past 5 Years |
Interested Persons | | | | | | | | |
Martin L. Flanagan1 — 1960 Trustee | | 2012 | | Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invesco Ltd. (ultimate parent of Invesco and a global investment management firm); Advisor to the Board, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.); Trustee, The Invesco Funds; Vice Chair, Investment Company Institute; and Member of Executive Board, SMU Cox School of Business Formerly: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (registered investment adviser); Director, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, IVZ Inc. (holding company), INVESCO Group Services, Inc. (service provider) and Invesco North American Holdings, Inc. (holding company); Director, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invesco Holding Company Limited (parent of Invesco and a global investment management firm); Director, Invesco Ltd.; Chairman, Investment Company Institute and President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Franklin Resources, Inc. (global investment management organization). | | 144 | | None |
Philip A. Taylor2 — 1954 Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer | | 2012 | | Head of North American Retail and Senior Managing Director, Invesco Ltd.; Director, Co-Chairman, Co-President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser); Director, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invesco Management Group, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Management Group, Inc.) (financial services holding company); Director and President, INVESCO Funds Group, Inc. (registered investment adviser and registered transfer agent); Director and Chairman, Invesco Investment Services, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Investment Services, Inc.) (registered transfer agent) and IVZ Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as INVESCO Distributors, Inc.) (registered broker dealer); Director, President and Chairman, Invesco Inc. (holding company) and Invesco Canada Holdings Inc. (holding company); Chief Executive Officer, Invesco Corporate Class Inc. (corporate mutual fund company) and Invesco Canada Fund Inc. (corporate mutual fund company); Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Invesco Canada Ltd. (formerly known as Invesco Trimark Ltd./Invesco Trimark Ltèe) (registered investment adviser and registered transfer agent); Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer, The Invesco Funds (other than AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust) and Short-Term Investments Trust); Trustee and Executive Vice President, The Invesco Funds (AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust) and Short-Term Investments Trust only); Director, Invesco Investment Advisers LLC (formerly known as Van Kampen Asset Management); Director, Chief Executive Officer and President, Van Kampen Exchange Corp. Formerly: Director and Chairman, Van Kampen Investor Services Inc.; Director, Chief Executive Officer and President, 1371 Preferred Inc. (holding company) and Van Kampen Investments Inc.; Director and President, AIM GP Canada Inc. (general partner for limited partnerships) and Van Kampen Advisors, Inc.; Director and Chief Executive Officer, Invesco Trimark Dealer Inc. (registered broker dealer); Director, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.) (registered broker dealer); Manager, Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC; Director, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invesco Advisers, Inc.; Director, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.; President, Invesco Trimark Dealer Inc. and Invesco Trimark Ltd./Invesco Trimark Ltèe; Director and President, AIM Trimark Corporate Class Inc. and AIM Trimark Canada Fund Inc.; Senior Managing Director, Invesco Holding Company Limited; Director and Chairman, Fund Management Company (former registered broker dealer); President and Principal Executive Officer, The Invesco Funds (AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust), and Short-Term Investments Trust only); President, AIM Trimark Global Fund Inc. and AIM Trimark Canada Fund Inc. | | 144 | | None |
Wayne W. Whalen3 — 1939 Trustee | | 2012 | | Of Counsel, and prior to 2010, partner in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, legal counsel to certain funds in the Fund Complex | | 144 | | Director of the Mutual fund Directors Forum, a nonprofit membership organization for investment directors; Chairman and Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation; and Director of the Stevenson Center for Democracy |
1 | Mr. Flanagan is considered an interested person (within the meaning of Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act) of the Trust because he is an officer of the Adviser to the Trust, and an officer and a director of Invesco Ltd., ultimate parent of the Adviser. |
2 | Mr. Taylor is considered an interested person (within the meaning of Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act) of the Trust because he is an officer and a director of the Adviser. |
3 | Mr. Whalen is retiring effective December 31, 2014. He has been deemed to be an interested person of the Trust because of his prior service as counsel to the predecessor funds of certain Invesco open-end funds and his affiliation with the law firm that served as counsel to such predecessor funds and the Invesco closed-end funds. |
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Trustees and Officers—(continued)
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Name, Year of Birth and Position(s) Held with the Trust | | Trustee and/ or Officer Since | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years | | Number of Funds in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee | | Other Directorship(s) Held by Trustee During Past 5 Years |
Independent Trustees | | | | | | | | |
