Van
Kampen Tax Free Money Fund
Supplement
dated June 1, 2010
to the Summary Prospectus
and Prospectus
each dated
October 30, 2009,
as previously supplemented on October 30, 2009,
January 11, 2010 and May 11, 2010
The Summary Prospectus (as applicable) and Prospectus are hereby
supplemented as follows:
On June 1, 2010, Invesco Ltd., an independent global
investment management company, completed its purchase of
substantially all of the retail asset management business of
Morgan Stanley, including the investment adviser, distributor
and certain other affiliated service providers to most of the
Van Kampen funds (including the Van Kampen Tax Free Money Fund)
(the Transaction). In contemplation of the
Transaction, on May 11, 2010, shareholders of the Fund
approved a reorganization (the Reorganization) of
the Fund into the Invesco Tax-Exempt Cash Fund (formerly, AIM
Tax-Exempt Cash Fund) (the Acquiring Fund), a fund
advised by affiliates of Invesco Ltd. with substantially the
same investment objective and principal investment strategy as
the Fund. It is expected that the Reorganization will be
completed on or about June 7, 2010 at which time
shareholders of the Fund will receive shares of the Acquiring
Fund in exchange for their shares of the Fund.
As a result of the Transaction, the Board of Trustees of the
Fund has approved an interim investment advisory contract and
certain other agreements to permit Invesco Advisers, Inc. to act
as the Funds investment adviser until the closing of the
Reorganization on or about June 7, 2010. Upon completion of
the Reorganization, the Fund will dissolve pursuant to a plan of
dissolution adopted by the Board of Trustees.
The following relates to changes as a result of the Transaction.
1. All references to Van Kampen Asset
Management are hereby deleted and are replaced with
Invesco Advisers, Inc. The first and second
paragraphs in the section entitled Investment Advisory
Services are hereby deleted in their entirety.
2. The first paragraph in the section entitled
Investment Advisory Services The adviser
is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the
following:
Invesco Advisers, Inc. (Invesco or the
Adviser) is the Funds investment adviser. The
Adviser is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd.
The Adviser is located at 1555 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta,
GA 30309. The Adviser, a successor in interest to multiple
investment advisers, has been an investment adviser since 1976.
Van Kampen Funds, Inc. is the Funds distributor (the
Distributor). The Distributor is an indirect wholly
owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. and is located at
P.O. Box 4739, Houston, Texas
77210-4739.
Van Kampen Investor Services, Inc. is the Funds transfer
agent (Investor Services). Investor Services is an
indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. and is located
at P.O. Box 4739, Houston, TX
77210-4739.
3. The second sentence in the first paragraph in the
section entitled Investment Advisory Services
Advisory agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the following:
Under an investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and
the Fund effective June 1, 2010, (the Advisory
Agreement), the Fund pays the Adviser no fees. Under an
investment advisory agreement between the Funds former
investment adviser and the Fund effective until June 1,
2010, the Fund paid the Funds former investment adviser a
monthly fee computed based upon an annual rate applied to the
average daily net assets of the Fund as follows:
4. All references to Van Kampen Investments are
hereby deleted.
5. On the back cover, all information is hereby updated
with the appropriate entity and contact information provided
above.
6. All references to the phone number
(800) 847-2424
are hereby deleted and replaced with
(800) 959-4246.
All references in the prospectus and statement of additional
information to the web site
www.vankampen.com
are hereby
deleted and replaced with
www.invesco.com
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PLEASE
RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE
Van
Kampen Tax Free Money Fund
Supplement
dated June 1, 2010
to the Statement of Additional Information
dated
October 30, 2009
The Statement of Additional Information is hereby supplemented
as follows:
On June 1, 2010, Invesco Ltd., an independent global
investment management company, completed its purchase of
substantially all of the retail asset management business of
Morgan Stanley, including the investment adviser, distributor
and certain other affiliated service providers to most of the
Van Kampen funds (including the Van Kampen Tax Free Money Fund)
(the Transaction). In contemplation of the
Transaction, on May 11, 2010, shareholders of the Fund
approved a reorganization (the Reorganization) of
the Fund into the Invesco Tax-Exempt Cash Fund (formerly, AIM
Tax-Exempt Cash Fund) (the Acquiring Fund), a fund
advised by affiliates of Invesco with substantially the same
investment objective and principal investment strategy as the
Fund. It is expected that the Reorganization will be completed
on or about June 7, 2010 at which time shareholders of the
Fund will receive shares of the Acquiring Fund in exchange for
their shares of the Fund.
