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Invesco Ltd.CIK 0000914208 · Investment Advice
Invesco Ltd. (the Parent), along with its consolidated entities (collectively, Invesco or the company), is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering a superior investment experience. Our comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities has been… About this business →
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About Invesco Ltd.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed February 24, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business
Introduction
Invesco Ltd. (the Parent), along with its consolidated entities (collectively, Invesco or the company), is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering a superior investment experience. Our comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities has been constructed over many years to help clients achieve their investment objectives. We draw on this comprehensive range of capabilities to provide solutions designed to deliver key outcomes aligned to client needs.
With approximately 7,500 employees and an on-the-ground presence in more than 20 countries, Invesco is well positioned to meet the needs of investors across the globe. We have specialized investment teams managing investments across a broad range of asset classes, investment styles and geographies. For decades, individuals and institutions have viewed Invesco as a trusted partner for a comprehensive set of investment needs. We have a significant presence in the retail and institutional markets within the investment management industry in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC), serving clients in more than 120 countries. As of December 31, 2025, the firm managed approximately $2.2 trillion in assets for investors around the world.
The key drivers of success for Invesco are strong long-term investment performance, positive market performance, high-quality client service, effective distribution relationships delivered across a diverse spectrum of investment management capabilities, distribution channels, geographic areas and market exposures, and competitive pricing. Through our focus on these areas, we seek to deliver better outcomes for clients, generate competitive investment results and positive net flows, and increase AUM and revenues.
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We measure relative investment performance by comparing our investment capabilities to competitors' products, industry benchmarks and client investment objectives. Generally, distributors, investment advisors and consultants take into consideration longer-term investment performance (e.g., three-year and five-year performance) in their selection of investment products and recommendations to their clients. Third-party ratings may also influence client investment decisions. We monitor the quality of client service in a variety of ways, including periodic client satisfaction surveys, analysis of response times and redemption rates, competitive benchmarking of services and feedback from investment consultants.
The company is organized under the laws of Bermuda. Our common shares are listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol “IVZ.” We maintain a website at www.invesco.com/corporate. (Information contained on our website shall not be deemed to be part of, or be incorporated into, this document.)
Industry Trends
Trends around the world continue to transform the investment management industry and underscore the need to be well diversified with broad capabilities globally:
Individuals and Institutions expect personalized outcomes and experience
•Distribution partners are becoming more selective and continuing to maintain fewer relationships and partners, reducing the number of trusted investment managers with whom they work.
•Clients and distribution partners are demanding more from investment managers. While performance remains paramount and competitive pricing is essential, best-in class experience and value-added services (including portfolio analytics, consultative solutions, and digital tools) increasingly differentiate managers.
Structural shifts in client portfolio allocations
•Private market allocations continue to increase and become a more meaningful part of retail portfolios, driving industry fee growth as well as innovation and democratization.
•Beta, factor, and index offerings will continue to be core to portfolios in transparent, efficient markets. In this space, clients will demand ease of access and competitive pricing.
•Investors have been shifting their investment strategies toward passively managed strategies, and we believe this trend will continue.
•Investors who are selecting active strategies place a high bar on proven and consistent performance across various wrappers.
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Leading asset managers must quickly curate options that solve clients’ problems
•Investment capabilities will be delivered efficiently and seamlessly using vehicles and technologies including models, SMAs, and tokenized platforms.
•Investment managers are finding new ways of leveraging data and analytics to create insights that will provide strategic advantage and drive investment, distribution, and operational excellence.
•Winners will invest in talent and skills across new ecosystems, requiring new ways of working and strategic partnerships to drive synergies and scale.
These dynamics are driving fundamental changes within the industry and, we believe, will drive increasing consolidation. Additionally, the U.S. and China will continue to be the dominant global wealth markets, and global asset management leaders will need a considerable footprint in these markets, along with additional high opportunity markets in EMEA and across the globe. We believe the depth and breadth of Invesco's platform position us to understand, anticipate, and meet our clients' needs and to compete successfully with others within our industry.
Strategy
At Invesco, we seek to drive sustainable profitable growth by delivering capabilities that build enduring relationships and create better outcomes for our clients. We believe we have an advantageous position globally as a diversified, client-centric asset manager and a strategy to deliver for our shareholders. The firm's strategic priorities are aligned with four key long-term themes that are designed to sharpen our focus on clients' needs, further strengthen our business over time and help ensure our long-term success:
Deliver the excellence our clients expect
•Achieve strong, long-term investment performance.