Bruce L. Crockett — 1944 Trustee and Chair | | 2012 | | Chairman, Crockett Technologies Associates (technology consulting company) Formerly: Director, Captaris (unified messaging provider); Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, COMSAT Corporation; Chairman, Board of Governors of INTELSAT (international communications company); ACE Limited (insurance company); and Investment Company Institute | | 144 | | ALPS (Attorneys Liability Protection Society) (insurance company) |
David C. Arch — 1945 Trustee | | 2012 | | Chairman of Blistex Inc., a consumer health care products manufacturer | | 144 | | Board member of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association; Member of the Board of Visitors, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan; Member of the Audit Committee of the Edward-Elmhurst Hospital |
Frank S. Bayley — 1939 Trustee | | 2012 | | Retired. Formerly: Director, Badgley Funds Inc. (registered investment company) (2 portfolios) and General Partner and Of Counsel, law firm of Baker & McKenzie, LLP | | 144 | | Director and Chairman, C.D. Stimson Company (a real estate investment company); Trustee, The Curtis Institute of Music |
James T. Bunch — 1942 Trustee | | 2012 | | Managing Member, Grumman Hill Group LLC (family office private equity investments) Formerly: Founder, Green Manning & Bunch Ltd. (investment banking firm) (1988-2010); Executive Committee, United States Golf Association; and Director, Policy Studies, Inc. and Van Gilder Insurance Corporation | | 144 | | Chairman, Board of Governors, Western Golf Association; Chairman, Evans Scholars Foundation; and Director, Denver Film Society |
Rodney F. Dammeyer — 1940 Trustee | | 2012 | | Chairman of CAC,LLC, (private company offering capital investment and management advisory services) Formerly: Prior to 2001, Managing Partner at Equity Group Corporate Investments; Prior to 1995, Chief Executive Officer of Itel Corporation (formerly Anixter International); Prior to 1985, experience includes Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Household International, Inc., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Northwest Industries, Inc. and Partner of Arthur Andersen & Co.; From 1987 to 2010, Director/Trustee of investment companies in the Van Kampen Funds complex | | 144 | | Director of Quidel Corporation and Stericycle, Inc. |
Albert R. Dowden — 1941 Trustee | | 2012 | | Director of a number of public and private business corporations, including the Boss Group, Ltd. (private investment and management); Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. and Reich & Tang Funds (5 portfolios) (registered investment company) Formerly: Director, Homeowners of America Holding Corporation/Homeowners of America Insurance Company (property casualty company); Director, Continental Energy Services, LLC (oil and gas pipeline service); Director, CompuDyne Corporation (provider of product and services to the public security market) and Director, Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd. (reinsurance company); Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Volvo Group North America, Inc.; Senior Vice President, AB Volvo; Director of various public and private corporations; Chairman, DHJ Media, Inc.; Director, Magellan Insurance Company; and Director, The Hertz Corporation, Genmar Corporation (boat manufacturer), National Media Corporation; Advisory Board of Rotary Power International (designer, manufacturer, and seller of rotary power engines); and Chairman, Cortland Trust, Inc. (registered investment company) | | 144 | | Director of: Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc., Reich & Tang Funds, Homeowners of America Holding Corporation/ Homeowners of America Insurance Company, the Boss Group |
Jack M. Fields — 1952 Trustee | | 2012 | | Chief Executive Officer, Twenty First Century Group, Inc. (government affairs company); Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Dos Angeles Ranch, L.P. (cattle, hunting, corporate entertainment); and Discovery Global Education Fund (non-profit) Formerly: Chief Executive Officer, Texana Timber LP (sustainable forestry company); Director of Cross Timbers Quail Research Ranch (non-profit); and member of the U.S. House of Representatives | | 144 | | Insperity, Inc. (formerly known as Administaff) |
Prema Mathai-Davis — 1950 Trustee | | 2012 | | Retired. Formerly: Chief Executive Officer, YWCA of the U.S.A. | | 144 | | None |
Larry Soll — 1942 Trustee | | 2012 | | Retired. Formerly: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Synergen Corp. (a biotechnology company) | | 144 | | None |
Hugo F. Sonnenschein — 1940 Trustee | | 2012 | | President Emeritus and Honorary Trustee of the University of Chicago and the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Prior to 2000, President of the University of Chicago | | 144 | | Trustee of the University of Rochester and a member of its investment committee; Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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Trustees and Officers—(continued)
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Name, Year of Birth and Position(s) Held with the Trust | | Trustee and/ or Officer Since | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years | | Number of Funds in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee | | Other Directorship(s) Held by Trustee During Past 5 Years |
Independent Trustees—(continued) |
Raymond Stickel, Jr. — 1944 Trustee | | 2012 | | Retired. Formerly: Director, Mainstay VP Series Funds, Inc. (25 portfolios) and Partner, Deloitte & Touche | | 144 | | None |
Suzanne H. Woolsey — 1941 Trustee | | 2014 | | Chief Executive Officer of Woolsey Partners LLC | | 144 | | Emeritus Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses; Trustee of Colorado College; Trustee of California Institute of Technology; Prior to 2014, Director of Fluor Corp.; Prior to 2010, Trustee of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; Prior to 2010 Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Institute |
Other Officers | | | | | | | | |