As a result of the Transaction, the Board of Trustees of the
Fund has approved an interim investment advisory contract and
other agreements to permit Invesco Advisers, Inc. to act as the
Funds investment adviser until the closing of the
Reorganization on or about June 7, 2010. Upon completion of
the Reorganization, the Fund will dissolve pursuant to a plan of
dissolution adopted by the Board of Trustees.
The following relate to changes as a result of the Transaction.
1. All references to Van Kampen Asset
Management are hereby deleted and are replaced with
Invesco Advisers, Inc. The second paragraph in the
section entitled General Information is hereby
deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
Invesco Advisers, Inc. (the Adviser) is the
Funds investment adviser. The Adviser is an indirect,
wholly owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. The Adviser is located
at 1555 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30309. The Adviser,
a successor in interest to multiple investment advisers, has
been an investment adviser since 1976. Van Kampen Funds Inc. is
the Funds Distributor and Van Kampen Investor Services
Inc. is the Funds transfer agent, each of which are
indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd.
2. All of the information in the section entitled
Trustees and Officers Officers, is
hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
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Russell C. Burk - 1958
Senior Vice President
and Senior Officer
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Senior Vice President and Senior Officer, The Invesco Funds
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John M. Zerr - 1962
Senior Vice President,
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
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Director, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel,
Invesco Management Group, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim
Management Group, Inc.), 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; and
Manager, Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC.
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Formerly: Director, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known
as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.); Director, Senior Vice
President, General Counsel and Secretary, Invesco Advisers,
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).
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Lisa O. Brinkley - 1959
Vice President
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Global Compliance Director, Invesco Ltd.; Chief Compliance
Officer, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco
Aim Distributors, Inc.) and Invesco Investment Services,
Inc.(formerly known as Invesco Aim Investment Services, Inc.);
and Vice President, The Invesco Funds.
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Formerly: Senior Vice President, Invesco Management Group,
Inc.; Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer,
Invesco Advisers, Inc. and The Invesco Funds; Vice President and
Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.
and Invesco Distributors, Inc.; Vice President, Invesco
Investment Services, Inc. and Fund Management Company.
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Kevin M. Carome - 1956
Vice President
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General Counsel, Secretary and Senior Managing Director, Invesco
Ltd.; Director, Invesco Holding Company Limited and INVESCO
Funds Group, Inc.; Director and Executive Vice President, IVZ,
Inc., Invesco Group Services, Inc., Invesco North American
Holdings, Inc. and Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd.; Director
and Secretary, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco
Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser);
Vice President, The Invesco Funds; and Trustee, 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.
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Formerly: Senior Managing Director and Secretary, Invesco North
American Holdings, Inc.; Vice President and Secretary, IVZ, Inc.
and Invesco Group Services, Inc.; Senior Managing Director and
Secretary, Invesco Holding Company Limited; Director, Senior
Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Invesco
Management Group, Inc. and Invesco Advisers, Inc.; Senior Vice
President, Invesco Distributors, Inc.; Director, General
Counsel and Vice President, Fund Management Company; Vice
President, Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc. and Invesco
Investment Services, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Chief Legal
Officer and Secretary, The Invesco Funds; Director and Vice
President, IVZ Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as INVESCO
Distributors, Inc.; and Chief Executive Officer and President,
INVESCO Funds Group, Inc.
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Sheri Morris - 1964
Vice President, Treasurer
and Principal Financial Officer
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Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer, The
Invesco Funds; and Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc.
(formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.)
(registered investment adviser).
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Formerly: Vice President, Invesco 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.
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Karen Dunn Kelley - 1960
Vice President
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Head of Invescos World Wide Fixed Income and Cash
Management Group; Senior Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc.
(formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.)
(registered investment adviser); Executive Vice President,
Invesco Distributors, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim
Distributors, Inc.); Senior Vice President, Invesco Management
Group, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim Management Group,
Inc.); and Director, Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.; Vice
President, The Invesco Funds (other than AIM Treasurers
Series Trust (Invesco Treasurers Series Trust) and
Short-Term Investments Trust); and President and Principal
Executive Officer, The Invesco Funds (AIM Treasurers
Series Trust (Invesco Treasurers Series Trust) and
Short-Term Investments Trust only).
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Formerly: 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.; President and Principal
Executive Officer, Tax-Free Investments Trust; 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
Treasurers Series Trust (Invesco Treasurers Series
Trust), Short-Term Investments Trust and Tax-Free Investments
Trust only).
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Lance A. Rejsek - 1967
Anti-Money Laundering
Compliance Officer
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Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer, Invesco Advisers, Inc.
(formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.)
(registered investment adviser); Invesco Distributors, Inc.
(formerly known as Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.), Invesco
Investment Services, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Aim
Investment Services, Inc.), The Invesco Funds, PowerShares
Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Trust
II, PowerShares India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and PowerShares
Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust. Formerly:
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer, Fund Management
Company, Invesco Advisers, Inc., Invesco Aim Capital Management,
Inc. and Invesco Aim Private Asset Management, Inc.
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Todd L. Spillane - 1958
Chief Compliance Officer
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Senior Vice President, Invesco Management Group, Inc. (formerly
known as Invesco Aim Management Group, Inc.); 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, PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust,
PowerShares Exchange-Traded Trust II, PowerShares India
Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and PowerShares Actively Managed
Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, INVESCO Private Capital Investments,
Inc. (holding company), Invesco Private Capital, Inc.
(registered investment adviser) and Invesco Senior Secured
Management, Inc. (registered investment adviser); 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.)
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Formerly: Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer,
Invesco Advisers, Inc. and Invesco Aim Capital Management, Inc.;
Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Global Asset Management
(N.A.), Inc.; Vice President, Invesco Aim Capital Management,
Inc. and Fund Management Company.
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3. With respect to information in the section entitled
Other Agreements, the Legal Services Agreement and
the Chief Compliance Officer Employment Agreement to which the
Fund is a party are terminated as of June 1, 2010.
4. All references to Van Kampen Investments,
Van Kampen Advisors Inc. and Morgan
Stanley are hereby deleted.
5. All references to the phone number
(800) 847-2424
are hereby deleted and replaced with
(800) 959-4246.
All references in the prospectus and statement of additional
information to the web site
www.vankampen.com
are hereby
deleted and replaced with
www.invesco.com
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6. The section entitled Other Information
Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings is hereby deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
Policies and Procedures for Disclosure of
Fund Holdings
The Board has adopted policies and procedures with respect to
the disclosure of the Funds portfolio holdings (the
Holdings Disclosure Policy). Invesco and the Board may amend the
Holdings Disclosure Policy at any time without prior notice.
Details of the Holdings Disclosure Policy and a description of
the basis on which employees of Invesco and its affiliates may
release information about portfolio securities in certain
contexts are provided below.
Public release of portfolio
holdings.
The Fund discloses the following
portfolio holdings information on
www.invesco.com
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Approximate Date of
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Information Remains
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Information
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Website Posting
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Posted on Website
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Top ten holdings as of
month-end
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15 days after month-end
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Until replaced with the following months top ten holdings
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Select holdings included in the Funds Quarterly
Performance Update
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29 days after calendar quarter-end
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Until replaced with the following quarters Quarterly
Performance Update
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Complete portfolio holdings as of calendar quarter-end
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30 days after calendar quarter-end
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For one year
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Complete portfolio holdings as of fiscal quarter-end
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60-70 days after fiscal quarter-end
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For one year
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These holdings are listed along with the percentage of the
Funds net assets they represent. Generally, employees of
Invesco and its affiliates may not disclose such portfolio
holdings until one day after they have been posted on
www.invesco.com.
You may also obtain the publicly
available portfolio holdings information described above by
contacting us at
1-800-959-4246.
Selective disclosure of portfolio holdings pursuant to
non-disclosure agreement.
Employees of Invesco
and its affiliates may disclose non-public full portfolio
holdings on a selective basis only if the Internal Compliance
Controls Committee (the ICCC) of Invesco Management
approves the parties to whom disclosure of non-public full
portfolio holdings will be made. The ICCC must determine that
the proposed selective disclosure will be made for legitimate
business purposes of the applicable Fund and is in the best
interest of the applicable Funds shareholders. In making
such determination, the ICCC will address any perceived
conflicts of interest between shareholders of such Fund and
Invesco or its affiliates as part of granting its approval.
The Board exercises continuing oversight of the disclosure of
Fund portfolio holdings by (1) overseeing the
implementation and enforcement of the Holdings Disclosure Policy
and the Invesco Funds Code of Ethics by the Chief Compliance
Officer (or his designee) of Invesco and the Invesco Funds and
(2) considering reports and
recommendations by the Chief Compliance Officer concerning any
material compliance matters (as defined in
Rule 38a-1
under the 1940 Act and
Rule 206(4)-7
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended) that may
arise in connection with the Holdings Disclosure Policy.
