AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON February 28, 2020.
No. 333-138490
No. 811-21977
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Pre-Effective Amendment No.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 739
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
Amendment No. 740
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
(Address of Principal Executive Office)
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (800) 983-0903
Anna Paglia, Esquire
3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
With Copies to:
Alan P. Goldberg
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP
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Chicago, Illinois 60606
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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP
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Washington, DC 20006
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Prospectus February 28, 2020

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
CQQQ Invesco China Technology ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Fund’s shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from your financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or bank. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you may contact your financial intermediary to enroll in electronic delivery. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service.
You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you can follow the instructions included with this disclosure, if applicable, or contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held with your financial intermediary.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


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Summary Information 1
Invesco China Technology ETF 1
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Additional Information About the Fund’s Strategies and Risks 4
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Tax Structure of ETFs 10
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Portfolio Holdings 10
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Management of the Fund 10
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How to Buy and Sell Shares 11
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Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares 11
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Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes 11
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Distributor 13
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Net Asset Value 13
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Fund Service Providers 14
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Financial Highlights 15
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Index Provider 16
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Disclaimers 16
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Premium/Discount Information 16
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Other Information 16
                                  

 

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Summary Information

Invesco China Technology ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco China Technology ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.70%
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Other Expenses 0.00%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.70%
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Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$72 $224 $390 $871
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 80% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains, and calculates the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is composed of securities of companies that the Index Provider, pursuant to the Underlying Index methodology, has classified as being in the technology industry and that are constituents of the FTSE China Index and FTSE China A Stock Connect CNH Index. The Underlying Index may include China A-shares (shares of Chinese incorporated companies that may trade on the Shanghai or Shenzhen stock exchanges via a Stock Connect program (“Stock Connect Programs”)), B-shares, H-shares, N-shares, Red Chip shares, P-chip shares and S-chip shares. Underlying Index constituents are modified market capitalization weighted.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 90 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $366 million to $5.6 billion.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the
securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and, therefore, is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the information technology sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the
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Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the
U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
China Investment Risk. Investments in companies located or operating in China involve risks not associated with investments in Western nations, such as nationalization, expropriation, or confiscation of property; difficulty in obtaining and/or enforcing judgments; alteration or discontinuation of economic reforms; military conflicts, either internal or with other countries; inflation, currency fluctuations and fluctuations in inflation and interest rates that may have negative effects on the economy and securities markets of China; and China’s dependency on the economies of other Asian countries, many of which are developing countries. Export growth continues to be a major driver of China’s rapid economic growth. As a result, a reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
Stock Connect Risk. Investments in China A-shares listed and traded through Stock Connect Programs involve unique risks. The Stock Connect Programs are relatively new and there is no guarantee that they will continue. Trading through Stock Connect Programs is subject to daily quotas that limit the maximum daily net purchases and daily limits on permitted price fluctuations. Trading suspensions are more likely in the A-shares market than in many other global equity markets. There can be no assurance that a liquid market on an exchange will exist. In addition, investments made through Stock Connect Programs are subject to comparatively untested trading, clearance and settlement procedures. Stock Connect Programs are available only on days when markets in both China and Hong Kong are open. The Fund’s ownership interest in Stock Connect Programs securities will not be reflected directly, and thus the Fund may have to rely on the ability or willingness of a third party to enforce its rights. Investments in Stock Connect Program A-shares are generally subject to Chinese securities regulations and listing rules, among other restrictions. Hong Kong investor compensation funds, which protect against trade defaults, are unavailable when investing through Stock Connect Programs. Uncertainties in Chinese tax rules could also result in unexpected tax liabilities for the Fund.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index will be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. As a result, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
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Information Technology Sector Risk. Factors such as the failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, intense competition, product compatibility, consumer preferences, corporate capital expenditure, rapid obsolescence, competition from alternative technologies, and research and development of new products may significantly affect the market value of securities of issuers in the information technology sector.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
The Fund is the successor to the investment performance of the Guggenheim China Technology ETF (the “Predecessor Fund”) as a result of the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into the Fund, which was consummated after the close of business on May 18, 2018. Accordingly, the performance information shown below for periods ended on or prior to May 18, 2018 is that of the Predecessor Fund.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 27.24% (3rd Quarter 2013)
Worst Quarter (27.42)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 32.46% 9.92% 8.67%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 32.45% 9.42% 8.15%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 19.21% 7.60% 6.79%
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FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index(1) (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
N/A N/A N/A
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Blended - FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index(2) (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
33.10% 9.79% 8.75%
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MSCI China Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
23.46% 7.49% 5.34%
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(1) Performance information is not available for periods prior to the Underlying Index’s commencement date of March 18, 2019.
(2) The Blended - FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index (Net) reflects the performance of the AlphaShares China Technology Index, the former underlying index, prior to June 22, 2019, and the Underlying Index thereafter.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
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Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust April 2018
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser April 2018
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser April 2018
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
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Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. ("NYSE Arca” or the “Exchange”) and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Additional Information About the Fund’s Strategies and Risks
    
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as ADRs and GDRs that represent securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund operates as an index fund and will not be actively managed. The Fund uses an “indexing” investment approach to seek to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of the Underlying Index. The Adviser seeks correlation over time of 0.95 or better between the Fund’s performance and the performance of the Underlying Index; a figure of 1.00 would represent perfect correlation. Another means of evaluating the relationship between the returns of the Fund and the Underlying Index is to assess the “tracking
error” between the two. Tracking error means the variation between the Fund’s annual return and the return of the Underlying Index, expressed in terms of standard deviation. The Fund seeks to have a tracking error of less than 5%, measured on a monthly basis over a one-year period by taking the standard deviation of the difference in the Fund’s returns versus the Underlying Index’s returns. Because the Fund uses an indexing approach to try to achieve its investment objective, the Fund will not take temporary defensive positions during periods of adverse market, economic or other conditions.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track its Underlying Index, meaning that it generally invests in all of the securities comprising its Underlying Index in proportion to the weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of those securities in those same weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of securities in its Underlying Index.
A “sampling” methodology means that the Adviser uses a quantitative analysis to select securities from the Underlying Index universe to obtain a representative sample of securities that have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics similar to the Underlying Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. These include industry weightings, market capitalization, return variability, earnings valuation, yield and other financial characteristics of securities. When employing a sampling methodology, the Adviser bases the quantity of holdings in the Fund on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund, and generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Underlying Index. However, the Adviser reserves the right to invest the Fund in as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.
There also may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to (i) overweight or underweight a security in the Underlying Index, (ii) purchase securities not contained in the Underlying Index that the Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for certain securities in the Underlying Index, or (iii) utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking to track the Underlying Index.
The Fund may sell securities included in the Underlying Index in anticipation of their removal from the Underlying Index, or purchase securities not included in the Underlying Index in anticipation of their addition to the Underlying Index.
Additional information about the construction of the Fund’s Underlying Index is set forth below.
FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index (Invesco China Technology ETF)
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains, and calculates the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is composed of securities of companies that the Index Provider has classified as being in the technology industry pursuant to the Index Provider’s Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) taxonomy and that are constituents of the FTSE China Index or FTSE China A Stock Connect CNH Index. The Underlying Index may include A-shares and B-Shares (included in the Northbound China Stock Connect Scheme Buy-and-Sell List or traded on either the Shanghai or Shenzhen stock exchanges), H-shares (traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange), N-Shares (traded on the Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market), Red Chips (traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange) and P-Chips (traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange).
Underlying Index constituents are modified market capitalization weighted. Each Underlying Index constituent is assigned an investability weighting based on the constituent’s free float and foreign ownership limits. Each constituent’s weight in the Underlying Index is determined by the product of its investability weighting and its market-capitalization. Further, each China A-Share constituent’s investability weighting is reduced by 75% prior to calculating the security’s weight.
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The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly after market close on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December. Additions to the Underlying Index generally occur only at the time of the quarterly rebalance, but a constituent (i) that is removed from the FTSE China Index or FTSE China A Stock Connect CNH Index will be removed from the Underlying Index concurrently, and (ii) whose industry classification has changed will be removed from the Underlying Index concurrent with the industry classification change. In the case of either such removal, the constituent’s weight will be distributed on a pro-rata basis amongst the remaining constituents in the Underlying Index. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following provides additional information regarding certain of the principal risks identified under “Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund” in the Fund’s ‘Summary Information’ section. Any of the following risks may impact the Fund’s NAV, which could result in the Fund trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Certain countries may limit the ability to convert ADRs into the underlying foreign securities and vice versa, which may cause the securities of the foreign company to trade at a discount or premium to the market price of the related ADR. ADRs may be purchased through “sponsored” or “unsponsored” facilities. A sponsored facility is established jointly by a depositary and the issuer of the underlying security. A depositary may establish an unsponsored facility without participation by the issuer of the deposited security. Unsponsored receipts may involve higher expenses and may be less liquid. Holders of unsponsored ADRs generally bear all the costs of such facilities, and the depositary of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited security or to pass through voting rights to the holders of such receipts in respect of the deposited securities.
GDRs can involve currency risk since, unlike ADRs, they may not be U.S. dollar-denominated. Because the Fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the Fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only APs may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs, and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. The risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units, this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or
discount to NAV and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the Fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund’s overall NAV. In addition, fluctuations in the exchange values of currencies could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in a geographic region in which the Fund invests, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
When the Fund receives income in foreign currencies, the Fund will compute and distribute its income in U.S. dollars, and the computation of income will be made on the date that the Fund earns the income at the foreign exchange rates in effect on that date. Therefore, if the values of the relevant foreign currencies fall relative to the U.S. dollar between the earning of the income and the time at which the Fund converts the foreign currencies to U.S. dollars, the Fund may be required to liquidate securities in order to make distributions if it has insufficient cash in U.S. dollars to meet distribution requirements.
Furthermore, the Fund may incur costs in connection with conversions between U.S. dollars and foreign currencies. Foreign exchange dealers realize a profit based on the difference between the prices at which they are buying and selling various currencies. Thus, a dealer normally will offer to sell a foreign currency to the Fund at one rate, while offering a lesser rate of exchange should the Fund desire immediately to resell that currency to the dealer. The Fund will conduct its foreign currency exchange transactions either on a spot (i.e., cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the foreign currency exchange market, or through entering into forwards, futures or options contracts to purchase or sell foreign currencies.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, will fall. The value of an equity security may fall due to changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole and that are relatively unrelated to an issuer or its industry. These conditions include changes in interest rates, specific periods of overall market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. An issuer's common stock in particular may be especially sensitive to, and more adversely affected by, these general movements in the stock market; it is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds.
In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward, and perceptions regarding, particular industries or economic sectors will become negative. Price changes of equity securities may occur in a particular region, industry, or sector of the market, and as a result, the value of an issuer's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as increases in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same industry or in a number of different industries.
Equity risk also includes the financial risks of a specific company, including that the value of the company's securities may fall as a result of factors directly relating to that company, such as decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. In particular, the common stock of a company may decline significantly in price over short periods of time. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of common stock; similarly, the common stock of an issuer may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments because, among other reasons, the issuer experiences a decline in its financial condition.
Foreign and Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in foreign securities involve risks that are beyond those associated with investments in
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U.S. securities, and investments in securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks not often associated with investments in securities of issuers in developed countries. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign and emerging market securities, and foreign and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to issuers in developed countries.
Foreign and emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign and emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. Emerging markets are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than more developed markets. In addition, securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change. Each country has different laws specific to that country that impact investment, which may increase the risks to which investors are subject. Country-specific rules or legislation addressing investment-related transactions may inhibit or prevent certain transactions from transpiring in a particular country.
Furthermore, foreign exchanges and broker-dealers generally are subject to less government and exchange scrutiny and regulation than their U.S. counterparts. Differences in clearance and settlement procedures in foreign markets may cause delays in settlement of the Fund's trades effected in those markets and could result in losses to the Fund due to subsequent declines in the value of the securities subject to the trades. Depositary receipts also involve substantially identical risks to those associated with investments in foreign securities. Additionally, the issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, have no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Geographic Concentration Risk. Funds that are less diversified across geographic regions or countries are generally riskier than more geographically diversified funds. The economies and financial markets of certain regions can be interdependent and may all decline at the same time. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund's investments in the affected region.
China Investment Risk. Investments in companies located or operating in China involve risks not associated with investments in Western nations, such as nationalization, expropriation, or confiscation of property; difficulty in obtaining and/or enforcing judgments; alteration or discontinuation of economic reforms; military conflicts, either internal or with other countries; inflation, currency fluctuations and fluctuations in inflation and interest rates that may have negative effects on the economy and securities markets of China; and China’s dependency on the economies of other Asian countries, many of which are developing countries. Export growth continues to be a major driver of China’s rapid economic growth. As a result, a reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of
heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy. Significant portions of the Chinese securities markets may become rapidly illiquid, as Chinese issuers have the ability to suspend the trading of their equity securities and have shown a willingness to exercise that option in response to market volatility and other events. The liquidity of Chinese securities may shrink or disappear suddenly and without warning as a result of adverse economic, market or political events, or adverse investor perceptions, whether or not accurate.
Export growth continues to be a major driver of China’s rapid economic growth. As a result, a reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, the institution of tariffs or other trade barriers, or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy. The current political climate has intensified concerns about a potential trade war between China and the United States, as each country has recently imposed tariffs on the other country’s products. These actions may trigger a significant reduction in international trade, the oversupply of certain manufactured goods, substantial price reductions of goods and possible failure of individual companies and/or large segments of China’s export industry, which could have a negative impact on the Fund’s performance. Events such as these and their consequences are difficult to predict and it is unclear whether further tariffs may be imposed or other escalating actions may be taken in the future.
Stock Connect Risk. Investments in China A-shares listed and traded through the Stock Connect Programs involve unique risks. The Stock Connect Programs are relatively new and there is no guarantee that they will continue. Trading through Stock Connect Programs is subject to daily quotas that limit the maximum daily net purchases and daily limits on permitted price fluctuations. Trading suspensions are more likely in the A-shares market than in many other global equity markets. There can be no assurance that a liquid market on an exchange will exist. In addition, investments made through Stock Connect Programs are subject to comparatively untested trading, clearance and settlement procedures. Stock Connect Programs are available only on days when markets in both China and Hong Kong are open. The Fund’s ownership interest in Stock Connect Programs securities will not be reflected directly, and thus the Fund may have to rely on the ability or willingness of a third party to enforce its rights. Investments in Stock Connect Program A-shares are generally subject to Chinese securities regulations and listing rules, among other restrictions. Hong Kong investor compensation funds, which protect against trade defaults, are unavailable when investing through Stock Connect Programs. Uncertainties in Chinese tax rules could also result in unexpected tax liabilities for the Fund.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies that are “actively managed,” the Fund is a “passive” investor and therefore does not utilize investing strategies that seek returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from its Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming. If a specific security is removed from the Underlying Index, the Fund may be forced to sell such security at an inopportune time or for a price lower than the security’s current market value. The Underlying Index may not contain the appropriate mix of securities for any particular economic cycle. Unlike with an actively managed fund, the Adviser does not use defensive strategies designed to lessen the impact of periods of market volatility or market decline. This means that, based on certain market and economic conditions, the Fund’s performance could be lower than other types of mutual funds with investment advisers that actively manage their portfolio assets to take advantage of or defend against market events.
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Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index will be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that its Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole. Information about the Fund’s exposure to a particular industry or industry group is available in the Fund’s Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders, as well as on required forms filed with the SEC.
Information Technology Sector Risk. Companies in the technology sector may be adversely affected by the failure to obtain, or delays in obtaining, financing or regulatory approval, intense competition, both domestically and internationally, product compatibility, consumer preferences, corporate capital expenditure, rapid obsolescence and competition for the services of qualified personnel. Companies in the technology sector also face competition or potential competition with numerous alternative technologies. In addition, the highly competitive technology sector may cause the prices for these products and services to decline in the future.
Technology companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. Companies in the information technology sector are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights. The loss or impairment of these rights may adversely affect the profitability of these companies.
The technology sector is subject to rapid and significant changes in technology that are evidenced by the increasing pace of technological upgrades, evolving industry standards, ongoing improvements in the capacity and quality of digital technology, shorter development cycles for new products and enhancements, developments in emerging wireless transmission technologies and changes in customer requirements and preferences. The success of sector participants depends substantially on the timely and successful introduction of new products.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The performance of the Fund depends on the performance of individual securities to which the Fund has exposure. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform worse than the market as a whole, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, changes in technology, expiration of patent protection, disruptions in supply, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures or other factors. Issuers may, in times of distress or at their own discretion, decide to reduce or eliminate dividends, which may also cause their stock prices to decline.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations, and the Fund could lose money due to short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index. The value of a security may decline due to general market conditions, economic trends or events that are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or due to factors that affect a particular industry or group of industries. During a general downturn in the securities markets, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility
and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Although Shares are listed for trading on a securities exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained by market makers or APs, that Shares will continue to trade on any such exchange or that Shares will continue to meet the requirements for listing on an exchange. Any of these factors, among others, may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund’s NAV. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods. Further, the Fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads. Bid/ask spreads vary over time based on trading volume and market liquidity (including for the underlying securities held by the Fund), and are generally lower if Shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if Shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the Fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a variance in the market price of Shares and their underlying value.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of its Underlying Index (that is, it may experience tracking error) for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to its Underlying Index and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. If the Fund has recently commenced operations or otherwise has a relatively small amount of assets, such transaction costs could have a proportionally greater impact on the Fund. Additionally, if the Fund used a sampling approach, it may result in returns that are not as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the components of the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index.
The performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund’s portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints. Additionally, a fund that issues or redeems Creation Units principally for cash will incur higher costs in buying and selling securities than if it issued and redeemed Creation Units principally in-kind. The Fund may fair value certain of the securities it holds. To the extent the Fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the Fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index may be adversely affected. Since the Underlying Index is not subject to the tax diversification requirements to which the Fund must adhere, the Fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities contained in, and relative weightings of, its Underlying Index. The Fund may not invest in certain securities included in its Underlying Index due to liquidity constraints. Liquidity constraints also may delay the Fund’s purchase or sale of securities included in its Underlying Index. For tax efficiency purposes, the Fund may sell certain securities to realize losses, causing it to deviate from its Underlying Index.
The Adviser may not fully invest the Fund’s assets at times, either as a result of cash flows into the Fund, to retain a reserve of cash to meet redemptions and expenses, or because of low assets (particularly when a fund is new and has operated for only a short period).
The investment activities of one or more of the Adviser’s affiliates, including other subsidiaries of the Adviser’s parent company, Invesco Ltd., for their proprietary accounts and for client accounts also may adversely impact the Fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index. For example, in regulated industries, certain emerging or international markets and under corporate and regulatory ownership definitions, there may be limits on the aggregate amount of investment by affiliated investors that may not be exceeded, or that may not be exceeded without the grant of a license or other regulatory or corporate consent, or, if exceeded, may cause the Adviser, the Fund or other client accounts to suffer disadvantages or business restrictions. As a result, the Fund may be restricted in its ability to acquire particular securities due to positions held by the Adviser’s affiliates.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of
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individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. Because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of the non-U.S. securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Non-Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund, after investing at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as ADRs and GDRs that represent the securities in the Underlying Index, may invest its remaining assets in securities not included in the Underlying Index and in money market instruments, including repurchase agreements or other funds that invest exclusively in money market instruments (subject to applicable limitations under the 1940 Act or exemptions therefrom), convertible securities and structured notes (notes on which the amount of principal repayment and interest payments is based on the movement of one or more specified factors, such as the movement of a particular security or securities index). Convertible securities and structured notes may be used by the Fund in seeking performance that corresponds to the Underlying Index and to manage cash flows. The Adviser anticipates that it may take approximately two business days (i.e., each day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open) for any additions to, and deletions from, the Fund’s Underlying Index to fully settle in the portfolio of the Fund.
In accordance with 1940 Act rules, the Fund has adopted a policy to invest at least 80% of the value of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in certain types of securities or in securities of companies in a particular region or economic sector (e.g., securities of Chinese companies or companies in the information technology sector) that is suggested by the Fund’s name (an “80% investment policy”). The Fund considers the securities suggested by its name to be those securities that comprise its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund anticipates meeting its 80% investment policy because it already is required to invest at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise its Underlying Index, as well as ADRs and GDRs that represent securities in the Underlying Index,
in accordance with the terms of the Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II’s (the “Trust”) exemptive relief.
The Fund’s investment objective and the 80% investment policy each constitutes a non-fundamental policy that the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Trust may change at any time without shareholder approval upon 60 days’ written notice to shareholders.
The complete list of fundamental and non-fundamental policies of the Fund is set forth in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) under the section “Investment Restrictions.”
Borrowing Money
The Fund may borrow money up to the limits set forth in the Fund’s SAI under the section “Investment Restrictions”.
Securities Lending
The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions. In connection with such loans, the Fund receives liquid collateral equal to at least 102% (105% for international securities) of the value of the loaned portfolio securities. This collateral is marked-to-market on a daily basis.
Additional Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following provides additional risk information regarding investing in the Fund.
Convertible Securities Risk. A convertible security generally is a preferred stock that may be converted within a specified period of time into common stock. Convertible securities nevertheless remain subject to the risks of both debt securities and equity securities. As with other equity securities, the value of a convertible security tends to increase as the price of the underlying stock goes up, and to decrease as the price of the underlying stock goes down. Declining common stock values therefore also may cause the value of the Fund's investments to decline. Like a debt security, a convertible security provides a fixed income stream and also tends to decrease in value when interest rates rise. Moreover, many convertible securities have credit ratings that are below investment grade and are subject to the same risks as lower-rated debt securities.
Cybersecurity Risk. The Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational and information security risks. Cybersecurity failures or breaches of the Fund or its service providers or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests, have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. The Fund and its shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
Index Provider Risk. The Fund seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the Underlying Index, as published by the Index Provider. There is no assurance that the Index Provider will compile the Underlying Index accurately, or that the Underlying Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While the Index Provider gives descriptions of what the Underlying Index is designed to achieve, the Index Provider generally does not provide any warranty or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in such index, and it generally does not guarantee that the Underlying Index will be in line with its methodology. Errors made by the Index Provider with respect to the quality, accuracy and completeness of the data within the Underlying Index may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time, if at all. Therefore, gains, losses or costs associated with Index Provider errors will generally be borne by the Fund and its shareholders.
Index Rebalancing Risk. Pursuant to the methodology that the Index Provider uses to calculate and maintain the Underlying Index, a security may be removed from the Underlying Index in the event that it does not comply with the eligibility requirements of the Underlying Index. As a result, the Fund may be forced to sell securities at inopportune times or for prices
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other than at current market values or may elect not to sell such securities on the day that they are removed from the Underlying Index, due to market conditions or otherwise. Due to these factors, the variation between the Fund’s annual return and the return of the Underlying Index may increase significantly.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index, for example, to correct an error in the selection of constituents. When the Fund in turn rebalances its portfolio, any transaction costs and market exposure arising from such portfolio rebalancing will be borne by the Fund and its shareholders. Unscheduled rebalances also expose the Fund to additional tracking error risk. Therefore, errors and additional ad hoc rebalances carried out by the Index Provider may increase the Fund’s costs and market exposure.
Licensing, Custody and Settlement Risk. Approval of governmental authorities may be required prior to investing in the securities of companies based in certain foreign countries. Delays in obtaining such an approval would delay investments in the particular country, and, as a consequence, the Fund may not be able to invest in all of the securities included in the Underlying Index while an approval is pending. Rules adopted under the 1940 Act permit the Fund to maintain its foreign securities and cash in the custody of certain eligible non-U.S. banks and securities depositories. Certain banks in foreign countries that are eligible foreign sub-custodians may be recently organized or otherwise lack extensive operating experience. In addition, in certain countries there may be legal restrictions or limitations on the ability of the Fund to recover assets held in custody by a foreign sub-custodian in the event of the bankruptcy of the sub-custodian. Settlement systems in emerging markets may be less well organized than in developed markets. Thus, there may be a risk that settlement may be delayed and that cash or securities of the Fund may be in jeopardy because of failures of or defects in the systems. Under the laws of certain countries in which the Fund invests, the Fund may be required to release local shares before receiving cash payment or may be required to make cash payment prior to receiving local shares.
Money Market Funds Risk. Money market funds are subject to management fees and other expenses, and the Fund's investments in money market funds will cause it to bear proportionately the costs incurred by the money market funds' operations while simultaneously paying its own management fees and expenses. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency; it is possible to lose money by investing in a money market fund. To the extent that the Fund invests in money market funds, the Fund will be subject to the same risks that investors experience when investing in money market funds. These risks may include the impact of significant fluctuations in assets as a result of the cash sweep program or purchase and redemption activity in those funds.
Money market funds are open-end registered investment companies that historically have traded at a stable $1.00 per share price. However, money market funds that do not meet the definition of a “retail money market fund” or “government money market fund” are required to transact at a floating NAV per share (i.e., in a manner similar to how all other non-money market mutual funds transact), instead of at a $1.00 stable share price. Money market funds may also impose liquidity fees and redemption gates for use in times of market stress. If the Fund invested in a money market fund with a floating NAV, the impact on the trading and value of the money market instrument may negatively affect the Fund's return potential.
Natural Disaster/Epidemic Risk. Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and may be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of the Fund’s investments. Given the increasing interdependence among global
economies and markets, conditions in one country, market, or region are increasingly likely to adversely affect markets, issuers, and/or foreign exchange rates in other countries, including the U.S. Any such events could have a significant adverse impact on the value of the Fund’s investments.
Repurchase Agreements Risk. Repurchase agreements are agreements pursuant to which a fund acquires securities from a third party with the understanding that the seller will repurchase them at a fixed price on an agreed date. Repurchase agreements may be characterized as loans secured by the underlying securities. If the seller of securities under a repurchase agreement defaults on its obligation to repurchase the underlying securities, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, a fund will seek to dispose of such securities, which action could involve costs or delays. If the seller becomes insolvent and subject to liquidation or reorganization under applicable bankruptcy or other laws, a fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities may be restricted. If the seller fails to repurchase the securities, a fund may suffer a loss to the extent proceeds from the sale of the underlying securities are less than the repurchase prices.
Securities Lending Risk. Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund lends its securities and is unable to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Any cash received as collateral for loaned securities will be invested in an affiliated money market fund. This investment is subject to market appreciation or depreciation and the Fund will bear any loss on the investment of its cash collateral.
Shares May Trade at Prices Different than NAV Risk. The NAV of the Shares generally will fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The market prices of the Shares generally will fluctuate in accordance with changes in the Fund’s NAV, as well as the relative supply of and demand for Shares on the Exchange. The Adviser cannot predict whether the Shares will trade below, at, or above the Fund’s NAV. Price differences may be due largely to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for the Shares will be closely related, but not identical, to the same forces influencing the prices of the securities of the Underlying Index trading individually or in the aggregate at any point in time. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading prices that differ significantly from NAV. If a shareholder purchases at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
Structured Notes Risk. Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a note resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of notes tend to go down. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a note will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt.Depending on the factors used, changes in interest rates and movement of such factors may cause significant price fluctuations. Structured notes may be less liquid than other types of securities and more volatile than the reference factor underlying the note. This means that the Fund may lose money if the issuer of the note defaults, as the Fund may not be able to readily close out its investment in such notes without incurring losses.
Trading Issues Risk. Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. Moreover, trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange “circuit breaker” rules. There can be no
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assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. Foreign exchanges may be open on days when Shares are not priced, and therefore, the value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell Shares.

Tax Structure of ETFs
    
Unlike interests in conventional mutual funds, which typically are bought and sold only at closing NAVs, Shares are traded throughout the day in the secondary market on a national securities exchange on an intra-day basis, and are created and redeemed principally in-kind in Creation Units at each day’s next calculated NAV. These in-kind arrangements are designed to protect shareholders from the adverse effects on the Fund’s portfolio that could arise from frequent cash creation and redemption transactions. In a conventional mutual fund, redemptions can have an adverse tax impact on taxable shareholders because the mutual funds may need to sell portfolio securities to obtain cash to meet such redemptions. These sales may generate taxable gains that must be distributed to the shareholders of the mutual fund, whereas the Shares’ in-kind redemption mechanism generally will not lead to such taxable events for the Fund or its shareholders.
The Fund may recognize gains as a result of rebalancing its securities holdings to reflect changes in the securities included in the Fund’s Underlying Index. The Fund also may be required to distribute any such gains to its shareholders to avoid adverse federal income tax consequences. For information concerning the tax consequences of distributions, see the section entitled “Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes” in this Prospectus.

Portfolio Holdings
    
A description of the Trust's policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Fund's portfolio holdings is available in the Fund's SAI, which is available at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Management of the Fund
    
Invesco Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser with its offices at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515. The Adviser serves as the investment adviser to Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust, a family of ETFs with combined assets under management of approximately $134 billion as of December 31, 2019.
As the Fund’s investment adviser, the Adviser has overall responsibility for selecting and continuously monitoring the Fund’s investments, managing the Fund’s business affairs, and providing certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services for the Trust.
Portfolio Managers
The Adviser uses a team of portfolio managers, investment strategists and other investment specialists in managing the Fund. This team approach brings together many disciplines and leverages the Adviser's extensive resources.
Peter Hubbard, Vice President of the Trust, oversees all research, portfolio management and trading operations of the Fund. In this capacity, Mr. Hubbard oversees a team of portfolio managers (collectively with Mr. Hubbard, the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund. In managing the Fund, Mr. Hubbard receives
management assistance from Michael Jeanette, Tony Seisser and Pratik Doshi (collectively, with Mr. Hubbard, the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund.
Each Portfolio Manager is responsible for various functions related to portfolio management, including investing cash flows, coordinating with other team members to focus on certain asset classes, implementing investment strategy and researching and reviewing investment strategy. Each Portfolio Manager has limitations on his authority for risk management and compliance purposes that the Adviser believes to be appropriate.
■  Peter Hubbard, Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since June 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2005.
■  Michael Jeanette, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since August 2008 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2008.
■  Tony Seisser, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since August 2014 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2013.
■  Pratik Doshi, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since October 2019 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2018. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Doshi earned his MBA from the University of Chicago from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Doshi was a Vice President at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch from 2014 to 2016.
The Fund's SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers’ compensation structure, other accounts that the Portfolio Managers manage and the Portfolio Managers' ownership of Shares.
Advisory Fees
Pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and the Trust (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”), the Fund has agreed to pay the Adviser for its services an annual fee equal to a percentage of its average daily net assets as set forth in the chart below (the “Management Fee”):
Fund Management Fee
Invesco China Technology ETF(1) 0.70%
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(1) The Adviser has agreed to waive a portion of its Management Fee to the extent necessary to prevent the Fund’s operating expenses (excluding interest expenses, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, taxes and litigation expenses, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding the Management Fee through at least May 18, 2020.
The Management Fee paid by the Fund to the Adviser set forth in the table above is an annual unitary management fee. Out of the unitary management fee, the Adviser pays for substantially all expenses of the Fund, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, except for advisory fees, distribution fees, if any, brokerage expenses, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, interest, litigation expenses and other extraordinary expenses.
The Fund may invest in money market funds that are managed by affiliates of the Adviser. The indirect portion of the management fee that the Fund incurs through such investments is in addition to the Adviser’s management fee. Therefore, the Adviser has agreed to waive the management fees that it receives in an amount equal to the indirect management fees that the Fund incurs through its investments in such affiliated money market funds through August 31, 2021. There is no guarantee that the Adviser will extend the waiver of these fees past that date.
A discussion regarding the basis for the Board’s approval of the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement with respect to the Fund is available in the
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Fund’s Semi-Annual Report to shareholders for the fiscal period ended April 30, 2019.

How to Buy and Sell Shares
    
The Fund issues or redeems its Shares at NAV per Share only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations.
Most investors will buy and sell Shares of the Fund in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on the secondary market on the Exchange. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment. Although Shares generally are purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 Shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction.
The Shares trade on the Exchange under the symbol “CQQQ”.
Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share.
APs may acquire Shares directly from the Fund, and APs may tender their Shares for redemption directly to the Fund, at NAV per Share only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations, and in accordance with the procedures described in the SAI.
Under normal circumstances, the Fund will pay out redemption proceeds to a redeeming AP within two days after the AP’s redemption request is received, in accordance with the process set forth in the Fund’s SAI and in the agreement between the AP and the Fund’s distributor. However, the Fund reserves the right, including under stressed market conditions, to take up to seven days after the receipt of a redemption request (as discussed above) to pay an AP, all as permitted by the 1940 Act. Funds that track underlying indexes composed of foreign securities may pay out redemption proceeds up to 14 days after the receipt of a redemption request, consistent with the Trust’s SEC exemptive relief. The Fund anticipates regularly meeting redemption requests primarily through in-kind redemptions. However, the Fund reserves the right to pay redemption proceeds to an AP in cash, consistent with the Trust’s exemptive relief. Cash used for redemptions will be raised from the sale of portfolio assets or may come from existing holdings of cash or cash equivalents.
The Fund may liquidate and terminate at any time without shareholder approval.
Book Entry
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for all purposes.
Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other securities that you hold in book entry or “street name” form.
Share Trading Prices
The trading prices of Shares on the Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV. Market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors may affect the trading prices of Shares.
The approximate value of Shares, an amount representing on a per share basis the sum of the current market price of the securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and any estimated cash component accepted by the Fund in exchange for Shares will be disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association. With respect to funds that invest in securities of foreign issuers traded on foreign exchanges, as the respective international local markets close, the market value of the Deposit Securities will continue to be updated for foreign exchange rates for the remainder of the U.S. trading day at the prescribed 15 second intervals. This approximate value should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share because the approximate value may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day. The Fund is not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the approximate value of Shares, and the Fund does not make any warranty as to the accuracy of the approximate value.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares
    
Shares may be purchased and redeemed directly from the Fund only in Creation Units by APs. The vast majority of trading in Shares occurs on the secondary market and does not involve the Fund directly. In-kind purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs and cash trades on the secondary market are unlikely to cause many of the harmful effects of frequent purchases and/or redemptions of Shares. Cash purchases and/or redemptions of Creation Units, however, can result in increased tracking error, disruption of portfolio management, dilution to the Fund and increased transaction costs, which could negatively impact the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective and may lead to the realization of capital gains. These consequences may increase as the frequency of cash purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs increases. However, direct trading by APs is critical to ensuring that Shares trade at or close to NAV.
To minimize these potential consequences of frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares, the Fund imposes transaction fees on purchases and redemptions of Creation Units to cover the custodial and other costs the Fund incurs in effecting trades. In addition, the Adviser monitors trades by APs for patterns of abusive trading and the Fund reserves the right to not accept orders from APs that the Adviser has determined may be disruptive to the management of the Fund or otherwise are not in the best interests of the Fund. For these reasons, the Board has not adopted policies and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares.

Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes
    
Dividends and Other Distributions
Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid at least annually by the Fund. The Fund also intends to distribute its net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders annually. Dividends and other distributions may be declared and paid more frequently to comply with the distribution requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and to avoid a federal excise tax imposed on regulated investment companies (“RIC”).
Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available.
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Taxes
The Fund intends to qualify each year as a RIC and, as such, is not subject to entity-level tax on the income and gain it distributes. If you are a taxable investor, dividends and distributions you receive generally are taxable to you whether you reinvest distributions in additional Shares or take them in cash. Every year, you will be sent information showing the amount of dividends and distributions you received during the prior calendar year. In addition, investors in taxable accounts should be aware of the following basic tax points as supplemented below where relevant:
Fund Tax Basics
■  The Fund earns income generally in the form of dividends or interest on its investments. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of the Fund, constitutes the Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to shareholders. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable to you as ordinary income.
■  Distributions of net short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. A Fund with a high portfolio turnover rate (a measure of how frequently assets within the Fund are bought and sold) is more likely to generate short-term capital gains than a Fund with a low portfolio turnover rate. For ETFs for which in-kind redemptions are the primary redemption mechanism, a Fund may be less likely to sell securities in order to generate cash for redeeming shareholders, which a mutual fund might do. This provides a greater opportunity for ETFs to defer the recognition of gain on appreciated securities which it may hold thereby reducing the distribution of capital gains to its shareholders.
■  Distributions of net long-term capital gains are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your Shares.
■  A portion of income dividends paid by the Fund may be reported as qualified dividend income eligible for taxation by individual shareholders at long-term capital gain rates, provided certain holding period requirements are met. These reduced rates generally are available for dividends derived from the Fund’s investment in stocks of domestic corporations and qualified foreign corporations. In the case of a Fund that invests primarily in debt securities, either none or only a nominal portion of the dividends paid by the Fund will be eligible for taxation at these reduced rates.
■  The use of derivatives by the Fund may cause the Fund to realize higher amounts of ordinary income or short-term capital gain, distributions from which are taxable to individual shareholders at ordinary income tax rates rather than at the more favorable tax rates for long-term capital gain.
■  Distributions declared to shareholders with a record date in December–if paid to you by the end of January–are taxable for federal income tax purposes as if received in December.
■  Any long-term or short-term capital gains realized on the sale of your Shares will be subject to federal income tax.
■  A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the sale of any of the shareholder’s Shares, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.
■  At the time you purchase your Shares, the Fund's NAV may reflect undistributed income or undistributed capital gains. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying Shares in the Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes known as “buying a dividend.” In addition, the Fund’s NAV may, at any time, reflect net unrealized appreciation, which may result in future taxable distributions to you.
■  By law, if you do not provide the Fund with your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains, or proceeds from the sale of your Shares. The Fund also must withhold if the IRS instructs it to do so. When withholding is required, the amount will be 24% of any distributions or proceeds paid.
■  An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from the Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.
■  You will not be required to include the portion of dividends paid by the Fund derived from interest on U.S. government obligations in your gross income for purposes of personal and, in some cases, corporate income taxes in many state and local tax jurisdictions. The percentage of dividends that constitutes dividends derived from interest on federal obligations will be determined annually. This percentage may differ from the actual percentage of interest received by the Fund on federal obligations for the particular days on which you hold shares.
■  Fund distributions and gains from sale of Shares generally are subject to state and local income taxes.
■  If the Fund qualifies to pass through the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments, and elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it pays on these investments may be passed through to you as a foreign tax credit. You will then be required to include your pro-rata share of these taxes in gross income, even though not actually received by you, and will be entitled either to deduct your share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax.
■  Foreign investors should be aware that U.S. withholding, special certification requirements to avoid U.S. backup withholding and claim any treaty benefits, and estate taxes may apply to an investment in the Fund.
■  Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a 30% withholding tax is imposed on income dividends made by the Fund to certain foreign entities referred to as foreign financial institutions or non-financial foreign entities, that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions, return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Shares; however, based on proposed regulations recently issued by the IRS on which the Fund may rely, such withholding is no longer required unless final regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). The Fund may disclose the information that it receives from its shareholders to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA or similar laws. Withholding also may be required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of the Fund fails to provide the Fund with appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status under FATCA.
■  If the Fund invests in an underlying fund taxed as a RIC, please see any relevant section below for more information regarding the Fund’s investment in such underlying fund.
Fund Investments in Real Estate Securities
■  Because of “noncash” expenses such as property depreciation, the cash flow of a REIT that owns properties will exceed its taxable income. The REIT, and in turn the Fund, may distribute this excess cash. Such a
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  distribution is classified as a return of capital. Return of capital distributions generally are not taxable to you. Your cost basis in your Shares will be decreased by the amount of any return of capital. Any return of capital distributions in excess of your cost basis will be treated as capital gains.
■  Dividends paid to shareholders from the Fund’s investments in U.S. REITs generally will not qualify for taxation at long-term capital gain rates applicable to qualified dividend income.
■  The Fund may derive “excess inclusion income” from certain equity interests in mortgage pooling vehicles either directly or through an investment in a U.S. REIT. Please see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to shareholders in the event the Fund realizes excess inclusion income in excess of certain threshold amounts.
■  Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., ordinary REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends designated as qualified dividend income) are treated as eligible for a 20% deduction by noncorporate taxpayers. Proposed regulations issued by the IRS, on which the Fund can rely, enable the Fund to pass through the special character of “qualified REIT dividends” to a shareholder, provided the shareholder meets certain holding period requirements with respect to their shares.
■  The Fund’s foreign shareholders should see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to them from a sale of a U.S. real property interest by a REIT in which the Fund invests.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
To the extent that the Fund, permits in-kind transactions, an AP that exchanges securities for a Creation Unit generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of exchange (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the issue) and the sum of the AP's aggregate basis in the securities surrendered plus any cash component paid. Similarly, an AP that redeems a Creation Unit in exchange for securities generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the AP's basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash paid by the AP as part of the redemption) and the aggregate market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the redemption). The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for a Creation Unit, or of a Creation Unit for securities, cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales” or on the ground that there has been no significant change in the AP's economic position. An AP exchanging securities should consult its own tax advisor(s) with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss otherwise might not be deductible.
Any capital gain or loss realized on a redemption of a Creation Unit generally is treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less, assuming that such Creation Units are held as a capital asset. If you purchase or redeem one or more Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing how many Shares you purchased or sold and at what price.
The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the more important possible consequences under current federal, state and local tax law of an investment in the Fund. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You also may be subject to state, local and/or foreign tax on the Fund's distributions and sales and/or redemptions of Shares. Consult your personal tax advisor(s) about the potential tax consequences of an investment in the Shares under all applicable tax laws.