Russell C. Burk — 1958 Senior Vice President and Senior Officer | | 2012 | | Senior Vice President and Senior Officer, The Invesco Funds | | N/A | | N/A |
John M. Zerr — 1962 Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary | | 2012 | | Director, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Invesco Management Group, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Management Group, Inc.) and Van Kampen Exchange Corp.; Senior Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser); Senior Vice President and Secretary, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.); Director, Vice President and Secretary, Invesco Investment Services, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Investment Services, Inc.) and IVZ Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as INVESCO Distributors, Inc.); Director and Vice President, INVESCO Funds Group, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, The Invesco Funds; Manager, Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC; Director, Secretary and General Counsel, Invesco Investment Advisers LLC (formerly known as Van Kampen Asset Management); Secretary and General Counsel, Invesco Capital Markets, Inc. (formerly known as Van Kampen Funds Inc.) and Chief Legal Officer, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust; and PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust Formerly: Director and Vice President, Van Kampen Advisors Inc.; Director, Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Van Kampen Investor Services Inc.; Director, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.); Director, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Invesco Aim Advisers, Inc. and Van Kampen Investments Inc.; Director, Vice President and Secretary, Fund Management Company; Director, Senior Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel and Vice President, Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.; Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Liberty Ridge Capital, Inc. (an investment adviser); Vice President and Secretary, PBHG Funds (an investment company) and PBHG Insurance Series Fund (an investment company); Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Secretary, Old Mutual Investment Partners (a broker-dealer); General Counsel and Secretary, Old Mutual Fund Services (an administrator) and Old Mutual Shareholder Services (a shareholder servicing center); Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Old Mutual Capital, Inc. (an investment adviser); and Vice President and Secretary, Old Mutual Advisors Funds (an investment company) | | N/A | | N/A |
Sheri Morris — 1964 Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer | | 2012 | | Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer, The Invesco Funds; Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser); and Vice President, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, and PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust Formerly: Vice President, Invesco Aim Advisers, Inc., Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc. and Invesco Aim Private Asset Management, Inc.; Assistant Vice President and Assistant Treasurer, The Invesco Funds and Assistant Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc., Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc. and Invesco Aim Private Asset Management, Inc.; and Treasurer, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust | | N/A | | N/A |
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Trustees and Officers—(continued)
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Name, Year of Birth and Position(s) Held with the Trust | | Trustee and/ or Officer Since | | Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years | | Number of Funds in Fund Complex Overseen by Trustee | | Other Directorship(s) Held by Trustee During Past 5 Years |
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Karen Dunn Kelley — 1960 Vice President | | 2012 | | Senior Managing Director, Investments; Director, Co-President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chairman, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser); Chairman, Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Invesco Management Group, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Management Group, Inc.); Executive Vice President, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.); Director, Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. and Invesco Management Company Limited; Director and President, INVESCO Asset Management (Bermuda) Ltd., Vice President, The Invesco Funds (other than AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust) and Short-Term Investments Trust); and President and Principal Executive Officer, The Invesco Funds (AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust) and Short-Term Investments Trust only) Formerly: Director, INVESCO Global Asset Management Limited and INVESCO Management S.A.; Senior Vice President, Van Kampen Investments Inc. and Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser); Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.); Director of Cash Management and Senior Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. and Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.; Director and President, Fund Management Company; Chief Cash Management Officer, Director of Cash Management, Senior Vice President, and Managing Director, Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.; Director of Cash Management, Senior Vice President, and Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. and The Invesco Funds (AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust), and Short-Term Investments Trust only) | | N/A | | N/A |
Crissie M. Wisdom — 1969 Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer | | 2013 | | Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser), Invesco Capital Markets, Inc. (formerly known as Van Kampen Funds Inc.), Invesco Distributors, Inc., Invesco Investment Services, Inc., Invesco Management Group, Inc., Van Kampen Exchange Corp., The Invesco Funds, and PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust; and Fraud Prevention Manager and Controls and Risk Analysis Manager for Invesco Investment Services, Inc. | | N/A | | N/A |