Pursuant to the Holdings Disclosure Policy, the Board reviews
the types of situations in which Invesco provides selective
disclosure and approves situations involving perceived conflicts
of interest between shareholders of the applicable Fund and
Invesco or its affiliates brought to the Boards attention
by Invesco.
To locate the Funds portfolio holdings information on
www.invescoaim.com, click on the Products and Performance tab,
then click on the Mutual Funds link, then click on the
Fund Overview link and select the Fund from the drop down
menu. Links to the Funds portfolio holdings are located in
the upper right side of this Web site page.
Invesco discloses non-public full portfolio holdings information
to the following persons in connection with the
day-to-day
operations and management of the Invesco Funds:
Attorneys and accountants;
Securities lending agents;
Lenders to the Invesco Funds;
Rating and rankings agencies;
Persons assisting in the voting of proxies;
Invesco Funds custodians;
The Invesco Funds transfer agent(s) (in the event of a
redemption in kind);
Pricing services, market makers, or other persons who provide
systems or software support in connection with Invesco
Funds operations (to determine the price of securities
held by an Invesco Fund);
Financial printers;
Brokers identified by the Invesco Funds portfolio
management team who provide execution and research services to
the team; and
Analysts hired to perform research and analysis to the Invesco
Funds portfolio management team.
In many cases, Invesco will disclose current portfolio holdings
on a daily basis to these persons. In these situations, Invesco
has entered into non-disclosure agreements which provide that
the recipient of the portfolio holdings will maintain the
confidentiality of such portfolio holdings and will not trade on
such information (Non-disclosure Agreements).
Invesco will also disclose non-public portfolio holdings
information if such disclosure is required by applicable laws,
rules or regulations, or by regulatory authorities having
jurisdiction over Invesco and its affiliates or the Fund.
The Holdings Disclosure Policy provides that Invesco will not
request, receive or accept any compensation (including
compensation in the form of the maintenance of assets in any
Fund or other mutual fund or account managed by Invesco or one
of its affiliates) for the selective disclosure of portfolio
holdings information.
Disclosure of certain portfolio holdings and related
information without non-disclosure
agreement.
Invesco and its affiliates that
provide services to the Fund, the
Sub-Advisers
and each of its employees may receive or have access to
portfolio holdings as part of the day to day operations of the
Fund.
From time to time, employees of Invesco and its affiliates may
express their views orally or in writing on one or more of the
Funds portfolio securities or may state that a Fund has
recently purchased or sold, or continues to own, one or more
securities. The securities subject to these views and statements
may be ones that were purchased or sold since a Funds most
recent quarter-end and therefore may not be reflected on the
list of the Funds most recent quarter-end portfolio
holdings disclosed on the website. Such views and statements may
be made to various persons, including members of the press,
brokers and other financial intermediaries that sell shares of
the Fund, shareholders in the Fund, persons considering
investing in the Fund or representatives of such shareholders or
potential shareholders, such as fiduciaries of a 401(k) plan or
a trust and their advisers, and other entities for which Invesco
or its affiliates provides or may provide investment advisory
services. The nature and content of the views and statements
provided to each of these persons may differ.
From time to time, employees of Invesco and its affiliates also
may provide oral or written information (portfolio commentary)
about a Fund, including, but not limited to, how the Funds
investments are divided among various
sectors, industries, countries, investment styles and
capitalization sizes, and among stocks, bonds, currencies and
cash, security types, bond maturities, bond coupons and bond
credit quality ratings. This portfolio commentary may also
include information on how these various weightings and factors
contributed to Fund performance. Invesco may also provide oral
or written information (statistical information) about various
financial characteristics of a Fund or its underlying portfolio
securities including, but not limited to, alpha, beta,
R-squared, coefficient of determination, duration, maturity,
information ratio, sharpe ratio, earnings growth, payout ratio,
price/book value, projected earnings growth, return on equity,
standard deviation, tracking error, weighted average quality,
market capitalization, percent debt to equity, price to cash
flow, dividend yield or growth, default rate, portfolio
turnover, and risk and style characteristics. This portfolio
commentary and statistical information about a Fund may be based
on the Funds portfolio as of the most recent quarter-end
or the end of some other interim period, such as month-end. The
portfolio commentary and statistical information may be provided
to various persons, including those described in the preceding
paragraph. The nature and content of the information provided to
each of these persons may differ.
Disclosure of portfolio holdings by
traders.
Additionally, employees of Invesco and
its affiliates may disclose one or more of the portfolio
securities of a Fund when purchasing and selling securities
through broker-dealers, requesting bids on securities, obtaining
price quotations on securities, or in connection with litigation
involving the Funds portfolio securities. Invesco does not
enter into formal Non-disclosure Agreements in connection with
these situations; however, the Fund would not continue to
conduct business with a person who Invesco believed was misusing
the disclosed information.