Distributor
    
Invesco Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”) serves as the distributor of Creation Units for the Fund on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The Distributor is an affiliate of the Adviser.

Net Asset Value
    
The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM”) calculates the Fund’s NAV at the close of regular trading (normally 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) every day the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open. The NAV for the Fund will be calculated and disseminated daily on each day that the NYSE is open. NAV is calculated by deducting all of the Fund's liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. Generally, the portfolio securities are recorded in the NAV no later than trade date plus one day. All valuations are subject to review by the Trust’s Board or its delegate.
In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily and securities and other assets for which market quotations are readily available are valued at market value. Securities listed or traded on an exchange (except convertible securities) generally are valued at the last sales price or official closing price that day as of the close of the exchange where the security is primarily traded. Investment companies are valued using such company's NAV per share, unless the shares are exchange-traded, in which case they will be valued at the last sale or official closing price on the exchanges on which they primarily trade. Deposits, other obligations of U.S. and non-U.S. banks and financial institutions, and cash equivalents are valued at their daily account value. Debt obligations (including convertible securities) and securities not listed on an exchange normally are valued on the basis of prices provided by independent pricing services. Pricing services generally value debt securities assuming orderly transactions of institutional round lot size, but the Fund may hold or transact in the same securities in smaller, odd lot sizes. Odd lots often trade at lower prices than institutional round lots.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 asked prices from the exchange on which they principally trade. Options not listed on an exchange are valued by an independent source at the mean between the last bid and asked prices. Swaps generally are valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services. For purposes of determining NAV per Share, futures and option contracts and swaps generally are valued 15 minutes after the close of the customary trading session of the NYSE.
Certain securities may not be listed on an exchange; typically, those securities are bought and sold by institutional investors in individually negotiated private transactions. Such securities, as well as listed securities whose market price is not readily available, will be valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services or by another method that the Adviser, in its judgment, believes will better reflect the security’s fair value in accordance with the Trust's valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board.
Even when market quotations are available for portfolio securities, they may be stale or unreliable because the security is not traded frequently, trading on the security ceased before the close of the trading market or issuer-specific events occurred after the security ceased trading or because of the passage of time between the close of the market on which the security trades and the close of the NYSE and when the Fund calculates its NAV. Events that may cause the last market quotation to be unreliable include a merger or insolvency, events which affect a geographical area or an industry segment, such as political events or natural disasters, or market events, such as a significant movement in the U.S. market. Where market quotations are not readily available, including where the Adviser determines that the closing price of the security is unreliable, the Adviser will value the
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security at fair value in good faith using procedures approved by the Board. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that a fair value determination for a security is materially different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of the security. In addition, fair value pricing could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate the Fund's NAV and the prices used by the Underlying Index. This may adversely affect the Fund's ability to track its Underlying Index. With respect to securities that are primarily listed on foreign exchanges, the value of the Fund's portfolio securities may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares.

Fund Service Providers
    
BNYM, 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, is the administrator, custodian and fund accounting and transfer agent for the Fund.
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1601, Chicago, Illinois 60606, and 2000 K Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm. PwC is responsible for auditing the annual financial statements of the Fund and assists in the preparation and/or review of the Fund’s federal and state income tax returns.
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Financial Highlights
The financial highlights table below is intended to help you understand the Fund’s (and the Predecessor Fund’s) financial performance for the past five fiscal years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions).
This information has been derived from the Fund’s financial statements, which have been audited by PwC, whose report, along with the Fund’s
financial statements, is included in the Fund’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, which is available upon request.
The Fund has adopted the financial and performance history of its Predecessor Fund as a result of a reorganization. Accordingly, the financial information presented for the Fund for the fiscal years ended prior to August 31, 2018 is that of the Predecessor Fund and has been audited by the prior independent registered public accounting firm of the Predecessor Fund.
 
  Year Ended October 31,
2019
Two Months Ended
October 31,
2018
Years Ended August 31,
  2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:            
Net asset value at beginning of period $ 40.55 $ 49.32 $ 55.00 $ 39.26 $ 29.55 $ 38.09
Net investment income(a) 0.04 0.03 0.31 0.52 0.32 0.46
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 7.46 (8.80) (5.13) 15.82 10.03 (8.65)
Total from investment operations 7.50 (8.77) (4.82) 16.34 10.35 (8.19)
Distributions to shareholders from:            
Net investment income (0.17) - (0.86) (0.60) (0.64) (0.35)
Net asset value at end of period $ 47.88 $ 40.55 $ 49.32 $ 55.00 $ 39.26 $ 29.55
Market price at end of period $ 47.67(b) $ 40.81(b) $ 49.36(b) $ 55.21 $ 39.08 $ 29.31
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 18.59% (17.78)% (9.05)% 42.43% 35.19% (21.62)%
Market Price Total Return(c) 17.32% (17.32)% (9.33)%      
Ratios/Supplemental Data:            
Net assets at end of period (000's omitted) $509,964 $405,541 $384,689 $209,019 $45,153 $45,804
Ratio to average net assets of:            
Expenses 0.70% 0.70% (d) 0.65% 0.70% 0.70% 0.70%
Net investment income 0.09% 0.39% (d) 0.52% 1.20% 0.94% 1.20%
Portfolio turnover rate(e) 80% 4% 21% 10% 48% 32%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Annualized.
(e) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Index Provider
    

No entity that creates, compiles, sponsors or maintains an Underlying Index is or will be an affiliated person, as defined in Section 2(a)(3) of the 1940 Act, or an affiliated person of an affiliated person, of the Trust, the Adviser, the Distributor or a promoter of the Fund.
Neither the Adviser nor any affiliate of the Adviser has any rights to influence the selection of the securities in the Underlying Index.
FTSE International Limited. FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of Invesco China Technology ETF. All rights in the Underlying Index vest in FTSE.
The Underlying Index is calculated and maintained by or on behalf of the Index Provider or its affiliate, agent or partner. The Index Provider is not affiliated with the Trust, the Adviser or the Distributor. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with the Index Provider. The Fund is entitled to use its Underlying Index pursuant to a sub-licensing agreement with the Adviser.

Disclaimers
FTSE International Limited. The Fund has been developed solely by the Adviser. The Fund is not in any way connected to or sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by the London Stock Exchange Group pls and its group undertakings (collectively, the “LSE Group”). FTSE Russell is a trading name of certain of the LSE Group companies.
All rights in the FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index (the “Underlying Index”) vest in the relevant LSE Group company which owns the Index. “FTSE®,” “Russell®” and “FTSE Russell®” are trademarks of the relevant LSE Group company and are used by any other LSE Group company under license.
The Underlying Index is calculated by or on behalf of FTSE or its affiliate, agent or partner. The LSE Group does not accept any liability whatsoever to any person arising out of (a) the use of, reliance on or any error in the Underlying Index or (b) investment in or operation of the Fund. The LSE Group makes no claim, prediction, warranty or representation either as to the results to be obtained from the Fund or the suitability of the Underlying Index for the purpose to which it is being put in connection with the Fund.
The Adviser has obtained a full license from FTSE to use such intellectual property rights in the creation of these products.
Investors should be aware of the risks associated with data sources and quantitative processes used in our investment management process. Errors may exist in data acquired from third party vendors, the construction of model portfolios, and in coding related to the index and portfolio construction process.
The Underlying Index is selected and calculated without regard to the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or any holders of Shares. The LSE Group has no obligation to take the needs of the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or the owners of Shares into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the Underlying Index. The LSE Group is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices and amount of Shares, the timing of the issuance or sale of Shares or in the determination of any financial calculations relating thereto. The LSE Group has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration of the Trust or marketing of the Shares. The LSE Group does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Underlying Index or any data included therein, and the LSE Group shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, or interruptions therein. The LSE Group makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or owners of Shares, or any other person or entity, from the use of the Underlying Index, trading based on the Underlying Index, any data included
therein in connection with the Fund or for any other use. The LSE Group expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of merchantability, title or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to the Underlying Index or any data included therein, the Fund, the Trust or the Shares except as set forth in the respective license agreements with the Adviser.
The Adviser does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Underlying Index or any data included therein, and the Adviser shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, restatements, re-calculations or interruptions therein. The Adviser makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Fund, owners of the Shares or any other person or entity from the use of the Underlying Index or any data included therein. The Adviser makes no express or implied warranties and expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to the Underlying Index or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Adviser have any liability for any special, punitive, direct, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits) arising out of matters relating to the use of the Underlying Index, even if notified of the possibility of such damages.

Premium/Discount Information
    
Information on the daily NAV per Share can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs. Additionally, information regarding how often Shares traded on the Exchange at a price above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) the NAV of the Fund during the prior calendar year and subsequent quarters can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Other Information
    
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies (and companies relying on Sections 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act) in the securities of other investment companies. However, registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Fund beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust, including that such investment companies enter into a participation agreement with the Trust on behalf of the Fund prior to exceeding the limits imposed by Section 12(d)(1). Additionally, the Fund is permitted pursuant to an SEC exemptive order to invest in other registered investment companies beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in another exemptive order that the SEC has issued to the Trust. If the Fund relies on this exemptive relief, however, other investment companies may not invest in that Fund beyond the statutory provisions of Section 12(d)(1).
Continuous Offering
The method by which Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are issued and sold by the Fund on an ongoing basis, a “distribution,” as such term is used in the Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery requirement and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory underwriter if it takes Creation Unit Aggregations after placing an order with the Distributor, breaks them down into constituent Shares and sells such Shares directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the
 
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creation of a supply of new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary market demand for Shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could lead to a characterization as an underwriter.
Broker-dealer firms also should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are effecting transactions in Shares, whether or not participating in the distribution of Shares, generally are required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted with engaging in ordinary secondary market transactions), and thus dealing with the Shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act. For delivery of prospectuses to exchange members, the prospectus delivery mechanism of Rule 153 under the Securities Act only is available with respect to transactions on a national exchange.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents–Householding
Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Fund. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Fund is available through certain broker-dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of the Prospectus and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you currently are enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.
For More Information
For more detailed information on the Trust, the Fund and the Shares, you may request a copy of the Fund’s SAI. The SAI provides detailed information
about the Fund and is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. This means that the SAI legally is a part of this Prospectus. Additional information about the Fund’s investments also is available in the Fund’s Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders. In the Fund’s Annual Reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund's performance during the last fiscal year. If you have questions about the Fund or Shares or you wish to obtain the SAI, Annual Report and/or Semi-Annual Report, free of charge, or to make shareholder inquiries, please:
Call: Invesco Distributors, Inc. at 1-800-983-0903
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time
Write: Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
c/o Invesco Distributors, Inc.
11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas 77046-1173
Visit: www.invesco.com/ETFs
Reports and other information about the Fund are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC's internet site at www.sec.gov, and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov.
No person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations about the Fund and its Shares not contained in this Prospectus, and you should not rely on any other information. Read and keep this Prospectus for future reference.
Dealers effecting transactions in the Shares, whether or not participating in this distribution, generally are required to deliver a Prospectus. This is in addition to any obligation of dealers to deliver a Prospectus when acting as underwriters.
The Trust's registration number under the 1940 Act is 811-21977.
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Prospectus February 28, 2020

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
CGW Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Fund’s shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from your financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or bank. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you may contact your financial intermediary to enroll in electronic delivery. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service.
You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you can follow the instructions included with this disclosure, if applicable, or contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held with your financial intermediary.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


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Summary Information 1
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF 1
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Additional Information About the Fund’s Strategies and Risks 4
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Tax Structure of ETFs 10
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Portfolio Holdings 10
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Management of the Fund 10
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How to Buy and Sell Shares 11
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Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares 11
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Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes 12
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Distributor 13
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Net Asset Value 13
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Fund Service Providers 14
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Financial Highlights 15
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Index Provider 16
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Summary Information

Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P Global Water Index (the “Water Index” or the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.50%
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Other Expenses 0.09%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.59%
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Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$60 $189 $329 $738
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 13% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains, and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to measure the performance of approximately 50 of the largest global companies in water-related businesses. To be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, securities must be classified as being in either the water equipment and materials or water utilities and infrastructure segments pursuant to the Underlying Index methodology. Underlying Index constituents must have a minimum float-adjusted capitalization of $100 million.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 50 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $329 million to $29 billion.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and, therefore, is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the water-related industry and the utilities and industrials sectors. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
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Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index will be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. As a result, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund faces more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Industrials Sector Risk. The industrials sector may be adversely affected by supply and demand for products and services, product obsolescence, claims for environmental damage and product liability, imposition of import controls and general economic conditions, among other factors. The Fund may be adversely affected by events or developments negatively impacting the industrials sector or issuers within the industrials sector.
Utilities Sector Risk. Stock prices for companies in the utilities sector are affected by supply and demand, operating costs, government regulation, environmental factors, liabilities for environmental damage and general civil liabilities and rate caps or rate changes. Certain utility companies have experienced full or partial deregulation in recent years. Deregulation may permit certain utility companies to earn more than their traditional regulated rates of return; however, some deregulated companies face greater competition and may be forced to defend their core business and may be less profitable.
Water-Related Company Risk. Adverse developments related to water-related companies may significantly affect the value of the securities held by the Fund. In particular, water-related companies can be affected by technological changes, climactic events, environmental considerations, water conservation, taxes, additional government regulation, including the increased cost of compliance, inflation, an increase in the cost of raw materials, an increase in interest rates and changes in consumer sentiment and spending.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Micro-Capitalization Company Risk. Micro-capitalization stocks involve substantially greater risks of loss and price fluctuations because their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), and their share prices tend to be more volatile and their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying
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Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small- and mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
The Fund is the successor to the investment performance of the Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF (the “Predecessor Fund”) as a
result of the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into the Fund, which was consummated after the close of business on April 6, 2018. Accordingly, the performance information shown below for periods ended on or prior to April 6, 2018 is that of the Predecessor Fund.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 13.49% (4th Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (14.71)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 33.40% 9.76% 10.33%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 32.97% 9.13% 9.62%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 20.14% 7.47% 8.16%
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S&P Global Water Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
33.86% 10.05% 10.66%
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MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.01% 5.67% 5.50%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust April 2018
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser April 2018
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser April 2018
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 80,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE
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Arca, Inc. ("NYSE Arca” or the “Exchange”) and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Additional Information About the Fund’s Strategies and Risks
    
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in components of the Underlying Index. The Fund operates as an index fund and will not be actively managed. The Fund uses an “indexing” investment approach to seek to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of the Underlying Index. The Adviser seeks correlation over time of 0.95 or better between the Fund’s performance and the performance of the Underlying Index; a figure of 1.00 would represent perfect correlation. Another means of evaluating the relationship between the returns of the Fund and the Underlying Index is to assess the “tracking error” between the two. Tracking error means the variation between the Fund’s annual return and the return of the Underlying Index, expressed in terms of standard deviation. The Fund seeks to have a tracking error of less than 5%, measured on a monthly basis over a one-year period by taking the standard deviation of the difference in the Fund’s returns versus the Underlying Index’s returns. Because the Fund uses an indexing approach to try to achieve its investment objective, the Fund will not take temporary defensive positions during periods of adverse market, economic or other conditions.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that it generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to the weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of those securities in those same weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of securities in the Underlying Index.
A “sampling” methodology means that the Adviser uses a quantitative analysis to select securities from the Underlying Index universe to obtain a representative sample of securities that have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics similar to the Underlying Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. These include industry weightings, market capitalization, return variability, earnings valuation, yield and other financial characteristics of securities. When employing a sampling methodology, the Adviser bases the quantity of holdings in the Fund on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund, and generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the Underlying
Index. However, the Adviser reserves the right to invest the Fund in as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.
There also may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to (i) overweight or underweight a security in the Underlying Index, (ii) purchase securities not contained in the Underlying Index that the Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for certain securities in the Underlying Index, or (iii) utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking to track the Underlying Index.
The Fund may sell securities included in the Underlying Index in anticipation of their removal from the Underlying Index, or purchase securities not included in the Underlying Index in anticipation of their addition to the Underlying Index.
Additional information about the construction of the Fund’s Underlying Index is set forth below.
S&P Global Water Index (Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF)
The Underlying Index is comprised of 50 securities selected based on the relative importance of the global water industry within the company’s business model. The Underlying Index is designed to have a balanced representation from different segments of the water industry consisting of the following: 25 water utilities and infrastructure companies (water supply, water utilities, waste water treatment, water, sewer and pipeline construction, water purification, water well drilling, water testing) and 25 water equipment and materials companies (water treatment chemicals, water treatment appliances, pumps and pumping equipment, fluid power pumps and motors, plumbing equipment, plumbing pipes, fluid meters and counting devices) based upon S&P DJI’s Capital IQ (“CIQ”) business development and segment breakdown. To determine whether global demand for water is a major component of a company’s business, the Index Provider implements the following methodology:
1. All companies in the CIQ database with the term “water” in their business are identified.
2. From the resulting list, companies not belonging to the two clusters of the industry set forth earlier in this paragraph are excluded.
3. Based on a review of CIQ business description and industry classification, companies are put into three groups:
Primary Set—Companies whose primary businesses are in the water industry. These are assigned an Exposure Score of 1.
Secondary Set—Companies which operate in multiple industries, but have significant exposure to the water industry. These are assigned an Exposure Score of 0.5.
Eliminated Set—Companies with marginal exposure to the water industry. These are assigned an Exposure Score of 0 and eliminated from consideration as Underlying Index constituents.
To ensure investability, a developed market listing and a minimum total market capitalization and float-adjusted market capitalization of at least $250 million and $100 million, respectively, is required. A maximum weight in the Underlying Index is set to 10% for each stock.
1. All companies in S&P’s CIQ industry classification involved in the water industry are identified by S&P DJI and scored based on relative exposure in the manner set forth above and classified into one of two clusters.
2. The companies are screened for those with a developed market listing and a total market capitalization and float-adjusted market capitalization of at least $250 million and $100 million, respectively.
3. 25 of the largest companies from each of the following two segments: water utilities and infrastructure companies and water equipment and materials companies, are selected based on a proprietary scoring metric that defines the relative exposure to the global water industry.
4. The Underlying Index uses a modified market cap weighting methodology. No single stock may have a weight of more than 10%.
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5. Companies that are acquired or delisted are deleted throughout the year. There are no intra-reconstitution additions.
6. The Underlying Index is rebalanced semi-annually effective after the close of business of the third Fridays of April and October of each year, with a reference date for the data being the third Friday of the previous March and September, respectively.
  The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following provides additional information regarding certain of the principal risks identified under “Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund” in the Fund’s ‘Summary Information’ section. Any of the following risks may impact the Fund’s NAV, which could result in the Fund trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Certain countries may limit the ability to convert ADRs into the underlying foreign securities and vice versa, which may cause the securities of the foreign company to trade at a discount or premium to the market price of the related ADR. ADRs may be purchased through “sponsored” or “unsponsored” facilities. A sponsored facility is established jointly by a depositary and the issuer of the underlying security. A depositary may establish an unsponsored facility without participation by the issuer of the deposited security. Unsponsored receipts may involve higher expenses and may be less liquid. Holders of unsponsored ADRs generally bear all the costs of such facilities, and the depositary of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited security or to pass through voting rights to the holders of such receipts in respect of the deposited securities.
GDRs can involve currency risk since, unlike ADRs, they may not be U.S. dollar-denominated. Because the Fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the Fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only APs may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs, and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. The risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units, this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in
which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the Fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund’s overall NAV. In addition, fluctuations in the exchange values of currencies could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in a geographic region in which the Fund invests, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
When the Fund receives income in foreign currencies, the Fund will compute and distribute its income in U.S. dollars, and the computation of income will be made on the date that the Fund earns the income at the foreign exchange rates in effect on that date. Therefore, if the values of the relevant foreign currencies fall relative to the U.S. dollar between the earning of the income and the time at which the Fund converts the foreign currencies to U.S. dollars, the Fund may be required to liquidate securities in order to make distributions if it has insufficient cash in U.S. dollars to meet distribution requirements.
Furthermore, the Fund may incur costs in connection with conversions between U.S. dollars and foreign currencies. Foreign exchange dealers realize a profit based on the difference between the prices at which they are buying and selling various currencies. Thus, a dealer normally will offer to sell a foreign currency to the Fund at one rate, while offering a lesser rate of exchange should the Fund desire immediately to resell that currency to the dealer. The Fund will conduct its foreign currency exchange transactions either on a spot (i.e., cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the foreign currency exchange market, or through entering into forwards, futures or options contracts to purchase or sell foreign currencies.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, will fall. The value of an equity security may fall due to changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole and that are relatively unrelated to an issuer or its industry. These conditions include changes in interest rates, specific periods of overall market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. An issuer's common stock in particular may be especially sensitive to, and more adversely affected by, these general movements in the stock market; it is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds.
In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward, and perceptions regarding, particular industries or economic sectors will become negative. Price changes of equity securities may occur in a particular region, industry, or sector of the market, and as a result, the value of an issuer's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as increases in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same industry or in a number of different industries.
Equity risk also includes the financial risks of a specific company, including that the value of the company's securities may fall as a result of factors directly relating to that company, such as decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. In particular, the common stock of a company may decline significantly in price over short periods of time. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of common stock; similarly, the common stock of an issuer may decline in price if the issuer fails to make anticipated dividend payments because, among other reasons, the issuer experiences a decline in its financial condition.
Foreign and Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in foreign securities involve risks that are beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities, and investments in securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks not often associated with investments in securities of issuers in developed countries. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign and emerging market securities, and foreign and emerging
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market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to issuers in developed countries.
Foreign and emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign and emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. Emerging markets are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than more developed markets. In addition, securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change. Each country has different laws specific to that country that impact investment, which may increase the risks to which investors are subject. Country-specific rules or legislation addressing investment-related transactions may inhibit or prevent certain transactions from transpiring in a particular country.
Furthermore, foreign exchanges and broker-dealers generally are subject to less government and exchange scrutiny and regulation than their U.S. counterparts. Differences in clearance and settlement procedures in foreign markets may cause delays in settlement of the Fund's trades effected in those markets and could result in losses to the Fund due to subsequent declines in the value of the securities subject to the trades. Depositary receipts also involve substantially identical risks to those associated with investments in foreign securities. Additionally, the issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, have no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies that are “actively managed,” the Fund is a “passive” investor and therefore does not utilize investing strategies that seek returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from its Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming. If a specific security is removed from the Underlying Index, the Fund may be forced to sell such security at an inopportune time or for a price lower than the security’s current market value. The Underlying Index may not contain the appropriate mix of securities for any particular economic cycle. Unlike with an actively managed fund, the Adviser does not use defensive strategies designed to lessen the impact of periods of market volatility or market decline. This means that, based on certain market and economic conditions, the Fund’s performance could be lower than other types of mutual funds with investment advisers that actively manage their portfolio assets to take advantage of or defend against market events.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index will be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that its Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or
regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole. Information about the Fund’s exposure to a particular industry or industry group is available in the Fund’s Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders, as well as on required forms filed with the SEC.
Industrials Sector Risk. Changes in government regulation, world events and economic conditions may adversely affect the companies in the industrials sector. In addition, these companies are at risk for environmental damage claims. Industrial companies also may be adversely affected by commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources, technological developments, labor relations and changes in the supply of and demand for their specific products or services or for industrials sector products in general.
Utilities Sector Risk. The risks inherent in the utilities sector include a variety of factors that may adversely affect the business or operations of utilities companies, including high interest costs associated with capital construction and improvement programs; difficulty in raising adequate capital on reasonable terms in periods of high inflation and unsettled capital markets; governmental regulation of rates that the issuer can charge to customers; costs associated with compliance with, and adjusting to changes to, environmental and other regulations; effects of economic slowdowns and surplus capacity; and increased competition from other providers of utility services. Utilities companies may also be adversely affected by increased costs associated with the reduced availability of certain types of fuel, occasionally reduced availability and high costs of natural gas for resale, and the effects of energy conservation policies. The effects of a national energy policy and lengthy delays, increased costs and other problems associated with the design, construction, licensing, regulation and operation of nuclear facilities for electric generation, which may include the problems associated with the use of radioactive materials and the disposal of radioactive wastes, may also negatively impact these companies.
Technological innovations may render existing plants, equipment or products obsolete, and companies may experience difficulty in obtaining regulatory approval of new technologies; a lack of compatibility of telecommunications equipment; and may be affected by the potential impact of terrorist activities on the utility industry and its customers, as well as the impact of natural or man-made disasters. Any such event could have serious consequences for the general population of the affected area and may adversely impact the Fund's portfolio securities performance. Issuers in the utilities sector also may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities and may be affected by the imposition of special tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies and accounting standards. Deregulation is subjecting utilities companies to greater competition and may adversely affect profitability. As deregulation allows utilities to diversify outside of their original geographic regions and their traditional lines of business, utilities companies may engage in riskier ventures. There is no assurance that regulatory authorities will, in the future, grant rate increases, or that such increases will be adequate to permit the payment of dividends on stocks issued by a utilities company.
Water-Related Company Risk. Water-related companies may be adversely affected by technological changes, climactic events, environmental considerations, water conservation, taxes, additional government regulation, including the increased cost of compliance, inflation, an increase in the cost of raw materials, an increase in interest rates and changes in consumer sentiment and spending. Companies engaged in the water industry may be subject to liability for environmental damage, depletion of resources, conflicts with local communities over water rights and mandated expenditures for safety and pollution control.
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Competition between water companies and government regulation of water companies, including regulation of the rates that the companies may charge, both domestically and internationally, may adversely affect the earnings of the companies in this industry.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The performance of the Fund depends on the performance of individual securities to which the Fund has exposure. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform worse than the market as a whole, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, changes in technology, expiration of patent protection, disruptions in supply, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures or other factors. Issuers may, in times of distress or at their own discretion, decide to reduce or eliminate dividends, which may also cause their stock prices to decline.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations, and the Fund could lose money due to short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index. The value of a security may decline due to general market conditions, economic trends or events that are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or due to factors that affect a particular industry or group of industries. During a general downturn in the securities markets, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Although Shares are listed for trading on a securities exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained by market makers or APs, that Shares will continue to trade on any such exchange or that Shares will continue to meet the requirements for listing on an exchange. Any of these factors, among others, may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund’s NAV. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods. Further, the Fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads. Bid/ask spreads vary over time based on trading volume and market liquidity (including for the underlying securities held by the Fund), and are generally lower if Shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if Shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the Fund’s portfolio holdings, which may cause a variance in the market price of Shares and their underlying value.
Micro-Capitalization Company Risk. Investments in the securities of micro-capitalization companies involve substantially greater risks of loss and price fluctuations than other securities with larger capitalizations. Micro-capitalization companies carry additional risks because their earnings and revenues tend to be less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), their share prices tend to be more volatile and their markets less liquid than companies with larger market capitalizations. Micro-capitalization companies may be newly formed or in the early stages of development, with limited product lines, markets or financial resources, and they may lack management depth or may be overly reliant on specific key individuals. In addition, less public information may be available about these companies. The shares of micro-capitalization companies tend to trade less frequently than those of larger, more established companies, which can adversely affect the pricing of these securities and the future ability to sell these securities. Also, the Fund may take a long time before it realizes a gain, if any, on an investment in a micro-capitalization company.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund’s return may not match the return of its Underlying Index (that is, it may experience tracking error) for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to
its Underlying Index and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. If the Fund has recently commenced operations or otherwise has a relatively small amount of assets, such transaction costs could have a proportionally greater impact on the Fund. Additionally, if the Fund used a sampling approach, it may result in returns that are not as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the components of the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index.
The performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund’s portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints. Additionally, a fund that issues or redeems Creation Units principally for cash will incur higher costs in buying and selling securities than if it issued and redeemed Creation Units principally in-kind. The Fund may fair value certain of the securities it holds. To the extent the Fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the Fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index may be adversely affected. Since the Underlying Index is not subject to the tax diversification requirements to which the Fund must adhere, the Fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities contained in, and relative weightings of, its Underlying Index. The Fund may not invest in certain securities included in its Underlying Index due to liquidity constraints. Liquidity constraints also may delay the Fund’s purchase or sale of securities included in its Underlying Index. For tax efficiency purposes, the Fund may sell certain securities to realize losses, causing it to deviate from its Underlying Index.
The Adviser may not fully invest the Fund’s assets at times, either as a result of cash flows into the Fund, to retain a reserve of cash to meet redemptions and expenses, or because of low assets (particularly when a fund is new and has operated for only a short period).
The investment activities of one or more of the Adviser’s affiliates, including other subsidiaries of the Adviser’s parent company, Invesco Ltd., for their proprietary accounts and for client accounts also may adversely impact the Fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index. For example, in regulated industries, certain emerging or international markets and under corporate and regulatory ownership definitions, there may be limits on the aggregate amount of investment by affiliated investors that may not be exceeded, or that may not be exceeded without the grant of a license or other regulatory or corporate consent, or, if exceeded, may cause the Adviser, the Fund or other client accounts to suffer disadvantages or business restrictions. As a result, the Fund may be restricted in its ability to acquire particular securities due to positions held by the Adviser’s affiliates.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund’s performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small- and mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which
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they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions. In addition, small- and mid-capitalization companies are typically less financially stable than larger, more established companies, and they may depend on a small number of essential personnel, making them more vulnerable to loss of personnel. Smaller capitalization companies also normally have less diverse product lines than large-capitalization companies and are more susceptible to adverse developments concerning their products. As such, small-and mid-capitalization companies typically are more likely to be adversely affected than large-capitalization companies by changes in earning results, business prospects, investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. Because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of the non-U.S. securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Non-Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund, after investing at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Index, may invest its remaining assets in securities (including other funds) not included in the Underlying Index and in money market instruments, including repurchase agreements or other funds that invest exclusively in money market instruments (subject to applicable limitations under the 1940 Act or exemptions therefrom), convertible securities and structured notes (notes on which the amount of principal repayment and interest payments is based on the movement of one or more specified factors, such as the movement of a particular security or securities index). Convertible securities and structured notes may be used by the Fund in seeking performance that corresponds to the Underlying Index and to manage cash flows. The Adviser anticipates that it may take approximately two business days (i.e., each day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open) for any additions to, and deletions from, the Fund’s Underlying Index to fully settle in the portfolio of the Fund.
In accordance with 1940 Act rules, the Fund has adopted a policy to invest at least 80% of the value of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in certain types of securities or in securities of companies in a particular region or economic sector (e.g., securities of companies in the energy and utilities sectors) that is suggested by the Fund’s name (an “80% investment policy”). The Fund considers the securities suggested by its name to be those securities that comprise the Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund anticipates meeting its 80% investment policy because it already is required to invest at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Index, in accordance with the terms of the Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II’s (the “Trust”) exemptive relief.
The Fund’s investment objective and the 80% investment policy each constitutes a non-fundamental policy that the Board of Trustees (the
“Board”) of the Trust may change at any time without shareholder approval upon 60 days’ written notice to shareholders.
The complete list of fundamental and non-fundamental policies of the Fund is set forth in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) under the section “Investment Restrictions.”
Borrowing Money
The Fund may borrow money up to the limits set forth in the Fund’s SAI under the section “Investment Restrictions”.
Securities Lending
The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions. In connection with such loans, the Fund receives liquid collateral equal to at least 102% (105% for international securities) of the value of the loaned portfolio securities. This collateral is marked-to-market on a daily basis.
Additional Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following provides additional risk information regarding investing in the Fund.
Convertible Securities Risk. A convertible security generally is a preferred stock that may be converted within a specified period of time into common stock. Convertible securities nevertheless remain subject to the risks of both debt securities and equity securities. As with other equity securities, the value of a convertible security tends to increase as the price of the underlying stock goes up, and to decrease as the price of the underlying stock goes down. Declining common stock values therefore also may cause the value of the Fund's investments to decline. Like a debt security, a convertible security provides a fixed income stream and also tends to decrease in value when interest rates rise. Moreover, many convertible securities have credit ratings that are below investment grade and are subject to the same risks as lower-rated debt securities.
Cybersecurity Risk. The Fund, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational and information security risks. Cybersecurity failures or breaches of the Fund or its service providers or the issuers of securities in which the Fund invests, have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. The Fund and its shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
Index Provider Risk. The Fund seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the Underlying Index, as published by the Index Provider. There is no assurance that the Index Provider will compile the Underlying Index accurately, or that the Underlying Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While the Index Provider gives descriptions of what the Underlying Index is designed to achieve, the Index Provider generally does not provide any warranty or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in such index, and it generally does not guarantee that the Underlying Index will be in line with its methodology. Errors made by the Index Provider with respect to the quality, accuracy and completeness of the data within the Underlying Index may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time, if at all. Therefore, gains, losses or costs associated with Index Provider errors will generally be borne by the Fund and its shareholders.
Index Rebalancing Risk. Pursuant to the methodology that the Index Provider uses to calculate and maintain the Underlying Index, a security may be removed from the Underlying Index in the event that it does not comply with the eligibility requirements of the Underlying Index. As a result, the Fund may be forced to sell securities at inopportune times or for prices other than at current market values or may elect not to sell such securities on the day that they are removed from the Underlying Index, due to market conditions or otherwise. Due to these factors, the variation between the
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Fund’s annual return and the return of the Underlying Index may increase significantly.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index, for example, to correct an error in the selection of constituents. When the Fund in turn rebalances its portfolio, any transaction costs and market exposure arising from such portfolio rebalancing will be borne by the Fund and its shareholders. Unscheduled rebalances also expose the Fund to additional tracking error risk. Therefore, errors and additional ad hoc rebalances carried out by the Index Provider may increase the Fund’s costs and market exposure.
Licensing, Custody and Settlement Risk. Approval of governmental authorities may be required prior to investing in the securities of companies based in certain foreign countries. Delays in obtaining such an approval would delay investments in the particular country, and, as a consequence, the Fund may not be able to invest in all of the securities included in the Underlying Index while an approval is pending. Rules adopted under the 1940 Act permit the Fund to maintain its foreign securities and cash in the custody of certain eligible non-U.S. banks and securities depositories. Certain banks in foreign countries that are eligible foreign sub-custodians may be recently organized or otherwise lack extensive operating experience. In addition, in certain countries there may be legal restrictions or limitations on the ability of the Fund to recover assets held in custody by a foreign sub-custodian in the event of the bankruptcy of the sub-custodian. Settlement systems in emerging markets may be less well organized than in developed markets. Thus, there may be a risk that settlement may be delayed and that cash or securities of the Fund may be in jeopardy because of failures of or defects in the systems. Under the laws of certain countries in which the Fund invests, the Fund may be required to release local shares before receiving cash payment or may be required to make cash payment prior to receiving local shares.
Money Market Funds Risk. Money market funds are subject to management fees and other expenses, and the Fund's investments in money market funds will cause it to bear proportionately the costs incurred by the money market funds' operations while simultaneously paying its own management fees and expenses. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency; it is possible to lose money by investing in a money market fund. To the extent that the Fund invests in money market funds, the Fund will be subject to the same risks that investors experience when investing in money market funds. These risks may include the impact of significant fluctuations in assets as a result of the cash sweep program or purchase and redemption activity in those funds.
Money market funds are open-end registered investment companies that historically have traded at a stable $1.00 per share price. However, money market funds that do not meet the definition of a “retail money market fund” or “government money market fund” are required to transact at a floating NAV per share (i.e., in a manner similar to how all other non-money market mutual funds transact), instead of at a $1.00 stable share price. Money market funds may also impose liquidity fees and redemption gates for use in times of market stress. If the Fund invested in a money market fund with a floating NAV, the impact on the trading and value of the money market instrument may negatively affect the Fund's return potential.
Natural Disaster/Epidemic Risk. Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and may be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of the Fund’s investments. Given the increasing interdependence among global economies and markets, conditions in one country, market, or region are increasingly likely to adversely affect markets, issuers, and/or foreign
exchange rates in other countries, including the U.S. Any such events could have a significant adverse impact on the value of the Fund’s investments.
Repurchase Agreements Risk. Repurchase agreements are agreements pursuant to which the Fund acquires securities from a third party with the understanding that the seller will repurchase them at a fixed price on an agreed date. Repurchase agreements may be characterized as loans secured by the underlying securities. If the seller of securities under a repurchase agreement defaults on its obligation to repurchase the underlying securities, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the Fund will seek to dispose of such securities, which action could involve costs or delays. If the seller becomes insolvent and subject to liquidation or reorganization under applicable bankruptcy or other laws, the Fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities may be restricted. If the seller fails to repurchase the securities, the Fund may suffer a loss to the extent proceeds from the sale of the underlying securities are less than the repurchase prices.
Securities Lending Risk. Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the Fund lends its securities and is unable to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to the Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Any cash received as collateral for loaned securities will be invested in an affiliated money market fund. This investment is subject to market appreciation or depreciation and the Fund will bear any loss on the investment of its cash collateral.
Shares May Trade at Prices Different than NAV Risk. The NAV of the Shares generally will fluctuate with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The market prices of the Shares generally will fluctuate in accordance with changes in the Fund’s NAV, as well as the relative supply of and demand for Shares on the Exchange. The Adviser cannot predict whether the Shares will trade below, at, or above the Fund’s NAV. Price differences may be due largely to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for the Shares will be closely related, but not identical, to the same forces influencing the prices of the securities of the Underlying Index trading individually or in the aggregate at any point in time. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading prices that differ significantly from NAV. If a shareholder purchases at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
Structured Notes Risk. Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a note resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of notes tend to go down. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a note will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Depending on the factors used, changes in interest rates and movement of such factors may cause significant price fluctuations. Structured notes may be less liquid than other types of securities and more volatile than the reference factor underlying the note. This means that the Fund may lose money if the issuer of the note defaults, as the Fund may not be able to readily close out its investment in such notes without incurring losses.
Trading Issues Risk. Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. Moreover, trading in Shares on the Exchange may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchange is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange “circuit breaker” rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of the Fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. Foreign
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exchanges may be open on days when Shares are not priced, and therefore, the value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell Shares.