•Deliver a quality investment process and a frictionless experience with superior engagement.
•Provide a holistic value proposition including advice and solutions to help our clients best manage their portfolios and succeed with their own clients.
Grow high demand investment offerings
•Prioritize the intersection of market size, secular change, and Invesco’s unique position to drive growth in the highest opportunity regions.
•Grow high demand private markets capabilities leveraging our strong retail channel, expanding investment strategies, and partnerships.
•Drive profitable organic growth, emphasizing high demand, scalable investment capabilities, and delivery vehicles.
Create an environment where talented people thrive
•Attract and develop high performing, diverse talent with skills aligned to deliver against business outcomes.
•Create an inclusive and engaging culture that values diversity of thought which enables us to work as one team to deliver better outcomes.
Act like owners for all stakeholders
•Harness innovation including AI to utilize next generation technology across all aspects of the business.
•Strengthen financial flexibility emphasizing operating leverage.
•Focus on meeting clients' needs and operating effectively and efficiently.
Investment Management Capabilities
We believe that the proven strength of our distinct and globally located investment teams and their well-defined investment disciplines and risk management approaches provide us with a competitive advantage. There are few independent investment managers with teams as globally diverse as Invesco's and with the same breadth and depth of investment capabilities and vehicles. We offer multiple investment objectives within the various asset classes and products that we manage. Our asset classes, broadly defined, include equity, fixed income, balanced, alternatives and money market.
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Distribution Channels
Retail AUM typically originate from clients investing into funds available to the public in the form of shares or units. Institutional AUM originate from entities such as individual corporate clients, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, government authorities, universities or charities. AUM disclosed as retail AUM include AUM distributed by the company's retail sales teams. AUM disclosed as institutional AUM include AUM distributed by the company's institutional sales teams.
The company operates as an integrated global investment manager. Dedicated sales forces deliver our investment strategies through a variety of vehicles that meet the needs of retail and institutional clients.
Retail
Retail AUM were $1,515.7 billion at December 31, 2025. We offer retail products within all of the major asset classes. Our retail products are primarily distributed through third-party financial intermediaries, including major wirehouses, direct wealth platforms, regional broker-dealers, insurance companies, banks and financial planners in the Americas, and independent brokers and financial advisors, banks and direct wealth platforms in EMEA and APAC. In addition to our established retail intermediary networks, digital distribution channels are playing an increasingly important role in shaping client engagement and product delivery. Digitally native financial institutions and online wealth platforms are becoming a growing source of retail asset flows, expanding investor access to our strategies through mobile‑first and data‑driven advisory ecosystems. Further, we also continue to explore opportunities in the emerging trend of tokenization, which has the potential to transform the delivery and operational efficiency of investment products through enhanced accessibility, fractionalization, and streamlined settlement.
The Americas and EMEA retail operations rank among the largest by AUM in their respective markets. As of December 31, 2025, Invesco's U.S. retail business, including our ETFs franchise, is among the leading asset managers in the U.S., and Invesco's retail business in EMEA is among the largest non-proprietary investment managers in the retail channel. In addition, Invesco Great Wall Fund Management Company Limited (IGW or Invesco Great Wall), our joint venture in China, is one of the largest asset managers in China, with total AUM of approximately $132.5 billion at December 31, 2025. We provide our retail clients with one of the industry's most robust and comprehensive product lines.
Institutional
Institutional AUM were $654.2 billion at December 31, 2025. We offer a broad suite of domestic and global capabilities, ranging from traditional active, passive and quantitative equities, and fixed income (including money market funds for institutional clients) to multi-asset solutions to alternative investments such as real estate, private credit, and absolute return strategies. Regional sales forces distribute our products and provide services to clients and intermediaries around the world. We have a diversified client base that includes major public and private entities, unions, non-profit organizations, endowments, foundations, pension funds, financial institutions, insurers and sovereign wealth funds. Invesco's institutional money market funds serve some of the largest financial institutions, government entities and companies in the world.