Disclosure of portfolio holdings of other Invesco -managed
products.
Invesco and its affiliates manage
products sponsored by companies other than Invesco, including
investment companies, offshore funds, and separate accounts. In
many cases, these other products are managed in a similar
fashion to certain Invesco Funds (as defined herein) and thus
have similar portfolio holdings. The sponsors of these other
products managed by Invesco and its affiliates may disclose the
portfolio holdings of their products at different times than
Invesco discloses portfolio holdings for the Invesco Funds.
Invesco provides portfolio holdings information for portfolios
of Invesco Variable Insurance Funds (the Insurance Funds) to
insurance companies whose variable annuity and variable life
insurance accounts invest in the Insurance Funds (Insurance
Companies). Invesco may disclose portfolio holdings information
for the Insurance Funds to Insurance Companies with which
Invesco has entered into Non-disclosure Agreements up to five
days prior to the scheduled dates for Invescos disclosure
of similar portfolio holdings information for other funds on
www.invesco.com.
Invesco provides portfolio holdings
information for the Insurance Funds to such Insurance Companies
to allow them to disclose this information on their websites at
approximately the same time that Invesco discloses portfolio
holdings information for the other Invesco Funds on its website.
Invesco manages the Insurance Funds in a similar fashion to
certain other Invesco Funds and thus the Insurance Funds and
such other funds have similar portfolio holdings. Invesco does
not disclose the portfolio holdings information for the
Insurance Funds on its Web site, and not all Insurance Companies
disclose this information on their Web sites.
7. Appendix A is hereby deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the following:
PROXY
VOTING POLICIES
The following policies and procedures apply to certain funds and
other accounts managed by Invesco Advisers, Inc.
(Invesco).
A. POLICY
STATEMENT
Introduction
Our Belief
The Invesco Funds Boards of Trustees and Invescos
investment professionals expect a high standard of corporate
governance from the companies in our portfolios so that Invesco
may fulfill its fiduciary obligation to our fund shareholders
and other account holders. Well governed companies are
characterized by a primary focus on the interests of
shareholders, accountable boards of directors, ample
transparency in financial disclosure, performance-driven
cultures and appropriate consideration of all stakeholders.
Invesco believes well governed companies create greater
shareholder wealth over the long term than poorly governed
companies, so we endeavor to vote in a manner that increases the
value of our investments and fosters good governance within our
portfolio companies.
In determining how to vote proxy issues, Invesco considers the
probable business consequences of each issue and votes in a
manner designed to protect and enhance fund shareholders
and other account holders interests. Our voting decisions
are intended to enhance each companys total shareholder
value over Invescos typical investment horizon.
Proxy voting is an integral part of Invescos investment
process. We believe that the right to vote proxies should be
managed with the same care as all other elements of the
investment process. The objective of Invescos proxy-voting
activity is to promote good governance and advance the economic
interests of our clients. At no time will Invesco exercise its
voting power to advance its own commercial interests, to pursue
a social or political cause that is unrelated to our
clients economic interests, or to favor a particular
client or business relationship to the detriment of others.
B. OPERATING
PROCEDURES AND RESPONSIBLE PARTIES
Proxy
administration
The Invesco Retail Proxy Committee (the Proxy
Committee) consists of members representing Invescos
Investments, Legal and Compliance departments. Invescos
Proxy Voting Guidelines (the Guidelines) are revised
annually by the Proxy Committee, and are approved by the Invesco
Funds Boards of Trustees. The Proxy Committee implements the
Guidelines and oversees proxy voting.
The Proxy Committee has retained outside experts to assist with
the analysis and voting of proxy issues. In addition to the
advice offered by these experts, Invesco uses information
gathered from our own research, company managements,
Invescos portfolio managers and outside shareholder groups
to reach our voting decisions.
Generally speaking, Invescos investment-research process
leads us to invest in companies led by management teams we
believe have the ability to conceive and execute strategies to
outperform their competitors. We select companies for investment
based in large part on our assessment of their management
teams ability to create shareholder wealth. Therefore, in
formulating our proxy-voting decisions, Invesco gives proper
consideration to the recommendations of a companys Board
of Directors.
Important
principles underlying the Invesco Proxy Voting
Guidelines
Management teams of companies are accountable to their boards of
directors, and directors of publicly held companies are
accountable to their shareholders. Invesco endeavors to vote the
proxies of its portfolio companies in a manner that will
reinforce the notion of a boards accountability to its
shareholders. Consequently, Invesco votes against any actions
that would impair the rights of shareholders or would reduce
shareholders influence over the board or over management.