Tax Structure of ETFs
    
Unlike interests in conventional mutual funds, which typically are bought and sold only at closing NAVs, Shares are traded throughout the day in the secondary market on a national securities exchange on an intra-day basis, and are created and redeemed principally in-kind in Creation Units at each day’s next calculated NAV. These in-kind arrangements are designed to protect shareholders from the adverse effects on the Fund’s portfolio that could arise from frequent cash creation and redemption transactions. In a conventional mutual fund, redemptions can have an adverse tax impact on taxable shareholders because the mutual funds may need to sell portfolio securities to obtain cash to meet such redemptions. These sales may generate taxable gains that must be distributed to the shareholders of the mutual fund, whereas the Shares’ in-kind redemption mechanism generally will not lead to such taxable events for the Fund or its shareholders.
The Fund may recognize gains as a result of rebalancing its securities holdings to reflect changes in the securities included in the Fund’s Underlying Index. The Fund also may be required to distribute any such gains to its shareholders to avoid adverse federal income tax consequences. For information concerning the tax consequences of distributions, see the section entitled “Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes” in this Prospectus.

Portfolio Holdings
    
A description of the Trust's policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Fund's portfolio holdings is available in the Fund's SAI, which is available at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Management of the Fund
    
Invesco Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser with its offices at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515. The Adviser serves as the investment adviser to Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust, a family of ETFs with combined assets under management of approximately $134 billion as of December 31, 2019.
As the Fund’s investment adviser, the Adviser has overall responsibility for selecting and continuously monitoring the Fund’s investments, managing the Fund’s business affairs, and providing certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services for the Trust.
Portfolio Managers
The Adviser uses a team of portfolio managers, investment strategists and other investment specialists in managing the Fund. This team approach brings together many disciplines and leverages the Adviser's extensive resources.
Peter Hubbard, Vice President of the Trust, oversees all research, portfolio management and trading operations of the Fund. In this capacity, Mr. Hubbard oversees a team of portfolio managers (collectively with Mr. Hubbard, the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund. In managing the Fund, Mr. Hubbard receives management assistance from Michael Jeanette, Tony Seisser and Pratik
Doshi (collectively, with Mr. Hubbard, the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund.
Each Portfolio Manager is responsible for various functions related to portfolio management, including investing cash flows, coordinating with other team members to focus on certain asset classes, implementing investment strategy and researching and reviewing investment strategy. Each Portfolio Manager has limitations on his authority for risk management and compliance purposes that the Adviser believes to be appropriate.
■  Peter Hubbard, Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since June 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2005.
■  Michael Jeanette, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since August 2008 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2008.
■  Tony Seisser, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since August 2014 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2013.
■  Pratik Doshi, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since October 2019 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2018. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Doshi earned his MBA from the University of Chicago from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Doshi was a Vice President at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch from 2014 to 2016.
The Fund's SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers’ compensation structure, other accounts that the Portfolio Managers manage and the Portfolio Managers' ownership of Shares.
Advisory Fees
Pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and the Trust (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”), the Fund has agreed to pay the Adviser for its services an annual fee equal to a percentage of its average daily net assets as set forth in the chart below (the “Management Fee”):
Fund Management Fee
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF 0.50%
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The Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF is responsible for all of its own expenses, including the Management Fee, costs of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, interest, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, brokerage commissions and other expenses connected with executions of portfolio transactions, sub-licensing fees related to its Underlying Index, any distribution fees or expenses, litigation expenses, fees payable to the Trust’s Board members and officers who are not “interested persons” of the Trust or the Adviser, expenses incurred in connection with the Board members’ services, including travel expenses and legal fees of counsel for those members of the Board who are not “interested persons” of the Trust and extraordinary expenses.
The Trust and the Adviser have entered into an Amended and Restated Excess Expense Agreement (the “Expense Agreement”) on behalf of the Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF pursuant to which the Adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or pay Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding interest expenses, sub-licensing fees, offering costs (as defined below), brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if applicable, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding 0.63% of the Fund’s average daily net assets per year (the “Expense Cap”) through at least August 31, 2021. The Adviser has further agreed to reimburse the Fund in the amount equal to the sub-licensing fees that the Fund pays that cause the Fund’s operating expenses (excluding interest expenses, offering costs, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, Acquired
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Fund Fees and Expenses and extraordinary expenses) to exceed 0.63% through at least April 6, 2020.
The offering costs excluded from the Expense Cap for the Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, as applicable, are: (a) initial legal fees pertaining to the Fund’s Shares offered for sale; (b) initial SEC and state registration fees; and (c) initial fees paid to be listed on an exchange. The Expense Agreement provides that the fees waived and/or expenses borne by the Adviser are subject to recapture by the Adviser for up to three years from the date the fees were waived or the expenses were incurred, but no recapture payment will be made by the Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF if it would result in the Fund exceeding (i) the Expense Cap or (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time the fees and/or expenses subject to recapture were waived and/or borne by the Adviser.
The Fund may invest in money market funds that are managed by affiliates of the Adviser. The indirect portion of the management fee that the Fund incurs through such investments is in addition to the Adviser’s management fee. Therefore, the Adviser has agreed to waive the management fees that it receives in an amount equal to the indirect management fees that the Fund incurs through its investments in affiliated money market funds through at least August 31, 2021. There is no guarantee that the Adviser will extend the waiver of these fees past that date.
A discussion regarding the basis for the Board’s approval of the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement with respect to the Fund is available in the Fund’s Semi-Annual Report to shareholders for the fiscal period ended April 30, 2019.

How to Buy and Sell Shares
    
The Fund issues or redeems its Shares at NAV per Share only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations.
Most investors will buy and sell Shares of the Fund in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on the secondary market on the Exchange. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment. Although Shares generally are purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 Shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction.
The Shares trade on the Exchange under the symbol “CGW”.
Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share.
APs may acquire Shares directly from the Fund, and APs may tender their Shares for redemption directly to the Fund, at NAV per Share only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations, and in accordance with the procedures described in the SAI.
Under normal circumstances, the Fund will pay out redemption proceeds to a redeeming AP within two days after the AP’s redemption request is received, in accordance with the process set forth in the Fund’s SAI and in the agreement between the AP and the Fund’s distributor. However, the Fund reserves the right, including under stressed market conditions, to take up to seven days after the receipt of a redemption request (as discussed above) to pay an AP, all as permitted by the 1940 Act. Funds that track underlying indexes composed of foreign securities may pay out redemption proceeds up to 14 days after the receipt of a redemption request, consistent with the Trust’s SEC exemptive relief. The Fund anticipates regularly meeting redemption requests primarily through in-kind redemptions. However, the Fund reserves the right to pay redemption proceeds to an AP in cash, consistent with the Trust’s exemptive relief. In addition, if an AP is not a “qualified institutional buyer,” as such term is defined under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”), the AP will not be able to receive Rule 144A securities. Cash used for redemptions will be raised from the sale of portfolio assets or may come from existing holdings of cash or cash equivalents.
The Fund may liquidate and terminate at any time without shareholder approval.
Book Entry
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for all purposes.
Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other securities that you hold in book entry or “street name” form.
Share Trading Prices
The trading prices of Shares on the Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV. Market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors may affect the trading prices of Shares.
The approximate value of Shares, an amount representing on a per share basis the sum of the current market price of the securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and an estimated cash component accepted by the Fund in exchange for Shares will be disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association. With respect to funds that invest in securities of foreign issuers traded on foreign exchanges, as the respective international local markets close, the market value of the Deposit Securities will continue to be updated for foreign exchange rates for the remainder of the U.S. trading day at the prescribed 15 second intervals. This approximate value should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share because the approximate value may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day. The Fund is not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the approximate value of Shares, and the Fund does not make any warranty as to the accuracy of the approximate value.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares
    
Shares may be purchased and redeemed directly from the Fund only in Creation Units by APs. The vast majority of trading in Shares occurs on the secondary market and does not involve the Fund directly. In-kind purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs and cash trades on the secondary market are unlikely to cause many of the harmful effects of frequent purchases and/or redemptions of Shares. Cash purchases and/or redemptions of Creation Units, however, can result in increased tracking error, disruption of portfolio management, dilution to the Fund and increased transaction costs, which could negatively impact the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective and may lead to the realization of capital gains. These consequences may increase as the frequency of cash purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs increases. However, direct trading by APs is critical to ensuring that Shares trade at or close to NAV.
To minimize these potential consequences of frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares, the Fund imposes transaction fees on purchases
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and redemptions of Creation Units to cover the custodial and other costs the Fund incurs in effecting trades. In addition, the Adviser monitors trades by APs for patterns of abusive trading and the Fund reserves the right to not accept orders from APs that the Adviser has determined may be disruptive to the management of the Fund or otherwise are not in the best interests of the Fund. For these reasons, the Board has not adopted policies and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares.

Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes
    
Dividends and Other Distributions
Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid at least annually by the Fund. The Fund also intends to distribute its net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders annually. Dividends and other distributions may be declared and paid more frequently to comply with the distribution requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and to avoid a federal excise tax imposed on regulated investment companies (“RIC”).
Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available.
Taxes
The Fund intends to qualify each year as a RIC and, as such, is not subject to entity-level tax on the income and gain it distributes. If you are a taxable investor, dividends and distributions you receive generally are taxable to you whether you reinvest distributions in additional Shares or take them in cash. Every year, you will be sent information showing the amount of dividends and distributions you received during the prior calendar year. In addition, investors in taxable accounts should be aware of the following basic tax points as supplemented below where relevant:
Fund Tax Basics
■  The Fund earns income generally in the form of dividends or interest on its investments. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of the Fund, constitutes the Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to shareholders. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable to you as ordinary income.
■  Distributions of net short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. A Fund with a high portfolio turnover rate (a measure of how frequently assets within the Fund are bought and sold) is more likely to generate short-term capital gains than a Fund with a low portfolio turnover rate. For ETFs for which in-kind redemptions are the primary redemption mechanism, a Fund may be less likely to sell securities in order to generate cash for redeeming shareholders, which a mutual fund might do. This provides a greater opportunity for ETFs to defer the recognition of gain on appreciated securities which it may hold thereby reducing the distribution of capital gains to its shareholders.
■  Distributions of net long-term capital gains are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your Shares.
■  A portion of income dividends paid by the Fund may be reported as qualified dividend income eligible for taxation by individual shareholders at long-term capital gain rates, provided certain holding period requirements are met. These reduced rates generally are available for dividends derived from the Fund’s investment in stocks of domestic corporations and qualified foreign corporations. In the case of a Fund that invests primarily in debt securities, either none or only a nominal portion of the dividends paid by the Fund will be eligible for taxation at these reduced rates.
■  The use of derivatives by the Fund may cause the Fund to realize higher amounts of ordinary income or short-term capital gain, distributions from which are taxable to individual shareholders at ordinary income tax rates rather than at the more favorable tax rates for long-term capital gain.
■  Distributions declared to shareholders with a record date in December–if paid to you by the end of January–are taxable for federal income tax purposes as if received in December.
■  Any long-term or short-term capital gains realized on the sale of your Shares will be subject to federal income tax.
■  A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the sale of any of the shareholder’s Shares, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.
■  At the time you purchase your Shares, the Fund's NAV may reflect undistributed income or undistributed capital gains. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying Shares in the Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes known as “buying a dividend.” In addition, the Fund’s NAV may, at any time, reflect net unrealized appreciation, which may result in future taxable distributions to you.
■  By law, if you do not provide the Fund with your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains, or proceeds from the sale of your Shares. The Fund also must withhold if the IRS instructs it to do so. When withholding is required, the amount will be 24% of any distributions or proceeds paid.
■  An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from the Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.
■  You will not be required to include the portion of dividends paid by the Fund derived from interest on U.S. government obligations in your gross income for purposes of personal and, in some cases, corporate income taxes in many state and local tax jurisdictions. The percentage of dividends that constitutes dividends derived from interest on federal obligations will be determined annually. This percentage may differ from the actual percentage of interest received by the Fund on federal obligations for the particular days on which you hold shares.
■  Fund distributions and gains from sale of Shares generally are subject to state and local income taxes.
■  If the Fund qualifies to pass through the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments, and elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it pays on these investments may be passed through to you as a foreign tax credit. You will then be required to include your pro-rata share of these taxes in gross income, even though not actually received by you, and will be entitled either to deduct your share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax.
■  Foreign investors should be aware that U.S. withholding, special certification requirements to avoid U.S. backup withholding and claim any treaty benefits, and estate taxes may apply to an investment in the Fund.
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■  Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a 30% withholding tax is imposed on income dividends made by the Fund to certain foreign entities referred to as foreign financial institutions or non-financial foreign entities, that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions, return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Shares; however, based on proposed regulations recently issued by the IRS on which the Fund may rely, such withholding is no longer required unless final regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). The Fund may disclose the information that it receives from its shareholders to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA or similar laws. Withholding also may be required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of the Fund fails to provide the Fund with appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status under FATCA.
■  If the Fund invests in an underlying fund taxed as a RIC, please see any relevant section below for more information regarding the Fund’s investment in such underlying fund.
Fund Investments in Real Estate Securities
■  Because of “noncash” expenses such as property depreciation, the cash flow of a REIT that owns properties will exceed its taxable income. The REIT, and in turn the Fund, may distribute this excess cash. Such a distribution is classified as a return of capital. Return of capital distributions generally are not taxable to you. Your cost basis in your Shares will be decreased by the amount of any return of capital. Any return of capital distributions in excess of your cost basis will be treated as capital gains.
■  Dividends paid to shareholders from the Fund’s investments in U.S. REITs generally will not qualify for taxation at long-term capital gain rates applicable to qualified dividend income.
■  The Fund may derive “excess inclusion income” from certain equity interests in mortgage pooling vehicles either directly or through an investment in a U.S. REIT. Please see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to shareholders in the event the Fund realizes excess inclusion income in excess of certain threshold amounts.
■  Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., ordinary REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends designated as qualified dividend income) are treated as eligible for a 20% deduction by noncorporate taxpayers. Proposed regulations issued by the IRS, on which the Fund can rely, enable the Fund to pass through the special character of “qualified REIT dividends” to a shareholder, provided the shareholder meets certain holding period requirements with respect to their shares.
■  The Fund’s foreign shareholders should see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to them from a sale of a U.S. real property interest by a REIT in which the Fund invests.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
An AP that exchanges securities for a Creation Unit generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of exchange (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the issue) and the sum of the AP's aggregate basis in the securities surrendered plus any cash component paid. Similarly, an AP that redeems a Creation Unit in exchange for securities generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the AP's basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash paid by the AP as part of the redemption) and the aggregate market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the redemption). The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for a Creation Unit, or of
a Creation Unit for securities, cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales” or on the ground that there has been no significant change in the AP's economic position. An AP exchanging securities should consult its own tax advisor(s) with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss otherwise might not be deductible.
Any capital gain or loss realized on a redemption of a Creation Unit generally is treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less, assuming that such Creation Units are held as a capital asset. If you purchase or redeem one or more Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing how many Shares you purchased or sold and at what price.
The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the more important possible consequences under current federal, state and local tax law of an investment in the Fund. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You also may be subject to state, local and/or foreign tax on the Fund's distributions and sales and/or redemptions of Shares. Consult your personal tax advisor(s) about the potential tax consequences of an investment in the Shares under all applicable tax laws.

Distributor
    
Invesco Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”) serves as the distributor of Creation Units for the Fund on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The Distributor is an affiliate of the Adviser.

Net Asset Value
    
The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM”) calculates the Fund’s NAV at the close of regular trading (normally 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) every day the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open. The NAV for the Fund will be calculated and disseminated daily on each day that the NYSE is open. NAV is calculated by deducting all of the Fund's liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. Generally, the portfolio securities are recorded in the NAV no later than trade date plus one day. All valuations are subject to review by the Trust’s Board or its delegate.
In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily and securities and other assets for which market quotations are readily available are valued at market value. Securities listed or traded on an exchange (except convertible securities) generally are valued at the last sales price or official closing price that day as of the close of the exchange where the security is primarily traded. Investment companies are valued using such company's NAV per share, unless the shares are exchange-traded, in which case they will be valued at the last sale or official closing price on the exchanges on which they primarily trade. Deposits, other obligations of U.S. and non-U.S. banks and financial institutions, and cash equivalents are valued at their daily account value. Debt obligations (including convertible securities) and securities not listed on an exchange normally are valued on the basis of prices provided by independent pricing services. Pricing services generally value debt securities assuming orderly transactions of institutional round lot size, but the Fund may hold or transact in the same securities in smaller, odd lot sizes. Odd lots often trade at lower prices than institutional round lots. 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 asked prices from the exchange on which they principally trade. Options not listed on an exchange are valued by an independent source at the mean between the last bid and asked prices. Swaps generally are valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services. For purposes of determining NAV per Share,
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futures and option contracts and swaps generally are valued 15 minutes after the close of the customary trading session of the NYSE.
Certain securities may not be listed on an exchange; typically, those securities are bought and sold by institutional investors in individually negotiated private transactions. Such securities, as well as listed securities whose market price is not readily available, will be valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services or by another method that the Adviser, in its judgment, believes will better reflect the security’s fair value in accordance with the Trust's valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board.
Even when market quotations are available for portfolio securities, they may be stale or unreliable because the security is not traded frequently, trading on the security ceased before the close of the trading market or issuer-specific events occurred after the security ceased trading or because of the passage of time between the close of the market on which the security trades and the close of the NYSE and when the Fund calculates its NAV. Events that may cause the last market quotation to be unreliable include a merger or insolvency, events which affect a geographical area or an industry segment, such as political events or natural disasters, or market events, such as a significant movement in the U.S. market. Where market quotations are not readily available, including where the Adviser determines that the closing price of the security is unreliable, the Adviser will value the security at fair value in good faith using procedures approved by the Board. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that a fair value determination for a security is materially different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of the security. In addition, fair value pricing could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate the Fund's NAV and the prices used by the Fund's Underlying Index. This may adversely affect the Fund's ability to track its Underlying Index. With respect to securities that primarily are listed on foreign exchanges, the value of the Fund's portfolio securities may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares.

Fund Service Providers
    
BNYM, 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, is the administrator, custodian and fund accounting and transfer agent for the Fund.
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1601, Chicago, Illinois 60606, and 2000 K Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm. PwC is responsible for auditing the annual financial statements of the Fund and assists in the preparation and/or review of the Fund’s federal and state income tax returns.
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Financial Highlights
The financial highlights table below is intended to help you understand the Fund’s (and the Predecessor Fund’s) financial performance for the past five fiscal years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions).
This information has been derived from the Fund’s financial statements, which have been audited by PwC, whose report, along with the Fund’s
financial statements, is included in the Fund’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, which is available upon request.
The Fund has adopted the financial and performance history of its Predecessor Fund as a result of a reorganization. Accordingly, the financial information presented for the Fund for the fiscal years ended prior to August 31, 2018 is that of the Predecessor Fund and has been audited by the prior independent registered public accounting firm of the Predecessor Fund.
 
  Year Ended October 31,
2019
Two Months Ended
October 31,
2018
Years Ended August 31,
  2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:            
Net asset value at beginning of period $ 32.32 $ 35.28 $ 33.38 $ 30.27 $ 26.67 $ 29.02
Net investment income(a) 0.64 0.04 0.59 0.61 0.54 0.48
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 7.26 (3.00) 1.92 2.97 3.51 (2.33)
Total from investment operations 7.90 (2.96) 2.51 3.58 4.05 (1.85)
Distributions to shareholders from:            
Net investment income (0.67) - (0.61) (0.47) (0.45) (0.50)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) - - - -
Net asset value at end of period $ 39.55 $ 32.32 $ 35.28 $ 33.38 $ 30.27 $ 26.67
Market price at end of period $ 39.54(c) $ 32.27(c) $ 35.23(c) $ 33.46 $ 30.32 $ 26.64
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 25.10% (8.39)% 7.51% 12.09% 15.40% (6.47)%
Market Price Total Return(d) 25.27% (8.40)% 7.09%      
Ratios/Supplemental Data:            
Net assets at end of period (000's omitted) $741,918 $531,298 $594,105 $610,253 $432,244 $346,709
Ratio to average net assets of:            
Expenses 0.59% 0.60% (e) 0.62% 0.63% 0.64% 0.64%
Net investment income 1.82% 0.67% (e) 1.71% 1.98% 1.93% 1.69%
Portfolio turnover rate(f) 13% 5% 13% 8% 6% 9%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) Annualized.
(f) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Index Provider
    

No entity that creates, compiles, sponsors or maintains the Underlying Index is or will be an affiliated person, as defined in Section 2(a)(3) of the 1940 Act, or an affiliated person of an affiliated person, of the Trust, the Adviser, the Distributor or a promoter of the Fund.
Neither the Adviser nor any affiliate of the Adviser has any rights to influence the selection of the securities in the Underlying Index.
S&P. S&P is the Index Provider for the Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF.
The Underlying Index is calculated and maintained by or on behalf of the Index Provider or its affiliate, agent or partner. The Index Provider is not affiliated with the Trust, the Adviser or the Distributor. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with the Index Provider. The Fund is entitled to use its Underlying Index pursuant to a sub-licensing agreement with the Adviser.

Disclaimers
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. S&P® is a registered trademark of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and has been licensed for use by S& P DJI and sublicensed for certain purposes by the Adviser. The S&P Global Water Index (the “S&P DJI Index”) is a product of S&P DJI and has been licensed for use by the Adviser.
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P DJI or its affiliates. S&P DJI does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Fund or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Fund particularly or the ability of the S&P DJI Index to track general market performance. The S&P DJI Index is determined, composed and calculated by S&P DJI without regard to the Adviser or the Fund. S&P DJI has no obligation to take the needs of the Adviser or the owners of the Fund into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the S&P DJI Index. S&P DJI is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices, and amount of the Fund or the timing of the issuance or sale of the Fund or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Fund is to be converted into cash, surrendered or redeemed, as applicable. S&P DJI has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the Fund. There is no assurance that investment products based on the S&P DJI Index will accurately track index performance or provide positive investment returns. S&P DJI is not an investment advisor. Inclusion of a security within an index is not a recommendation by S&P DJI to buy, sell, or hold such security, nor is it considered to be investment advice.
S&P DJI DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE S&P DJI INDEX OR ANY DATA RELATED THERETO OR ANY COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION (INCLUDING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS) WITH RESPECT THERETO. S&P DJI SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR DELAYS THEREIN. S&P DJI MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE OR AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY THE ADVISER, OWNERS OF THE FUND, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE S&P DJI INDEX OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY DATA RELATED THERETO. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WHATSOEVER SHALL S&P DJI BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS, TRADING LOSSES, LOST TIME OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. THERE ARE NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN S&P AND THE ADVISER, OTHER THAN THE LICENSORS OF THE S&P DJI INDEX.
The Adviser does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Underlying Index or any data included therein, and the Adviser shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, restatements, re-calculations or interruptions therein. The Adviser makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Fund, owners of the Shares of the Fund or any other person or entity from the use of the Underlying Index or any data included therein. The Adviser makes no express or implied warranties and expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to the Underlying Index or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Adviser have any liability for any special, punitive, direct, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits) arising out of matters relating to the use of the Underlying Index even if notified of the possibility of such damages.

Premium/Discount Information
    
Information on the daily NAV per Share can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs. Additionally, information regarding how often Shares traded on the Exchange at a price above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) the NAV of the Fund during the prior calendar year and subsequent quarters can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Other Information
    
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies (and companies relying on Sections 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act) in the securities of other investment companies. However, registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Fund beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust, including that such investment companies enter into a participation agreement with the Trust on behalf of the Fund prior to exceeding the limits imposed by Section 12(d)(1). Additionally, the Fund is permitted pursuant to an SEC exemptive order to invest in other registered investment companies beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in another exemptive order that the SEC has issued to the Trust. If the Fund relies on this exemptive relief, however, other investment companies may not invest in that Fund beyond the statutory provisions of Section 12(d)(1).
Continuous Offering
The method by which Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are issued and sold by the Fund on an ongoing basis, a “distribution,” as such term is used in the Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery requirement and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory underwriter if it takes Creation Unit Aggregations after placing an order with the Distributor, breaks them down into constituent Shares and sells such Shares directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the
 
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creation of a supply of new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary market demand for Shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could lead to a characterization as an underwriter.
Broker-dealer firms also should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are effecting transactions in Shares, whether or not participating in the distribution of Shares, generally are required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted with engaging in ordinary secondary market transactions), and thus dealing with the Shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act. For delivery of prospectuses to exchange members, the prospectus delivery mechanism of Rule 153 under the Securities Act only is available with respect to transactions on a national exchange.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents–Householding
Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Fund. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Fund is available through certain broker-dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of the Prospectus and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you currently are enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.
For More Information
For more detailed information on the Trust, the Fund and the Shares, you may request a copy of the Fund’s SAI. The SAI provides detailed information
about the Fund and is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. This means that the SAI legally is a part of this Prospectus. Additional information about the Fund’s investments also is available in the Fund’s Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders. In the Fund’s Annual Reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund's performance during the last fiscal year. If you have questions about the Fund or Shares or you wish to obtain the SAI, Annual Report and/or Semi-Annual Report, free of charge, or to make shareholder inquiries, please:
Call: Invesco Distributors, Inc. at 1-800-983-0903
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time
Write: Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
c/o Invesco Distributors, Inc.
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Visit: www.invesco.com/ETFs
Reports and other information about the Fund are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC's internet site at www.sec.gov, and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov.
No person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations about the Fund and its Shares not contained in this Prospectus, and you should not rely on any other information. Read and keep this Prospectus for future reference.
Dealers effecting transactions in the Shares, whether or not participating in this distribution, generally are required to deliver a Prospectus. This is in addition to any obligation of dealers to deliver a Prospectus when acting as underwriters.
The Trust's registration number under the 1940 Act is 811-21977.
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Prospectus February 28, 2020

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
PIZ Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF The Nasdaq Stock Market
PIE Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF The Nasdaq Stock Market
IDLB Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF The Nasdaq Stock Market
PXF Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PDN Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PXH Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PBD Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PIO Invesco Global Water ETF The Nasdaq Stock Market
IPKW Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF The Nasdaq Stock Market
CUT Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PBDM Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
PBEE Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
EELV Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
EEMO Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
IDHD Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
IDLV Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
IDMO Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
IDHQ Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Funds’ shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from your financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or bank. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you may contact your financial intermediary to enroll in electronic delivery. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service.
You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you can follow the instructions included with this disclosure, if applicable, or contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held with your financial intermediary.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


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Summary Information 1
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF 1
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF 3
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF 6
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 9
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF 12
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 15
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF 18
Invesco Global Water ETF 21
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF 25
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF 28
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF 31
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF 34
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF 37
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF 40
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 44
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF 47
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF 49
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF 52
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Additional Information About the Funds' Strategies and Risks 55
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Tax Structure of ETFs 69
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Portfolio Holdings 69
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Management of the Funds 69
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How to Buy and Sell Shares 70
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Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares 71
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Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes 71
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Distributor 73
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Net Asset Value 73
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Fund Service Providers 74
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Financial Highlights 75
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Index Providers 94
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Disclaimers 94
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Premium/Discount Information 97
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Summary Information

Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.80%
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Other Expenses 0.01%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.81%
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Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$83 $259 $450 $1,002
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 106% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, Dorsey Wright & Associates, LLC (“Dorsey Wright” or the “Index Provider”) selects securities pursuant to its proprietary selection methodology for inclusion in the Underlying Index, which is designed to identify securities that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics.
“Relative strength” is an investing technique that seeks to determine the strongest performing securities by measuring certain factors, such as a security’s relative performance against the overall market or a security’s relative strength value, which is derived by comparing the rate of increase of the security’s price over a set period as compared to that of a benchmark index.
The Underlying Index is comprised of equity securities of large capitalization companies based in countries with developed economies, excluding the United States. Dorsey Wright selects securities for inclusion in the Underlying Index from an eligible universe of the largest 1,000 constituents by market capitalization within the Nasdaq Developed Markets Ex United States Index (except for U.S.-listed American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) of foreign listings). The Index Provider assigns a relative strength
score to each eligible security and selects approximately 100 securities with the greatest scores for inclusion in the Underlying Index. Component security weights are based on relative scores, with securities with higher scores receiving larger weights.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 100 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $5.5 billion to $35 billion.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment
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toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption
process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent trading of its portfolio securities in connection with the rebalancing or adjustment of the Underlying Index. A portfolio turnover rate of 200%, for example, is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities two times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate (such as 100% or more) could result in high brokerage costs for the Fund. While a high portfolio turnover rate can result in an increase in taxable capital gain distributions to the Fund’s shareholders, the Fund will seek to utilize the in-kind creation and redemption mechanism (described below) to minimize realization of capital gains to the extent possible.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
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Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 23.41% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (24.51)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 27.33% 5.09% 6.32%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 27.01% 4.87% 5.99%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 16.68% 4.05% 5.11%
...
Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index (Net) (reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes) 28.40% 5.89% 7.29%
...
MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.01% 5.67% 5.50%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.90%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.90%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.01%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$92 $287 $498 $1,108
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's
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performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 158% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, Dorsey Wright & Associates, LLC (“Dorsey Wright” or the “Index Provider”) selects securities pursuant to its proprietary selection methodology for inclusion in the Underlying Index, which is designed to identify securities that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics.
“Relative strength” is an investing technique that seeks to determine the strongest performing securities by measuring certain factors, such as a security’s relative performance against the overall market or a security’s relative strength value, which is derived by comparing the rate of increase of the security’s price over a set period as compared to that of a benchmark index.
The Underlying Index is comprised of equity securities of large capitalization companies based in emerging market countries.
Dorsey Wright selects securities for inclusion in the Underlying Index from an eligible universe of the largest 1,000 constituents by market capitalization within the Nasdaq Emerging Markets Index (except for U.S.-listed American Depositary Receipts or foreign listings). The Index Provider assigns a relative strength score to each eligible security and selects approximately 100 securities with the greatest scores for inclusion in the Underlying Index. Component security weights are based on relative scores, with securities with higher scores receiving larger weights.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 100 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $4.6 billion to $35.1 billion.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which
the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic
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developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
China Investment Risk. Investments in companies located or operating in China involve risks not associated with investments in Western nations, such as nationalization, expropriation, or confiscation of property; difficulty in obtaining and/or enforcing judgments; alteration or discontinuation of economic reforms; military conflicts, either internal or with other countries; inflation, currency fluctuations and fluctuations in inflation and interest rates that may have negative effects on the economy and securities markets of China; and China’s dependency on the economies of other Asian countries, many of which are developing countries. Export growth continues to be a major driver of China’s rapid economic growth. As a result, a reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs
in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent trading of its portfolio securities in connection with the rebalancing or adjustment of the Underlying Index. A portfolio turnover rate of 200%, for example, is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities two times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate (such as 100% or more) could result in high brokerage costs for the Fund. While a high portfolio turnover rate can result in an increase in taxable capital gain distributions to the Fund’s shareholders, the Fund will seek to utilize the in-kind creation and redemption mechanism (described below) to minimize realization of capital gains to the extent possible.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
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Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 23.21% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (20.89)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 25.34% 3.47% 4.03%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 24.68% 3.21% 3.91%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 15.32% 2.81% 3.35%
...
Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
26.60% 4.99% 5.77%
...
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
18.42% 5.61% 3.68%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE Developed ex-U.S. Low Beta Equal Weight Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.45%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.45%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.01%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$46 $144 $252 $567
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's
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performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 53% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index. Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to provide exposure to constituents of the FTSE Developed ex US Index (the “Developed ex US Index”) that exhibit low beta characteristics. The Developed ex US Index is designed to measure the performance of the international equity markets and consists of large and mid-capitalization companies from developed markets throughout the world, excluding the United States.
Beta is a measure of relative risk and is the rate of change of a security’s price.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 1,552 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $125 million to $312 billion.
The Underlying Index is equally weighted, meaning that the Index Provider assigns each component security the same weight in the Underlying Index.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Japan Investment Risk. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its total assets in securities of issuers from Japan. The growth of Japan’s economy has recently lagged that of its Asian neighbors and other major developed economies. The Japanese economy is heavily dependent on international trade and has been adversely affected by trade tariffs, other protectionist measures, competition from emerging economies and the economic conditions of its trading partners. During the recent global recession, the Japanese economy experienced the effects of the economic slowdown in the United States and Europe. The Japanese economy also faces several other concerns, including a financial system with large levels of nonperforming loans, over-leveraged corporate balance sheets, extensive cross-ownership by major corporations, a changing corporate governance structure, and large government deficits. These issues may cause a continued slowdown of the Japanese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
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Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next
than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 8.87% (1st Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (11.71)% (4th Quarter 2018)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
    1 Year Since Inception
(11/5/2015)
Return Before Taxes   15.21% 6.36%
Return After Taxes on Distributions   14.47% 5.86%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares   9.95% 5.10%
...
FTSE Developed ex U.S. Low Beta Equal Weight Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but, reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
  15.90% 6.96%
...
MSCI World ex USA Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but, reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
  22.49% 6.66%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
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Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE RAFITM Developed ex U.S. 1000 Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage
commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.45%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.45%
...
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$46 $144 $252 $567
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”) in conjunction with Research Affiliates (“RA” together with FTSE, the “Index Provider”), compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is comprised of companies originating in countries that are classified as “developed” within the country classification definition of FTSE, excluding the United States.
The Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of companies domiciled in developed markets with the largest cumulative scores (“Fundamental Value”), selected from the constituents of the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index as determined by the Index Provider. The Underlying Index selects and weights companies based on their Fundamental Values, which are derived from the following four fundamental measures of firm size: book value, cash flow, sales and dividends.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 1,026 securities representing 24 countries.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the financials sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
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Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an
unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Financials Sector Risk. Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations. Unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector and financial services companies whose securities the Fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector. Financial services companies have also been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption
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process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 18.70% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (22.60)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 17.81% 4.81% 4.30%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 17.06% 4.20% 3.80%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 11.44% 3.84% 3.53%
...
FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-U.S. 1000 Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
18.08% 4.85% 4.63%
...
MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.01% 5.67% 5.50%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
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Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE RAFITM Developed ex U.S. Mid-Small 1500 Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.49%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.49%
...
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$50 $157 $274 $616
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 27% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”) in conjunction with Research Affiliates LLC (“RA” together with FTSE, the “Index Provider”), compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is comprised of securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies that are classified as “developed” within the country classification definition of FTSE, excluding the United States.
The Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of the small- and mid-capitalization companies in developed markets based on their cumulative scores (“Fundamental Value”), selected from the constituents of the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index, as determined by the Index Provider. The Underlying Index selects and weights companies based on their Fundamental Values, which are derived from the following four fundamental measures of firm size: book value, cash flow, sales and dividends.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 1,485 securities representing 24 countries.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market
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for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Japan Investment Risk. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its total assets in securities of issuers from Japan. The growth of Japan’s economy has recently lagged that of its Asian neighbors and other major developed economies. The Japanese economy is heavily dependent on international trade and has been adversely affected by trade tariffs, other protectionist measures, competition from emerging economies and the economic conditions of its trading partners. During
the recent global recession, the Japanese economy experienced the effects of the economic slowdown in the United States and Europe. The Japanese economy also faces several other concerns, including a financial system with large levels of nonperforming loans, over-leveraged corporate balance sheets, extensive cross-ownership by major corporations, a changing corporate governance structure, and large government deficits. These issues may cause a continued slowdown of the Japanese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small- and mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which
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they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 16.58% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (16.25)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax
returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 20.15% 7.10% 6.82%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 19.49% 6.69% 6.48%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 12.52% 5.68% 5.63%
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FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-US Mid Small 1500 Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
20.54% 7.35% 7.27%
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MSCI EAFE® Small Cap Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
24.96% 8.85% 8.74%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE RAFITM Emerging Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.49%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
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Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses(1) 0.01%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.50%
...
(1) “Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses” are indirect fees and expenses that the Fund incurs from investing in the shares of other investment companies (including money market funds). These expenses are based on the total expense ratio of the underlying funds disclosed in each underlying fund’s most recent shareholder report. Please note that the amount of “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses” shown in the above table differs from the ratio of expenses to average net assets included in the “Financial Highlights” section of this Prospectus, which reflects the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include indirect expenses such as Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$51 $160 $280 $628
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 29% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”) in conjunction with Research Affiliates LLC (“RA” together with FTSE, the “Index Provider”), compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is comprised of securities of companies domiciled in countries that are classified as emerging markets within the country classification definition of FTSE. The Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of securities of companies domiciled in emerging market countries with the highest ranking cumulative score (“Fundamental Value”), selected from the constituents of the FTSE Emerging All Cap Index, as determined by the Index Provider. The Underlying Index selects and weights the securities based on their Fundamental Values,
which are derived from the following four fundamental measures of firm size: book value, cash flows, sales and dividends.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 359 securities representing 12 countries.
While the Fund generally seeks to invest in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index, at times the composition of the Underlying Index may make such “full replication” impracticable. In such circumstances, the Fund will utilize a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the financials sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the
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Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets.Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the
U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
China Investment Risk. Investments in companies located or operating in China involve risks not associated with investments in Western nations, such as nationalization, expropriation, or confiscation of property; difficulty in obtaining and/or enforcing judgments; alteration or discontinuation of economic reforms; military conflicts, either internal or with other countries; inflation, currency fluctuations and fluctuations in inflation and interest rates that may have negative effects on the economy and securities markets of China; and China’s dependency on the economies of other Asian countries, many of which are developing countries. Export growth continues to be a major driver of China’s rapid economic growth. As a result, a reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Financials Sector Risk. Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations. Unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector and financial services companies whose securities the Fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector. Financial services companies have also been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption
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process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Sampling Risk. The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that the Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 14.97% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (23.74)% (3rd Quarter 2015)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 16.21% 6.56% 2.34%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 15.43% 5.94% 1.95%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 10.35% 5.14% 1.96%
...
FTSE RAFITM Emerging Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
17.02% 7.21% 3.33%
...
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
18.42% 5.61% 3.68%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
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Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.75%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.75%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.02%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to
buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$77 $240 $417 $930
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 59% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, WilderHill New Energy Finance, LLC (the “Index Provider”) compiles and maintains the Underlying Index, which is comprised of companies engaged in the business of the advancement of cleaner energy and conservation.
The Underlying Index is comprised primarily of companies whose technologies focus on the generation and use of cleaner energy, conservation and efficiency, and the advancement of renewable energy in general, as determined by the Index Provider. The Underlying Index includes companies in wind, solar, biofuels, hydro, wave, tidal, geothermal and other relevant renewable energy businesses and those involved in energy conversion, storage, conservation, efficiency, materials relating to those activities, carbon and greenhouse gas reduction, pollution control, emerging hydrogen and fuel cells. The Index Provider selects securities principally on the basis of their capital appreciation potential as identified by the Index Provider pursuant to a proprietary methodology, with a bias placed on renewable energy companies.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was compromised of 91 securities representing the following countries: Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the utilities sector and the clean energy industry. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of
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foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general
economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Clean Energy Industry Risk. Obsolescence of existing technology, short product cycles, falling prices and profits, competition from new market entrants and general economic conditions significantly affect the clean energy industry. In addition, intense competition and legislation resulting in more strict government regulations and enforcement policies and specific expenditures for cleanup efforts can affect the
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clean energy industry. Risks associated with hazardous materials, fluctuations in energy prices and supply and demand of alternative energy fuels, energy conservation, the success of exploration projects and tax and other government regulations can significantly affect this industry. Also, supply of, and demand for, specific products or services, the supply of, and demand for, oil and gas, the price of oil and gas, production spending, government regulation, world events and economic conditions may affect the industry. Shares in the companies involved in this industry have been significantly more volatile than shares of companies operating in other, more established industries. Currently, certain methods used to value companies involved in the alternative power and power technology sectors, particularly those companies that have not yet traded profitably, have not been in widespread use for a significant period of time. As a result, the use of these valuation methods may serve to increase further the volatility of certain alternative power and power technology company share prices.
Utilities Sector Risk. Companies in the utilities sector are subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their business or operations, including high interest costs associated with capital construction and improvement programs; difficulty in raising adequate capital in periods of high inflation and unsettled capital markets; governmental regulation of rates the issuer can charge to customers; costs associated with compliance with environmental and other regulations; effects of economic slowdowns and surplus capacity; increased competition; and potential losses resulting from a developing deregulatory environment.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small- and mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 18.71% (4th Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (35.07)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax
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returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 39.66% 6.25% (0.03)%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 38.76% 5.71% (0.42)%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 23.63% 4.71% (0.14)%
...
WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
39.48% 6.40% 0.34%
...
MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.01% 5.67% 5.50%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco Global Water ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco Global Water ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.75%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.75%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.01%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$77 $240 $417 $930
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 32% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that are based on the securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, Nasdaq, Inc. (“Nasdaq” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains, and calculates the Underlying Index, which is comprised of global exchange-listed companies that create products designed to conserve and purify water for homes, businesses and industries and have a minimum worldwide market capitalization of $50 million.
The Underlying Index may be comprised of common stocks, ordinary shares, depositary receipts, depositary shares, Dutch certificates, shares of beneficial interest, stapled securities and tracking stocks and also may include companies in emerging market countries.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 41 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $766.9 million to $160.2 billion.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
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The Fund is “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the industrials and utilities sectors and the water industry. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect
investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
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Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Industrials Sector Risk. Changes in government regulation, world events and economic conditions may adversely affect companies in the industrials sector. In addition, these companies are at risk for environmental and product liability damage claims. Also, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources, technological developments and labor relations could adversely affect the companies in this sector.
Utilities Sector Risk. Issuers in the utility sector are subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their business or operations, including high interest costs associated with capital construction and improvement programs; difficulty in raising adequate capital on reasonable terms in periods of high inflation and unsettled capital markets; governmental regulation of rates that the issuer can charge to customers; costs associated with compliance with, and adjusting to changes to, environmental and other regulations; effects of economic slowdowns and surplus capacity; increased competition from other providers of utility services; inexperience with, and potential losses resulting from, a developing deregulatory environment; costs associated with the reduced availability of certain types of fuel, occasionally reduced availability and high costs of natural gas for resale, and the effects of energy conservation policies; effects of a national energy policy and lengthy delays, and greatly increased costs and other problems associated with the design, construction, licensing, regulation and operation of nuclear facilities for electric generation, including, among other considerations, the problems associated with the use of radioactive materials and the disposal of radioactive wastes; technological innovations that may render existing plants, equipment or products obsolete; difficulty in obtaining regulatory approval of new technologies; lack of compatibility of telecommunications equipment; and potential impact of terrorist activities on the utility industry and its customers and the impact of natural or man-made disasters. Issuers in the utilities sector also may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities and may be affected by the imposition of special tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies and accounting standards.
Water Industry Risk. The Fund’s investments in the water industry may underperform relative to the general market, returns on investments in other sectors or fixed-income securities. The water industry can be significantly affected by the availability of water, the level of rainfall and the occurrence of other climatic and environmental events, changes in water consumption and water conservation. Furthermore, because the Fund will focus its investments in the water industry, economic downturns and global and domestic events affecting the water industry will have a greater impact on the Fund than would be
the case if the Fund’s investments were more diversified. These events may include governmental regulation and institutional change, inflation, an increase in the cost of raw materials, an increase in interest rates, technological advances, changes in consumer sentiment and spending and changes in government spending.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Tracking Stock Risk. Many of the risks of investing in common stock are applicable to tracking stock. Tracking stock is a separate class of common stock whose value is linked to a specific business unit or operating division within a larger company and which is designed to “track” the performance of such business unit or division. Therefore, tracking stock may decline in value even if the common stock of the larger company increases in value. In addition, holders of tracking stock may not have the same rights as holders of the company’s common stock.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may
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not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 16.34% (1st Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (21.65)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax
returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 35.08% 7.56% 6.99%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 34.66% 7.19% 6.71%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 21.02% 5.87% 5.65%
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Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM (Net)(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)(1) 35.40% 7.67% N/A
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Blended—Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM (Net)(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)(2) 35.40% 7.67% 7.03%
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MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes) 22.01% 5.67% 5.50%
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(1) Performance information is not available for periods prior to the Underlying Index’s commencement date of December 23, 2013.
(2) The Blended Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM reflects the performance of the Fund’s prior underlying index, the Palisades Global Water Index, until March 1, 2012, the NASDAQ QMX Global Water Index on a total return basis until December 23, 2013 and the Underlying Index on a net basis thereafter.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well
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as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.55%
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Other Expenses 0.00%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.55%
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Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$56 $176 $307 $689
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 99% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, Nasdaq, Inc. (“Nasdaq” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains, and calculates the Underlying Index, which is comprised of the securities of foreign companies that are classified as “International BuyBack AchieversTM” pursuant to the Index Provider’s proprietary selection methodology.
To qualify as an “International BuyBack AchieverTM “ and be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a security must: (i) be included in the NASDAQ Global Ex-US Index (a broad-based index designed to track the performance of the global equity market and whose component securities are issued by companies located throughout the world, excluding the United States); (ii) have a minimum market capitalization of $250 million; (iii) have effected a net reduction of 5% or more of its outstanding shares in its latest
fiscal year; and (iv) have a minimum three-month average daily dollar cash volume of $1 million.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 55 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $426 million to $15.8 billion.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the consumer discretionary sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of
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practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Canada Risk. Because the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in companies that are domiciled in Canada, the Fund is particularly sensitive to political, economic and social conditions in that country. Canada is a major producer of metals. The Canadian economy is especially dependent on the demand for, and supply of, natural
resources, and the Canadian market is relatively concentrated in issuers involved in the production and distribution of natural resources. Any adverse events that affect Canada’s major industries may have a negative impact on the overall Canadian economy and the shares of the Fund.
Japan Investment Risk. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its total assets in securities of issuers from Japan. The growth of Japan’s economy has recently lagged that of its Asian neighbors and other major developed economies. The Japanese economy is heavily dependent on international trade and has been adversely affected by trade tariffs, other protectionist measures, competition from emerging economies and the economic conditions of its trading partners. During the recent global recession, the Japanese economy experienced the effects of the economic slowdown in the United States and Europe. The Japanese economy also faces several other concerns, including a financial system with large levels of nonperforming loans, over-leveraged corporate balance sheets, extensive cross-ownership by major corporations, a changing corporate governance structure, and large government deficits. These issues may cause a continued slowdown of the Japanese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Consumer Discretionary Sector Risk. Companies engaged in the consumer discretionary sector are affected by fluctuations in supply and demand and changes in consumer preferences, social trends and marketing campaigns. Changes in consumer spending as a result of world events, political and economic conditions, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources and labor relations also may adversely affect these companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying
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Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 10.05% (3rd Quarter 2016)
Worst Quarter (14.76)% (4th Quarter 2018)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception (02/27/14)
Return Before Taxes 20.11% 8.63% 7.48%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 19.69% 8.30% 7.14%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 12.66% 6.95% 6.01%
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Nasdaq International BuyBack Achievers™ Index (Net) (reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes) 20.89% 9.32% 8.17%
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MSCI ACWI ex USA® Index (Net) (reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes) 21.51% 5.51% 4.05%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market and because the Shares will trade at market prices
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rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.50%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.17%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.67%
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Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement(2) 0.06%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 0.61%
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(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.18%.
(2) Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to waive fees and/or pay Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding interest expenses, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, sub-licensing fees, offering costs, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if applicable, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding 0.55% of the Fund’s average daily net assets per year (the “Expense Cap”) through August 31, 2021, and neither the Adviser nor the Fund can discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration. The fees waived and/or expenses borne by the Adviser are subject to recapture by the Adviser up to three years from the date the fees were waived or the expenses were incurred, but no recapture payment will be made by the Fund if it would result in the Fund exceeding (i) the Expense Cap or (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time the fees and/or expenses subject to recapture were waived and/or borne by the Adviser.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses are equal to the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense
Reimbursement in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$62 $208 $367 $829
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 18% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, MSCI, Inc. (“MSCI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains, and calculates the Underlying Index, which is comprised of equity securities of companies that are primarily engaged in the ownership and management of forests and timberlands and the production of finished products that use timber as a raw material.
The securities in the Underlying Index are selected from a universe of securities that are included in the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index and classified by the Global Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”) to be in the sub-industries of forest products, paper products, paper packaging or specialized real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) classified as “Timber” REITs.
The constituents of the Underlying Index are weighted based on their free-float-adjusted market capitalization. As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 78 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $228 million to $22.5 billion and represented the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the basic materials sector and the global timber industry. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are
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certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Basic Materials Sector Risk. Changes in world events, political, environmental and economic conditions, energy conservation,
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environmental policies, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources and labor relations may adversely affect the companies engaged in the production and distribution of basic materials.
Global Timber Industry Risk. The market value of securities of global timber companies may be affected by numerous factors, including events occurring in nature, international politics, government regulations, competition from other timber companies (and from companies that make non-wood and engineered wood products) and general economic conditions.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
REIT Risk. REITs are securities that invest substantially all of their assets in real estate, trade like stocks and may qualify for special tax considerations. In addition to the risks pertaining to real estate investments more generally, such as declining property values or rising interest rates, REITs are subject to additional risks. The value of a REIT can depend on the structure of and cash flow generated by the REIT. REITs whose investments are concentrated in a limited number or type of properties, investments or narrow geographic area are subject to the risks affecting those properties or areas to a greater extent than a REIT with less concentrated investments. Further, failure of a company to qualify as a REIT under federal tax law may have adverse consequences to the REIT’s shareholders. In addition, REITs may have expenses, including advisory and administration expenses, and a REIT’s shareholders will incur a proportionate share of those expenses.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have
returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small- and mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects fee waivers, if any, absent which performance would have been lower. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
The Fund is the successor to the investment performance of the Guggenheim MSCI Global Timber ETF (the “Predecessor Fund”) as a result of the reorganization of the Predecessor Fund into the Fund, which was consummated after the close of business on April 6, 2018. Accordingly, the performance information shown below for periods ending on or prior to April 6, 2018 is that of the Predecessor Fund.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 14.18% (4th Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (23.18)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the
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impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 22.81% 5.89% 7.24%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 22.16% 5.18% 6.45%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 14.16% 4.39% 5.51%
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MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index (Net)(1)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.75% N/A N/A
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Blended—MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index (Net)(2)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.75% 6.04% 7.81%
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MSCI World Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
27.67% 8.74% 9.47%
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(1) Performance information is not available for periods prior to the Underlying Index’s commencement date of January 27, 2016.
(2) The “Blended—MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index (Net)” reflects the performance of the Beacon Global Timber Index, the Fund’s previous underlying index, until May 20, 2016 and the Underlying Index thereafter.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust April 2018
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser April 2018
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser April 2018
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities,
including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE Developed ex North America Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.07%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.07%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.30%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$7 $23 $40 $90
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 4% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in common stocks that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the large- and mid-capitalization segments of equity markets of countries around the world that are classified as developed
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markets within the country classification definition of the Index Provider, excluding the United States and Canada. The Index Provider defines the large- and mid-capitalization segments as approximately the top 90% of the eligible universe.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 1,495 securities representing 23 countries.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
For the avoidance of doubt, “PureBeta” refers to the market-capitalization weighted methodology of the Fund’s Underlying Index. It does not refer in any way to the purity or absence of errors or flaws of the market-capitalization weighted methodology of the Underlying Index or of the Fund in seeking to track the investment results of the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the
value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to,
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legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value
established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performancewith characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 9.73% (1st Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (12.76) (4th Quarter 2018)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
    1 Year Since Inception (09/22/2017)
Return Before Taxes   21.16% 3.69%
Return After Taxes on Distributions   20.59% 3.22%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares   13.31% 3.02%
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FTSE Developed ex-North America Index (Net)
(reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but, reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
  21.48% 3.86%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
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Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust September 2017
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 100,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the FTSE Emerging Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage
commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.14%
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Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
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Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses(2) 0.05%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%
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Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursement(3) 0.04%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursement 0.15%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.29%.
(2) “Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses” are indirect fees and expenses that the Fund incurs from investing in the shares of other investment companies (including money market funds). These expenses are based on the total expense ratio of the underlying funds disclosed in each underlying fund’s most recent shareholder report. Please note that the amount of “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses” shown in the above table differs from the ratio of expenses to average net assets included in the “Financial Highlights” section of this Prospectus, which reflects the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include indirect expenses such as Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
(3) Through August 31, 2021, Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive a portion of the Fund’s management fee in an amount equal to 100% of the net advisory fees an affiliate of the Adviser receives that are attributable to certain of the Fund’s investments in money market funds managed by that affiliate. This waiver will have the effect of reducing the Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses that are indirectly borne by the Fund. The Adviser cannot discontinue this waiver prior to its expiration.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses are equal to the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursement in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$15 $57 $103 $239
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 13% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in common stocks that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index. Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, FTSE International Limited (the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the large- and mid-capitalization segments of equity markets of countries around the world that are classified as emerging markets within the country classification definition of the Index Provider. The Index Provider defines the large- and mid-capitalization segments as approximately the top 90% of the eligible universe.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 1,764 stocks of companies located in 24 countries that are classified as emerging markets by the Index Provider.
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The Fund does not purchase all of the securities in the Underlying Index; instead, the Fund utilizes a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
For the avoidance of doubt, “PureBeta” refers to the market-capitalization weighted methodology of the Fund’s Underlying Index. It does not refer in any way to the purity or absence of errors or flaws of the market-capitalization weighted methodology of the Underlying Index or of the Fund in seeking to track the investment results of the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
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Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
China Investment Risk. Investments in companies located or operating in China involve risks not associated with investments in Western nations, such as nationalization, expropriation, or confiscation of property; difficulty in obtaining and/or enforcing judgments; alteration or discontinuation of economic reforms; military conflicts, either internal or with other countries; inflation, currency fluctuations and fluctuations in inflation and interest rates that may have negative effects on the economy and securities markets of China; and China’s dependency on the economies of other Asian countries, many of which are developing countries. Export growth continues to be a major driver of China’s rapid economic growth. As a result, a reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, the institution of additional tariffs or other trade barriers, including as a result of heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Sampling Risk. The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that the Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance. Although
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the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 11.96% (4th Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (8.20)% (2nd Quarter 2018)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
    1 Year Since Inception (09/22/2017)
Return Before Taxes   19.96% 3.83%
Return After Taxes on Distributions   18.99% 3.14%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares   12.32% 2.87%
...
FTSE Emerging Index (Net) (reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but, reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)   20.10% 3.94%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust September 2017
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 100,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices
rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility IndexTM (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.45%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.45%
...
Fee Waiver(1) 0.16%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver 0.29%
...
(1) Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to waive 0.16% of the Fund’s management fee through February 28, 2021, and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses are equal to the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$30 $128 $236 $551
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its
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portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 67% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to measure the performance of 200 of the least volatile stocks (over the trailing 12 months) of the S&P Emerging Plus LargeMidCap. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the magnitude of up and down asset price fluctuations (increases or decreases in a stock’s price) over time.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 200 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $5.1 billion to $15.2 billion and represented the following countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the financials sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S.
dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
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Taiwan Investment Risk. Investments in Taiwanese issuers may subject the Fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency and economic risks that are specific to Taiwan. Specifically, Taiwan’s geographic proximity and history of political contention with China have resulted in ongoing tensions between the two countries. These tensions may materially affect the Taiwanese economy and its securities market. Taiwan’s economy is export-oriented, so it depends on an open world trade regime and remains vulnerable to fluctuations in the world economy. The Taiwanese economy is dependent on the economies of Asia, mainly those of Japan and China, and the United States. Reduction in spending by any of these countries on Taiwanese products and services or negative changes in any of these economies may cause an adverse impact on the Taiwanese economy.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Financials Sector Risk. Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations. Unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector and financial services companies whose securities the Fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector. Financial services companies have also been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often
mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects fee waivers absent which performance would have been lower. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
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Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 9.59% (1st Quarter 2016)
Worst Quarter (15.14)% (3rd Quarter 2015)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception
(01/13/12)
Return Before Taxes 8.26% 1.88% 2.45%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 7.58% 1.38% 2.03%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 5.58% 1.65% 2.11%
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S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility IndexTM (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
8.92% 2.63% 3.28%
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MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
18.42% 5.61% 4.52%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than
NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.45%
...
Other Expenses (1) 0.00%
...
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses(2) 0.02%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.47%
...
Fee Waiver(3) 0.18%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver 0.29%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.08%.
(2) “Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses” are indirect fees and expenses that the Fund incurs from investing in the shares of other investment companies (including money market funds). These expenses are based on the total expense ratio of the underlying funds disclosed in each underlying fund’s most recent shareholder report. Please note that the amount of “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses” shown in the above table differs from the ratio of expenses to average net assets included in the “Financial Highlights” section of this Prospectus, which reflects the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include indirect expenses such as Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
(3) Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to waive 0.16% of the Fund’s management fee through February 28, 2021, and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration. In addition, through August 31, 2021, the Adviser has contractually agreed to waive 0.02% of the Fund’s management fee. This waiver will have the effect of reducing the Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses that are indirectly borne by the Fund. The Adviser cannot discontinue this waiver prior to its expiration.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
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The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses are equal to the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$30 $133 $245 $574
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 114% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities of companies that comprise the Underlying Index, as well as American depositary receipts (“ADRs”) and global depositary receipts (“GDRs”) that represent securities in the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is composed of constituents of the S&P Emerging Plus LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”) that have the highest “momentum score.” In general, momentum is the tendency of an investment to exhibit persistence in its relative performance; a “momentum style” of investing emphasizes investing in securities that have had better recent performance compared to other securities. The momentum score for each security included in the Underlying Index is based on upward price movements of the security as compared to other eligible securities within the Parent Index.
In selecting constituent securities for the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first calculates the momentum score of each stock in the Parent Index by evaluating the percentage change in the stock’s price over the last 12 months, excluding the most recent month, and applying an adjustment based on the security’s volatility over that period. The Index Provider then ranks all the stocks in descending order by momentum score, selects the top 20% for inclusion in the Underlying Index and weights the selected securities based on a modified market capitalization- weighted strategy.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 185 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $444 million to $65.3 billion and represented the following countries: Brazil, China, Colombia, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
While the Fund generally seeks to invest in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index, at times the composition of the Underlying Index may make such “full replication” impracticable. In such circumstances, the Fund will utilize a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the financials
sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks often not associated with investments in the securities of issuers in developed countries. Securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in emerging market securities, and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions. Emerging
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markets usually are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than are more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Brazil Exposure Risk. The Brazilian economy has historically been exposed to high rates of inflation and a high level of debt, each of which may reduce and/or prevent economic growth. Exposure to Brazilian securities involves certain risks, including governmental restrictions on the outflow of profits to investors abroad, restrictions on the exchange or export of Brazilian currency, seizure of foreign investment and imposition of high taxes.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security
unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Financials Sector Risk. Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations. Unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector and financial services companies whose securities the Fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector. Financial services companies have also been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Momentum Investing Risk. The momentum style of investing is subject to the risk that the securities may be more volatile than the market as a whole, or that the returns on securities that have previously exhibited price momentum are less than returns on other styles of investing. Momentum can turn quickly, and stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not experience continued positive momentum. In addition, there may be periods when the momentum style of investing is out of favor and therefore, the investment performance of the Fund may suffer.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as
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would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent trading of its portfolio securities in connection with the rebalancing or adjustment of the Underlying Index. A portfolio turnover rate of 200%, for example, is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities two times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate (such as 100% or more) could result in high brokerage costs for the Fund. While a high portfolio turnover rate can result in an increase in taxable capital gain distributions to the Fund’s shareholders, the Fund will seek to utilize the in-kind creation and redemption mechanism (described below) to minimize realization of capital gains to the extent possible.
Sampling Risk. The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that the Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects fee waivers absent which performance would have been lower. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the
Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 12.62% (3rd Quarter 2017)
Worst Quarter (27.67)% (3rd Quarter 2015)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception
(02/24/12)
Return Before Taxes 20.50% 1.63% (0.61)%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 19.94% 0.63% (1.36)%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 12.62% 1.23% (0.45)%
...
S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index (Net)(1)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
21.33% N/A N/A
...
Blended—S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index (Net)(2)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
21.33% 3.51% 0.82%
...
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net) (reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes) 18.42% 5.61% 3.07%
...
(1) Performance information is not available for periods prior to the Underlying Index’s commencement date of February 16, 2016.
(2) The Blended—S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index (Net) reflects the performance of the Fund’s prior underlying index, the S&P BMI Emerging Markets High Beta IndexTM, until March 21, 2016, and the Underlying Index thereafter.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
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Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P EPAC Ex-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage
commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.30%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.30%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.07%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$31 $97 $169 $381
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 58% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is composed of 100 securities in the S&P EPAC Ex-Korea LargeMidCap (which is comprised of large and mid-cap equity securities, excluding those securities issued by companies in the United States and South Korea) that historically have provided high dividend yields with lower volatility. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the magnitude of up and down asset price fluctuations (increases or decreases in a stock’s price) over time.
The Index Provider begins by identifying the 300 securities with the highest dividend yields over the trailing 12 months, with no one country and no one sector allowed to contribute more than 20 securities and 25 securities, respectively. From those 300 securities, the 100 securities with the lowest volatility over the trailing 12 months are included in the Underlying Index.
The Index Provider weights each of the 100 constituent securities in the Underlying Index by its dividend yield, with the highest dividend-yielding securities receiving the highest weights. Each constituent security comprises between 0.05% and 3.0% of the weight of the Underlying Index, and no sector comprises more than 25% of the Underlying Index.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 100 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $14.3 billion to $36.8 billion and represented the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the
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securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S.
securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
High Dividend Paying Securities Risk. Securities that pay high dividends as a group can fall out of favor with the market, causing such companies to underperform companies that do not pay high dividends. Also, changes in the dividend policies of the companies in which the Fund invests and the capital resources available for such companies' dividend payments may adversely affect the Fund.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited
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product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 8.14% (1st Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (5.99)% (4th Quarter 2018)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
    1 Year Since Inception
(12/1/16)
Return Before Taxes   17.69% 9.32%
Return After Taxes on Distributions   15.77% 8.04%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares   11.25% 7.16%
...
S&P EPAC Ex-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
  17.85% 9.46%
...
MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or other taxes)
  22.01% 10.47%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust November 2016
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser November 2016
...
Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser November 2016
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
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Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P BMI International Developed Low VolatilityTM Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.35%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.35%
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Fee Waiver(1) 0.10%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver 0.25%
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(1) Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to waive 0.10% of the Fund’s management fee through February 28, 2021, and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses are equal to the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$26 $102 $186 $433
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are
held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 59% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to measure the performance of 200 of the least volatile stocks of the S&P Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the magnitude of up and down asset price fluctuations (increases or decreases in a stock’s price) over time. S&P DJI measures the realized volatility of the Underlying Index’s 200 constituents over the trailing 12 months and weights constituents so that the least volatile stocks receive the highest weights.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 200 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $20.1 billion to $41.6 billion and represented the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the financials sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates its investments, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market
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turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Financials Sector Risk. Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations. Unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector and financial services companies whose securities the Fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that
sector. Financial services companies have also been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
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Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects fee waivers, absent which, performance would have been lower. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 10.18% (1st Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (7.68)% (3rd Quarter 2015)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception
(01/13/12)
Return Before Taxes 20.50% 6.05% 7.84%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 18.51% 4.92% 6.88%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 12.75% 4.47% 6.10%
...
S&P BMI International Developed Low VolatilityTM Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
20.52% 6.10% 7.93%
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MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.01% 5.67% 7.67%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage
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commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.35%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.01%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.36%
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Fee Waiver(2) 0.10%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver 0.26%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.28%.
(2) Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to waive 0.10% of the Fund’s management fee through February 28, 2021, and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses are equal to the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver in the first year and the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses thereafter. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$27 $106 $192 $446
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 104% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is composed of constituents of the S&P Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”) that have the highest “momentum score.” In general, momentum is the tendency of an investment to exhibit persistence in its relative performance; a “momentum style” of investing emphasizes investing in securities that have had better recent performance compared to other securities. The momentum score for each security included in the Underlying Index is based on upward price movements of the security as compared to other eligible securities within the Parent Index.
In selecting constituent securities for the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first calculates the momentum score of each stock in the Parent Index by evaluating the percentage change in the stock’s price over the last 12 months, excluding the most recent month, and applying an adjustment based on the security’s volatility over that period. The Index Provider then ranks all the stocks in descending order by momentum score, selects the top 20% for inclusion in the Underlying Index and weights the selected securities based on a modified market capitalization-weighted strategy.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 190 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $1.2 billion to $358.5 billion and represented the following countries: Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's
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products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often
mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Momentum Investing Risk. The momentum style of investing is subject to the risk that the securities may be more volatile than the market as a whole, or that the returns on securities that have previously exhibited price momentum are less than returns on other styles of investing. Momentum can turn quickly, and stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not experience continued positive momentum. In addition, there may be periods when the momentum style of investing is out of favor and therefore, the investment performance of the Fund may suffer.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. The Fund may engage in frequent trading of its portfolio securities in connection with the rebalancing or adjustment of the Underlying Index. A portfolio turnover rate of 200%, for example, is equivalent to the Fund buying and selling all of its securities two times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate (such as 100% or more) could result in high brokerage costs for the Fund. While a high portfolio turnover rate can result in an increase in taxable capital gain distributions to the Fund’s shareholders, the Fund will seek to utilize the in-kind creation and redemption mechanism (described below) to minimize realization of capital gains to the extent possible.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of
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investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects fee waivers, absent which, performance would have been lower. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 19.33% (3rd Quarter 2013)
Worst Quarter (19.25)% (3rd Quarter 2015)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception
(02/24/12)
Return Before Taxes 24.82% 3.33% 3.74%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 24.34% 2.93% 3.40%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 15.28% 2.72% 3.11%
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S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap IndexTM (Net)(1)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
25.56% N/A N/A
...
Blended—S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap IndexTM (Net)(2)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
25.56% 3.57% 4.17%
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MSCI EAFE® Index (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
22.01% 5.67% 6.31%
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(1) Performance information is not available prior to the Underlying Index’s commencement date of February 16, 2016.
(2) The Blended—S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap IndexTM (Net) reflects the performance of the Fund’s prior underlying index, the S&P BMI International Developed High Beta IndexTM, until March 21, 2016 and the Underlying Index thereafter.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
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Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage
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commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.29%
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Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.29%
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(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.02%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$30 $93 $163 $368
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 54% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Index.
Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is constructed from constituents of the S&P Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”) that the Index Provider identifies as being of the highest quality—that is, stocks of companies that seek to generate higher revenue and cash flow than their counterparts through prudent use of assets and finances.
In selecting constituent securities for the Underlying Index, the Index Provider calculates the quality score of each security in the Parent Index and selects the top 20% of securities with the highest quality scores based on a composite of the following three equally-weighted factors: (i) return-on-equity, calculated as the company’s trailing 12-month earnings per share divided by the company’s latest book value per share; (ii) accruals ratio, computed using the change of the company’s net operating assets over the last year divided by the company’s average net operating assets over the last two years; and (iii) financial leverage, calculated as the company’s latest total debt divided by the company’s book value.
The Underlying Index is modified market-capitalization weighted, weighting component securities by multiplying their market capitalization and their quality score; securities with higher scores receive relatively greater weights.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 229 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $1.9 billion to $221.6 billion and represented the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the
securities comprising the Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that the Fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S.
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securities. Foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. As the Fund will invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign securities and may negatively impact the Fund’s returns.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies' securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies and may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Mid-capitalization companies tend to have inexperienced management as well as limited product and market diversification and financial resources. Often mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs
operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 18.49% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (23.87)% (3rd Quarter 2011)
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Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 29.86% 8.74% 7.07%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 29.42% 8.39% 6.85%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 18.35% 7.01% 5.90%
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S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index (Net)(1)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
30.21% 7.28% N/A
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Blended—S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index (Net)(2)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
30.21% 8.76% 7.60%
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MSCI EAFE® Index (Net) (reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes) 22.01% 5.67% 5.50%
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(1) Performance information is not available prior to the Underlying Index’s commencement date of July 8, 2014.
(2) The Blended—S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index (Net) reflects the performance of the Fund’s prior underlying indexes, the QSG Developed International Opportunities Index, until March 1, 2012, followed by the performance of the S&P International Developed High Quality Rankings Index from March 1, 2012 until March 21, 2016, and the Underlying Index thereafter.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Michael Jeanette Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
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Tony Seisser Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2015
...
Pratik Doshi Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Additional Information About the Funds' Strategies and Risks
    