Todd L. Spillane — 1958 Chief Compliance Officer | | 2012 | | Senior Vice President, Invesco Management Group, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Management Group, Inc.) and Van Kampen Exchange Corp.; Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (registered investment adviser) (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.); Chief Compliance Officer, The Invesco Funds; Vice President, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.) and Invesco Investment Services, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Investment Services, Inc.) Formerly: Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Funds (Chicago); Senior Vice President, Van Kampen Investments Inc.; Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Aim Advisers, Inc. and Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.; Chief Compliance Officer, INVESCO Private Capital Investments, Inc. (holding company), Invesco Private Capital, Inc. (registered investment adviser), Invesco Global Asset Management (N.A.), Inc., Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc. (registered investment adviser), Van Kampen Investor Services Inc., PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and PowerShares Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust; and Vice President, Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc. and Fund Management Company | | N/A | | N/A |
The Statement of Additional Information of the Trust includes additional information about the Fund’s Trustees and is available upon request, without charge, by calling 1.800.959.4246. Please refer to the Fund’s prospectus for information on the Fund’s sub-advisers.
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Office of the Fund 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000 Houston, TX 77046-1173 | | Investment Adviser Invesco Advisers, Inc. 1555 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 | | Distributor Invesco Distributors, Inc. 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000 Houston, TX 77046-1173 | | Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 5800 Houston, TX 77002-5678 |
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Counsel to the Fund Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP 2005 Market Street, Suite 2600 Philadelphia, PA 19103-7018 | | Counsel to the Independent Trustees Goodwin Procter LLP 901 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 | | Transfer Agent Invesco Investment Services, Inc. 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000 Houston, TX 77046-1173 | | Custodian State Street Bank and Trust Company 225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110-2801 |
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Invesco mailing information
Send general correspondence to Invesco Investment Services, Inc., P.O. Box 219078, Kansas City, MO 64121-9078.
Important notice regarding delivery of security holder documents
To reduce Fund expenses, only one copy of most shareholder documents may be mailed to shareholders with multiple accounts at the same address (Householding). Mailing of your shareholder documents may be householded indefinitely unless you instruct us otherwise. If you do not want the mailing of these documents to be combined with those for other members of your household, please contact Invesco Investment Services, Inc. at 800 959 4246 or contact your financial institution. We will begin sending you individual copies for each account within 30 days after receiving your request.
Fund holdings and proxy voting information
The Fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter ends. For the second and fourth quarters, the lists appear in the Fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third quarters, the Fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form N-Q. Shareholders can also look up the Fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC website at sec.gov. Copies of the Fund’s Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. You can obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room, including information about duplicating fee charges, by calling 202 551 8090 or 800 732 0330, or by electronic request at the following email address: publicinfo@sec.gov. The SEC file number for the Fund is shown below.
A description of the policies and procedures that the Fund uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities is available without charge, upon request, from our Client Services department at 800 959 4246 or at invesco.com/proxyguidelines. The information is also available on the SEC website, sec.gov.
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Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies related to its portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available at invesco.com/proxysearch. The information is also available on the SEC website, sec.gov. | |  |
Invesco Advisers, Inc. is an investment adviser; it provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients and does not sell securities. Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the US distributor for Invesco Ltd.’s retail mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and institutional money market funds. Both are wholly owned, indirect subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd. | |
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SEC file numbers: 811-22793 | | IBRAA-AR-1 | | Invesco Distributors, Inc. |
There were no amendments to the Code of Ethics (the “Code”) that applies to the Registrant’s Principal Executive Officer (“PEO”) and Principal Financial Officer (“PFO”) during the period covered by the report. The Registrant did not grant any waivers, including implicit waivers, from any provisions of the Code to the PEO or PFO during the period covered by this report.