The following are specific voting issues that illustrate how
Invesco applies this principle of accountability.
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Elections of directors.
In uncontested director
elections for companies that do not have a controlling
shareholder, Invesco votes in favor of slates if they are
comprised of at least a majority of independent directors and if
the boards key committees are fully independent. Key
committees include the Audit, Compensation and Governance or
Nominating Committees. Invescos standard of independence
excludes directors who, in addition to the directorship, have
any material business or family relationships with the companies
they serve.
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Contested director elections are evaluated on a
case-by-case
basis and are decided within the context of Invescos
investment thesis on a company.
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Director performance.
Invesco withholds votes from
directors who exhibit a lack of accountability to shareholders,
either through their level of attendance at meetings or by
enacting egregious corporate-governance or other policies. In
cases of material financial restatements, accounting fraud,
habitually late filings, adopting shareholder rights plan
(poison pills) without shareholder approval, or
other areas of poor performance, Invesco may withhold votes from
some or all of a companys directors. In situations where
directors performance is a concern, Invesco may also
support shareholder proposals to take corrective actions such as
so-called clawback provisions.
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Auditors and Audit Committee members.
Invesco
believes a companys Audit Committee has a high degree of
responsibility to shareholders in matters of financial
disclosure, integrity of the financial statements and
effectiveness of a companys internal controls.
Independence, experience and financial expertise are critical
elements of a well-functioning Audit Committee. When electing
directors who are members of a companys Audit Committee,
or when ratifying a companys auditors, Invesco considers
the past performance of the Committee and holds its members
accountable for the quality of the companys financial
statements and reports.
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Majority standard in director elections.
The right
to elect directors is the single most important mechanism
shareholders have to promote accountability. Invesco supports
the nascent effort to reform the U.S. convention of
electing directors, and votes in favor of proposals to elect
directors by a majority vote.
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Classified boards.
Invesco supports proposals to
elect directors annually instead of electing them to staggered
multi-year terms because annual elections increase a
boards level of accountability to its shareholders.
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Supermajority voting requirements.
Unless proscribed
by law in the state of incorporation, Invesco votes against
actions that would impose any supermajority voting requirement,
and supports actions to dismantle existing supermajority
requirements.
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Responsiveness.
Invesco withholds votes from
directors who do not adequately respond to shareholder proposals
that were approved by a majority of votes cast the prior year.
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Cumulative voting.
The practice of cumulative voting
can enable minority shareholders to have representation on a
companys board. Invesco supports proposals to institute
the practice of cumulative voting at companies whose overall
corporate-governance standards indicate a particular need to
protect the interests of minority shareholders.
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Shareholder access.
On business matters with
potential financial consequences, Invesco votes in favor of
proposals that would increase shareholders opportunities
to express their views to boards of directors, proposals that
would lower barriers to shareholder action and proposals to
promote the adoption of generally accepted best practices in
corporate governance.
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Invesco believes properly constructed compensation plans that
include equity ownership are effective in creating incentives
that induce managements and employees of our portfolio companies
to create greater shareholder wealth. Invesco supports equity
compensation plans that promote the proper alignment of
incentives, and votes against plans that are overly dilutive to
existing shareholders, plans that contain objectionable
structural features, and plans that appear likely to reduce the
value of an accounts investment.
Following are specific voting issues that illustrate how Invesco
evaluates incentive plans.
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Executive compensation.
Invesco evaluates
compensation plans for executives within the context of the
companys performance under the executives tenure.
Invesco believes independent compensation committees are best
positioned to craft executive-compensation plans that are
suitable for their company-specific circumstances. We view the
election of those independent compensation committee members as
the appropriate mechanism for shareholders to express their
approval or disapproval of a companys compensation
practices. Therefore, Invesco generally does not support
shareholder proposals to limit or eliminate certain forms of
executive compensation. In the interest of reinforcing the
notion of a compensation committees accountability to
shareholders, Invesco supports proposals requesting that
companies subject each years compensation record to an
advisory shareholder vote, or so-called say on pay
proposals.
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Equity-based compensation plans.
When voting to
approve or reject equity-based compensation plans, Invesco
compares the total estimated cost of the plans, including stock
options and restricted stock, against a carefully selected peer
group and uses multiple performance metrics that help us
determine whether the incentive structures in place are creating
genuine shareholder wealth. Regardless of a plans
estimated cost relative to its peer group, Invesco votes against
plans that contain structural features that would impair the
alignment of incentives between shareholders and management.