Principal Investment Strategies
Each Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in components of its respective Underlying Index. Each Fund operates as an index fund and is not actively managed. Each Fund uses an “indexing” investment approach to seek to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of its Underlying Index. The Adviser seeks correlation over time of 0.95 or better between a Fund’s performance and the performance of its Underlying Index; a figure of 1.00 would represent perfect correlation. Another means of evaluating the relationship between the returns of a Fund and its Underlying Index is to assess the “tracking error” between the two. Tracking error means the variation between each Fund’s annual return and the return of its Underlying Index, expressed in terms of standard deviation. Each Fund seeks to have a tracking error of less than 5%, measured on a monthly basis over a one-year period by taking the standard deviation of the difference in the Fund’s returns versus its Underlying Index’s returns. Because each Fund uses an indexing approach to try to achieve its investment objective, each Fund does not take temporary defensive positions during periods of adverse market, economic or other conditions.
Each Fund (except for Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF and, at times, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF and Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF) employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track its Underlying Index, meaning that it generally will invest in all of the securities comprising its Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of those securities in those same weightings. In those circumstances, a Fund may purchase a sample of securities in its Underlying Index. A “sampling” methodology means that the Adviser uses quantitative analysis to select securities from an Underlying Index universe to obtain a representative sample of securities that have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics similar to the Underlying Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. These include industry weightings, market capitalization, return variability, earnings valuation, yield and other financial characteristics of securities. When employing a sampling methodology, the Adviser bases the quantity of holdings in a Fund on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund, and generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in its Underlying Index. However, the Adviser reserves the right to invest a Fund in as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.
Because of the practical difficulties and expense of purchasing all of the securities in its respective Underlying Index, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF and, at times, each of Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF and Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF utilize a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
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There also may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to (i) overweight or underweight a security in an Underlying Index, (ii) purchase securities not contained in an Underlying Index that the Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for certain securities in that Underlying Index or (iii) utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking to track an Underlying Index.
Each Fund may sell securities included in its Underlying Index in anticipation of their removal from the Underlying Index, or purchase securities not included in an Underlying Index in anticipation of their addition to the Underlying Index.
Additional information about the construction of each Fund’s Underlying Index is set forth below in alphabetical order by index name.
Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index (Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF)
The Underlying Index for the Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF is a modified market capitalization-weighted index of large capitalization companies based in countries with developed economies, excluding the United States, that includes securities that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics. Such securities are selected for the Underlying Index pursuant to Dorsey Wright’s proprietary methodology, which emphasizes a security’s momentum and takes into account, among other factors, the performance of each of the companies in the eligible universe as compared to benchmark indices.
The Index Provider selects components from an eligible universe of approximately 1,000 securities of large capitalization companies from developed market countries other than the United States. Eligible securities must be one of the largest 1,000 constituents by market capitalization within the Nasdaq Developed Markets Ex United States Index (except for U.S.-listed ADRs or foreign listings) and have a minimum three-month average daily dollar trading volume of $1 million. The Index Provider assigns a relative strength score for each eligible security based on the security’s intermediate- and long-term price movements relative to a representative market benchmark index. The Index Provider then ranks the eligible securities by their relative strength score, selects approximately 100 securities with the greatest scores for inclusion in the Underlying Index and weights each component security based on its relative strength score. Securities with higher scores receive larger weights.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly, on the last trading day in March, June, September and December. At each rebalance, the Index Provider ensures that all securities with weights greater than 5% of the Underlying Index, in the aggregate, do not exceed 25% of the Underlying Index. Component securities that cease to remain eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index are removed and are not replaced until the next quarterly rebalance. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index (Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF)
The Underlying Index for the Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF is a modified market capitalization-weighted index of large capitalization companies based in emerging market countries that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics. Such securities are selected for the Underlying Index pursuant to Dorsey Wright’s proprietary methodology, which emphasizes a security’s momentum and takes into account, among other factors, the performance of each of the companies in the eligible universe as compared to benchmark indices.
The Index Provider selects components from an eligible universe of approximately 1,000 securities of large capitalization companies from emerging market countries. Eligible securities must be one of the largest 1,000 constituents by market capitalization within the Nasdaq Emerging
Markets Index (except for U.S.-listed ADRs or foreign listings) and have a minimum three-month average daily dollar trading volume of $1 million. The Index Provider assigns a relative strength score for each eligible security based on the security’s intermediate- and long-term price movements relative to a representative market benchmark index. The Index Provider then ranks the eligible securities by their relative strength score, selects approximately 100 securities with the greatest scores for inclusion in the Underlying Index and weights each component security based on its relative strength score. Securities with higher scores receive larger weights.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly, on the last trading day in March, June, September and December. At each rebalance, the Index Provider ensures that all securities with weights greater than 5% of the Underlying Index, in the aggregate, do not exceed 25% of the Underlying Index. Component securities that cease to remain eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index are removed and are not replaced until the next quarterly rebalance. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
FTSE Developed ex North America Index (Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF)
The FTSE Developed ex North America Index is designed to include securities of large- and mid-capitalization companies located in countries that are classified as developed markets by the Index Provider, excluding the United States and Canada. The Underlying Index is a subset of the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, which captures approximately 98% of the world’s investable market capitalization. The securities in the Underlying Index are weighted based on their free float-adjusted market capitalization. Equity securities are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index subject to conforming with free-float and liquidity restrictions. Companies with a free float of 5% or below are excluded from the Underlying Index. Countries in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series are usually reviewed semi-annually in March and September, on a region by region basis, based on data as at the close of business on the last business day of December and June. Any constituent changes resulting from the periodic review will be implemented after the close of business on the third Friday (i.e. effective the following Monday) of March and September.
As of December 31, 2019, the following countries were classified as developed markets by the Index Provider: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced semi-annually, after the close of business on the third Friday in March and September. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional changes to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
FTSE Developed ex US Low Beta Equal Weight Index (Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF)
The FTSE Developed ex US Low Beta Equal Weight Index is designed to track the performance of stocks in the FTSE Developed ex US Index that exhibit low beta characteristics. The FTSE Developed ex US Index is designed to measure the performance of the developed international equity markets and consists of large and mid-cap companies from developed markets throughout the world, excluding the United States.
Beta is a measure of a security’s price sensitivity (i.e., volatility); it is designed to reflect the rate of change in a security’s price that results from overall market movements (as opposed to specific economic events related to a particular security). In general, the portfolio of all investable assets in the market is considered to have a beta score of 1, which represents the
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average amount of market beta (that is, the amount of risk inherent in the financial markets at any given time). A security with a beta score of 1 indicates that the security carries the same amount of risk as is inherent in the overall market. A score below 1 suggests below average risk; a score above 1 suggests above average risk.
The Index Provider derives a beta score for each component security of the FTSE Developed ex US Index by performing a covariance ratio analysis over eighteen months of that security’s monthly returns to the relevant country index’s monthly returns to see the extent to which the security’s returns correlate to the market movements in that country. Securities with fewer than eighteen months of performance history are not eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. Securities with a beta of less than that of the relevant country index remain eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. The Index Provider then applies an earnings screen to eliminate securities that have failed to generate a certain amount of earnings over the past twelve months.
The Underlying Index is equally weighted, meaning each component security receives the same weight. If a security is removed from the FTSE Developed ex US Index, it will be removed simultaneously from the Underlying Index and not replaced until the next rebalance.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced semi-annually after the close of business on the third Friday in March and September. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional changes to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
FTSE Emerging Index (Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF)
The FTSE Emerging Index is designed to include securities of large- and mid-capitalization companies located in countries that are classified as advanced and secondary emerging markets by the Index Provider. The Underlying Index is a subset of the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, which captures approximately 98% of the world’s investable market capitalization. The securities in the Underlying Index are weighted based on their free float-adjusted market capitalization. Equity securities are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index subject to conforming with free-float and liquidity restrictions. Companies with a free float of 5% or below are excluded from the Underlying Index. Countries in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series are usually reviewed semi-annually in March and September, on a region by region basis, based on data as at the close of business on the last business day of December and June. Any constituent changes resulting from the periodic review will be implemented after the close of business on the third Friday (i.e. effective the following Monday) of March and September.
As of December 31, 2019, the following countries were classified by the Index Provider as (i) advanced emerging markets: Brazil, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey, and (ii) secondary emerging markets: Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced semi-annually, after the close of business on the third Friday in March, and September. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional changes to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
FTSE RAFITM Developed ex US 1000 Index (Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF)
The Index Provider selects component securities for the Underlying Index for the Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF from among the companies with the highest-ranking Fundamental Value, based on the factors set forth below, within the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index.
The Fundamental Value of each eligible constituent is calculated based on the following factors:
(a) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s sales averaged over the prior five years.
(b) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s cash flow averaged over the prior five years.
(c) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s book value as of the review date.
(d) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s total dividend distributions averaged over the prior five years. (A security that has not paid a dividend in the past five years will have a percentage representation of zero.)
The Index Provider divides the Fundamental Value of each company by its free-float adjusted market capitalization and ranks the securities in descending order of their Fundamental Value. The 1,000 securities with the largest adjusted Fundamental Values are included in the Underlying Index and assigned a weight proportional to their Fundamental Value.
As of December 31, 2019, the following countries were classified as developed markets by FTSE: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly, on the third Friday of March, June, September and December. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
All FTSE RAFITM Index values are accessible on the FTSE Russell website at www.ftserussell.com.
FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-US Mid Small 1500 Index (Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF)
The Underlying Index is comprised of small- and medium-capitalization companies selected from the constituents of the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index based on their Fundamental Values (as described further below).
The Fundamental Value of each eligible constituent is calculated based on the following factors:
(a) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s sales averaged over the prior five years.
(b) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s cash flow averaged over the prior five years.
(c) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s book value as of the review date.
(d) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s total dividend distributions averaged over the prior five years. (A security that has not paid a dividend in the past five years will have a percentage representation of zero.)
The Index Provider divides the Fundamental Value of each company by its free-float adjusted market capitalization and ranks the securities in descending order of their Fundamental Value. The 1,500 securities that have a ranking of 1,001 to 2,500 are included in the Underlying Index and assigned a weight proportional to their Fundamental Value.
As of December 31, 2019, the following countries were classified as developed markets by FTSE: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly, on the third Friday of March, June, September and December. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
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All FTSE RAFITM Index values are accessible on the FTSE Russell website at www.ftserussell.com.
FTSE RAFITM Emerging Index (Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF)
The Index Provider selects component securities for the Underlying Index for the Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF from among the companies with the highest-ranking Fundamental Value, based on the factors set forth below, within the FTSE Emerging All Cap Index, subject to the country eligibility rule described below.
A country will be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index if its fundamental country weight in the FTSE Emerging All Cap Index exceeds 1.5% or for existing constituent countries in the Underlying Index, exceeds 0.55%.
The Fundamental Value of each eligible constituent is then calculated based on the following factors:
(a) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s sales averaged over the prior five years.
(b) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s cash flow averaged over the prior five years.
(c) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s book value as of the review date.
(d) The percentage representation of each security using the issuer’s total dividend distributions averaged over the prior five years. (A security that has not paid a dividend in the past five years will have a percentage representation of zero.)
The Index Provider divides the Fundamental Value of each company by its free-float adjusted market- capitalization and ranks the securities in descending order of their Fundamental Value. The 350 securities with the largest adjusted Fundamental Values are included in the Underlying Index and assigned a weight proportional to their Fundamental Value.
As of December 31, 2019, the following countries were classified as emerging markets by FTSE: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly, on the third Friday of March, June, September and December. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
All FTSE RAFITM Index values are accessible on the FTSE Russell website at www.ftserussell.com.
MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index (Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF)
The Underlying Index is designed to measure the performance of global equity securities of companies that are engaged in the ownership and management of forests and timberlands and the production of finished products that use timber as a raw material, such as companies that produce forest products, paper products and paper packaging products.
To be included in the Underlying Index, securities must be:
1. Constituents of the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index, a rules-based index that measures equity market performance of developed and emerging markets; and
2. Classified as being part of one of the following GICS® sub-industries: forest products, paper products, paper packaging or specialized REITs classified as “timber” REITs.
The Underlying Index is weighted by free-float adjusted market capitalization, subject to a maximum weight of 5% for each issuer.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly in February, May, August and November. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index (Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF)
The Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of securities that are classified as “International BuyBack AchieversTM.” To be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a security must: (i) be included in the NASDAQ Global Ex-US Index, excluding local Russian and Indian securities not represented by depositary receipts; (ii) have a minimum market capitalization of $250 million; (iii) have effected a net reduction of 5% or more of its outstanding shares in its latest fiscal year; and (iv) have a minimum three-month average daily dollar cash volume of $1 million. Local Russian and Indian securities, as well as Chinese “A-Shares” and “B-Shares,” are not eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index applies a float adjusted modified market capitalization weighting methodology. The Underlying Index is reweighted after the close of the last day of trading in January, April, and October and rebalanced after the close of the last day of trading in July. When the Underlying Index is rebalanced, the Underlying Index is subject to the following limits: (i) no country can have, in aggregate, a weight greater than 30% of the Underlying Index; (ii) no single component stock can have a weight of more than 5%; and (iii) no more than eight component securities may represent the maximum 5% weight. If after distribution of excess weights from capped securities, any of the eight highest-ranked securities are weighted below 5%, the weight of each of those securities is not capped. Next, any remaining securities in excess of 2.5% are capped at 2.5% and the excess weight of any capped security or country is distributed proportionally across the remaining securities.
If, at any time during the year, a component stock becomes ineligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, the stock is removed and is not replaced until the next rebalance in July.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is reweighted and rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM (Invesco Global Water ETF)
The NASDAQ OMX Global Water Index is designed to track the performance of companies listed on a global stock exchange that create products that conserve and purify water for homes, businesses, and industries. The Underlying Index may include common stocks, ordinary shares, depositary receipts (both American and global), depositary shares, Dutch certificates, shares of beneficial interest, stapled securities, and tracking stocks.
To be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a security also must meet the following criteria:
(i) the issuer of the security must be classified as participating in the “Green Economy,” as determined by SustainableBusiness.com LLC, a company that provides global news and networking services to help green businesses grow;
(ii) the security must be listed on an Index-eligible global stock exchange;
(iii) the security must have a minimum worldwide market capitalization of $50 million; and
(iv) the security must have a minimum three-month average daily dollar trading volume of $250,000.
The Underlying Index applies a modified liquidity weighting methodology. The Underlying Index is reweighted after the close of trading on the third Friday of March, September, and December and rebalanced after the close of trading on the third Friday of June. When the Underlying Index is reweighted or rebalanced, the Underlying Index is subject to the following limits:
(i) no country can have more than ten (10) securities, based on the largest average daily dollar trading volume;
(ii) no country can have a weight of more than 40% in the Underlying Index;
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(iii) no single security can have a weight of more than 8% in the Underlying Index;
(iv) no country can have more than two securities in excess of 4%; and
(v) no more than five securities may have a weight in excess of 4%.
The excess percentage above the cap of any such capped country in (ii) above, is distributed proportionally across the securities in the remaining countries, with the process being repeated until no country weight is greater than 40%. The excess percentage above the 8% cap of any such capped stock in (iii) above, is distributed proportionally across the remaining securities. If, after redistribution, the weightings of any of the five highest-weighted securities is above 4% and less than or equal to 8%, these securities are not capped. However, if a country has more than two securities weighted greater than 4%, the security’s weight will be capped at 4% and the excess weight will be redistributed. Any remaining securities in excess of 4% of the Underlying Index are capped at 4%, and the excess weight is redistributed proportionally across the remaining index securities. The Index Provider repeats the process, if necessary, to derive final weights.
One security per issuer is permitted and if, at any time during the year, a security becomes ineligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, the security is removed and is not replaced until the next rebalance in June.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is reweighted and rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index (Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF)
The S& P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index is designed to measure the performance of 200 of the least volatile stocks whose minimum three-month average daily value traded is $3 million as of the rebalance reference date of the S&P Emerging Plus LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”). The Parent Index measures all publicly listed equities with float-adjusted market values of at least $100 million that meet certain liquidity thresholds from the following countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
S&P DJI measures the realized volatility of every stock in the Underlying Index over the trailing 12 months and weights constituents so that the least volatile stocks receive the highest weights.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly after market close on the third Friday of March, June, September and December. S&P DJI makes additions to the Underlying Index only at the time of the quarterly rebalance but constituents that are removed from the Parent Index are removed from the Underlying Index simultaneously. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
S&P BMI International Developed Low Volatility Index (Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF)
The S&P BMI International Developed Low Volatility Index is designed to measure the performance of 200 of the least volatile stocks of the S&P Developed ex-U. S. & South Korea LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”), that have a minimum three-month average daily value traded of $3 million as of the rebalance reference date of the Parent Index. The Parent Index measures all publicly listed equities with float-adjusted market values of at least $100 million that meet certain minimum liquidity thresholds. S&P DJI measures the realized volatility of every stock in the Underlying Index over the trailing 12 months and weights constituents so that the least volatile stocks receive the highest weights.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly after market close on the third Friday in March, June, September and December. S&P DJI makes additions to the Underlying Index only at the time of the quarterly rebalance
but constituents that are removed from the Parent Index are removed from the Underlying Index simultaneously. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
S&P EPAC Ex-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index (Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF)
The S&P EPAC Ex-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index is designed to track the performance of the 100 securities in the S&P EPAC Ex-Korea LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”) with the highest dividend yield and lower volatility. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the magnitude of up and down asset price fluctuations (increases or decreases in a stock’s price) over time. To qualify for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a security must (i) be a constituent of the Parent Index, an index that is comprised of large and mid-cap equity securities and designed to measure the performance of developed equity markets within the Europe and Asia Pacific regions, excluding Korea, (ii) have been trading for at least 12 months, and (iii) have a three-month average daily value traded of at least $3 million.
The Index Provider measures the dividend yield of every eligible security in the Parent Index over the trailing 12 months and selects the 300 securities with the highest dividend yield during that time, with no one country and no one sector within the Parent Index allowed to contribute more than 20 securities and 25 securities, respectively, to the Underlying Index. The Index Provider then measures the realized volatility of each of these 300 highest dividend yield securities over approximately the past 12 months and, from this group, selects the 100 securities with the lowest volatility for inclusion in the Underlying Index. If applying the country and sector limits results in fewer than 100 securities remaining eligible, S&P DJI expands the initial screen upwards from 300 securities until 100 securities become eligible under the methodology.
The Index Provider weights each of the 100 securities in the Underlying Index by its dividend yield, with the highest dividend yielding securities receiving the highest weights. The weight for each constituent will range between 0.05% and 3.0% of the Underlying Index, and the weight of each sector is capped at 25% of the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced semi-annually after the close of the last business day in January and July. The Underlying Index will add or remove securities generally only at the time of the semi-annual rebalance but constituents that are removed from the Parent Index, are removed from the Underlying Index simultaneously. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs.
The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap (Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF)
The S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap is designed to measure the performance of the securities with the greatest momentum within the S&P Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”). The Parent Index measures all publicly listed equities with float-adjusted market values of at least $100 million that meet certain minimum liquidity thresholds.
To qualify for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a security must (i) be a constituent of the Parent Index, an index that is comprised of large and mid-cap equity securities and designed to measure the performance of developed equity markets within the Europe and Asia Pacific regions, excluding the United States and South Korea, (ii) have traded at least 150 days over the trailing 12 months, and (iii) have a three-month average daily value traded of at least $3 million over the trailing 12 months.
In selecting constituent securities for the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first calculates the momentum score of each stock in the Parent
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Index by evaluating the percentage change in the stock’s price over the last 12 months, excluding the most recent month, and applying an adjustment based on the security’s volatility over that period. The Index Provider then ranks all the stocks in descending order by momentum score and selects the top 20% for inclusion in the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index uses a modified market capitalization-weighted strategy, as the Index Provider weights component securities by multiplying their market capitalization and their momentum score.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced after market close on the third Friday in March and September. Additions to the Underlying Index generally occur only at the time of the semi-annual rebalance but constituents removed from the Parent Index are removed from the Underlying Index simultaneously. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index (Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF)
The S& P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index is designed to measure the performance of the securities with the greatest momentum within the S&P Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index (the “Parent Index”). The Parent Index measures all publicly listed equities with float-adjusted market values of at least $100 million that meet certain liquidity thresholds from the following countries: Brazil, China, Colombia, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
In selecting constituent securities for the Underlying Index, the Index Provider first calculates the momentum score of each stock in the Parent Index by evaluating the percentage change in the stock’s price over the last 12 months, excluding the most recent month, and applying an adjustment based on the security’s volatility over that period. The Index Provider then ranks all the stocks in descending order by momentum score and selects the top 20% for inclusion in the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index uses a modified market capitalization-weighted strategy, as the Index Provider weights component securities by multiplying their market capitalization and their momentum score.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced after market close on the third Friday in March and September. Additions to the Underlying Index generally occur only at the time of the semi-annual rebalance, but constituents removed from the Parent Index are removed from the Underlying Index simultaneously. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index (Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF)
The S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index is designed to measure the performance of the highest quality securities, as identified by the Index Provider, within the S&P Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap (the “Parent Index”). The Parent Index measures all publicly listed equities with float-adjusted market values of at least $100 million that meet certain minimum liquidity thresholds.
The Index Provider considers the securities of companies that seek to generate higher revenue and cash flow than their counterparts through prudent use of assets to be “quality” and calculates the quality score of each security in the Parent Index based on a composite of the following three factors: (i) return-on-equity, calculated as the company’s trailing 12-month earnings per share divided by the company’s latest book value per share; (ii) accruals ratio, computed using the change of the company’s net operating assets over the last year divided by the company’s average
net operating assets over the last two years; and (iii) financial leverage, calculated as the company’s latest total debt divided by the company’s book value.
The Index Provider then selects the top 20% securities with the highest quality scores for inclusion in the Underlying Index and weights them based on a modified market-capitalization weighted methodology. Weights are calculated by multiplying a security’s market capitalization and its quality score, with securities with higher scores receiving relatively greater weights. The minimum weight is the lesser of 5% or 20 times its market capitalization weight in the Parent Index and no sector comprises more than 40% of the Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced after market close on the third Friday in June and December. Additions to and deletions from the Underlying Index generally occur only at the time of the semi-annual rebalance, but constituents removed from the Parent Index are removed from the Underlying Index simultaneously. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF)
The Underlying Index is mainly comprised of companies in wind, solar, biofuels, hydro, wave and tidal, geothermal and other relevant renewable energy businesses. The Underlying Index also includes companies in the energy conversion, storage, conservation, efficiency, materials relating to those activities, carbon and greenhouse gas reduction, pollution control, emerging hydrogen and fuel cells business. There is an Underlying Index bias in favor of the purer-play companies in renewable energy, and those in cleaner energy generally. Accordingly, the small and medium capitalization companies contained in the Underlying Index may have a leading role in Underlying Index composition. Larger companies with diversified businesses may be included in the Underlying Index, but only when they have significant exposure to clean or renewable energy, as determined by a proprietary methodology.
To be included in the Underlying Index, an eligible security must:
(1) be listed on a U.S. or international exchange;
(2) have a three-month average market capitalization of at least $100 million USD, as measured over the preceding three-month period;
(3) have a minimum average daily trading volume of $1 million USD over the preceding 30 days; and
(4) have had at least 250,000 shares traded in each of the last six months.
No single security may exceed 5% of the total Underlying Index weight at the quarterly rebalance. As new energy technologies are developed, companies involved in such technologies may be added to the Underlying Index when significant to this sector. The Underlying Index uses an equal-weighting methodology.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly after the close of trading on the next to last business day in March, June, September and December. Apart from scheduled rebalances, the Index Provider or its agents may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to the Underlying Index in order, for example, to reflect corporate actions or spin-offs. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds
The following provides additional information regarding certain of the principal risks identified under “Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund” in each Fund's “Summary Information” section. Any of the following risks may impact a Fund’s NAV which could result in the Fund trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
ADR and GDR Risk. ADRs are certificates that evidence ownership of shares of a foreign issuer and are alternatives to purchasing the underlying foreign securities directly in their national markets and currencies. GDRs are certificates issued by an international bank that generally are traded and denominated in the currencies of countries other than the home country of
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the issuer of the underlying shares. ADRs and GDRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency, political, economic and market risks, because their values depend on the performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Moreover, ADRs and GDRs may not track the price of the underlying foreign securities on which they are based, and their value may change materially at times when U.S. markets are not open for trading.
Certain countries may limit the ability to convert ADRs into the underlying foreign securities and vice versa, which may cause the securities of the foreign company to trade at a discount or premium to the market price of the related ADR. ADRs may be purchased through “sponsored” or “unsponsored” facilities. A sponsored facility is established jointly by a depositary and the issuer of the underlying security. A depositary may establish an unsponsored facility without participation by the issuer of the deposited security. Unsponsored receipts may involve higher expenses and may be less liquid. Holders of unsponsored ADRs generally bear all the costs of such facilities, and the depositary of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited security or to pass through voting rights to the holders of such receipts in respect of the deposited securities.
GDRs can involve currency risk since, unlike ADRs, they may not be U.S. dollar-denominated. Because a fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in which the fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only APs may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with a fund. A fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs, and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. The risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by a fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to a fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units, this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Currency Risk. Certain funds will invest in non-U.S. dollar denominated equity securities of foreign issuers. Because each fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, a fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in which the fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing a fund’s overall NAV. In addition, fluctuations in the exchange values of currencies could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in a geographic region in which a fund invests, causing an adverse impact on the fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
When a fund receives income in foreign currencies, the fund will compute and distribute its income in U.S. dollars, and the computation of income will be made on the date that the fund earns the income at the foreign exchange rates in effect on that date. Therefore, if the values of the relevant foreign currencies fall relative to the U.S. dollar between the earning of the income and the time at which those funds convert the foreign currencies to U.S. dollars, the fund may be required to liquidate securities in
order to make distributions if they have insufficient cash in U.S. dollars to meet distribution requirements.
Furthermore, a fund may incur costs in connection with conversions between U.S. dollars and foreign currencies. Foreign exchange dealers realize a profit based on the difference between the prices at which they are buying and selling various currencies. Thus, a dealer normally will offer to sell a foreign currency to a fund at one rate, while offering a lesser rate of exchange should the fund desire immediately to resell that currency to the dealer. Such funds will conduct their foreign currency exchange transactions either on a spot (i.e., cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the foreign currency exchange market, or through entering into forwards, futures or options contracts to purchase or sell foreign currencies.
Equity Risk. Equity risk is the risk that the value of equity securities, including common stocks, may fall due to both changes in general economic conditions that impact the market as a whole, as well as factors that directly relate to a specific company or its industry. Such general economic conditions include changes in interest rates, periods of market turbulence or instability, or general and prolonged periods of economic decline and cyclical change. It is possible that a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks that a fund holds. In addition, equity risk includes the risk that investor sentiment toward one or more industries will become negative, resulting in those investors exiting their investments in those industries, which could cause a reduction in the value of companies in those industries more broadly. The value of a company's common stock may fall solely because of factors, such as an increase in production costs, that negatively impact other companies in the same region, industry or sector of the market. A company's common stock also may decline significantly in price over a short period of time due to factors specific to that company, including decisions made by its management or lower demand for the company's products or services. For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report or the failure to make anticipated dividend payments, may depress the value of common stock.
Foreign and Emerging Markets Investment Risk. Investments in foreign securities involve risks that are beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities, and investments in securities of issuers in emerging market countries involve risks not often associated with investments in securities of issuers in developed countries. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the values of other currencies may adversely affect investments in foreign and emerging market securities, and foreign and emerging market securities may have relatively low market liquidity, decreased publicly available information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to issuers in developed countries.
Foreign and emerging market securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign and emerging market securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs. Emerging markets are subject to greater market volatility, lower trading volume, political and economic instability, uncertainty regarding the existence of trading markets and more governmental limitations on foreign investment than more developed markets. In addition, securities in emerging markets may be subject to greater price fluctuations than securities in more developed markets. Securities law in many emerging market countries is relatively new and unsettled. Therefore, laws regarding foreign investment in emerging market securities, securities regulation, title to securities, and shareholder rights may change quickly and unpredictably. In addition, the enforcement of systems of taxation at federal, regional and local levels in emerging market countries may be inconsistent and subject to sudden change. Each country has different laws specific to that country that impact investment, which may increase the risks to which investors are subject. Country-specific rules
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or legislation addressing investment-related transactions may inhibit or prevent certain transactions from transpiring in a particular country.
Furthermore, foreign exchanges and broker-dealers generally are subject to less government and exchange scrutiny and regulation than their U.S. counterparts. Differences in clearance and settlement procedures in foreign markets may cause delays in settlement of a fund's trades effected in those markets and could result in losses to the fund due to subsequent declines in the value of the securities subject to the trades. Depositary receipts also involve substantially identical risks to those associated with investments in foreign securities. Additionally, the issuers of certain depositary receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depositary receipts, have no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders of such receipts or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited securities.
Indian Securities Risk. Certain funds may invest in securities of companies domiciled in India. Political and legal uncertainty, greater government control over the economy, currency fluctuations or blockage, and the risk of nationalization or expropriation of assets may result in higher potential for losses.
Moreover, governmental actions can have a significant effect on the economic conditions in India, which could adversely affect the value and liquidity of a fund’s investments. In November of 2016, the Indian government eliminated certain large denomination cash notes as legal tender, causing uncertainty in certain financial markets. The securities markets in India are comparatively underdeveloped, and stockbrokers and other intermediaries may not perform as well as their counterparts in the United States and other more developed securities markets. The limited liquidity of the Indian securities markets may also affect a fund’s ability to acquire or dispose of securities at the price and time that it desires.
Global factors and foreign actions may inhibit the flow of foreign capital on which India is dependent to sustain its growth. In addition, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) has imposed limits on foreign ownership of Indian securities, which may decrease the liquidity of a fund’s portfolio and result in extreme volatility in the prices of Indian securities. These factors, coupled with the lack of extensive accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and practices, as compared to the U.S., may increase a fund’s risk of loss.
Further, certain Indian regulatory approvals, including approvals from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”), the RBI, the central government and the tax authorities (to the extent that tax benefits need to be utilized), may be required before a fund can make investments in the securities of Indian companies. Capital gains from Indian securities may be subject to local taxation.
Russian Securities Risk. Certain funds may invest in securities of companies domiciled in Russia. Investing in Russian securities involves significant risks that are not typically associated with investing in U.S. securities, including:
■  The risk of delays in settling portfolio transactions and the risk of loss arising out of the system of share registration and custody used in Russia;
■  Risks in connection with the maintenance of a fund’s portfolio securities and cash with foreign sub-custodians and securities depositories, including the risk that appropriate sub-custody arrangements will not be available to a fund;
■  The risk that a fund’s ownership rights in portfolio securities could be lost through fraud or negligence because ownership in shares of Russian companies is recorded by the companies themselves and by registrars, rather than by a central registration system; and
■  The risk that a fund may not be able to pursue claims on behalf of its shareholders because of the system of share registration and custody, and because Russian banking institutions and registrars are not guaranteed by the Russian government.
The U.S. and the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, along with the regulatory bodies of a number of countries (collectively, the “Sanctioning Bodies”), have imposed economic sanctions, which consist of asset freezes and sectoral sanctions, on certain Russian individuals and Russian corporate entities. The Sanctioning Bodies could also institute broader sanctions on Russia. These sanctions, or even the threat of further sanctions, may result in the decline of the value and liquidity of Russian securities, a weakening of the ruble or other adverse consequences to the Russian economy. These sanctions could also result in the immediate freezing of Russian securities and/or funds invested in prohibited assets, impairing the ability of a fund to buy, sell, receive or deliver those securities and/or assets. Additional sanctions against Russia have been, and may in the future be, imposed by the U.S. or other countries.
The sanctions against certain Russian issuers include prohibitions on transacting in or dealing in issuances of debt or equity of such issuers. Compliance with each of these sanctions may impair the ability of a fund to buy, sell, hold, receive or deliver the affected securities or other securities of such issuers. If it becomes impracticable or unlawful for a fund to hold securities subject to, or otherwise affected by, sanctions (collectively, “affected securities”), or if deemed appropriate by the Adviser, the fund may prohibit in-kind deposits of the affected securities in connection with creation transactions and instead require a cash deposit, which may also increase the fund’s transaction costs. A fund may also be legally required to freeze assets in a blocked account.
Geographic Concentration Risk. Funds that are less diversified across geographic regions or countries are generally riskier than more geographically diversified funds. The economies and financial markets of certain regions can be interdependent and may all decline at the same time. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which a fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact a fund's investments in the affected region.
Brazil Exposure Risk. Brazilian issuers are subject to possible regulatory and economic interventions by the Brazilian government, including the imposition of wage and price controls and the limitation of imports. In addition, the market for Brazilian securities is directly influenced by the flow of international capital and economic and market conditions of certain countries, especially other emerging market countries in Central and South America. The Brazilian economy has historically been exposed to high rates of inflation and a high level of debt, each of which may reduce and/or prevent economic growth. A rising unemployment rate could also have the same effect. Brazil depends heavily on international trade, and its economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international commodity prices and commodity markets. Brazil’s agricultural and mining sectors account for a large portion of its exports. Any changes in these sectors or fluctuations in the commodity markets could have an adverse impact on the Brazilian economy, and therefore adversely impact the performance of a fund.
Canada Risk. Because Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF invests a significant portion of its assets in companies that are domiciled in Canada, the Fund is particularly sensitive to political, economic and social conditions in that country. The Canadian economy is heavily dependent on relationships with certain key trading partners. The United States is Canada’s largest trading and investment partner, and the Canadian economy is significantly affected by developments in the U.S. economy. Any downturn in U.S. economic activity is likely to have an adverse impact on the Canadian economy. In addition, Canada is a large producer and supplier of natural resources (e.g., metals, oil, natural gas and agricultural products). The Canadian economy is especially dependent on the demand for, and supply of, those natural resources, and the Canadian market is relatively concentrated in issuers involved in the production and distribution of natural resources. As a
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result, the Canadian economy is sensitive to fluctuations in certain commodity prices, and any adverse events that affect Canada’s major industries may have a negative impact on the overall Canadian economy and the shares of the Fund.
China Investment Risk. The value of securities of companies that derive the majority of their revenues from China is likely to be more volatile than that of other issuers. The economy of China differs, often unfavorably, from the U.S. economy in such respects as structure, general development, government involvement, wealth distribution, rate of inflation, growth rate, allocation of resources and capital reinvestment, among others. Under China’s political and economic system, the central government has historically exercised substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through administrative regulation and/or state ownership. Since 1978, the Chinese government has been, and is expected to continue, reforming its economic policies, which has resulted in less direct central and local government control over the business and production activities of Chinese enterprises and companies. Notwithstanding the economic reforms instituted by the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, actions of the Chinese central and local government authorities continue to have a substantial effect on economic conditions in China, which could affect its public and private sector companies. In the past, the Chinese government has, from time to time, taken actions that influenced the prices at which certain goods may be sold, encouraged companies to invest or concentrate in particular industries, induced mergers between companies in certain industries and induced private companies to publicly offer their securities to increase or continue the rate of economic growth, controlled the rate of inflation or otherwise regulated economic expansion. It may do so in the future as well. As a result, Chinese markets generally continue to experience inefficiency, volatility and pricing anomalies. Further, health events, such as the recent coronavirus outbreak, may cause uncertainty and volatility in the Chinese economy, especially in the consumer discretionary (leisure, retail, gaming, tourism), industrials, and commodities sectors. In addition, any reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, institution of tariffs or other trade barriers or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
Japan Investment Risk. Japan may be subject to political, economic, nuclear, and labor risks, among others. Any of these risks, individually or in the aggregate, can impact an investment made in Japan. The growth of Japan’s economy has recently lagged that of its Asian neighbors and other major developed economies. The Japanese economy is heavily dependent on international trade and has been adversely affected by trade tariffs, other protectionist measures, competition from emerging economies and the economic conditions of its trading partners. During the recent global recession, the Japanese economy experienced the effects of the economic slowdown in the United States and Europe. Japan is also heavily dependent on oil imports, and higher commodity prices could therefore have a negative impact on the Japanese economy.
The Japanese economy faces additional concerns, including a financial system with large levels of nonperforming loans, over-leveraged corporate balance sheets, extensive cross-ownership by major corporations, a changing corporate governance structure, and large government deficits. These issues may cause a continued slowdown of the Japanese economy. The nuclear power plant catastrophe in Japan in March 2011 may have long-term effects on the Japanese economy and its nuclear energy industry.
Moreover, Japan has an aging workforce and has experienced a significant population decline in recent years. Japan’s labor market appears to be undergoing fundamental structural changes as a result,
which may adversely affect its economic competitiveness in the world marketplace.
Taiwan Investment Risk. Investments in Taiwanese issuers may subject a fund to legal, regulatory, political, currency and economic risks that are specific to Taiwan. Specifically, Taiwan’s geographic proximity and history of political contention with China have resulted in ongoing tensions between the two countries. These tensions may materially affect the Taiwanese economy and its securities market. Taiwan’s economy is export-oriented, so it depends on an open world trade regime and remains vulnerable to fluctuations in the world economy. The Taiwanese economy is dependent on the economies of Asia, mainly those of Japan and China, and the United States. Reduction in spending by any of these countries on Taiwanese products and services or negative changes in any of these economies may cause an adverse impact on the Taiwanese economy.
High Dividend Paying Securities Risk. As a group, securities that pay high dividends can fall out of favor with the market, causing such companies to underperform companies that do not pay high dividends. Also, changes in the dividend policies of the companies in which a fund invests and the capital resources available for such companies’ dividend payments may affect a fund. In addition, the value of dividend-paying common stocks can decline when interest rates rise, as fixed-income investments become more attractive to investors.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies that are “actively managed,” the funds are “passive” investors and therefore do not utilize investing strategies that seek returns in excess of an Underlying Index. Therefore, a fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from its Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming. If a specific security is removed from an Underlying Index, a fund may be forced to sell such security at an inopportune time or for a price lower than the security’s current market value. An Underlying Index may not contain the appropriate mix of securities for any particular economic cycle. Unlike with an actively managed fund, the Adviser does not use defensive strategies designed to lessen the impact of periods of market volatility or market decline. This means that, based on certain market and economic conditions, a fund’s performance could be lower than other types of mutual funds with investment advisers that actively manage their portfolio assets to take advantage of or defend against market events.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, an Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that its Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, a fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, a fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which a fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole. Information about the funds’ exposure to a particular industry or industry group is available in the funds’ Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders, as well as on required forms filed with the SEC.
Basic Materials Sector Risk. Companies engaged in the production and distribution of basic materials may be adversely affected by changes in world events, political and economic conditions, energy conservation, environmental policies, commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, increased competition and the imposition of import controls. Production of industrial materials may exceed demand as a result of market imbalances or economic downturns, leading to poor investment returns. In addition, issuers in the basic materials sector are
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at risk for environmental damage and product liability claims and may be adversely affected by depletion of resources, technical progress, labor relations and government regulations.
Clean Energy Industry Risk. The clean energy industry can be significantly affected by obsolescence of existing technology, short product cycles, falling prices and profits, competition from new market entrants and general economic conditions. Further, the clean energy industry can be significantly affected by intense competition and legislation resulting in more strict government regulations and enforcement policies and specific expenditures for cleanup efforts and can be subject to risks associated with hazardous materials. The clean energy industry can be significantly affected by fluctuations in energy prices and supply and demand of alternative energy fuels, energy conservation, the success of exploration projects and tax and other government regulations. The industry also can be significantly affected by the supply of and demand for specific products or services, the supply of and demand for oil and gas, the price of oil and gas, production spending, government regulation, world events and economic conditions.
Securities of the companies involved in this industry have been significantly more volatile than securities of companies operating in other, more established industries. Certain valuation methods currently used to value companies involved in the alternative power and power technology sectors, particularly those companies that have not yet traded profitably, have not been in widespread use for a significant period of time. As a result, the use of these valuation methods may serve to increase further the volatility of certain alternative power and power technology company share prices.
This industry sector is relatively nascent and under-researched in comparison to more established and mature sectors and should therefore be regarded as having greater investment risk. Changes in U.S., European and other governments’ policies towards alternative power and power technology also may have an adverse effect on a fund’s performance.
A fund may invest in the shares of companies with a limited operating history, some of which may have never traded profitably. Investing in young companies with a short operating history generally is riskier than investing in companies with a longer operating history.
A fund, being composed of securities issued by companies operating in a limited number of industries, will carry greater risk and may be more volatile than a portfolio composed of securities issued by companies operating in a wide variety of different industries.
The price of crude oil, natural gas, electricity produced from traditional hydro power and that generated from nuclear power and possibly other as yet undiscovered energy sources could potentially have a negative impact on the competitiveness of renewable energies.
Consumer Discretionary Sector Risk. Companies engaged in the consumer discretionary sector are affected by fluctuations in supply and demand and changes in consumer demographics and preferences. The success of consumer product manufacturers and retailers is tied closely to the performance of domestic and international economies. Moreover, changes in consumer spending as a result of world events, political and economic conditions, commodity price volatility, changes in interest and exchange rates, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of resources and labor relations also may adversely affect these companies. Companies in the consumer discretionary sector depend heavily on disposable household income and consumer spending and may be strongly affected by social trends and marketing campaigns. These companies may be subject to severe competition, which may have an adverse impact on their profitability.
Financials Sector Risk. Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations. Unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial
services sector, and financial services companies whose securities a fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector. Financial services companies have also been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies. In addition, the financial services sector is undergoing numerous changes, including continuing consolidations, development of new products and structures and changes to its regulatory framework. Increased government involvement in financial institutions, including measures such as taking ownership positions in such institutions, could result in a dilution in the value of the shares held by shareholders in such institutions.
Global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region may adversely affect issuers in another country or region, which may adversely affect securities held by a fund. These circumstances have also decreased liquidity in some markets and may continue to do so. The recent deterioration of the credit markets has caused an adverse impact on a broad range of financial markets, thereby causing certain financial services companies to incur large losses. Certain financial services companies have experienced decline in the valuation of their assets and even ceased operations.
Regulatory changes, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) and the introduction of new international capital and liquidity requirements under the Basel III Accords (“Basel III”), may cause lending activity within the financial services sector to be constrained for several years as Basel III rules phase in and rules and regulations are promulgated and interpreted under the Dodd-Frank Act. These market conditions may continue or deteriorate further and may add significantly to the risk of short-term volatility within the sector.
Global Timber Industry Risk. The market value of securities of global timber companies may be affected by numerous factors, including events occurring in nature and international politics. For example, the volume and value of timber that can be harvested from timberlands may be limited by natural disasters and other events such as fire, volcanic eruptions, insect infestation, disease, ice storms, wind storms, flooding, other weather conditions and other causes. In periods of poor logging conditions, global timber companies may harvest less timber than expected. Global timber companies involved in the forest, paper and packaging products segments of the industry are highly competitive globally, including significant competition from non-wood and engineered wood products, and no single company is dominant. These segments have suffered, and continue to suffer, from excess capacity. Global timber companies are subject to many federal, state and local environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, particularly with respect to the restoration and reforestation of timberlands, harvesting timber near waterways, discharges of pollutants and emissions, and the management, disposal and remediation of hazardous substances or other contaminants. Political risks and the other risks to which foreign securities are subject may also affect domestic companies in which a fund may invest if they have significant operations or investments in foreign countries. In particular, tariffs, quotas or trade agreements can also affect the markets for products of global timber companies, particularly wood products. In addition, rising interest rates and general economic conditions may affect the demand for timber products. Any factors adversely affecting companies in the global timber industry could have a significant adverse impact on a fund’s performance.
Industrials Sector Risk. Changes in government regulation, world events and economic conditions may adversely affect the companies in the industrials sector. In addition, these companies are at risk for environmental damage claims. Industrial companies also may be adversely affected by commodity price volatility, changes in exchange rates, imposition of import controls, increased competition, depletion of
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resources, technological developments, labor relations and changes in the supply of and demand for their specific products or services or for industrials sector products in general.
Utilities Sector Risk. The risks inherent in the utilities sector include a variety of factors that may adversely affect the business or operations of utilities companies, including high interest costs associated with capital construction and improvement programs; difficulty in raising adequate capital on reasonable terms in periods of high inflation and unsettled capital markets; governmental regulation of rates that the issuer can charge to customers; costs associated with compliance with, and adjusting to changes to, environmental and other regulations; effects of economic slowdowns and surplus capacity; and increased competition from other providers of utility services. Utilities companies may also be adversely affected by increased costs associated with the reduced availability of certain types of fuel, occasionally reduced availability and high costs of natural gas for resale, and the effects of energy conservation policies. The effects of a national energy policy and lengthy delays, increased costs and other problems associated with the design, construction, licensing, regulation and operation of nuclear facilities for electric generation, which may include the problems associated with the use of radioactive materials and the disposal of radioactive wastes, may also negatively impact these companies.
Technological innovations may render existing plants, equipment or products obsolete, and companies may experience difficulty in obtaining regulatory approval of new technologies; a lack of compatibility of telecommunications equipment; and may be affected by the potential impact of terrorist activities on the utility industry and its customers, as well as the impact of natural or man-made disasters. Any such event could have serious consequences for the general population of the affected area and may adversely impact a fund's portfolio securities performance. Issuers in the utilities sector also may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities and may be affected by the imposition of special tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies and accounting standards. Deregulation is subjecting utilities companies to greater competition and may adversely affect profitability. As deregulation allows utilities to diversify outside of their original geographic regions and their traditional lines of business, utilities companies may engage in riskier ventures. There is no assurance that regulatory authorities will, in the future, grant rate increases, or that such increases will be adequate to permit the payment of dividends on stocks issued by a utilities company.
Water Industry Risk. Investments in the water industry may under-perform relative to the general market, returns on investments in other sectors or fixed-income securities. The water industry can be significantly affected by the availability of water, the level of rainfall and the occurrence of other climatic and environmental events, changes in water consumption and water conservation. Furthermore, because a fund may focus its investments in the water industry, economic downturns and global and domestic events affecting the water industry will have a greater impact on the fund than would be the case if the fund’s investments were more diversified. These events may include additional governmental regulation, including the increased cost of compliance, inflation, an increase in the cost of raw materials, an increase in interest rates and technological advances and changes in consumer sentiment and spending. Companies engaged in the water industry can be subject to liability for environmental damage, depletion of resources, conflicts with local communities over water rights and mandated expenditures for safety and pollution control.
Competition between water companies and government regulation of water companies, including regulation of the rates that the companies may charge, both domestically and internationally, may adversely affect the earnings of the companies in which a fund may invest.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The performance of a fund depends on the performance of individual securities to which that fund has exposure. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform worse than the market as a whole, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, changes in technology, expiration of patent protection, disruptions in supply, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures or other factors. Issuers may, in times of distress or at their own discretion, decide to reduce or eliminate dividends, which may also cause their stock prices to decline.
Market Risk. The securities in each Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations, and a fund could lose money due to short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns. You should anticipate that the value of Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in its respective Underlying Index. The value of a security may decline due to general market conditions, economic trends or events that are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or due to factors that affect a particular industry or group of industries. During a general downturn in the securities markets, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected.
Market Trading Risk. The Funds face numerous market trading risks, including losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruption in the creation/redemption process of a fund. Although Shares are listed for trading on a securities exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained by market makers or APs, that Shares will continue to trade on any such exchange or that Shares will continue to meet the requirements for listing on an exchange. Any of these factors, among others, may lead to Shares trading at a premium or discount to a Fund's NAV. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods. Further, a fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads. Bid/ask spreads vary over time based on trading volume and market liquidity (including for the underlying securities held by a fund), and are generally lower if Shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if Shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for a fund's portfolio holdings, which may cause a variance in the market price of the Shares and their underlying value.
Momentum Investing Risk. Momentum is the tendency of an investment to exhibit persistence in its relative performance; a “momentum” style of investing therefore emphasizes investing in securities that have had better recent performance compared to other securities, on the theory that these securities will continue to increase in value. Momentum investing is subject to the risk that the securities may be more volatile than the market as a whole. High momentum may also be a sign that the securities’ prices have peaked, and therefore the returns on securities that have previously exhibited price momentum may be less than returns on other styles of investing. Momentum can turn quickly, and stocks that previously exhibited high momentum may not experience continued positive momentum. A fund may experience significant losses if momentum stops, reverses or otherwise behaves differently than predicted. In addition, there may be periods when the momentum style of investing is out of favor and therefore, the investment performance of a fund may suffer.
Non-Correlation Risk. A fund’s return may not match the return of its Underlying Index (that is, it may experience tracking error) for a number of reasons. For example, a fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to its Underlying Index and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of its Underlying Index. If a fund has recently commenced operations or otherwise has a relatively small amount of assets, such transaction costs could have a proportionally greater impact on the fund. Additionally, if a fund uses a sampling approach, it may result in returns that
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are not as well-correlated with the return of its Underlying Index as would be the case if the fund purchased all of the components of its Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index.
The performance of a fund and its Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the fund’s portfolio and its Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints. Additionally, a fund that issues or redeems Creation Units principally for cash will incur higher costs in buying and selling securities than if it issued and redeemed Creation Units principally in-kind. A fund may fair value certain of the securities it holds. To the extent a fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index may be adversely affected. Since an Underlying Index is not subject to the tax diversification requirements to which the funds must adhere, a fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities contained in, and relative weightings of, its Underlying Index. A fund may not invest in certain securities included in its Underlying Index due to liquidity constraints. Liquidity constraints also may delay a fund’s purchase or sale of securities included in its Underlying Index. For tax efficiency purposes, a fund may sell certain securities to realize losses, causing it to deviate from its respective Underlying Index.
The Adviser may not fully invest a fund’s assets at times, either as a result of cash flows into the fund, to retain a reserve of cash to meet redemptions and expenses, or because of low assets (particularly when a fund is new and has operated for only a short period).
The investment activities of one or more of the Adviser’s affiliates, including other subsidiaries of the Adviser’s parent company, Invesco Ltd., for their proprietary accounts and for client accounts also may adversely impact a fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index. For example, in regulated industries, certain emerging or international markets and under corporate and regulatory ownership definitions, there may be limits on the aggregate amount of investment by affiliated investors that may not be exceeded, or that may not be exceeded without the grant of a license or other regulatory or corporate consent, or, if exceeded, may cause the Adviser, a fund or other client accounts to suffer disadvantages or business restrictions. As a result, a fund may be restricted in its ability to acquire particular securities due to positions held by the Adviser’s affiliates.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. A non-diversified fund can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. Changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in the share price of those Funds than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase a fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the fund’s performance.
Operational Risk. The funds are exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the funds’ service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The funds and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. To the extent that a fund's Underlying Index rebalances frequently, a fund may engage in frequent trading of its portfolio securities in connection with the rebalancing or adjustment of its Underlying Index. This may result in a high portfolio turnover rate. A portfolio turnover rate of 200%, for example, is equivalent to a fund buying and selling all of its securities two times during the course of a year. A high portfolio turnover rate (such as 100% or more) could result in high brokerage costs for a fund. A high portfolio turnover rate also can result in an increase in taxable capital gains distributions to a fund's shareholders and an increased likelihood that the capital gains will be taxable at ordinary rates.
Regulatory Risk. Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Water ETF, and Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF are each registered as a foreign portfolio investor (“FPI”) with the SEBI in order
to have the ability to make and dispose of investments in Indian securities. There can be no assurances that such funds will qualify or continue to qualify as FPIs by Indian regulatory authorities, and the loss of such qualifications could adversely impact their ability to make and dispose of investments in India.
Moreover, considering each such fund is incorporated in the United States, there can be no assurance that the United States will continue to be considered jurisdictions under the FPI regulations eligible to invest in India under the FPI regime. The loss of such recognition by the United States could adversely impact the ability of each such fund to make further investments in India.
The general limit on the aggregate ownership by FPIs, such as the funds, of the outstanding securities of Indian companies is 24%, which may be increased with the approval of the shareholders of such companies up to the foreign direct investment limit applicable to the sector to which the relevant Indian company belongs, or reduced to a level approved by the shareholders. However, many companies have applied for and received regulatory approval of higher limits, including, in a few cases, no limit at all. In addition to these aggregate ownership limits, the total ownership of any single FPI and its investor group in the equity shares of an Indian company must be less than 10% of the total issued capital of the company.
Additionally, India may require withholding on dividends paid on portfolio securities and on realized capital gains. In the past, these taxes have sometimes been substantial. There can be no assurance that restrictions on repatriation of a fund’s income, gains or initial capital from India will not occur.
REIT Risk. Although the funds will not invest in real estate directly, the REITs in which the funds invest in will be subject to risks inherent in the direct ownership of real estate and investments in the real estate sector. The value of a REIT can depend on the structure of and cash flow generated by the REIT. In addition, like mutual funds, REITs have expenses, including advisory and administration fees, that their shareholders pay. As a result, an investor will absorb duplicate levels of fees when a fund invests in REITs. Further, REITs are subject to certain provisions under federal tax law. A REIT that fails to comply with federal tax requirements affecting REITs may be subject to federal income taxation, or the federal tax requirement that a REIT distribute substantially all of its net income to its shareholders, may result in a REIT having insufficient capital for future expenditures. The failure of a company to qualify as a REIT could have adverse consequences for a fund, including significantly reducing return to the fund on its investment in such company.
Mortgage REITs lend money to developers and owners of properties and invest primarily in mortgages and similar real estate interests. Mortgage REITs receive interest payments from the owners of the mortgaged properties. Accordingly, mortgage REITs are subject to the credit risk of the borrowers to whom they extend funds. Credit risk is the risk that the borrower will not be able to make interest and principal payments on the loan to the REIT when they are due. Mortgage REITs also are subject to the risk that the value of mortgaged properties may be less than the amounts owed on the properties. If a mortgage REIT is required to foreclose on a borrower, the amount recovered in connection with the foreclosure may be less than the amount owed to the mortgage REIT.
Mortgage REITs are subject to significant interest rate risk. During periods when interest rates are declining, mortgages are often refinanced or prepaid. Refinancing or prepayment of mortgages may reduce the yield of mortgage REITs. When interest rates decline, however, the value of a REIT’s investment in fixed rate obligations can be expected to rise. Conversely, when interest rates rise, the value of a REIT’s investment in fixed rate obligations can be expected to decline. In addition, rising interest rates generally increase the costs of obtaining financing, which could cause the value of a mortgage REIT’s investments to decline. A REIT’s investment in adjustable rate obligations may react differently to interest rate changes than an investment in fixed rate obligations. As interest rates on adjustable rate mortgage loans are reset periodically, yields on a REIT’s investment in
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such loans will gradually align themselves to reflect changes in market interest rates, causing the value of such investments to fluctuate less dramatically in response to interest rate fluctuations than would investments in fixed rate obligations. Mortgage REITs typically use leverage (and in many cases, may be highly leveraged), which increases investment risk and could adversely affect a REIT’s operations and market value in periods of rising interest rates, increased interest rate volatility, downturns in the economy and reductions in the availability of financing or deterioration in the conditions of the REIT’s mortgage-related assets.
Sampling Risk. The use of a representative sampling approach may result in a fund holding a smaller number of securities than are in its Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that a fund holds could result in a greater decline in a fund’s NAV than would be the case if a fund held all of the securities in its Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in a fund are smaller, these risks will be greater. In addition, by sampling the securities in an Underlying Index, a fund faces the chance that the securities selected for the fund, in the aggregate, will not provide investment performance matching that of the fund’s Underlying Index, thereby increasing tracking error.
Small- and Mid-Capitalization Company Risk. Investing in securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small- and mid-capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions. In addition, small- and mid-capitalization companies are typically less financially stable than larger, more established companies, and they may depend on a small number of essential personnel, making them more vulnerable to loss of personnel. Smaller capitalization companies also normally have less diverse product lines than large-capitalization companies and are more susceptible to adverse developments concerning their products. As such, small-and mid-capitalization companies typically are more likely to be adversely affected than large-capitalization companies by changes in earning results, business prospects, investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions.
Tracking Stock Risk. Many of the risks of investing in common stock are applicable to tracking stock. Tracking stock is a separate class of common stock whose value is linked to a specific business unit or operating division within a larger company and which is designed to “track” the performance of such business unit or division. Therefore, tracking stocks may decline in value even if the common stock of the larger company increases in value. In addition, holders of tracking stock may not have the same rights as holders of the company’s common stock.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by a fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that a fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that a fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. Because foreign exchanges may be open on days when a fund does not price its shares, the value of non-U.S. securities in a fund's portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium
or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Non-Principal Investment Strategies
Each Fund, after investing at least 90% of its total assets in securities that comprise its respective Underlying Index (and, as applicable, ADRs and GDRs that represent securities in the Underlying Index), may invest its remaining assets in securities (including other funds) not included in its Underlying Index, and in money market instruments, including repurchase agreements and other funds, including affiliated funds, that invest exclusively in money market instruments (subject to applicable limitations under the 1940 Act or exemptions therefrom), convertible securities and structured notes (notes on which the amount of principal repayment and interest payments is based on the movement of one or more specified factors, such as the movement of a particular security or securities index). Convertible securities and structured notes may be used by a Fund in seeking performance that corresponds to its respective Underlying Index and to manage cash flows. The Adviser anticipates that it may take approximately two business days (a business day is any day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open) for additions to, and deletions from, each Fund's Underlying Index to fully settle in the portfolio composition of that Fund.
In accordance with 1940 Act rules, each Fund (except for Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF) has adopted a policy to invest at least 80% of the value of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in certain types of securities or in securities of companies in an industry, country or geographical region, as applicable, that is suggested by its name (each, an “80% investment policy”). Each Fund considers the securities suggested by the name to be those securities that comprise its respective Underlying Index. Therefore, each Fund, with the exception of those noted above, anticipates meeting its 80% investment policy because it already is required to invest at least 90% of its total assets in the applicable type of equity securities within an industry, country or geographical region that comprise its respective Underlying Index (and, as applicable, ADRs and GDRs that represent securities in the Underlying Index), in accordance with these Funds’ principal investment strategies and the terms of the Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II’s (the “Trust”) exemptive relief.
Each Fund’s investment objective and each 80% investment policy constitutes a non-fundamental policy that the Board of Trustees (“Board”) of the Trust may change without shareholder approval, upon 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders. The fundamental and non-fundamental policies of the Funds are set forth in the Trust’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) under the section “Investment Restrictions.”
Borrowing Money
Each Fund may borrow money up to the limits set forth in the Funds’ SAI under the section “Investment Restrictions”.
Securities Lending
Each Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers, and other financial institutions. In connection with such loans, each Fund receives liquid collateral equal to at least 102% (105% for international securities) of the value of the loaned portfolio securities. This collateral is marked-to-market on a daily basis.
Additional Risks of Investing in the Funds
The following provides additional risk information regarding investing in the Funds.
Convertible Securities Risk. A convertible security generally is a preferred stock that may be converted within a specified period of time into common stock. Convertible securities nevertheless remain subject to the risks of both debt securities and equity securities. As with other equity
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securities, the value of a convertible security tends to increase as the price of the underlying stock goes up, and to decrease as the price of the underlying stock goes down. Declining common stock values therefore also may cause the value of a fund’s investments to decline. Like a debt security, a convertible security provides a fixed income stream and also tends to decrease in value when interest rates rise. Moreover, many convertible securities have credit ratings that are below investment grade and are subject to the same risks as lower-rated debt securities.
Cybersecurity Risk. The funds, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational and information security risks. Cybersecurity failures or breaches of the funds or their service providers or the issuers of securities in which the funds invest, have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of fund shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. The funds and their shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
Index Provider Risk. Each Fund seeks to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of its Underlying Index, as published by its Index Provider. There is no assurance that an Index Provider will compile the Underlying Index accurately, or that the Underlying Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While an Index Provider gives descriptions of what the Underlying Index is designed to achieve, an Index Provider generally does not provide any warranty or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in such Underlying Index, and it generally does not guarantee that its Underlying Index will be in line with its methodology. Errors made by the Index Provider with respect to the quality, accuracy and completeness of the data within its Underlying Index may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time, if at all. Therefore, gains, losses or costs associated with Index Provider errors will generally be borne by a Fund and its shareholders.
Index Rebalancing Risk. Pursuant to the methodology that each Index Provider uses to calculate and maintain its Underlying Index, a security may be removed from such Underlying Index at any time in the event that it does not comply with the eligibility requirements of the Underlying Index. As a result, a fund may be forced to sell securities at inopportune times or for prices other than at current market values or may elect not to sell such securities on the day that they are removed from its Underlying Index, due to market conditions or otherwise. Due to these factors, the variation between a fund’s annual return and the return of its Underlying Index may increase significantly.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, an Index Provider may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to its Underlying Index, for example, to correct an error in the selection of constituents. When a fund in turn rebalances its portfolio, any transaction costs and market exposure arising from such portfolio rebalancing will be borne by a fund and its shareholders. Unscheduled rebalances also expose a fund to additional tracking error risk. Therefore, errors and additional ad hoc rebalances carried out by an Index Provider may increase a fund’s costs and market exposure.
Licensing, Custody and Settlement Risk. Approval of governmental authorities may be required prior to investing in the securities of companies based in certain foreign countries. Delays in obtaining such an approval would delay investments in the particular country, and, as a consequence, a Fund may not be able to invest in all of the securities included in its Underlying Index while an approval is pending. Rules adopted under the 1940 Act permit a Fund to maintain its foreign securities and cash in the custody of certain eligible non-U.S. banks and securities depositories. Certain banks in foreign countries that are eligible foreign sub-custodians may be recently organized or otherwise lack extensive operating experience. In addition, in certain countries there may be legal restrictions or limitations on the ability of a Fund to recover assets held in custody by a foreign sub-custodian in the event of the bankruptcy of the sub-custodian. Settlement systems in emerging markets may be less organized than in
developed markets. Thus, there may be a risk that settlement may be delayed and that cash or securities of a Fund may be in jeopardy because of failures of or defects in the systems. Under the laws of certain countries in which the Funds invest, the Funds may be required to release local shares before receiving cash payment or may be required to make cash payment prior to receiving local shares.
Money Market Funds Risk. Money market funds are subject to management fees and other expenses, and a Fund's investments in money market funds will cause it to bear proportionately the costs incurred by the money market funds' operations while simultaneously paying its own management fees and expenses. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency; it is possible to lose money by investing in a money market fund. To the extent that a Fund invests in money market funds, the Fund will be subject to the same risks that investors experience when investing in money market funds. These risks may include the impact of significant fluctuations in assets as a result of the cash sweep program or purchase and redemption activity in those funds.
Money market funds are open-end registered investment companies that historically have traded at a stable $1.00 per share price. However, money market funds that do not meet the definition of a “retail money market fund” or “government money market fund” are required to transact at a floating NAV per share (i.e., in a manner similar to how all other non-money market mutual funds transact), instead of at a $1.00 stable share price. Money market funds may also impose liquidity fees and redemption gates for use in times of market stress. If a Fund invested in a money market fund with a floating NAV, the impact on the trading and value of the money market instrument may negatively affect the Fund's return potential.
Natural Disaster/Epidemic Risk. Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and may be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of a Fund’s investments. Given the increasing interdependence among global economies and markets, conditions in one country, market, or region are increasingly likely to adversely affect markets, issuers, and/or foreign exchange rates in other countries, including the U.S. Any such events could have a significant adverse impact on the value of a Fund’s investments.
Repurchase Agreements Risk. Repurchase agreements are agreements pursuant to which a fund acquires securities from a third party with the understanding that the seller will repurchase them at a fixed price on an agreed date. Repurchase agreements may be characterized as loans secured by the underlying securities. If the seller of securities under a repurchase agreement defaults on its obligation to repurchase the underlying securities, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, a fund will seek to dispose of such securities, which action could involve costs or delays. If the seller becomes insolvent and subject to liquidation or reorganization under applicable bankruptcy or other laws, a fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities may be restricted. If the seller fails to repurchase the securities, a fund may suffer a loss to the extent proceeds from the sale of the underlying securities are less than the repurchase prices.
Securities Lending Risk. Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If a Fund that lent its securities were unable to recover the securities loaned, it may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to a Fund if and to the extent that the market value of the loaned securities increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Any cash received as collateral for loaned securities will be invested in an affiliated money market fund. This
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investment is subject to market appreciation or depreciation and a Fund will bear any loss on the investment of its cash collateral.
Shares May Trade at Prices Different than NAV Risk. The NAV of the Shares generally will fluctuate with changes in the market value of a fund’s holdings. The market prices of Shares generally will fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV, as well as the relative supply of and demand for Shares on the exchange on which a fund trades. The Adviser cannot predict whether Shares will trade below, at or above a fund's NAV. Price differences may be due largely to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for Shares will be related, but not identical, to the same forces influencing the prices of a fund’s holdings, individually or in the aggregate at any point in time. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading prices that differ significantly from NAV. If a shareholder purchases at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
Structured Notes Risk. Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a note resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of notes tend to go down. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a note will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Depending on the factors used, changes in interest rates and movement of such factors may cause significant price fluctuations. Structured notes may be less liquid than other types of securities and more volatile than the reference factor underlying the note. This means that a Fund may lose money if the issuer of the note defaults, as a Fund may not be able to readily close out its investment in such notes without incurring losses.
Trading Issues Risk. Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. Moreover, trading in Shares on either NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “NYSE Arca”), The Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq”), or Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. ("Cboe”) (together, the “Exchanges”) may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the relevant Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchanges is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchanges' “circuit breaker” rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchanges necessary to maintain the listing of each fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. Foreign exchanges may be open on days when Shares are not priced, and therefore, the value of the securities in a fund's portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell Shares.
Certain Funds may recognize gains as a result of rebalancing their securities holdings to reflect changes in the securities included in such Funds' Underlying Indexes. Certain Funds may be required to distribute any such gains to their shareholders to avoid adverse federal income tax consequences. For information concerning the tax consequences of distributions, see the section entitled “Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes” in this Prospectus.