ITEM 3. | AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT. |
The Board of Trustees has determined that the Registrant has at least one audit committee financial expert serving on its Audit Committee. The Audit Committee financial expert is Raymond Stickel, Jr. Mr. Stickel is “independent” within the meaning of that term as used in Form N-CSR.
ITEM 4. | PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES. |
(a) to (d)
Fees Billed by PWC Related to the Registrant
PWC billed the Registrant aggregate fees for services rendered to the Registrant for the last two fiscal years as follows:
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| | Fees Billed for Services Rendered to the Registrant for fiscal year end 2014 | | | (e)(2) Percentage of Fees Billed Applicable to Non-Audit Services Provided for fiscal year end 2014 Pursuant to Waiver of Pre-Approval Requirement(1) | | | Fees Billed for Services Rendered to the Registrant for fiscal year end 2013 | | | (e)(2) Percentage of Fees Billed Applicable to Non-Audit Services Provided for fiscal year end 2013 Pursuant to Waiver of Pre-Approval Requirement(1) | |
Audit Fees | | $ | 39,550 | | | | N/A | | | $ | 38,400 | | | | N/A | |
Audit-Related Fees(2) | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 5,162 | | | | 0 | % |
Tax Fees(3) | | $ | 13,175 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 12,730 | | | | 0 | % |
All Other Fees | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % |
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Total Fees | | $ | 52,725 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 56,292 | | | | 0 | % |
(g) PWC billed the Registrant aggregate non-audit fees of $13,175 for the fiscal year ended 2014, and $17,892 for the fiscal year ended 2013, for non-audit services rendered to the Registrant.
(1) | With respect to the provision of non-audit services, the pre-approval requirement is waived pursuant to a de minimis exception if (i) such services were not recognized as non-audit services by the Registrant at the time of engagement, (ii) the aggregate amount of all such services provided is no more than 5% of the aggregate audit and non-audit fees paid by the Registrant to PWC during a fiscal year; and (iii) such services are promptly brought to the attention of the Registrant’s Audit Committee and approved by the Registrant’s Audit Committee prior to the completion of the audit. |
(2) | Audit-Related fees for the fiscal year end 2013 include fees billed for agreed upon procedures related to regulatory filings. |
(3) | Tax fees for the fiscal year end 2014 include fees billed for reviewing tax returns. Tax fees for the fiscal year end 2013 includes fees billed for reviewing tax returns. |
Fees Billed by PWC Related to Invesco and Invesco Affiliates
PWC billed Invesco Advisers, Inc. (“Invesco”), the Registrant’s adviser, and any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with Invesco that provides ongoing services to the Registrant (“Invesco Affiliates”) aggregate fees for pre-approved non-audit services rendered to Invesco and Invesco Affiliates for the last two fiscal years as follows:
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| | Fees Billed for Non- Audit Services Rendered to Invesco and Invesco Affiliates for fiscal year end 2014 That Were Required to be Pre-Approved by the Registrant’s Audit Committee | | | (e)(2) Percentage of Fees Billed Applicable to Non-Audit Services Provided for fiscal year end 2014 Pursuant to Waiver of Pre- Approval Requirement(1) | | | Fees Billed for Non- Audit Services Rendered to Invesco and Invesco Affiliates for fiscal year end 2013 That Were Required to be Pre-Approved by the Registrant’s Audit Committee | | | (e)(2) Percentage of Fees Billed Applicable to Non-Audit Services Provided for fiscal year end 2013 Pursuant to Waiver of Pre- Approval Requirement(1) | |
Audit-Related Fees | | $ | 574,000 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 574,000 | | | | 0 | % |
Tax Fees | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % |
All Other Fees | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 0 | | | | 0 | % |
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Total Fees(2) | | $ | 574,000 | | | | 0 | % | | $ | 574,000 | | | | 0 | % |
(1) | With respect to the provision of non-audit services, the pre-approval requirement is waived pursuant to a de minimis exception if (i) such services were not recognized as non-audit services by the Registrant at the time of engagement, (ii) the aggregate amount of all such services provided is no more than 5% of the aggregate audit and non-audit fees paid by the Registrant, Invesco and Invesco Affiliates to PWC during a fiscal year; and (iii) such services are promptly brought to the attention of the Registrant’s Audit Committee and approved by the Registrant’s Audit Committee prior to the completion of the audit. |
(2) | Audit-Related fees for the year end 2014 include fees billed related to reviewing controls at a service organization. |
(g) Including the fees for services not required to be pre-approved by the registrant’s audit committee, PWC billed Invesco and Invesco Affiliates aggregate non-audit fees of $2,939,346 for the fiscal year ended 2014, and $1,248,475 for the fiscal year ended 2013, for non-audit services rendered to Invesco and Invesco Affiliates.