Such features include the ability to reprice or reload options
without shareholder approval, the ability to issue options below
the stocks current market price, or the ability to
automatically replenish shares without shareholder approval.
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Employee stock-purchase plans.
Invesco supports
employee stock-purchase plans that are reasonably designed to
provide proper incentives to a broad base of employees, provided
that the price at which employees may acquire stock is at most a
15 percent discount from the market price.
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Severance agreements.
Invesco generally votes in
favor of proposals requiring advisory shareholder ratification
of executives severance agreements. However, we oppose
proposals requiring such agreements to be ratified by
shareholders in advance of their adoption.
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III. Capitalization
Examples of management proposals related to a companys
capital structure include authorizing or issuing additional
equity capital, repurchasing outstanding stock, or enacting a
stock split or reverse stock split. On requests for additional
capital stock, Invesco analyzes the companys stated
reasons for the request. Except where the request could
adversely affect the funds ownership stake or voting
rights, Invesco generally supports a boards decisions on
its needs for additional capital stock. Some capitalization
proposals require a
case-by-case
analysis within the context of Invescos investment thesis
on a company. Examples of such proposals include authorizing
common or preferred stock with special voting rights, or issuing
additional stock in connection with an acquisition.
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Mergers,
Acquisitions and Other Corporate Actions
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Issuers occasionally require shareholder approval to engage in
certain corporate actions such as mergers, acquisitions, name
changes, dissolutions, reorganizations, divestitures and
reincorporations. Invesco analyzes these proposals within the
context of our investment thesis on the company, and determines
its vote on a
case-by-case
basis.
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Anti-Takeover
Measures
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Practices designed to protect a company from unsolicited bids
can adversely affect shareholder value and voting rights, and
they create conflicts of interests among directors, management
and shareholders. Except under special issuer-specific
circumstances, Invesco votes to reduce or eliminate such
measures. These measures include adopting or renewing
poison pills, requiring supermajority voting on
certain corporate actions, classifying the election of directors
instead of electing each director to an annual term, or creating
separate classes of common or preferred stock with special
voting rights. Invesco generally votes against management
proposals to impose these types of measures, and generally votes
for shareholder proposals designed to reduce such measures.
Invesco supports shareholder proposals directing companies to
subject their anti-takeover provisions to a shareholder vote.
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VI.
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Shareholder
Proposals on Corporate Governance
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Invesco generally votes for shareholder proposals that are
designed to protect shareholder rights if a companys
corporate-governance standards indicate that such additional
protections are warranted.
VII. Shareholder
Proposals on Social Responsibility
The potential costs and economic benefits of shareholder
proposals seeking to amend a companys practices for social
reasons are difficult to assess. Analyzing the costs and
economic benefits of these proposals is highly subjective and
does not fit readily within our framework of voting to create
greater shareholder wealth over Invescos typical
investment horizon. Therefore, Invesco abstains from voting on
shareholder proposals deemed to be of a purely social, political
or moral nature.
VIII.
Routine Business Matters
Routine business matters rarely have a potentially material
effect on the economic prospects of fund holdings, so we
generally support the boards discretion on these items.
However, Invesco votes against proposals where there is
insufficient information to make a decision about the nature of
the proposal. Similarly, Invesco votes against proposals to
conduct other unidentified business at shareholder meetings.
Summary
These Guidelines provide an important framework for making
proxy-voting decisions, and should give fund shareholders and
other account holders insight into the factors driving
Invescos decisions. The Guidelines cannot address all
potential proxy issues, however. Decisions on specific issues
must be made within the context of these Guidelines and within
the context of the investment thesis of the funds and other
accounts that own the companys stock. Where a different
investment thesis is held by portfolio managers who may hold
stocks in common, Invesco may vote the shares held on a
fund-by-fund
or
account-by-account
basis.
Exceptions
In certain circumstances, Invesco may refrain from voting where
the economic cost of voting a companys proxy exceeds any
anticipated benefits of that proxy proposal.
Share-lending programs
One reason that some portion of Invescos position in a
particular security might not be voted is the securities lending
program. When securities are out on loan and earning fees for
the lending fund, they are transferred into the borrowers
name. Any proxies during the period of the loan are voted by the
borrower. The lending fund would have to terminate the loan to
vote the companys proxy, an action that is not generally
in the best economic interest of fund shareholders. However,
whenever Invesco determines that the benefit to shareholders or
other account holders of voting a particular proxy outweighs the
revenue lost by terminating the loan, we recall the securities
for the purpose of voting the funds full position.