Tax Structure of ETFs
    
Unlike interests in conventional mutual funds, which typically are bought and sold only at closing NAVs, Shares are traded throughout the day in the secondary market on a national securities exchange on an intra-day basis, and are created and redeemed principally in-kind in Creation Units at each day’s next calculated NAV. These in-kind arrangements are designed to protect shareholders from the adverse effects on a Fund’s portfolio that could arise from frequent cash creation and redemption transactions. In a conventional mutual fund, redemptions can have an adverse tax impact on
taxable shareholders because the mutual funds may need to sell portfolio securities to obtain cash to meet such redemptions. These sales may generate taxable gains that must be distributed to the shareholders of the mutual fund, whereas the Shares’ in-kind redemption mechanism generally will not lead to such taxable events for a Fund or its shareholders.
Each Fund may recognize gains as a result of rebalancing its securities holdings to reflect changes in the securities included in the Fund’s Underlying Index. Each Fund also may be required to distribute any such gains to its shareholders to avoid adverse federal income tax consequences. For information concerning the tax consequences of distributions, see the section entitled “Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes” in this Prospectus.

Portfolio Holdings
    
A description of the Trust's policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Funds' portfolio holdings is available in the Funds' SAI, which is available at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Management of the Funds
    
Invesco Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser with its offices at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515. The Adviser serves as the investment adviser to Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust, a family of ETFs with combined assets under management of approximately $134 billion as of December 31, 2019.
As the Funds’ investment adviser, the Adviser has overall responsibility for selecting and continuously monitoring the Funds’ investments, managing the Funds’ business affairs, and providing certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services for the Trust.
Portfolio Managers
The Adviser uses a team of portfolio managers, investment strategists and other investment specialists in managing the Funds. This team approach brings together many disciplines and leverages the Adviser's extensive resources.
Peter Hubbard, Vice President of the Trust, oversees all research, portfolio management and trading operations of the Funds. In this capacity, Mr. Hubbard oversees a team of portfolio managers (collectively with Mr. Hubbard, the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds. In managing the Funds, Mr. Hubbard receives management assistance from Michael Jeanette, Tony Seisser and Pratik Doshi. Each Portfolio Manager is responsible for various functions related to portfolio management, including investing cash flows, coordinating with other team members to focus on certain asset classes, implementing investment strategy and researching and reviewing investment strategy. Each Portfolio Manager has limitations on his authority for risk management and compliance purposes that the Adviser believes to be appropriate.
■  Peter Hubbard, Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since June 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2005.
■  Michael Jeanette, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since August 2008 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2008.
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■  Tony Seisser, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since August 2014 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2013.
■  Pratik Doshi, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since October 2019 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2018. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Doshi earned his MBA from the University of Chicago from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Doshi was a Vice President at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch from 2014 to 2016.
The Funds' SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers’ compensation structure, other accounts that the Portfolio Managers manage and the Portfolio Managers' ownership of Shares.
Advisory Fees
Pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and the Trust (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”), each Fund pays the Adviser an annual management fee equal to a percentage of its average daily net assets set forth in the chart below:
Fund Advisory Fee
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Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF 0.80%
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Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF 0.90%
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Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF 0.45%
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 0.45%
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF 0.49%
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 0.49%
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Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF 0.75%
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Invesco Global Water ETF 0.75%
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Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF 0.55%
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Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF 0.50%
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Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF 0.07%
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Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF 0.14%
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Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF 0.45% (1)
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Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF 0.45% (1)
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Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 0.30%
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Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF 0.35% (2)
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Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF 0.35% (2)
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Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF 0.29%
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(1) The Adviser has agreed to waive 0.16% of the Fund’s management fee through February 28, 2021, and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
(2) The Adviser has agreed to waive 0.10% of the Fund’s management fee through February 28, 2021, and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
The management fee paid by each Fund (except Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF) to the Adviser set forth in the table above is an annual unitary management fee. Out of the unitary management fee, the Adviser pays for substantially all expenses of each Fund (except Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF), including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, except for advisory fees, distribution fees, if any, brokerage expenses, taxes, interest, litigation expenses, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, and other extraordinary expenses.
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF is responsible for all of its own expenses, including the Management Fee, costs of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, interest, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, brokerage commissions and other expenses connected with executions of portfolio transactions, licensing fees related to its Underlying Index, as applicable, any distribution fees or expenses, litigation expenses, fees payable to the Trust’s Board members and officers who are not “interested persons” of the Trust or the Adviser, expenses incurred in connection with the Board members’ services,
including travel expenses and legal fees of counsel for those members of the Board who are not “interested persons” of the Trust and extraordinary expenses.
The Trust and the Adviser have entered into an Excess Expense Agreement (the “Expense Agreement”) on behalf of the Fund listed below pursuant to which the Adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding interest expenses, sub-licensing fees, offering costs, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if applicable, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding the percentage of its average daily net assets per year as set forth in the chart below (each, an “Expense Cap”) through August 31, 2021.
Fund Expense Cap(1)
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF 0.55%
(1) The Adviser further agrees to reimburse the Fund in the amount equal to the licensing fees that the Fund pays that cause the Fund’s operating expenses (excluding interest expenses, offering costs, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and extraordinary expenses) to exceed 0.55%, through at least December 31, 2020.
The Expense Agreement provides that for the Fund listed above, the fees waived and/or expenses borne by the Adviser are subject to recapture by the Adviser for up to three years from the date that the fees were waived or the expenses were incurred, but no recapture payment will be made by the Fund if it would result in the Fund exceeding (i) its Expense Cap or (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time the fees and/or expenses subject to recapture were waived and/or borne by the Adviser.
The Funds may invest in money market funds that are managed by affiliates of the Adviser. The indirect portion of the management fee that a Fund incurs through such investments is in addition to the Adviser’s unitary management fee. Therefore, the Adviser has agreed to waive the management fees that it receives under the unitary management fee in an amount equal to the indirect management fees that a Fund incurs through its investments in affiliated money market funds through August 31, 2021. There is no guarantee that the Adviser will extend the waiver of these fees past that date.
A discussion regarding the Board’s basis for approving the Investment Advisory Agreement with respect to each Fund is available in the Fund’s Semi-Annual Report to shareholders for the period ended April 30, 2019.

How to Buy and Sell Shares
    
Each Fund issues or redeems its Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) per Share only in large blocks of Shares (each block of shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), in such amount as set forth in each Fund’s summary prospectus.
Most investors will buy and sell Shares of each Fund in secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of each Fund are listed for trading on the secondary market on an Exchange. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment. Although Shares generally are purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 Shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction. The Shares of the Funds trade under the following symbols on the following Exchanges:
Fund Symbol Exchange
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF PIZ Nasdaq
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Fund Symbol Exchange
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF PIE Nasdaq
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Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF IDLB Nasdaq
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S ETF PXF NYSE Arca
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF PDN NYSE Arca
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Invesco. FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF PXH NYSE Arca
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Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF PBD NYSE Arca
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Invesco Global Water ETF PIO Nasdaq
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Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF IPKW Nasdaq
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Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF CUT NYSE Arca
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Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF PBDM Cboe
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Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF PBEE Cboe
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Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF EELV NYSE Arca
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Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF EEMO NYSE Arca
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Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF IDHD Cboe
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Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF IDLV NYSE Arca
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Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF IDMO NYSE Arca
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Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF IDHQ NYSE Arca
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Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share.
APs may acquire Shares directly from each Fund, and APs may tender their Shares for redemption directly to each Fund, at NAV per Share, only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations, and in accordance with the procedures described in the SAI.
Under normal circumstances, each Fund will pay out redemption proceeds to a redeeming AP within two days after the AP’s redemption request is received, in accordance with the process set forth in the Fund’s SAI and in the agreement between the AP and the Fund’s distributor. However, each Fund reserves the right, including under stressed market conditions, to take up to seven days after the receipt of a redemption request (as discussed above) to pay an AP, all as permitted by the 1940 Act. Funds that track underlying indexes composed of foreign securities may pay out redemption proceeds up to 14 days after the receipt of a redemption request, consistent with the Trust’s SEC exemptive relief. Each Fund anticipates regularly meeting redemption requests primarily through in-kind redemptions. However, the Funds reserve the right to pay redemption proceeds to an AP in cash, consistent with the Trust’s exemptive relief. Cash used for redemptions will be raised from the sale of portfolio assets or may come from existing holdings of cash or cash equivalents.
Each Fund may liquidate and terminate at any time without shareholder approval.
Book Entry
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares of the Funds and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for all purposes.
Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other securities that you hold in book entry or “street name” form.
Share Trading Prices
The trading prices of Shares of each Fund on the relevant Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV. Market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors may affect the trading prices of Shares of each Fund.
The approximate value of Shares of each Fund, an amount representing on a per share basis the sum of the current market price of the securities (the “Deposit Securities”) and any estimated cash component accepted by a Fund in exchange for Shares of the Fund is disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association. With respect to those Funds that invest in securities of foreign issuers traded on foreign exchanges, as the respective international local markets close, the market value of the Deposit Securities will continue to be updated for foreign exchange rates for the remainder of the U.S. trading day at the prescribed 15 second intervals. This approximate value should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share of a Fund because the approximate value may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day. The Funds are not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the approximate value of the Shares, and the Funds do not make any warranty as to the accuracy of the approximate value.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares
    
Shares of the Funds may be purchased and redeemed directly from the Funds only in Creation Units by APs. The vast majority of trading in Shares of the Funds occurs on the secondary market and does not involve a Fund directly. In-kind purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs and cash trades on the secondary market are unlikely to cause many of the harmful effects of frequent purchases and/or redemptions of Shares of a Fund. Cash purchases and/or redemptions of Creation Units, however, can result in increased tracking error, disruption of portfolio management, dilution to a Fund and increased transaction costs, which could negatively impact a Fund's ability to achieve its investment objective, and may lead to the realization of capital gains. These consequences may increase as the frequency of cash purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs increases. However, direct trading by APs is critical to ensuring that Shares trade at or close to NAV.
To minimize these potential consequences of frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares, each Fund imposes transaction fees on purchases and redemptions of Creation Units to cover the custodial and other costs the Funds incur in effecting trades. In addition, the Adviser monitors trades by APs for patterns of abusive trading and the Funds reserve the right to not accept orders from APs that the Adviser has determined may be disruptive to the management of the Funds or otherwise are not in the best interests of the Funds. For these reasons, the Board has not adopted policies and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares of the Funds.

Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes
    
Dividends and Other Distributions
Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid quarterly by each Fund (except for MSCI Global Timber ETF which declares and pays dividends from net investment income annually). Each Fund also intends to distribute its net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders annually. Dividends and other distributions may be declared and paid more frequently to comply with the distribution requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and to avoid federal excise tax imposed on regulated investment companies (“RIC”).
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Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available.
Taxes
Each Fund intends to qualify each year as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) and, as such, is not subject to entity-level tax on the income and gain it distributes. If you are a taxable investor, dividends and distributions you receive generally are taxable to you whether you reinvest distributions in additional Shares or take them in cash. Every year, you will be sent information showing the amount of dividends and distributions you received during the prior calendar year. In addition, investors in taxable accounts should be aware of the following basic tax points as supplemented below where relevant:
Fund Tax Basics
■  A Fund earns income generally in the form of dividends or interest on its investments. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of a Fund, constitutes a Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to shareholders. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable to you as ordinary income.
■  Distributions of net short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. A Fund with a high portfolio turnover rate (a measure of how frequently assets within a Fund are bought and sold) is more likely to generate short-term capital gains than a Fund with a low portfolio turnover rate. For ETFs for which in-kind redemptions are the primary redemption mechanism, a Fund may be less likely to sell securities in order to generate cash for redeeming shareholders, which a mutual fund might do. This provides a greater opportunity for ETFs to defer the recognition of gain on appreciated securities which it may hold thereby reducing the distribution of capital gains to its shareholders.
■  Distributions of net long-term capital gains are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your Shares.
■  A portion of income dividends paid by a Fund may be reported as qualified dividend income eligible for taxation by individual shareholders at long-term capital gain rates, provided certain holding period requirements are met. These reduced rates generally are available for dividends derived from a Fund’s investment in stocks of domestic corporations and qualified foreign corporations. In the case of a Fund that invests primarily in debt securities, either none or only a nominal portion of the dividends paid by a Fund will be eligible for taxation at these reduced rates.
■  The use of derivatives by a Fund may cause the Fund to realize higher amounts of ordinary income or short-term capital gain, distributions from which are taxable to individual shareholders at ordinary income tax rates rather than at the more favorable tax rates for long-term capital gain.
■  Distributions declared to shareholders with a record date in December–if paid to you by the end of January–are taxable for federal income tax purposes as if received in December.
■  Any long-term or short-term capital gains realized on the sale of your Shares will be subject to federal income tax.
■  A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the sale of any of the shareholder’s Shares, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.
■  At the time you purchase your Shares, a Fund’s NAV may reflect undistributed income or undistributed capital gains. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying Shares in a Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes
  known as “buying a dividend.” In addition, a Fund’s NAV may, at any time, reflect net unrealized appreciation, which may result in future taxable distributions to you.
■  By law, if you do not provide a Fund with your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains, or proceeds from the sale of your Shares. A Fund also must withhold if the IRS instructs it to do so. When withholding is required, the amount will be 24% of any distributions or proceeds paid.
■  An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.
■  You will not be required to include the portion of dividends paid by a Fund derived from interest on U.S. government obligations in your gross income for purposes of personal and, in some cases, corporate income taxes in many state and local tax jurisdictions. The percentage of dividends that constitutes dividends derived from interest on federal obligations will be determined annually. This percentage may differ from the actual percentage of interest received by the Fund on federal obligations for the particular days on which you hold shares.
■  Fund distributions and gains from sale of Shares generally are subject to state and local income taxes.
■  If a Fund qualifies to pass through the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments, and elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it pays on these investments may be passed through to you as a foreign tax credit. You will then be required to include your pro-rata share of these taxes in gross income, even though not actually received by you, and will be entitled either to deduct your share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax.
■  Foreign investors should be aware that U.S. withholding, special certification requirements to avoid U.S. backup withholding and claim any treaty benefits, and estate taxes may apply to an investment in a Fund.
■  Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a 30% withholding tax is imposed on income dividends made by a Fund to certain foreign entities, referred to as foreign financial institutions or non-financial foreign entities that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions, return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Shares; however, based on proposed regulations recently issued by the IRS on the Fund may rely, such withholding is no longer required unless final regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). A Fund may disclose the information that it receives from its shareholders to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA or similar laws. Withholding also may be required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of a Fund fails to provide the Fund with appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status under FATCA.
■  If a Fund invests in an underlying fund taxed as a RIC, please see any relevant section below for more information regarding the Fund’s investment in such underlying fund.
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Fund Investments in Real Estate Securities
■  Because of “noncash” expenses such as property depreciation, the cash flow of a REIT that owns properties will exceed its taxable income. The REIT, and in turn a Fund, may distribute this excess cash. Such a distribution is classified as a return of capital. Return of capital distributions generally are not taxable to you. Your cost basis in your shares will be decreased by the amount of any return of capital. Any return of capital distributions in excess of your cost basis will be treated as capital gains.
■  Dividends paid to shareholders from a Fund’s investments in U.S. REITs generally will not qualify for taxation at long-term capital gain rates applicable to qualified dividend income.
■  A Fund may derive “excess inclusion income” from certain equity interests in mortgage pooling vehicles either directly or through an investment in a U.S. REIT. Please see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to shareholders in the event a Fund realizes excess inclusion income in excess of certain threshold amounts.
■  Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., ordinary REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends designated as qualified dividend income) are treated as eligible for a 20% deduction by noncorporate taxpayers. Proposed regulations issued by the IRS, on which a Fund can rely, enable the Fund to pass through the special character of “qualified REIT dividends” to a shareholder, provided the shareholder meets certain holding period requirements with respect to their shares.
■  A Fund’s foreign shareholders should see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to them from a sale of a U.S. real property interest by a REIT in which the Fund invests.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
To the extent that a Fund permits in-kind transactions, an AP that exchanges securities for a Creation Unit generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of exchange (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the issue) and the sum of the AP's aggregate basis in the securities surrendered plus any cash component paid. Similarly, an AP that redeems a Creation Unit in exchange for securities generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the AP's basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash paid by the AP as part of the redemption) and the aggregate market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the redemption). The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for a Creation Unit, or of a Creation Unit for securities, cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales” or on the ground that there has been no significant change in the AP's economic position. An AP exchanging securities should consult its own tax advisor(s) with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss otherwise might not be deductible.
Any capital gain or loss realized on a redemption of a Creation Unit generally is treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less, assuming that such Creation Units are held as a capital asset. If you purchase or redeem one or more Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing how many Shares you purchased or sold and at what price.
The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the more important possible consequences under current federal, state and local tax law of an investment in the Funds. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You also may be subject to state, local and/or foreign tax on a Fund's distributions and sales and/or redemptions of Shares. Consult your personal tax advisor(s) about the potential tax consequences of an investment in the Shares under all applicable tax laws.

Distributor
    
Invesco Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”) serves as the distributor of Creation Units for each Fund on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The Distributor is an affiliate of the Adviser.

Net Asset Value
    
The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM”) calculates each Fund’s NAV at the close of regular trading (normally 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) every day the NYSE is open. The NAV for each Fund will be calculated and disseminated daily on each day that the NYSE is open. NAV is calculated by deducting all of a Fund’s liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. Generally, the portfolio securities are recorded in the NAV no later than trade date plus one day. All valuations are subject to review by the Trust’s Board or its delegate.
In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily and securities and other assets for which market quotations are readily available are valued at market value. Securities listed or traded on an exchange (except convertible securities) generally are valued at the last sales price or official closing price that day as of the close of the exchange where the security is primarily traded. Investment companies are valued using such company's NAV per share, unless the shares are exchange-traded, in which case they will be valued at the last sale or official closing price on the exchanges on which they primarily trade. Deposits, other obligations of U.S. and non-U.S. banks and financial institutions, and cash equivalents are valued at their daily account value. Debt obligations (including convertible securities) and securities not listed on an exchange normally are valued on the basis of prices provided by independent pricing services. Pricing services generally value debt securities assuming orderly transactions of institutional round lot size, but a Fund may hold or transact in the same securities in smaller, odd lot sizes. Odd lots often trade at lower prices than institutional round lots. 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 asked prices from the exchange on which they principally trade. Options not listed on an exchange are valued by an independent source at the mean between the last bid and asked prices. Swaps generally are valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services. For purposes of determining NAV per Share, futures and option contracts and swaps generally are valued 15 minutes after the close of the customary trading session of the NYSE.
Certain securities may not be listed on an exchange; typically, those securities are bought and sold by institutional investors in individually negotiated private transactions. Such securities, as well as listed securities whose market price is not readily available, will be valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services or by another method that the Adviser, in its judgment, believes will better reflect the security’s fair value in accordance with the Trust’s valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board.
Even when market quotations are available for portfolio securities, they may be stale or unreliable because the security is not traded frequently, trading on the security ceased before the close of the trading market or issuer-specific events occurred after the security ceased trading or because of the passage of time between the close of the market on which the security trades and the close of the NYSE and when a Fund calculates its NAV. Events that may cause the last market quotation to be unreliable include a merger or insolvency, events which affect a geographical area or an industry segment, such as political events or natural disasters, or market events, such as a significant movement in the U.S. market. Where market quotations are not readily available, including where the Adviser determines that the closing price of the security is unreliable, the Adviser will value the
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security at fair value in good faith using procedures approved by the Board. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that a fair value determination for a security is materially different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of the security. In addition, fair value pricing could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate a Fund's NAV and the prices used by the Fund's Underlying Index. This may adversely affect a Fund's ability to track its Underlying Index. With respect to securities that are primarily listed on foreign exchanges, the value of a Fund's portfolio securities may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares.