(h) The Audit Committee also has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to Invesco and Invesco Affiliates that were not required to be pre-approved pursuant to SEC regulations, if any, is compatible with maintaining PWC’s independence. To the extent that such services were provided, the Audit Committee determined that the provision of such services is compatible with PWC maintaining independence with respect to the Registrant.
(f) Not applicable.
(e)(1)
PRE-APPROVAL OF AUDIT AND NON-AUDIT SERVICES
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
As adopted by the Audit Committees of
the Invesco Funds (the “Funds”)
Last Amended May 4, 2010
Statement of Principles
Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) (“Rules”), the Audit Committees of the Funds’ (the “Audit Committees”) Board of Trustees (the “Board”) are responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of independent accountants (an “Auditor”). As part of this responsibility and to assure that the Auditor’s independence is not impaired, the Audit Committees pre-approve the audit and non-audit services provided to the Funds by each Auditor, as well as all non-audit services provided by the Auditor to the Funds’ investment adviser and to affiliates of the adviser that provide ongoing services to the Funds (“Service Affiliates”) if the services directly impact the Funds’ operations or financial reporting. The SEC Rules also specify the types of services that an Auditor may not provide to its audit client. The following policies and procedures comply with the requirements for pre-approval and provide a mechanism by which management of the Funds may request and secure pre-approval of audit and non-audit services in an orderly manner with minimal disruption to normal business operations.
Proposed services either may be pre-approved without consideration of specific case-by-case services by the Audit Committees (“general pre-approval”) or require the specific pre-approval of the Audit Committees (“specific pre-approval”). As set forth in these policies and procedures, unless a type of service has received general pre-approval, it will require specific pre-approval by the Audit Committees. Additionally, any fees exceeding 110% of estimated pre-approved fee levels provided at the time the service was pre-approved will also require specific approval by the Audit Committees before payment is made. The Audit Committees will also consider the impact of additional fees on the Auditor’s independence when determining whether to approve any additional fees for previously pre-approved services.
The Audit Committees will annually review and generally pre-approve the services that may be provided by each Auditor without obtaining specific pre-approval from the Audit Committee generally on an annual basis. The term of any general pre-approval runs from the date of such pre-approval through September 30th of the following year, unless the Audit Committees consider a different period and state otherwise. The Audit Committees will add to or subtract from the list of general pre-approved services from time to time, based on subsequent determinations.
The purpose of these policies and procedures is to set forth the guidelines to assist the Audit Committees in fulfilling their responsibilities.
Delegation
The Audit Committees may from time to time delegate pre-approval authority to one or more of its members who are Independent Trustees. All decisions to pre-approve a service by a delegated member shall be reported to the Audit Committees at the next quarterly meeting.
Audit Services
The annual audit services engagement terms will be subject to specific pre-approval of the Audit Committees. Audit services include the annual financial statement audit and other procedures such as tax provision work that is required to be performed by the independent auditor to be able to form an opinion on the Funds’ financial statements. The Audit Committees will obtain, review and consider sufficient information concerning the proposed Auditor to make a reasonable evaluation of the Auditor’s qualifications and independence.
In addition to the annual Audit services engagement, the Audit Committees may grant either general or specific pre-approval of other audit services, which are those services that only the independent auditor reasonably can provide. Other Audit services may include services such as issuing consents for the inclusion of audited financial statements with SEC registration statements, periodic reports and other documents filed with the SEC or other documents issued in connection with securities offerings.