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AUM Diversification
We believe one of Invesco's competitive strengths is the diversification of AUM by client domicile, distribution channel and investment capability. We serve clients in more than 120 countries. The following tables present a breakdown of AUM by client domicile, distribution channel and investment capability as of December 31, 2025. See the company's disclosures regarding the changes in AUM for the year ended December 31, 2025 in Part II, Item 7, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Assets Under Management” for additional information regarding changes in AUM.
By Client Domicile
(in billions)Total1-Yr Change
c Americas
$1,492.4 13.4 %
c EMEA
356.5 37.0 %
c APAC
321.0 18.8 %
Total$2,169.9
By Distribution Channel
(in billions)Total1-Yr Change
c Retail
$1,515.7 19.8 %
c Institutional
654.2 12.7 %
Total$2,169.9
By Investment Capability
(in billions)Total1-Yr Change
c ETFs and Index
$630.2 30.0 %
c Fundamental Fixed Income
311.5 11.6 %
c Fundamental Equities
298.4 7.8 %
c Private Markets
130.7 0.8 %
c China JV
132.5 42.2 %
c Multi-Asset/Other
69.7 (3.5)%
c Global Liquidity
189.7 (0.9)%
c QQQ
407.2 27.7 %
Total$2,169.9
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Corporate Responsibility and Human Capital
Invesco’s long-term success depends on our ability to retain, develop, engage and attract top talent. Invesco invests significantly in talent development, employee benefit programs, technology and other resources that support our employees in developing their full potential. We believe that an employee community that is diverse and inclusive, engaged in their communities and invested in employee well-being will drive positive outcomes for our clients and shareholders.
As of December 31, 2025, the company had 7,499 (December 31, 2024: 8,508) employees with an on-the-ground presence in over 20 countries. Our employees are not covered under collective bargaining agreements.
The company operates in an environmentally responsible manner. Across Invesco offices, we carefully manage our operational activities with a focus on using natural resources wisely, increasing efficiencies wherever possible and providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees and visitors. This is the foundation of our environmental, health and safety management approach.
Competition
The investment management business is highly competitive, with points of differentiation including investment performance, fees, range of products offered, brand recognition, business reputation, financial strength, depth and continuity of relationships and quality of service. We compete with a large number of investment management firms, commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, insurance companies and, increasingly, firms outside the traditional financial services industry, such as technology providers. Many of these competitors have greater financial resources and higher brand recognition than Invesco. However, we believe our experience as a trusted partner to clients, the quality and diversity of our investment capabilities, product types and channels of distribution, and our commitment to innovation enable us to compete effectively in the global investment management business. There are few independent investment managers with teams as globally diverse as Invesco's and the same breadth and depth of investment capabilities and vehicles. We offer multiple investment objectives within the various asset classes and products that we manage. We also believe being an independent investment manager is a competitive advantage, as our business model avoids conflicts that are inherent within institutions that both manage and distribute and/or service those products. Lastly, we believe continued execution against our strategic objectives will further strengthen our long-term competitive position.
Management Contracts
We derive substantially all of our revenues from investment management contracts. Fees vary with the type of assets being managed, with higher fees earned on actively managed equity and balanced accounts, along with real estate and other alternative asset products, and with lower fees earned on fixed income, money market, stable value accounts, and ETFs. Investment management contracts are generally terminable upon thirty or fewer days' notice. Typically, retail investors may withdraw their funds at any time without prior notice and institutional clients may elect to terminate their relationship with investment managers or reduce the aggregate amount of AUM with very short notice periods.
Risk Management
Invesco is committed to continually strengthening and evolving our risk management approach and activities to ensure they keep pace with business change and client expectations. We believe a key factor in our ability to manage through challenging market conditions and significant business change is our integrated and global approach to risk management. We seek to embed risk management in our day-to-day decision-making as well as our strategic planning process, while our global risk management framework seeks to enable consistent and meaningful risk dialogue up, down and across the company.
Our framework leverages two governance structures: (i) our Global Investment Risk and Performance Committee oversees the management of core investment risks; and (ii) our Enterprise Risk Management Committee oversees the management of all other business- and strategy-related risks. A network of regional, business unit and risk-specific management committees, with oversight by the Enterprise Risk Management Committee, provides ongoing identification, assessment, management, monitoring, and reporting of existing and emerging risks across all domains of our business. The Board has oversight responsibility for the company’s risk management program and processes.
Available Information
The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers at www.sec.gov. We make available free of charge on our website, www.invesco.com/corporate, our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, proxy statement and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.
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