Fund Service Providers
    
BNYM, 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, is the administrator, custodian and fund accounting and transfer agent for each Fund.
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1601, Chicago, Illinois 60606, and 2000 K Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the Funds' independent registered public accounting firm. PwC is responsible for auditing the annual financial statements of each Fund and assists in the preparation and/or review of each Fund’s federal and state income tax returns.
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Financial Highlights
The financial highlights tables below are intended to help you understand each Fund's (and, if applicable, its Predecessor Fund's) financial performance for the past five fiscal years, or if shorter, for the period since a Fund's inception. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Share. The total returns in each table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in each Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions).
This information has been derived from the Funds' financial statements, which have been audited by PwC, whose report, along with the Funds'
financial statements, is included in the Funds' Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, which is available upon request.
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF has adopted the financial and performance history of its Predecessor Fund as a result of a reorganization. Accordingly, the financial information presented for the Fund for the previous fiscal years ended prior to 2018, is that of the Predecessor Fund and has been audited by the prior independent registered public accounting firm of the Predecessor Fund.
 
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Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 24.53 $ 27.30 $ 22.29 $ 23.36 $ 24.49
Net investment income(a) 0.30 0.24 0.36 0.35 0.27
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 2.70 (2.68) 5.05 (1.04) (1.15)
Total from investment operations 3.00 (2.44) 5.41 (0.69) (0.88)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.35) (0.33) (0.40) (0.38) (0.25)
Net asset value at end of year $ 27.18 $ 24.53 $ 27.30 $ 22.29 $ 23.36
Market price at end of year(b) $ 27.10 $ 24.47 $ 27.35 $ 22.27 $ 23.21
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 12.31% (9.09)% 24.58% (2.97)% (3.63)%
Market Price Total Return(c) 12.25% (9.48)% 24.91% (2.43)% (4.48)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $175,327 $223,182 $232,084 $173,891 $263,996
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.81% 0.80% 0.81% 0.81% 0.81%
Net investment income 1.18% 0.88% 1.46% 1.50% 1.10%
Portfolio turnover rate(d) 106% 94% 98% 124% 120%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 16.12 $ 19.48 $ 16.11 $ 16.02 $ 18.91
Net investment income(a) 0.36 (b) 0.40 0.28 0.16 0.12
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 2.51 (3.29) 3.34 0.14 (c) (2.94)
Total from investment operations 2.87 (2.89) 3.62 0.30 (2.82)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.41) (0.49) (0.26) (0.21) (0.10)
Return of capital - - - (0.01) -
Total distributions (0.41) (0.49) (0.26) (0.22) (0.10)
Transaction fees(a) 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.03
Net asset value at end of year $ 18.59 $ 16.12 $ 19.48 $ 16.11 $ 16.02
Market price at end of year(d) $ 18.51 $ 16.08 $ 19.54 $ 16.10 $ 15.97
Net Asset Value Total Return(e) 18.23% (15.11)% 22.72% 2.00% (c) (14.78)%
Market Price Total Return(e) 18.03% (15.58)% 23.18% 2.25% (14.50)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $168,210 $192,660 $212,377 $183,668 $196,268
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.91% (f) 0.90% 0.90% 0.90% 0.90%
Net investment income 2.13% (b)(f) 2.01% 1.67% 1.04% 0.68%
Portfolio turnover rate(g) 158% 163% 174% 160% 176%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Net Investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include a non-cash taxable distribution received during the year. Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets excluding the non-cash taxable distribution are $0.24 and 1.39%, respectively.
(c) Includes settlement proceeds recorded during the period. Had these settlement proceeds not been recorded Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments per share would have been $0.10 and total return would have been lower.
(d) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(e) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.01%.
(g) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
  Years Ended October 31, For the Period
November 04, 2015(a)
Through
October 31,
2016
  2019 2018 2017
Per Share Operating Performance:        
Net asset value at beginning of period $ 26.98 $ 29.47 $ 25.09 $ 24.92
Net investment income(b) 0.68 0.67 0.64 0.54
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.43 (2.30) 4.45 0.03
Total from investment operations 2.11 (1.63) 5.09 0.57
Distributions to shareholders from:        
Net investment income (0.87) (0.86) (0.71) (0.40)
Net asset value at end of period $ 28.22 $ 26.98 $ 29.47 $ 25.09
Market price at end of period(c) $ 28.02 $ 26.86 $ 29.44 $ 25.20
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 7.94% (5.81)% 20.63% 2.33% (e)
Market Price Total Return(d) 7.65% (6.12)% 19.98% 2.77% (e)
Ratios/Supplemental Data:        
Net assets at end of period (000’s omitted) $53,615 $109,258 $134,104 $146,797
Ratio to average net assets of:        
Expenses 0.46% (f) 0.45% 0.45% 0.45% (g)
Net investment income 2.48% (f) 2.23% 2.38% 2.22% (g)
Portfolio turnover rate(h) 53% 50% 39% 59%
    
(a) Commencement of investment operations.
(b) Based on average shares outstanding.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) The net asset value total return from Fund Inception (November 5, 2015, the first day of trading on the exchange) to October 31, 2016 was 2.17%. The market price total return from Fund Inception to October 31, 2016 was 2.16%.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.01%.
(g) Annualized.
(h) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 40.04 $ 44.66 $ 36.74 $ 38.60 $ 41.20
Net investment income(a) 1.45 1.34 1.20 1.09 1.16
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.10 (4.56) 7.98 (1.82) (2.65)
Total from investment operations 2.55 (3.22) 9.18 (0.73) (1.49)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (1.60) (1.40) (1.26) (1.13) (1.11)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 40.99 $ 40.04 $ 44.66 $ 36.74 $ 38.60
Market price at end of year(c) $ 40.86 $ 39.98 $ 44.81 $ 36.68 $ 38.34
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 6.58% (7.45)% 25.38% (1.73)% (3.72)%
Market Price Total Return(d) 6.41% (7.92)% 25.99% (1.24)% (5.55)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $1,246,076 $1,275,422 $1,214,850 $938,650 $787,536
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.45% 0.45% 0.45% 0.45% 0.46%
Net investment income 3.64% 3.02% 2.95% 3.05% 2.87%
Portfolio turnover rate(e) 15% 10% 13% 14% 12%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 29.48 $ 33.33 $ 27.37 $ 26.60 $ 26.48
Net investment income(a) 0.70 0.75 0.59 0.53 0.46
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.24 (3.66) 5.99 0.86 0.12
Total from investment operations 1.94 (2.91) 6.58 1.39 0.58
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.75) (0.94) (0.62) (0.62) (0.46)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 30.67 $ 29.48 $ 33.33 $ 27.37 $ 26.60
Market price at end of year(c) $ 30.42 $ 29.48 $ 33.44 $ 27.30 $ 26.66
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 6.72% (9.05)% 24.36% 5.37% 2.18%
Market Price Total Return(d) 5.85% (9.36)% 25.09% 4.87% 0.01%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $328,155 $291,863 $206,657 $162,854 $143,621
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.49% 0.49% 0.49% 0.49% 0.50%
Net investment income 2.36% 2.25% 1.98% 2.01% 1.73%
Portfolio turnover rate(e) 27% 21% 19% 25% 24%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 20.02 $ 21.66 $ 18.81 $ 15.44 $ 20.38
Net investment income(a) 0.72 0.73 0.57 0.42 0.53
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 0.92 (1.66) 2.81 3.37 (5.02)
Total from investment operations 1.64 (0.93) 3.38 3.79 (4.49)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.71) (0.71) (0.53) (0.42) (0.45)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 20.95 $ 20.02 $ 21.66 $ 18.81 $ 15.44
Market price at end of year(c) $ 20.93 $ 20.03 $ 21.62 $ 18.80 $ 15.37
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 8.31% (4.44)% 18.10% 25.08% (22.16)%
Market Price Total Return(d) 8.14% (4.22)% 17.94% 25.57% (22.00)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $1,277,150 $1,129,333 $967,201 $625,398 $293,398
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses, after Waivers 0.49% (e) 0.48% 0.48% (e) 0.48% 0.49%
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.49% (e) 0.49% 0.49% (e) 0.49% 0.49%
Net investment income 3.48% 3.30% 2.84% 2.66% 2.88%
Portfolio turnover rate(f) 29% 16% 24% 16% 34%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) 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 investment companies in which the Fund invests. Estimated investment companies' expenses are not expenses that are incurred directly by the Fund. They are expenses that are incurred directly by the investment companies and are deducted from the value of the investment companies the Fund invests in. The effect of the estimated investment companies' expenses that the Fund bears indirectly is included in the Fund's total return.
(f) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 10.97 $ 13.08 $ 10.65 $ 11.46 $ 12.52
Net investment income(a) 0.21 0.18 0.23 0.20 0.13
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.72 (2.07) 2.39 (0.80) (b) (1.07)
Total from investment operations 1.93 (1.89) 2.62 (0.60) (0.94)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.24) (0.22) (0.19) (0.21) (0.12)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (c) 0.00 (c) - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 12.66 $ 10.97 $ 13.08 $ 10.65 $ 11.46
Market price at end of year(d) $ 12.56 $ 10.95 $ 13.07 $ 10.62 $ 11.46
Net Asset Value Total Return(e) 17.86% (14.69)% 24.90% (5.29)% (b) (7.51)%
Market Price Total Return(e) 17.16% (14.78)% 25.17% (5.56)% (8.10)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $49,675 $49,661 $60,499 $56,152 $66,762
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.77% (f) 0.75% 0.75% 0.75% 0.77%
Net investment income 1.74% (f) 1.43% 1.98% 1.83% 1.11%
Portfolio turnover rate(g) 59% 46% 40% 57% 51%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Includes settlement proceeds recorded during the period. Had these settlement proceeds not been recorded Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments per share would have been $(0.83) and total return would have been lower.
(c) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(d) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(e) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.02%.
(g) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco Global Water ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 23.73 $ 25.27 $ 21.32 $ 21.89 $ 23.35
Net investment income(a) 0.38 0.45 0.28 0.34 0.29
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 5.25 (1.54) 3.95 (0.60) (1.45)
Total from investment operations 5.63 (1.09) 4.23 (0.26) (1.16)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.42) (0.45) (0.28) (0.31) (0.30)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 28.94 $ 23.73 $ 25.27 $ 21.32 $ 21.89
Market price at end of year(c) $ 28.84 $ 23.69 $ 25.25 $ 21.29 $ 21.77
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 23.90% (4.45)% 20.01% (1.14)% (5.03)%
Market Price Total Return(d) 23.68% (4.53)% 20.08% (0.78)% (5.35)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $195,314 $164,916 $200,862 $188,665 $241,832
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.76% (e) 0.75% 0.75% 0.74% 0.76%
Net investment income 1.45% (e) 1.77% 1.22% 1.62% 1.27%
Portfolio turnover rate(f) 32% 34% 34% 67% 78%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.01%.
(f) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 31.00 $ 35.31 $ 27.94 $ 27.02 $ 25.05
Net investment income(a) 0.76 0.69 0.47 0.74 (b) 0.44
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.38 (4.28) 7.28 0.89 1.82
Total from investment operations 2.14 (3.59) 7.75 1.63 2.26
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.94) (0.73) (0.38) (0.71) (0.29)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (c) 0.01 - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 32.20 $ 31.00 $ 35.31 $ 27.94 $ 27.02
Market price at end of year(d) $ 32.05 $ 30.96 $ 35.47 $ 28.02 $ 26.96
Net Asset Value Total Return(e) 7.10% (10.40)% 28.03% 6.25% 9.04%
Market Price Total Return(e) 6.74% (10.96)% 28.24% 6.78% 7.51%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $141,692 $243,373 $197,735 $92,202 $58,099
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.55% 0.55% 0.55% 0.55% 0.55%
Net investment income 2.44% 1.90% 1.47% 2.76% (b) 1.68%
Portfolio turnover rate(f) 99% 121% 118% 106% 162%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include a significant dividend received during the period. Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets excluding the significant dividend are $0.51 and 1.90%, respectively.
(c) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(d) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(e) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(f) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF
  Year Ended October 31,
2019
Five Months Ended
October 31,
2018
Years Ended May 31,
  2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:            
Net asset value at beginning of period $ 27.98 $ 33.50 $ 27.57 $ 23.63 $ 26.28 $ 25.37
Net investment income(a) 0.72 0.20 0.63 0.47 0.67 0.61
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments (0.23) (5.72) 5.80 3.99 (2.96) 0.99
Total from investment operations 0.49 (5.52) 6.43 4.46 (2.29) 1.60
Distributions to shareholders from:            
Net investment income (0.82) - (0.50) (0.52) (0.36) (0.69)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) - - - -
Net asset value at end of period $ 27.65 $ 27.98 $ 33.50 $ 27.57 $ 23.63 $ 26.28
Market price at end of period $ 27.56(c) $ 27.94(c) $ 33.54(c) $ 27.52 $ 23.59 $ 26.26
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 2.32% (16.48)% 23.42% 19.09% (8.72)% 6.50%
Market Price Total Return(d) 2.14% (16.70)% 23.79%      
Ratios/Supplemental Data:            
Net assets at end of period (000's omitted) $134,093 $173,463 $236,190 $190,203 $163,060 $199,709
Ratio to average net assets of:            
Expenses, after Waivers 0.56% (e) 0.55% (f) 0.55% 0.57% 0.60% 0.70%
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.68% (e) 0.64% (f) 0.67% 0.70% 0.75% 0.76%
Net investment income 2.70% (e) 1.50% (f) 2.02% 1.85% 2.83% 2.44%
Portfolio turnover rate(g) 18% 4% 10% 8% 60% 29%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.01%.
(f) Annualized.
(g) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF
  Years Ended October 31, For the Period
September 19, 2017(a)
Through
October 31,
2017
  2019 2018
Per Share Operating Performance:      
Net asset value at beginning of period $22.80 $25.37 $25.00
Net investment income(b) 0.69 0.73 0.07
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.61 (2.60) 0.30
Total from investment operations 2.30 (1.87) 0.37
Distributions to shareholders from:      
Net investment income (0.77) (0.70) -
Net realized gains (0.02) - -
Total distributions (0.79) (0.70) -
Net asset value at end of period $24.31 $22.80 $25.37
Market price at end of period(c) $24.35 $23.03 $25.54
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 10.31% (7.60)% 1.48% (e)
Market Price Total Return(d) 9.37% (7.30)% 2.16% (e)
Ratios/Supplemental Data:      
Net assets at end of period (000’s omitted) $2,431 $2,280 $2,537
Ratio to average net assets of:      
Expenses 0.37% (f) 0.07% 0.07% (g)
Net investment income 2.99% (f) 2.89% 2.38% (g)
Portfolio turnover rate(h) 4% 7% 2%
    
(a) Commencement of investment operations.
(b) Based on average shares outstanding.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) The net asset value total return from Fund Inception (September 22, 2017, the first day of trading on the Exchange) to October 31, 2017 was 1.80%. The market price total return from Fund Inception to October 31, 2017 was 2.12%.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.30%.
(g) Annualized.
(h) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF
  Years Ended October 31, For the Period
September 19, 2017(a)
Through
October 31,
2017
  2019 2018
Per Share Operating Performance:      
Net asset value at beginning of period $ 21.66 $ 25.07 $25.00
Net investment income(b) 0.74 (c) 0.66 0.03
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 2.06 (3.42) 0.04
Total from investment operations 2.80 (2.76) 0.07
Distributions to shareholders from:      
Net investment income (0.60) (0.65) -
Net asset value at end of period $ 23.86 $ 21.66 $25.07
Market price at end of period(d) $ 23.82 $ 21.75 $25.20
Net Asset Value Total Return(e) 13.02% (11.28)% 0.28% (f)
Market Price Total Return(e) 12.34% (11.38)% 0.80% (f)
Ratios/Supplemental Data:      
Net assets at end of period (000’s omitted) $ 2,386 $ 2,166 $2,507
Ratio to average net assets of:      
Expenses, after Waivers 0.39% (g)(h) 0.11% 0.14% (i)
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.43% (g)(h) 0.14% 0.14% (i)
Net investment income 3.16% (c)(h) 2.64% 1.03% (i)
Portfolio turnover rate(j) 13% 16% 1%
    
(a) Commencement of investment operations.
(b) Based on average shares outstanding.
(c) Net Investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include a non-cash taxable distribution received during the year. Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets excluding the non-cash taxable distribution are $0.56 and 2.39%, respectively.
(d) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(e) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(f) The net asset value total return from Fund Inception (September 22, 2017, the first day of trading on the Exchange) to October 31, 2017 was 1.05%. The market price total return from Fund Inception to October 31, 2017 was (0.39)%.
(g) 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 investment companies in which the Fund invests. Estimated investment companies' expenses are not expenses that are incurred directly by the Fund. They are expenses that are incurred directly by the investment companies and are deducted from the value of the investment companies the Fund invests in. The effect of the estimated investment companies' expenses that the Fund bears indirectly is included in the Fund's total return.
(h) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.29%.
(i) Annualized.
(j) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 23.02 $ 24.59 $ 22.27 $ 22.31 $ 27.37
Net investment income(a) 0.74 1.04 0.63 0.57 0.69
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 0.58 (1.68) 2.29 (0.14) (5.11)
Total from investment operations 1.32 (0.64) 2.92 0.43 (4.42)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (1.12) (1.01) (0.61) (0.49) (0.66)
Transaction fees(a) 0.01 0.08 0.01 0.02 0.02
Net asset value at end of year $ 23.23 $ 23.02 $ 24.59 $ 22.27 $ 22.31
Market price at end of year(b) $ 23.12 $ 23.03 $ 24.63 $ 22.15 $ 22.13
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 5.87% (2.54)% 13.30% 2.12% (16.21)%
Market Price Total Return(c) 5.32% (2.60)% 14.09% 2.39% (16.48)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $335,632 $246,270 $277,832 $269,478 $176,244
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses, after Waivers 0.29% 0.29% 0.29% 0.29% 0.29%
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.45% 0.45% 0.45% 0.45% 0.45%
Net investment income 3.14% 4.12% 2.74% 2.60% 2.78%
Portfolio turnover rate(d) 67% 125% 81% 73% 89%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $17.23 $ 20.85 $ 15.87 $16.20 $ 21.70
Net investment income(a) 0.40 0.27 (b) 0.40 0.22 0.52
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.61 (3.03) 4.70 (0.23) (5.69)
Total from investment operations 2.01 (2.76) 5.10 (0.01) (5.17)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.43) (0.14) (0.37) (0.32) (0.33)
Net realized gains (1.85) (0.76) - - -
Total distributions (2.28) (0.90) (0.37) (0.32) (0.33)
Transaction fees(a) 0.01 0.04 0.25 - -
Net asset value at end of year $16.97 $ 17.23 $ 20.85 $15.87 $ 16.20
Market price at end of year(c) $16.92 $ 17.18 $ 20.96 $15.84 $ 16.09
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 13.60% (13.66)% 34.38% 0.17% (24.15)%
Market Price Total Return(d) 13.66% (14.35)% 35.37% 0.69% (24.18)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $5,941 $12,924 $390,986 $1,587 $ 1,620
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses, after Waivers 0.36% (e)(f) 0.27% (e) 0.27% (e) 0.28% 0.29%
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.53% (e)(f) 0.45% (e) 0.45% (e) 0.45% 0.45%
Net investment income 2.42% (f) 1.26% (b) 2.16% 1.44% 2.52%
Portfolio turnover rate(g) 114% 140% 111% 182% 134%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Net Investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include a non-cash taxable distribution received during the year. Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets excluding the non-cash taxable distribution are $0.17 and 0.83%, respectively.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) 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 investment companies in which the Fund invests. Estimated investment companies' expenses are not expenses that are incurred directly by the Fund. They are expenses that are incurred directly by the investment companies and are deducted from the value of the investment companies the Fund invests in. The effect of the estimated investment companies' expenses that the Fund bears indirectly is included in the Fund's total return.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.08%.
(g) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions. For the year ended October 31, 2016, the portfolio turnover calculation includes the value of securities purchased and sold in the effort to realign the Fund’s portfolio holdings due to the underlying index change.
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Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
  Years Ended October 31, For the Period
November 29, 2016(a)
Through
October 31,
2017
  2019 2018
Per Share Operating Performance:      
Net asset value at beginning of period $ 26.19 $28.39 $25.19
Net investment income(b) 1.25 1.27 1.02
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 2.41 (2.09) 3.16
Total from investment operations 3.66 (0.82) 4.18
Distributions to shareholders from:      
Net investment income (1.25) (1.38) (0.98)
Net asset value at end of period $ 28.60 $26.19 $28.39
Market price at end of period(c) $ 28.61 $26.41 $28.60
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 14.30% (3.11)% 16.70% (e)
Market Price Total Return(d) 13.34% (3.06)% 17.55% (e)
Ratios/Supplemental Data:      
Net assets at end of period (000’s omitted) $14,300 $5,238 $4,258
Ratio to average net assets of:      
Expenses 0.37% (f) 0.30% 0.30% (g)
Net investment income 4.60% (f) 4.51% 4.00% (g)
Portfolio turnover rate(h) 58% 65% 72%
    
(a) Commencement of investment operations.
(b) Based on average shares outstanding.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) The net asset value total return from Fund Inception (December 1, 2016, the first day of trading on the exchange) to October 31, 2017 was 17.22%. The market price total return from Fund Inception to October 31, 2017 was 18.16%.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.07%.
(g) Annualized.
(h) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 30.83 $ 33.28 $ 29.32 $ 29.99 $ 31.75
Net investment income(a) 1.15 1.08 1.00 0.99 1.02
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 3.79 (2.22) 4.04 (0.55) (1.86)
Total from investment operations 4.94 (1.14) 5.04 0.44 (0.84)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (1.19) (1.31) (1.08) (1.11) (0.92)
Net asset value at end of year $ 34.58 $ 30.83 $ 33.28 $ 29.32 $ 29.99
Market price at end of year(b) $ 34.57 $ 30.76 $ 33.29 $ 29.38 $ 29.90
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 16.33% (3.62)% 17.59% 1.56% (2.69)%
Market Price Total Return(c) 16.56% (3.87)% 17.38% 2.07% (3.78)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $989,052 $537,929 $569,124 $384,137 $313,428
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses, after Waivers 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25%
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.35% 0.35% 0.35% 0.35% 0.35%
Net investment income 3.51% 3.26% 3.19% 3.33% 3.32%
Portfolio turnover rate(d) 59% 65% 69% 56% 66%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $24.86 $27.96 $23.57 $25.85 $27.75
Net investment income(a) 0.61 0.61 0.71 0.51 0.69
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 2.12 (3.04) 4.49 (2.30) (2.13)
Total from investment operations 2.73 (2.43) 5.20 (1.79) (1.44)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.74) (0.67) (0.81) (0.49) (0.46)
Net asset value at end of year $26.85 $24.86 $27.96 $23.57 $25.85
Market price at end of year(b) $26.79 $24.78 $27.80 $23.51 $25.74
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 11.30% (8.95)% 22.57% (6.92)% (5.34)%
Market Price Total Return(c) 11.42% (8.70)% 22.19% (6.77)% (6.99)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $2,685 $2,486 $2,796 $3,535 $3,877
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses, after Waivers 0.53% (d) 0.25% 0.26% 0.26% 0.26%
Expenses, prior to Waivers 0.63% (d) 0.35% 0.36% 0.36% 0.36%
Net investment income 2.39% (d) 2.21% 2.87% 2.13% 2.42%
Portfolio turnover rate(e) 104% 123% 134% 198% 98%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.27%.
(e) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions. For the year ended October 31, 2016, the portfolio turnover calculation includes the value of securities purchased and sold in the effort to realign the Fund’s portfolio holdings due to the underlying index change.
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Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 21.36 $ 23.50 $ 19.65 $ 20.19 $ 19.42
Net investment income(a) 0.54 0.58 0.45 0.41 0.33
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 3.16 (2.18) 3.88 (0.54) (b) 0.75
Total from investment operations 3.70 (1.60) 4.33 (0.13) 1.08
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.59) (0.54) (0.48) (0.41) (0.31)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (c) 0.00 (c) - - -
Net asset value at end of year $ 24.47 $ 21.36 $ 23.50 $ 19.65 $ 20.19
Market price at end of year(d) $ 24.53 $ 21.31 $ 23.71 $ 19.61 $ 20.14
Net Asset Value Total Return(e) 17.58% (7.00)% 22.36% (0.62)% (b) 5.60%
Market Price Total Return(e) 18.14% (8.05)% 23.70% (0.59)% 4.42%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $47,726 $32,039 $28,203 $20,628 $19,180
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.31% (f) 0.29% 0.31% 0.45% 0.49%
Net investment income 2.38% (f) 2.47% 2.10% 2.09% 1.66%
Portfolio turnover rate(g) 54% 54% 49% 165% 78%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Includes settlement proceeds recorded during the period. Had these settlement proceeds not been recorded Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments per share would have been $(0.71) and total return would have been lower.
(c) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(d) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(e) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.02%.
(g) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions. For the year ended October 31, 2016, the portfolio turnover calculation includes the value of securities purchased and sold in the effort to realign the Fund’s portfolio holdings due to the underlying index change.
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Index Providers
    

No entity that creates, compiles, sponsors or maintains an Underlying Index is or will be an affiliated person, as defined in Section 2(a)(3) of the 1940 Act, or an affiliated person of an affiliated person, of the Trust, the Adviser, the Distributor or a promoter of a Fund.
Neither the Adviser nor any affiliate of the Adviser has any rights to influence the selection of the securities in the Underlying Indexes.
Each Underlying Index is calculated and maintained by its respective Index Provider. The Index Providers are not affiliated with the Trust, the Adviser or the Distributor. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with each Index Provider. Each Fund is entitled to use its Underlying Index pursuant to a sublicensing agreement with the Adviser.
Dorsey, Wright & Associates LLC. Dorsey Wright & Associates LLC (“Dorsey Wright”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of each of Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF and Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF.
FTSE International Limited. FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of each of Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, and such Funds’ Underlying Indexes are trademarks of FTSE and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
FTSE in conjunction with Research Affiliates LLC (“RA”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index for each of Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF and Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF. The Funds’ Underlying Indexes are trademarks of FTSE and RA and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
FTSE® is a trade mark of London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG”). The trade names Fundamental Index and RAFI are registered trademarks of Research Affiliates, LLC.
MSCI Inc. MSCI Inc. (“MSCI“) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF.
Nasdaq, Inc. Nasdaq, Inc. (“Nasdaq”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of each of Invesco Global Water ETF and Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF.
S&P Dow Jones Indices, LLC®. S&P Dow Jones Indices, LLC (“S&P DJI”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of each of Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, and Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF. The Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC®, or any of its affiliates or third party licensors, and none of such parties make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Funds. The Underlying Indexes are trademarks of the Index Provider and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
WilderHill. WilderHill New Energy Finance, LLC (“WilderHill”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF.
Set forth below is a list of each Fund and its Underlying Index:
Fund Underlying Index
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index
...
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index
...
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF FTSE Developed ex-U.S. Low Beta Equal Weight Index
...
Fund Underlying Index
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF FTSE RAFI TM Developed ex-U.S. 1000 Index
...
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF FTSE RAFI TM Developed ex-U.S. Mid-Small 1500 Index
...
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF FTSE RAFI TM Emerging Index
...
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index
...
Invesco Global Water ETF Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM
...
Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index
...
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index
...
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF FTSE Developed ex-North America Index
...
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF FTSE Emerging Index
...
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility IndexTM
...
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index
...
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF S&P EPAC EX-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index
...
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF S&P BMI International Developed Low VolatilityTM Index
...
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap IndexTM
...
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index
...

Disclaimers
Dorsey Wright & Associates LLC. Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF and Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF (the “Invesco DWA ETFs”) are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Dorsey Wright, and Dorsey Wright does not make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in Shares of the Invesco DWA ETFs.
There is no relationship between Dorsey Wright and the Adviser other than a license by Dorsey Wright to the Adviser of certain Dorsey Wright trademarks and trade names, and the Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index and Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index, for use by the Adviser.
Such trademarks, trade names and Underlying Indexes have been created and developed by Dorsey Wright without regard to and independently of the Adviser, its businesses, its development of Invesco DWA ETFs and/or any prospective investor. The Adviser has arranged with Dorsey Wright to license indexes, such as the Underlying Indexes, based on Point & Figure Analysis for possible inclusion in products which the Adviser independently develops and promotes. The licensing of any model such as the Underlying Indexes to the Adviser is not an offer to purchase or sell, or a solicitation. A determination that any portion of an investor’s portfolio should be devoted to any product developed by the Adviser with reference to a
 
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Dorsey Wright Index is a determination made solely by the Adviser serving the investor or the investor himself, not Dorsey Wright.
Dorsey Wright is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices and amount of Shares, the timing of the issuance or sale of Shares or in the determination of any financial calculations relating thereto. Dorsey Wright has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration of the Trust or marketing of the Shares. Dorsey Wright does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Underlying Indexes or any data included therein. Dorsey Wright shall have no liability for any errors, omissions or interruptions therein. Dorsey Wright makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or owners of Shares, or any other person or entity, from the use of the Underlying Indexes, or any data included therein in connection with Invesco DWA ETFs, or for any other use. Dorsey Wright expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of merchantability, title or fitness for a particular purpose or use, with respect to Invesco DWA ETFs or Underlying Indexes or to any data included therein, except as set forth in the respective license agreements with the Adviser. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall Dorsey Wright have any liability for any incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits), however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability or tort (including negligence or otherwise), resulting from the use of the Underlying Indexes or any data included therein, even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
FTSE International Limited. The Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF are not in any way sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”) or by the London Stock Exchange Group Companies (“LSEG”).
The Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF and Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF are not in any way sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by FTSE, by LSEG, or by Research Affiliates LLC (“RA”) (collectively the “Licensor Parties”), and none of the Licensor Parties make any claim, prediction, warranty or representation whatsoever, expressly or impliedly, either as to (i) the results to be obtained from the use of the FTSE Developed ex US Low Beta Equal Weight Index, FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-US Index, FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-US Mid Small 1500 Index, FTSE RAFITM Emerging Index, FTSE Developed ex North America Index or the FTSE Emerging Index (together the “Underlying Indexes”), (ii) the figure at which the Underlying Indexes are said to stand at any particular time on any particular day or otherwise, or (iii) the suitability of the Underlying Indexes for the particular purpose to which they are being put in connection with the Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-US. Small-mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF.
None of the Licensor Parties have provided or will provide any financial or investment advice or recommendation in relation to an Underlying Index to the Adviser or its clients. The FTSE Developed ex US Low Beta Equal Weight Index, FTSE Developed ex North America Index and the FTSE Emerging Index is calculated by FTSE or its agent. The FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-US Index, FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-US Mid Small 1500 Index and FTSE RAFITM Emerging Index are calculated by FTSE in conjunction with RA. None of the Licensor Parties shall be (a) liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Underlying Indexes or (b) under any obligation to advise any person of any error therein.
Any intellectual property rights in the index values and constituent list vests in FTSE. FTSE® is a trade mark of LSEG. The trade names Fundamental IndexTM and RAFITM are registered trademarks of RA.
The Adviser has obtained a full license from FTSE to use such intellectual property rights in the creation of these products.
Investors should be aware of the risks associated with data sources and quantitative processes used in our investment management process. Errors may exist in data acquired from third party vendors, the construction of model portfolios, and in coding related to the index and portfolio construction process. While RA takes steps to identify data and process errors so as to minimize the potential impact of such errors on index and portfolio performance, we cannot guarantee that such errors will not occur.
RA has developed and may continue to develop proprietary securities indexes created and weighted based on the U.S. patented and patent-pending proprietary intellectual property of Research Affiliates, LLC, the Fundamental IndexTM concept, the non-capitalization method for creating and weightings of an index of securities, “Fundamental IndexTM” and/or “Research Affiliates Fundamental IndexTM” and/or “RAFI” and/or all other RA trademarks, trade names, patented and patent-pending concepts are the exclusive property of Research Affiliates, LLC.
The Underlying Indexes are selected and calculated without regard to the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or any holders of Shares. The Licensor Parties have no obligation to take the needs of the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or the owners of Shares into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the Underlying Indexes. The Licensor Parties are not responsible for and have not participated in the determination of the prices and amount of Shares, the timing of the issuance or sale of Shares or in the determination of any financial calculations relating thereto. The Licensor Parties have no obligation or liability in connection with the administration of the Trust or marketing of the Shares. The Licensor Parties do not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Underlying Indexes or any data included therein, and the Licensor Parties shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, or interruptions therein. The Licensor Parties make no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or owners of Shares, or any other person or entity, from the use of the Underlying Indexes, trading based on the Underlying Indexes, any data included therein in connection with Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF or for any other use. The Licensor Parties expressly disclaim all warranties and conditions of merchantability, title or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to the Underlying Indexes or any data included therein, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF the Trust or the Shares except as set forth in the respective license agreements with the Adviser.
MSCI INC. THE INVESCO MSCI GLOBAL TIMBER ETF (THE “FUND”) IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED, SOLD OR PROMOTED BY MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, ANY OF ITS INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, COMPILING, COMPUTING OR CREATING ANY MSCI INDEX (COLLECTIVELY, THE “MSCI PARTIES”). THE MSCI ACWI IMI TIMBER SELECT CAPPED INDEX (THE “MSCI INDEX”) IS THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX ARE SERVICE MARK(S) OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES AND HAVE BEEN LICENSED FOR USE FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES BY THE ADVISER. NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE ISSUER OR OWNERS OF THE FUND OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY REGARDING THE ADVISABILITY OF INVESTING IN FUND GENERALLY OR IN THE FUND PARTICULARLY OR THE ABILITY OF THE MSCI INDEX TO TRACK CORRESPONDING STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE. MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES ARE THE LICENSORS OF CERTAIN TRADEMARKS, SERVICE
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MARKS AND TRADE NAMES AND OF THE MSCI INDEX WHICH IS DETERMINED, COMPOSED AND CALCULATED BY MSCI WITHOUT REGARD TO THE FUND OR THE ISSUER OR OWNERS OF THE FUND OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY. NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES HAS ANY OBLIGATION TO TAKE THE NEEDS OF THE ISSUER OR OWNERS OF THE FUND OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY INTO CONSIDERATION IN DETERMINING, COMPOSING OR CALCULATING THE MSCI INDEX. NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OR HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE TIMING OF, PRICES AT, OR QUANTITIES OF THE FUND TO BE ISSUED OR IN THE DETERMINATION OR CALCULATION OF THE EQUATION BY OR THE CONSIDERATION INTO WHICH THE FUND IS REDEEMABLE. FURTHER, NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES HAS ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY TO THE ISSUER OR OWNERS OF THE FUND OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATION, MARKETING OR OFFERING OF THE FUND.
ALTHOUGH MSCI SHALL OBTAIN INFORMATION FOR INCLUSION IN OR FOR USE IN THE CALCULATION OF THE MSCI INDEX FROM SOURCES THAT MSCI CONSIDERS RELIABLE, NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES WARRANTS OR GUARANTEES THE ORIGINALITY, ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY THE ISSUER OF THE FUND, OWNERS OF THE FUND, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, FROM THE USE OF ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. FURTHER, NONE OF THE MSCI PARTIES MAKES ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND THE MSCI PARTIES HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE MSCI INDEX AND ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY OF THE MSCI PARTIES HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Nasdaq, Inc. Invesco Global Water ETF and Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Nasdaq or its affiliates (Nasdaq, with its affiliates, are referred to as the “Corporations”). The Corporations have not passed on the legality or suitability of, or the accuracy or adequacy of descriptions and disclosures relating to, these Funds.
The Corporations calculate and maintain the Underlying Indexes for the Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF and Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF.
The Corporations make no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Funds or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Funds particularly, or the ability of the Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index, Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index, Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM and Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index to track general stock market performance.
The Corporations’ only relationship to the Adviser is in the licensing of the Nasdaq®, OMX®, Nasdaq OMX®, Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM and Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index trade/service marks, and certain trade names of the Corporations and the use of the Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM and Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index which are determined, composed and calculated by Nasdaq without regard to Adviser or the Funds.
Nasdaq has no obligation to take the needs of the Adviser or the owners of the Funds into consideration in determining, composing or calculating, as applicable, the Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index, Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index, Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM and Nasdaq International BuyBack AchieversTM Index.
The Corporations are not responsible for and have not participated in the determination of the timing of, prices at, or quantities of the Funds to be issued or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Funds are to be converted into cash. The Corporations have no liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the applicable Fund.
THE CORPORATIONS DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR UNINTERRUPTED CALCULATION OF THE DORSEY WRIGHT® DEVELOPED MARKETS TECHNICAL LEADERS INDEX, DORSEY WRIGHT® EMERGING MARKETS TECHNICAL LEADERS INDEX, NASDAQ OMX GLOBAL WATER INDEXSM AND NASDAQ INTERNATIONAL BUYBACK ACHIEVERSTM INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LICENSEE, OWNERS OF SUCH FUND OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE DORSEY WRIGHT® DEVELOPED MARKETS TECHNICAL LEADERS INDEX, DORSEY WRIGHT® EMERGING MARKETS TECHNICAL LEADERS INDEX , NASDAQ OMX GLOBAL WATER INDEXSM AND NASDAQ INTERNATIONAL BUYBACK ACHIEVERSTM INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE DORSEY WRIGHT® DEVELOPED MARKETS TECHNICAL LEADERS INDEX, DORSEY WRIGHT® EMERGING MARKETS TECHNICAL LEADERS INDEX, NASDAQ OMX GLOBAL WATER INDEXSM AND NASDAQ INTERNATIONAL BUYBACK ACHIEVERSTM INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CORPORATIONS HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
The Buyback Achievers trademark is used by the Adviser pursuant to a sublicense from Nasdaq, Inc., a licensee of Mergent, Inc., the owner of the trademark. All rights in the Buyback Achievers trademark vest in Mergent, Inc.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC® The S&P BMI International Developed Low Volatility Index, S&P EPAC Ex-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index, S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap, S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index, S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index, and S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index (together, the “S&P DJI Indices”) are products of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC or its affiliates (“SPDJI”) and have been licensed for use by the Adviser. Standard & Poor’s® and S&P® are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”) and Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”). The trademarks have been licensed to SPDJI and have been sublicensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser. Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF, and Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF (together the “S&P DJI Funds”) are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by SPDJI, Dow Jones, S&P, any of their respective affiliates (collectively, “S&P Dow Jones Indices”). S&P Dow Jones Indices does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the S&P DJI Funds or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in S&P DJI Funds particularly or the ability of the S&P DJI Indices to track general market performance. S&P Dow Jones Indices only relationship to the Adviser with respect to the S&P DJI Indices is the licensing of each Index and certain trademarks, service marks and/or trade names of S&P Dow Jones Indices and/or its licensors. The S&P Dow Jones Indices are determined, composed and calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices without regard to the Adviser or the S&P DJI Funds. S&P Dow Jones Indices has no obligation to take the
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needs of the Adviser or the owners of the S&P DJI Funds into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the S&P Dow Jones Indices. S&P Dow Jones Indices is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices, and amount of the S&P DJI Funds or the timing of the issuance or sale of the S&P DJI Funds or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the S&P DJI Funds are to be converted into cash, surrendered or redeemed, as the case may be. S&P Dow Jones Indices has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the S&P DJI Funds. There is no assurance that investment products based on the S&P Dow Jones Indices will accurately track index performance or provide positive investment returns. S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is not an investment advisor. Inclusion of a security within an index is not a recommendation by S&P Dow Jones Indices to buy, sell, or hold such security, nor is it considered to be investment advice.
S&P DOW JONES INDICES DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE S&P Dow Jones Indices OR ANY DATA RELATED THERETO OR ANY COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION (INCLUDING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS) WITH RESPECT THERETO. S&P DOW JONES INDICES SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR DELAYS THEREIN. S&P DOW JONES INDICES MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE OR AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY THE ADVISER, OWNERS OF THE S& P DJI Funds, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE S&P DOW JONES INDICES OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY DATA RELATED THERETO. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WHATSOEVER SHALL S&P DOW JONES INDICES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS, TRADING LOSSES, LOST TIME OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. THERE ARE NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN S&P DOW JONES INDICES AND THE ADVISER, OTHER THAN THE LICENSORS OF S&P DOW JONES INDICES.
WilderHill. The Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by WilderHill and WilderHill does not make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in Shares of the Fund.
WilderHill makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of Fund Shares or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in Shares particularly. WilderHill’s only relationship to the Distributor, the Adviser or the Trust is the licensing of certain WilderHill trademarks and trade names of WilderHill and WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which is composed by WilderHill without regard to the Distributor, Adviser or the Trust.
The Underlying Index is selected and calculated without regard to the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or any holders of Shares. WilderHill has no obligation to take the needs of the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or the owners of Shares into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the Underlying Indices.
WilderHill is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices and amount of Shares or the timing of the issuance or sale of Shares or in the determination of any financial calculations relating thereto. WilderHill has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration of the Trust or marketing of the Shares. WilderHill does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the
Underlying Indices or any data included therein, and WilderHill shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, or interruptions therein. WilderHill makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or owners of Shares, or any other person or entity, from the use of the Underlying Index, trading based on the Underlying Index, any data included therein in connection with Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF or for any other use. WilderHill expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of merchantability, title or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to the Underlying Index or any data included therein, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, the Trust or the Shares except as set forth in the license agreement with the Adviser. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall WilderHill have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits) resulting from the use of the Underlying Index or any data included therein and Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
There is no relationship between WilderHill New Energy Finance LLC and the Adviser other than licenses by WilderHill New Energy Finance LLC to the Adviser of certain WilderHill New Energy Finance LLC trademarks and trade names, for use by the Adviser. Such trademarks, trade names and indices have been created and developed by WilderHill New Energy Finance LLC without regard to the Adviser, its business, the Fund and/or any prospective investor.
The Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF is not sponsored, promoted, sold or supported in any other manner by Solactive AG nor does Solactive AG offer any express or implicit guarantee or assurance either with regard to the results of using the Underlying Index and/or Index trade mark or the Index Price at any time or in any other respect. The Underlying Index is calculated and published by Solactive AG. Solactive AG uses its best efforts to ensure that the Underlying Index is calculated correctly. Irrespective of its obligations towards the Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Solactive AG has no obligation to point out errors in the Index to third parties including but not limited to investors and/or financial intermediaries of the Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF. Neither publication of the Index by Solactive AG nor the licensing of the Underlying Index or Index trade mark for the purpose of use in connection with the Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF constitutes a recommendation by Solactive AG to invest capital in said Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF nor does it in any way represent an assurance or opinion of Solactive AG with regard to any investment in the Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF.
The Adviser does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of an Underlying Index or any data included therein, and the Adviser shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, restatements, re-calculations or interruptions therein. The Adviser makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by a Fund, owners of the Shares or any other person or entity from the use of an Underlying Index or any data included therein. The Adviser makes no express or implied warranties, and expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to an Underlying Index or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Adviser have any liability for any special, punitive, direct, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits) arising out of matters relating to the use of an Underlying Index even if notified of the possibility of such damages.