Non-Audit Services
The Audit Committees may provide either general or specific pre-approval of any non-audit services to the Funds and its Service Affiliates if the Audit Committees believe that the provision of the service will not impair the independence of the Auditor, is consistent with the SEC’s Rules on auditor independence, and otherwise conforms to the Audit Committees’ general principles and policies as set forth herein.
Audit-Related Services
“Audit-related services” are assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of the Fund’s financial statements or that are traditionally performed by the independent auditor. Audit-related services include, among others, accounting consultations related to accounting, financial reporting or disclosure matters not classified as “Audit services”; assistance with understanding and implementing new accounting and financial reporting guidance from rulemaking authorities; and agreed-upon procedures related to mergers, compliance with ratings agency requirements and interfund lending activities.
Tax Services
“Tax services” include, but are not limited to, the review and signing of the Funds’ federal tax returns, the review of required distributions by the Funds and consultations regarding tax matters such as the tax treatment of new investments or the impact of new regulations. The Audit Committees will scrutinize carefully the retention of the Auditor in connection with a transaction initially recommended by the Auditor, the major business purpose of which may be tax avoidance or the tax treatment of which may not be supported in the Internal Revenue Code and related regulations. The Audit Committees will consult with the Funds’ Treasurer (or his or her designee) and may consult with outside counsel or advisors as necessary to ensure the consistency of Tax services rendered by the Auditor with the foregoing policy.
No Auditor shall represent any Fund or any Service Affiliate before a tax court, district court or federal court of claims.
Under rules adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and approved by the SEC, in connection with seeking Audit Committees’ pre-approval of permissible Tax services, the Auditor shall:
| 1. | Describe in writing to the Audit Committees, which writing may be in the form of the proposed engagement letter: |
| a. | The scope of the service, the fee structure for the engagement, and any side letter or amendment to the engagement letter, or any other agreement between the Auditor and the Fund, relating to the service; and |
| b. | Any compensation arrangement or other agreement, such as a referral agreement, a referral fee or fee-sharing arrangement, between the Auditor and any person (other than the Fund) with respect to the promoting, marketing, or recommending of a transaction covered by the service; |
| 2. | Discuss with the Audit Committees the potential effects of the services on the independence of the Auditor; and |
| 3. | Document the substance of its discussion with the Audit Committees. |
All Other Auditor Services
The Audit Committees may pre-approve non-audit services classified as “All other services” that are not categorically prohibited by the SEC, as listed in Exhibit 1 to this policy.
Pre-Approval Fee Levels or Established Amounts
Pre-approval of estimated fees or established amounts for services to be provided by the Auditor under general or specific pre-approval policies will be set periodically by the Audit Committees. Any proposed fees exceeding 110% of the maximum estimated pre-approved fees or established amounts for pre-approved audit and non-audit services will be reported to the Audit Committees at the quarterly Audit Committees meeting and will require specific approval by the Audit Committees before payment is made. The Audit Committees will always factor in the overall relationship of fees for audit and non-audit services in determining whether to pre-approve any such services and in determining whether to approve any additional fees exceeding 110% of the maximum pre-approved fees or established amounts for previously pre-approved services.
Procedures
Generally on an annual basis, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (“Invesco”) will submit to the Audit Committees for general pre-approval, a list of non-audit services that the Funds or Service Affiliates of the Funds may request from the Auditor. The list will describe the non-audit services in reasonable detail and will include an estimated range of fees and such other information as the Audit Committee may request.
Each request for services to be provided by the Auditor under the general pre-approval of the Audit Committees will be submitted to the Funds’ Treasurer (or his or her designee) and must include a detailed description of the services to be rendered. The Treasurer or his or her designee will ensure that such services are included within the list of services that have received the general pre-approval of the Audit Committees. The Audit Committees will be informed at the next quarterly scheduled Audit Committees meeting of any such services for which the Auditor rendered an invoice and whether such services and fees had been pre-approved and if so, by what means.
Each request to provide services that require specific approval by the Audit Committees shall be submitted to the Audit Committees jointly by the Fund’s Treasurer or his or her designee and the Auditor, and must include a joint statement that, in their view, such request is consistent with the policies and procedures and the SEC Rules.