Share-blocking
Another example of a situation where Invesco may be unable to
vote is in countries where the exercise of voting rights
requires the fund to submit to short-term trading restrictions,
a practice known as share-blocking. Invesco
generally refrains from voting proxies in share-blocking
countries unless the portfolio manager determines that the
benefit to fund shareholders and other account holders of voting
a specific proxy outweighs the funds or other
accounts temporary inability to sell the security.
International constraints
An additional concern that sometimes precludes our voting
non-U.S. proxies
is our inability to receive proxy materials with enough time and
enough information to make a voting decision. In the great
majority of instances, however, we are able to vote
non-U.S. proxies
successfully. It is important to note that Invesco makes voting
decisions for
non-U.S. issuers
using these Guidelines as our framework, but also takes into
account the corporate-governance standards, regulatory
environment and generally accepted best practices of the local
market.
Exceptions to these Guidelines
Invesco retains the flexibility to accommodate company-specific
situations where strictly adhering to the Guidelines would lead
to a vote that the Proxy Committee deems not to be in the best
interest of the funds shareholders and other account
holders. In these situations, the Proxy Committee will vote the
proxy in the manner deemed to be in the best interest of the
funds shareholders and other account holders, and will
promptly inform the funds Boards of Trustees of such vote
and the circumstances surrounding it.
Resolving
potential conflicts of interest
A potential conflict of interest arises when Invesco votes a
proxy for an issuer with which it also maintains a material
business relationship. Examples could include issuers that are
distributors of Invescos products, or issuers that employ
Invesco to manage portions of their retirement plans or treasury
accounts. Invesco reviews each proxy proposal to assess the
extent, if any, to which there may be a material conflict
between the interests of the fund shareholders or other account
holders and Invesco.
Invesco takes reasonable measures to determine whether a
potential conflict may exist. A potential conflict is deemed to
exist only if one or more of the Proxy Committee members
actually knew or should have known of the potential conflict.
If a material potential conflict is deemed to exist, Invesco may
resolve the potential conflict in one of the following ways:
(1) if the proposal that gives rise to the potential
conflict is specifically addressed by the Guidelines, Invesco
may vote the proxy in accordance with the predetermined
Guidelines; (2) Invesco may engage an independent third
party to determine how the proxy should be voted; or
(3) Invesco may establish an ethical wall or other
informational barrier between the persons involved in the
potential conflict and the persons making the proxy-voting
decision in order to insulate the potential conflict from the
decision makers.
Because the Guidelines are pre-determined and crafted to be in
the best economic interest of shareholders and other account
holders, applying the Guidelines to vote client proxies should,
in most instances, adequately resolve any potential conflict of
interest. As an additional safeguard against potential
conflicts, persons from Invescos marketing, distribution
and other customer-facing functions are precluded from becoming
members of the Proxy Committee.
On a quarterly basis, the Invesco Funds Boards of Trustees
review a report from Invescos Internal Compliance Controls
Committee. The report contains a list of all known material
business relationships that Invesco maintains with publicly
traded issuers. That list is cross-referenced with the list of
proxies voted over the period. If there are any instances where
Invescos voting pattern on the proxies of its material
business partners is inconsistent with its voting pattern on all
other issuers, they are brought before the Trustees and
explained by the Chairman of the Proxy Committee.
Personal conflicts of interest.
If any member of the
Proxy Committee has a personal conflict of interest with respect
to a company or an issue presented for voting, that Proxy
Committee member will inform the Proxy Committee of such
conflict and will abstain from voting on that company or issue.
Funds of funds.
Some Invesco Funds offering
diversified asset allocation within one investment vehicle own
shares in other Invesco Funds. A potential conflict of interest
could arise if an underlying Invesco Fund has a shareholder
meeting with any proxy issues to be voted on, because
Invescos asset-allocation funds or target-maturity funds
may be large shareholders of the underlying fund. In order to
avoid any potential for a conflict, the asset-allocation funds
and target maturity funds vote their shares in the same
proportion as the votes of the external shareholders of the
underlying fund.
C. RECORDKEEPING
Records are maintained in accordance with Invescos
Recordkeeping Policy.
Policies
and Vote Disclosure
A copy of these Guidelines and the voting record of each Invesco
Fund are available on our web site,
www.invesco.com
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accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission regulations,
all funds file a record of all proxy-voting activity for the
prior 12 months ending June 30th. That filing is made
on or before August 31st of each year.
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