Each request to provide tax services under either the general or specific pre-approval of the Audit Committees will describe in writing: (i) the scope of the service, the fee structure for the engagement, and any side letter or amendment to the engagement letter, or any other agreement between the Auditor and the audit client, relating to the service; and (ii) any compensation arrangement or other agreement between the Auditor and any person (other than the audit client) with respect to the promoting, marketing, or recommending of a transaction covered by the service. The Auditor will discuss with the Audit Committees the potential effects of the services on the Auditor’s independence and will document the substance of the discussion.
Non-audit services pursuant to the de minimis exception provided by the SEC Rules will be promptly brought to the attention of the Audit Committees for approval, including documentation that each of the conditions for this exception, as set forth in the SEC Rules, has been satisfied.
On at least an annual basis, the Auditor will prepare a summary of all the services provided to any entity in the investment company complex as defined in section 2-01(f)(14) of Regulation S-X in sufficient detail as to the nature of the engagement and the fees associated with those services.
The Audit Committees have designated the Funds’ Treasurer to monitor the performance of all services provided by the Auditor and to ensure such services are in compliance with these policies and procedures. The Funds’ Treasurer will report to the Audit Committees on a periodic basis as to the results of such monitoring. Both the Funds’ Treasurer and management of Invesco will immediately report to the chairman of the Audit Committees any breach of these policies and procedures that comes to the attention of the Funds’ Treasurer or senior management of Invesco.
Exhibit 1 to Pre-Approval of Audit and Non-Audit Services Policies and Procedures
Conditionally Prohibited Non-Audit Services (not prohibited if the Fund can reasonably conclude that the results of the service would not be subject to audit procedures in connection with the audit of the Fund’s financial statements)
| • | | Bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client |
| • | | Financial information systems design and implementation |
| • | | Appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, or contribution-in-kind reports |
| • | | Internal audit outsourcing services |
Categorically Prohibited Non-Audit Services
| • | | Broker-dealer, investment adviser, or investment banking services |
| • | | Expert services unrelated to the audit |
| • | | Any service or product provided for a contingent fee or a commission |
| • | | Services related to marketing, planning, or opining in favor of the tax treatment of confidential transactions or aggressive tax position transactions, a significant purpose of which is tax avoidance |
| • | | Tax services for persons in financial reporting oversight roles at the Fund |
| • | | Any other service that the Public Company Oversight Board determines by regulation is impermissible. |
ITEM 5. | AUDIT COMMITTEE OF LISTED REGISTRANTS. |
Not applicable.
ITEM 6. | SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS. |
Investments in securities of unaffiliated issuers is included as part of the reports to stockholders filed under Item 1 of this Form.
ITEM 7. | DISCLOSURE OF PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES. |
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. | PORTFOLIO MANAGERS OF CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT COMPANIES. |
Not applicable.
ITEM 9. | PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY AND AFFILIATED PURCHASERS. |
Not applicable.
ITEM 10. | SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS. |
None
ITEM 11. | CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. |
(a) | As of November 21, 2014, an evaluation was performed under the supervision and with the participation of the officers of the Registrant, including the PEO and PFO, to assess the effectiveness of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures, as that term is defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”), as amended. Based on that evaluation, the Registrant’s officers, including the PEO and PFO, concluded that, as of November 21, 2014, the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures were reasonably designed to ensure: (1) that information required to be disclosed by the Registrant on Form N-CSR is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and (2) that material information relating to the Registrant is made known to the PEO and PFO as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. |
(b) | There have been no changes in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. |
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12(a) (1) | | Code of Ethics. |
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12(a) (2) | | Certifications of principal executive officer and principal financial officer as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940. |
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12(a) (3) | | Not applicable. |
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12(b) | | Certifications of principal executive officer and principal financial officer as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Registrant: Invesco Securities Trust
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By: | | /s/ Philip A. Taylor |
| | Philip A. Taylor |
| | Principal Executive Officer |
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Date: | | January 9, 2015 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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By: | | /s/ Philip A. Taylor |
| | Philip A. Taylor |
| | Principal Executive Officer |
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Date: | | January 9, 2015 |
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By: | | /s/ Sheri Morris |
| | Sheri Morris |
| | Principal Financial Officer |
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Date: | | January 9, 2015 |
EXHIBIT INDEX
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12(a) (1) | | Code of Ethics. |
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12(a) (2) | | Certifications of principal executive officer and principal financial officer as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940. |
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12(a) (3) | | Not applicable. |
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12(b) | | Certifications of principal executive officer and principal financial officer as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940. |