Premium/Discount Information
    
Information on the daily NAV per Share for each Fund can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs. Additionally, information regarding how often the Shares of each Fund traded on its Exchange at a price above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) the NAV of the Fund during the prior calendar year and subsequent quarters, can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
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Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies (and companies relying on Sections 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act) in the securities of other investment companies. However, registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Funds beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust, including that such investment companies enter into a participation agreement with the Trust on behalf of a Fund prior to exceeding the limits imposed by Section 12(d)(1). Additionally, each Fund is permitted pursuant to an SEC exemptive order to invest in other registered investment companies beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in another exemptive order that the SEC has issued to the Trust. If a Fund relies on this exemptive relief, however, other investment companies may not invest in that Fund beyond the statutory provisions of Section 12(d)(1).
Continuous Offering
The method by which Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are issued and sold by a Fund on an ongoing basis, a “distribution,” as such term is used in the Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery requirement and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory underwriter if it takes Creation Unit Aggregations after placing an order with the Distributor, breaks them down into constituent Shares and sells such Shares directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the creation of a supply of new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary market demand for Shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could lead to a characterization as an underwriter.
Broker-dealer firms also should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are effecting transactions in Shares, whether or not participating in the distribution of Shares, generally are required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted with engaging in ordinary secondary market transactions), and thus dealing with the Shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act. For delivery of
prospectuses to exchange members, the prospectus delivery mechanism of Rule 153 under the Securities Act only is available with respect to transactions on a national exchange.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents–Householding
Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Funds. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Funds is available through certain broker-dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of the Prospectus and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you currently are enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.
For More Information
For more detailed information on the Trust, the Funds and the Shares, you may request a copy of the Funds' SAI. The SAI provides detailed information about the Funds and is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. This means that the SAI legally is a part of this Prospectus. Additional information about the Funds' investments also is available in the Funds' Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders. In the Funds' Annual Reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected each Fund's performance during the last fiscal year. If you have questions about the Funds or Shares or you wish to obtain the SAI, Annual Report and/or Semi-Annual Report, free of charge, or to make shareholder inquiries, please:
Call: Invesco Distributors, Inc. at 1-800-983-0903
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Visit: www.invesco.com/ETFs
Reports and other information about the Funds are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Internet site at www.sec.gov, and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov.
No person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations about a Fund and its Shares not contained in this Prospectus, and you should not rely on any other information. Read and keep this Prospectus for future reference.
Dealers effecting transactions in the Shares, whether or not participating in this distribution, generally are required to deliver a Prospectus. This is in addition to any obligation of dealers to deliver a Prospectus when acting as underwriters.
The Trust's registration number under the 1940 Act is 811-21977.
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Prospectus February 28, 2020

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PGHY Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PICB Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF NYSE Arca, Inc.
PBTP Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Funds’ shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from your financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or bank. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you may contact your financial intermediary to enroll in electronic delivery. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service.
You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. If you hold accounts through a financial intermediary, you can follow the instructions included with this disclosure, if applicable, or contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. Please note that not all financial intermediaries may offer this service. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held with your financial intermediary.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this Prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


 


Summary Information

Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.50%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.50%
...
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$51 $160 $280 $628
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 80% of its total assets in U.S. dollar-denominated government bonds from emerging market countries that comprise the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index measures potential returns of a theoretical portfolio of liquid emerging market U.S. dollar-denominated government bonds. Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“DB” or the “Index Provider”) selects one to three securities from each of the emerging market countries set forth below that (i) are denominated in U.S. dollars, (ii) are sovereign bonds, (iii) have at least three years to maturity at the time of rebalancing, (iv) have an outstanding float of at least $500 million or greater; and (v) have a fixed coupon bond.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index has determined the following to be eligible emerging market countries: Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, El Salvador, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates; however, this universe of countries may change in accordance with DB’s determination of eligible emerging market
countries and there is no assurance that a particular country will be represented in the Underlying Index at any given time.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 115 constituents.
The Fund does not purchase all of the securities in the Underlying Index; instead, the Fund utilizes a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Call Risk. If interest rates fall, it is possible that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons will “call” (or prepay) their bonds before their maturity date. If an issuer exercises such a call during a period of declining interest rates, a fund may have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, a fund’s net investment income could fall.
Changing Foreign Fixed-Income Market Conditions Risk. The current historically low interest rate environment was created in part by foreign central banks keeping rates at, near or below zero. The recent end of various governments' quantitative easing programs, combined with the increases in such foreign rates, may expose fixed-income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed-income investments, particularly those with longer maturities, although it is difficult to predict the impact of this rate increase and any future rate increases on various markets.
Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt Risk. Government obligors in emerging market countries are among the world's largest debtors to commercial banks, other governments, international financial organizations and other financial institutions. Historically, certain issuers of the government debt securities in which the Fund may invest have experienced substantial difficulties in meeting their external debt obligations, resulting in defaults on certain obligations and the restructuring of certain indebtedness. Such restructuring arrangements have included obtaining additional credit
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to finance outstanding obligations and the reduction and rescheduling of payments of interest and principal through the negotiation of new or amended credit agreements.
Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a fixed-income security resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of most fixed-income securities go down. When the general level of interest rates goes down, the prices of most fixed-income securities go up. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities typically are more sensitive to changes in interest rates, making them more volatile than securities with shorter maturities. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a security will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Debt instruments are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which may be reflected in credit ratings. There is a possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security.
Foreign Fixed-Income Investment Risk. Investments in fixed-income securities of non-U.S. issuers are subject to the same risks as other debt securities, notably credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk and liquidity risk, while also facing risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. For example, foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information, and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when a particular investment is difficult to purchase or sell. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities or current portfolio securities become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the Fund
because the Fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Investment Grade Securities Risk. Non-investment grade securities and unrated securities of comparable credit quality are considered speculative and are subject to the increased risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payment obligations. These securities may be subject to greater price volatility due to such factors as specific corporate developments, interest rate sensitivity, negative perceptions of the non-investment grade securities markets generally, real or perceived adverse economic and competitive industry conditions and less secondary market liquidity. If the issuer of non-investment grade securities defaults, the Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Restricted Securities Risk. The Fund may invest in restricted securities, including those that may be resold only in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), as amended. Regulation S securities are securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers initially offered and sold outside the United States without registration with the SEC. Accordingly, the liquidity of the market for specific Regulation S securities may vary. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund.
Sampling Risk. The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that the Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Sovereign Debt Risk. Investments in sovereign debt securities involve special risks. The governmental authority that controls the repayment of the debt may be unwilling or unable to repay the principal and/or interest when due in accordance with the terms of such securities due to the extent of its foreign reserves; the availability of sufficient foreign exchange on the date a payment is due; the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole; or the government debtor’s policy towards the International
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Monetary Fund and the political constraints to which a government debtor may be subject. If an issuer of sovereign debt defaults on payments of principal and/or interest, the Fund may have limited legal recourse against the issuer and/or guarantor. In certain cases, remedies must be pursued in the courts of the defaulting party itself, and the Fund’s ability to obtain recourse may be limited.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 8.38% (3rd Quarter 2010)
Worst Quarter (7.05)% (2nd Quarter 2013)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax
returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Return Before Taxes 17.47% 6.05% 6.82%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 15.12% 3.83% 4.69%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 10.26% 3.61% 4.38%
...
DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
18.12% 6.67% 7.70%
...
JP Morgan Emerging Market Bond Global Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
14.42% 5.88% 6.57%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Jeffrey W. Kernagis Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
...
Gary Jones Portfolio Manager of the Adviser January 2012
...
Richard Ose Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2014
...
Greg Meisenger Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 100,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.35%
...
Other Expenses 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.35%
...
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$36 $113 $197 $443
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 57% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 80% of its total assets in U.S. and foreign short-term, non-investment grade bonds that comprise the Underlying Index, all of which are denominated in U.S. dollars. Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“DB” or the “Index Provider”) selects such bonds issued by corporations, as well as sovereign, sub-sovereign or quasi-government entities, from a universe of eligible securities for inclusion in the Underlying Index that: (i) are denominated in U.S. dollars; (ii) are rated below “investment grade” (i.e., have a “composite rating” from DB of no greater than “BB+”); (iii) have not been marked as defaulted by any rating agency; (iv) have three years or less to maturity; (v) have a minimum amount outstanding of at least $250 million; and (vi) have a fixed coupon.
Eligible bonds must be rated by at least one of S&P Global Ratings (“S&P”), Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or Fitch Ratings Inc. (“Fitch”). DB converts all available ratings for each bond into a numerical score, and then calculates an average score for each bond from those available ratings that corresponds to DB’s “composite rating” system.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 576 constituents.
The Fund does not purchase all of the securities in the Underlying Index; instead, the Fund utilizes a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Call Risk. If interest rates fall, it is possible that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons will “call” (or prepay) their bonds before their maturity date. If an issuer exercises such a call during a period of declining interest rates, a fund may have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, a fund’s net investment income could fall.
Changing Global Fixed-Income Market Conditions Risk. The current historically low interest rate environment was created in part by the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and certain foreign central banks keeping the federal funds and equivalent foreign rates at, near or below zero. The “tapering” in 2015 of the FRB’s quantitative easing program, combined with the FRB’s changes to the target range for the Federal Funds Rate (and continued possible fluctuations in equivalent foreign rates) may expose fixed-income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed-income investments, particularly those with longer maturities, although it is difficult to predict the impact of this rate increase and any future rate increases on various markets. In addition, decreases in fixed-income dealer market-making capacity may also potentially lead to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the fixed-income markets. As a result, the value of the Fund’s investments and share price may decline. Changes in central bank policies could also result in higher than normal shareholder redemptions, which could potentially increase portfolio turnover rate and the Fund’s transaction costs.
Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a fixed-income security resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of most fixed-income securities go down. When the general level of interest rates goes down, the prices of most fixed-income securities go up. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities typically are more sensitive to changes in interest rates, making them more volatile than securities with shorter maturities. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a security will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Debt instruments are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which may be reflected in credit ratings.
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There is a possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security.
Foreign Fixed-Income Investment Risk. Investments in fixed-income securities of non-U.S. issuers are subject to the same risks as other debt securities, notably credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk and liquidity risk, while also facing risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. For example, foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information, and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Fund from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when a particular investment is difficult to purchase or sell. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities or current portfolio securities become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the Fund because the Fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying
Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Investment Grade Securities Risk. Non-investment grade securities and unrated securities of comparable credit quality are considered speculative and are subject to the increased risk of an issuer’s inability to meet principal and interest payment obligations. These securities may be subject to greater price volatility due to such factors as specific corporate developments, interest rate sensitivity, negative perceptions of the non-investment grade securities markets generally, real or perceived adverse economic and competitive industry conditions and less secondary market liquidity. If the issuer of non-investment grade securities defaults, the Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Restricted Securities Risk. The Fund may invest in restricted securities, including those that may be resold only in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), as amended. Regulation S securities are securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers initially offered and sold outside the United States without registration with the SEC. Accordingly, the liquidity of the market for specific Regulation S securities may vary. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund.
Sampling Risk. The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that the Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Short-Term Bond Risk. The Fund will invest in bonds with a short term (i.e., three years or less) until maturity. The amount of time until a fixed-income security matures can lead to various risks, including changes in interest rates over the life of a bond. Short-term fixed-income securities generally provide lower returns than longer-term fixed-income securities. The average maturity of the Fund’s investments will affect the volatility of the Fund’s share price.
Sovereign Debt Risk. Investments in sovereign debt securities involve special risks. The governmental authority that controls the repayment of the debt may be unwilling or unable to repay the principal and/or interest when due in accordance with the terms of such securities due to the extent of its foreign reserves; the availability of sufficient foreign exchange on the date a payment is due; the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole; or the government debtor’s policy towards the International Monetary Fund and the political constraints to which a government debtor may be subject. If an issuer of sovereign debt defaults on payments of principal and/or interest, the Fund may have limited legal recourse against the issuer and/or guarantor. In certain cases, remedies must be pursued in the courts of the defaulting party itself, and the Fund’s ability to obtain recourse may be limited.
Sub-Sovereign Debt Risk. Sub-sovereign government bonds represent the debt of state, provincial, territorial, municipal, local or other political sub-divisions, including other governmental entities or agencies, other than
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sovereign governments. In addition to risks of investing in sovereign debt generally, risks of investing in sub-sovereign debt include the fact that such investments may or may not be issued by, or guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the sub-sovereign’s larger sovereign entity. Certain foreign sub-sovereign securities may be backed by the issuer’s right to borrow from a central bank or other regional banking entity, while others may be backed only by the assets and credit of the issuing foreign sub-sovereign entity.
Supranational Entities Risk. The Fund may invest in obligations issued or guaranteed by supranational entities, which may include, for example, entities such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank). If one or more shareholders of a supranational entity fails to make necessary additional capital contributions, the entity may be unable to pay interest or repay principal on its debt securities, and the Fund may lose money on such investments.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 4.41% (2nd Quarter 2016)
Worst Quarter (2.11)% (3rd Quarter 2014)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception
(06/20/13)
Return Before Taxes 5.32% 4.99% 4.07%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 3.08% 2.64% 1.87%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 3.13% 2.76% 2.11%
...
DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
6.16% 6.41% 5.51%
...
ICE BofA 0-5 Year U.S. High Yield Constrained Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
9.90% 5.31% 5.07%
...
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
...
Jeffrey W. Kernagis Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
...
Gary Jones Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
...
Richard Ose Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
...
Greg Meisenger Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
...
Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well
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as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P International Corporate Bond Index® (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.50%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.50%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.01%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$51 $160 $280 $628
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 23% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 80% of its total assets in investment grade corporate bonds that comprise the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index measures the performance of investment grade corporate bonds issued in the following currencies of Group of Ten (“G10”) countries, excluding the U.S. Dollar (USD): Australian Dollar (AUD), British Pound (GBP), Canadian Dollar (CAD), Euro (EUR), Japanese Yen (JPY), New Zealand Dollar (NZD), Norwegian Krone (NOK), Swedish Krona (SEK) and Swiss Franc (SFR). S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI” or the “Index Provider”) constructs the Underlying Index from investment grade corporate bonds denominated in the currencies noted above.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 596 securities with market capitalizations ranging from $5.89 million to $5.68 billion.
The Fund does not purchase all of the securities in the Underlying Index; instead, the Fund utilizes a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its investment objective.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries. As of October 31, 2019, the Fund had significant exposure to the financials sector. The Fund’s portfolio holdings, and the extent to which it concentrates, are likely to change over time.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Call Risk. If interest rates fall, it is possible that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons will “call” (or prepay) their bonds before their maturity date. If an issuer exercises such a call during a period of declining interest rates, a fund may have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, a fund’s net investment income could fall.
Changing Foreign Fixed-Income Market Conditions Risk. The current historically low interest rate environment was created in part by foreign central banks keeping rates at, near or below zero. The recent end of various governments' quantitative easing programs, combined with the increases in such foreign rates, may expose fixed-income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed-income investments, particularly those with longer maturities, although it is difficult to predict the impact of this rate increase and any future rate increases on various markets.
Currency Risk. Because the Fund's NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, the Fund's NAV could decline if the currency of a non-U.S. market in which the Fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing the Fund's overall NAV. Exchange rates may be volatile and may change quickly and unpredictably in response to both global economic developments and economic conditions, causing an adverse impact on the Fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
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Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a fixed-income security resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of most fixed-income securities go down. When the general level of interest rates goes down, the prices of most fixed-income securities go up. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities typically are more sensitive to changes in interest rates, making them more volatile than securities with shorter maturities. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a security will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Debt instruments are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which may be reflected in credit ratings. There is a possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security.
Foreign Fixed-Income Investment Risk. Investments in fixed-income securities of non-U.S. issuers are subject to the same risks as other debt securities, notably credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk and liquidity risk, while also facing risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. For example, foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information, and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs.
Geographic Concentration Risk. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which the Fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact the Fund’s investments in the affected country or region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Financial Sector Risk. A fund may be susceptible to adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting the financial services sector. Investing in the financial services sector involves risks, including the following: financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations; unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector; financial services companies whose securities a fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector;
and financial services companies have been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when a particular investment is difficult to purchase or sell. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities or current portfolio securities become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the Fund because the Fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. The Fund’s use of a representative sampling approach may cause the Fund not to be as well-correlated with the return of the Underlying Index as would be the case if the Fund purchased all of the securities in the Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Restricted Securities Risk. The Fund may invest in restricted securities, including those that may be resold only in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), as amended. Regulation S securities are securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers initially offered and sold outside the United States without registration with the SEC. Accordingly, the liquidity of the market for specific Regulation S securities may vary. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund.
Sampling Risk. The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach may result in it holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that the Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by the Fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some Fund securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using
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techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that the Fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that the Fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. The Fund will invest in foreign securities and, because foreign exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of those non-U.S. securities in the Fund’s portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the Fund. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 7.61% (3rd Quarter 2012)
Worst Quarter (7.53)% (4th Quarter 2016)
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year 5 Years Since Inception
(06/03/10)
Return Before Taxes 9.55% 0.89% 3.43%
Return After Taxes on Distributions 9.18% 0.55% 2.77%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 5.66% 0.53% 2.40%
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S&P International Corporate Bond Index® (Net)
(reflects invested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or other taxes)
9.30% 0.81% 3.33%
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Bloomberg Barclays Pan-European Aggregate Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
5.26% 0.77% 3.26%
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust Since Inception
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Jeffrey W. Kernagis Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser Since Inception
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Gary Jones Portfolio Manager of the Adviser January 2012
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Greg Meisenger Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
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Jeremy Neisewander Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
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Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF
Investment Objective
The Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury IndexSM (the “Underlying Index”).
Fund Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). Investors may pay brokerage
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commissions on their purchases and sales of Shares, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.07%
...
Other Expenses(1) 0.00%
...
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.07%
...
(1) Other Expenses do not reflect any extraordinary expenses incurred during the most recent fiscal period, such as the costs associated with a proxy statement of the Fund. Had these expenses been included, Other Expenses would have been 0.13%.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds.
The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include brokerage commissions that investors may pay to buy and sell Shares. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, your costs, based on these assumptions, would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$7 $23 $40 $90
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it purchases and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate will cause the Fund to incur additional transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the example, may affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 30% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund generally will invest at least 80% of its total assets in the component securities that comprise the Underlying Index. Strictly in accordance with its guidelines and mandated procedures, ICE Data Indices, LLC (the “Index Provider”) compiles, maintains and calculates the Underlying Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the shorter maturity subset of the U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (“TIPS”) market, represented by TIPS with a remaining maturity of at least one month and less than five years.
TIPS are U.S. dollar-denominated, U.S. government debt securities that are publicly offered for sale in the United States. TIPS are “inflation-linked,” meaning that their principal and interest payments are tied to inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index). TIPS are issued by the U.S. Treasury, and their payments are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States.
To qualify for inclusion in the Underlying Index, securities must have: (i) at least one month but less than five years remaining term to final maturity; (ii) at least 18 months to maturity when issued; and (iii) a minimum amount outstanding of $1 billion. Original issue zero coupon bonds may be included in the Underlying Index, and the amounts outstanding of qualifying coupon securities are not reduced by any portions that have been stripped. Underlying Index constituents are market capitalization-weighted.
As of December 31, 2019, the Underlying Index was comprised of 15 constituents.
The Fund employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track the Underlying Index, meaning that the Fund generally invests in all of the securities comprising its Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index.
The Fund is “non-diversified” and therefore is not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
For the avoidance of doubt, “PureBeta” refers to the market-capitalization weighted methodology of the Fund’s Underlying Index. It does not refer in any way to the purity or absence of errors or flaws of the market-capitalization weighted methodology of the Underlying Index or of the Fund in seeking to track the investment results of the Underlying Index.
Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets) in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries only to the extent that the Underlying Index reflects a concentration in that industry or group of industries. The Fund will not otherwise concentrate its investments in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
The following summarizes the principal risks of the Fund. The Shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only authorized participants (“APs”) may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. This risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by the Fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units (as defined below), this may result in a significantly diminished trading market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the Fund's net asset value (“NAV”) and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Call Risk. If interest rates fall, it is possible that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons will “call” (or prepay) their bonds before their maturity date. If an issuer exercises such a call during a period of declining interest rates, a fund may have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, a fund’s net investment income could fall.
Changing U.S. Fixed-Income Market Conditions Risk. The current historically low interest rate environment was created in part by the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) keeping the federal funds rates at, near or below zero. The “tapering” in 2015 of the FRB's quantitative easing program, combined with the FRB's changes to the target range for the Federal Funds Rate may expose fixed-income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed-income investments, particularly those with longer maturities, although it is difficult to predict the impact of this rate increase and any future rate increases on various markets. In addition, decreases in fixed-income dealer market-making capacity may also potentially lead to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the fixed-income markets. As a result, the value of the Fund's investments and share price may decline. Changes in FRB policies could also result in higher than normal shareholder redemptions, which could potentially increase portfolio turnover rate and the Fund's transaction costs.
Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a fixed-income security resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of most fixed-income securities go down. When the general level of interest rates goes down, the prices of most fixed-income securities go up. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities typically are more sensitive to changes in interest rates, making them more volatile than securities with shorter maturities. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a
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security will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its debt. Debt instruments are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which may be reflected in credit ratings. There is a possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not utilize an investing strategy that seeks returns in excess of its Underlying Index. Therefore, the Fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from the Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, the Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, the Fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which the Fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole.
Inflation-Linked Security Risk. The value of inflation-linked securities generally will fluctuate in response to changes in real interest rates, generally decreasing when real interest rates rise and increasing when real interest rates fall. Real interest rates represent nominal (or stated) interest rates reduced by the expected impact of inflation. In addition, interest payments on inflation-indexed securities will generally vary up or down along with the rate of inflation.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when a particular investment is difficult to purchase or sell. If the Fund invests in illiquid securities or current portfolio securities become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the Fund because the Fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price.
Market Risk. Securities in the Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations. You should anticipate that the value of the Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in the Underlying Index.
Market Trading Risk. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for the Shares, losses from trading in secondary markets, and disruption in the creation/redemption process of the Fund. Any of these factors may lead to the Shares trading at a premium or discount to the Fund's NAV.
Non-Correlation Risk. The Fund's return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to the Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the Fund's securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of the Underlying Index. In addition, the performance of the Fund and the Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the Fund's portfolio and the Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. Because the Fund is non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund, changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in Share price than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase the Fund's volatility and cause the performance of a
relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the Fund's performance.
Operational Risk. The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Bond Risk. The amount of time until a fixed-income security matures can lead to various risks, including changes in interest rates over the life of a bond. Short- and intermediate-term fixed-income securities generally provide lower returns than longer-term fixed-income securities. The average maturity of a fund's investments will affect the volatility of the fund's share price.
U.S. Government Obligations Risk. The Fund may invest in U.S. government obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities, including bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. U.S. Government securities include securities that are issued or guaranteed by the United States Treasury, by various agencies of the U.S. Government, or by various instrumentalities which have been established or sponsored by the U.S. Government. U.S. Treasury securities are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the United States. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored instrumentalities may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. In the case of those U.S. Government securities not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, the investor must look principally to the agency or instrumentality issuing or guaranteeing the security for ultimate repayment, and may not be able to assert a claim against the United States itself in the event that the agency or instrumentality does not meet its commitment. The U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate.
Performance
The bar chart below shows how the Fund has performed. The table below the bar chart shows the Fund's average annual total returns (before and after taxes). The bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing how the Fund's total returns have varied from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns compared with a broad measure of market performance. Although the information shown in the bar chart and the table gives you some idea of the risks involved in investing in the Fund, the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily indicative of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Updated performance information is available online at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
Annual Total Returns—Calendar Years
Best Quarter 1.67% (2nd Quarter 2019)
Worst Quarter (0.25)% (4th Quarter 2018)
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Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
After-tax returns in the table below are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
  1 Year Since Inception
(09/22/17)
 
Return Before Taxes 4.70% 2.31%  
Return After Taxes on Distributions 3.80% 1.36%  
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 2.78% 1.36%  
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ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury IndexSM
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
4.91% 2.43%  
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser. Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are responsible jointly and primarily for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:
Name Title with Adviser/Trust Date Began
Managing
the Fund
Peter Hubbard Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser and Vice President of the Trust September 2017
...
Jeffrey W. Kernagis Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
...
Gary Jones Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
...
Richard Ose Portfolio Manager of the Adviser September 2017
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Greg Meisenger Portfolio Manager of the Adviser February 2020
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Purchase and Sale of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Shares at NAV only with APs and only in large blocks of 50,000 Shares (each block of Shares is called a “Creation Unit”) or multiples thereof (“Creation Unit Aggregations”), generally in exchange for the deposit or delivery of a basket of securities. However, the Fund also reserves the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, the Shares are not redeemable securities of the Fund.
Individual Shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. and because the Shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, Shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount).
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions generally are taxed as ordinary income, capital gains or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case your distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from such account.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund’s distributor or its related companies may pay the intermediary for certain Fund-related activities, including those that are designed to make the intermediary more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, such as the Fund, as well as for marketing, education or other initiatives related to the sale or promotion of Fund shares. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson
or financial adviser to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or financial adviser or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

Additional Information About the Funds' Strategies and Risks
    
Principal Investment Strategies
Each Fund generally will invest at least 80% of its total assets in components that comprise its respective Underlying Index. Each Fund operates as an index fund and is not actively managed. Each Fund uses an “indexing” investment approach to seek to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of its Underlying Index. The Adviser seeks correlation over time of 0.95 or better between a Fund’s performance and the performance of its Underlying Index; a figure of 1.00 would represent perfect correlation. Another means of evaluating the relationship between the returns of a Fund and its Underlying Index is to assess the “tracking error” between the two. Tracking error means the variation between each Fund’s annual return and the return of its Underlying Index, expressed in terms of standard deviation. Each Fund seeks to have a tracking error of less than 5%, measured on a monthly basis over a one-year period by taking the standard deviation of the difference in the Fund’s returns versus its Underlying Index’s returns. Because each Fund uses an indexing approach to try to achieve its investment objective, each Fund does not take temporary defensive positions during periods of adverse market, economic or other conditions.
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF employs a “full replication” methodology in seeking to track its Underlying Index, meaning that it generally invests in all of the securities comprising its Underlying Index in proportion to the weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index. However, under various circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of those securities in those same weightings. In those circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of securities in its Underlying Index.
For Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF and Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF, because of the practical difficulties and expense of purchasing all of the securities in each Fund’s respective Underlying Index, the Funds do not purchase all of the securities in their Underlying Index; instead, such Funds utilize a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve their respective investment objectives.
A “sampling” methodology means that the Adviser uses quantitative analysis to select securities from an Underlying Index universe to obtain a representative sample of securities that have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics similar to the Underlying Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. These include duration, maturity, credit quality, yield and coupon. When employing a sampling methodology, the Adviser bases the quantity of holdings in a Fund on a number of factors, including asset size of the Fund, and generally expects the Fund to hold less than the total number of securities in its Underlying Index. However, the Adviser reserves the right to invest a Fund in as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the Fund’s investment objective.
There also may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to (i) overweight or underweight a component of an Underlying Index, (ii) purchase securities not contained in the Underlying Index that the Adviser believes are appropriate to substitute for certain components of an Underlying Index or (iii) utilize various combinations of other available investment techniques in seeking to track an Underlying Index. Each Fund may sell securities included in the applicable Underlying Index in anticipation of their removal from the Underlying Index, or purchase securities not
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included in the Underlying Index in anticipation of their addition to the Underlying Index.
Additional information about the construction of each Fund’s Underlying Index is set forth below in alphabetical order by index name.
DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index (Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF)
The Underlying Index for the Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF is designed to track the performance of a select group of short-term, U.S. dollar-denominated, non-investment grade bonds that are issued by U.S. and foreign corporations, as well as by sovereign, sub-sovereign or quasi-government entities. Rule 144A securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), private placements, municipal bonds, Brady bonds, restructured bonds and covered, senior secured and subordinate notes are excluded from the Underlying Index.
To be eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index, a bond must: (i) be denominated in U.S. dollars; (ii) be rated by at least one of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch; (iii) be rated below “investment grade” (i.e., have a “composite rating” from DB of no greater than “BB+”); (iv) have not been marked as defaulted by any rating agency; (v) have three years or less to maturity; (vi) have a minimum amount outstanding of at least $250 million; and (vii) have a fixed coupon.
The Index Provider calculates the cumulative weight of bonds issued by each country. The Index Provider weights the constituents equally on an annual basis in February such that the cumulative weight of bonds from any one country does not exceed 40% of the weight of the Underlying Index, and the remaining weight is equally distributed to all remaining bonds in the Underlying Index. The Index Provider also rebalances the Underlying Index quarterly on the last calendar day of the month in February, May, August and November. If a bond reaches maturity, defaults or no longer meets the Underlying Index’s eligibility criteria, the Index Provider will remove it from the Underlying Index, but will keep the redemption value of that bond in the Underlying Index as cash until the next rebalancing date. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Valuation data regarding the Underlying Index is available via the DB website at http://index.db.com and Bloomberg, L.P.
DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index (Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF)
The Underlying Index for Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF is constructed in two phases.
The first phase establishes a broad “Underlying Index Membership,” which represents all of the bonds eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. The Index Provider first establishes a list of eligible countries on an annual basis based on ratings, size, liquidity and other considerations. Once the list of countries is set, the Index Provider generates the “Underlying Index Membership” by applying the criteria described below to all outstanding bonds:
Issued in U.S. dollars;
Sovereign bond;
At least three years remaining to maturity for a bond already in the Underlying Index at the time of rebalance;
At least 3 years and 3 months remain to maturity for a bond not currently a member of the Underlying Index at the time of rebalance;
Outstanding amount of $500 million or greater;
Fixed coupon bond; and
Not a domestic issue, Rule 144A security, private placement, Brady Bond, restructured bond, bond in default, floating/variable coupon bond, sinking bond, callable bond (unless it has a make-whole call provision, which is allowed), putable bond, zero coupon/zero coupon step-up bond, bond without cash flows, convertible, inflation linked, other index-linked, cum or ex-warrant, floating rate note with coupon cap, perpetual or accrued only bond.
The second phase of the construction process seeks to optimize both potential performance and liquidity, while limiting turnover within the
Underlying Index constituents. The Index Provider seeks to achieve this by selecting one to three bonds (and seeks to select three bonds) for each eligible country from the “Underlying Index Membership” according to the following criteria:
(1) Each emerging market country with at least one eligible security will be included in the Underlying Index;
(2) Each emerging market country cannot have more than three securities included from the “Underlying Index Membership” list;
(3) Bonds within each emerging market country are selected on the basis of potential outperformance;
(4) Each eligible emerging market country included with at least two bonds will be given an equal weighting in the Underlying Index and with at least one bond will be given half this weight in the Underlying Index annually on the calendar day before March 1; and
(5) Within each eligible emerging market country, each bond is given an equal market value weight annually on the calendar day before March 1.
The resulting Underlying Index consists of one to three bonds from each eligible emerging market country.
The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly on the last calendar day in February, May, August and November. The Index Provider generates the Underlying Index Membership on a quarterly basis, five business days before the last business day of February, May, August and November of each year. Further monthly selection observations are made to ensure that bonds meet the default and notional outstanding eligibility criteria. If a bond is in default, the Index Provider will remove all bonds from that country at the next rebalancing, which occurs on the last calendar day of each month. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
The Index Provider will re-invest the cash proportionally to all other countries at month-end. Valuation data regarding the Underlying Index is available via the DB website at http://index.db.com and Bloomberg, L.P.
ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury IndexSM (Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF)
The Underlying Index for Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF tracks the performance of short-maturity U.S. dollar-denominated inflation-linked sovereign debt securities that are issued by the U.S. government and publicly offered for sale in the United States. Qualifying securities must have at least one month but less than five years remaining to final maturity, at least 18 months to maturity when issued, interest and principal payments tied to inflation and a minimum amount outstanding of $1 billion. Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities (“STRIPS”) are excluded from the Underlying Index, but original issue zero coupon bonds are included in the Underlying Index and the amounts outstanding of qualifying coupon securities are not reduced by any portions that have been stripped. Securities issued or marketed primarily to retail investors do not qualify for inclusion in the Underlying Index.
Constituents in the Underlying Index are market capitalization-weighted. Accrued interest is calculated assuming next-day settlement. Cash flows from bond payments that are received during the month are retained in the Underlying Index until the end of the month and then are removed as part of the rebalancing. Cash does not earn any reinvestment income while it is held in the Underlying Index. The Index Provider rebalances the Underlying Index on the last calendar day of the month, based on information available up to and including the third business day before the last business day of the month. The Index Provider includes issues that meet the qualifying criteria in the Underlying Index for the following month. Issues that no longer meet the criteria during the course of the month remain in the Index until the next month-end rebalancing, at which point the Index Provider removes them from the Underlying Index. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
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S&P International Corporate Bond Index® (Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF)
The Underlying Index for Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF is constructed from Eurobonds and global bonds issued in Euros and British Pounds, and domestic corporate bonds denominated in the Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, Norwegian Krone, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc. To be included in the Underlying Index, a bond must be issued by a non-U.S. corporation. The country of the issuer must be a “developed country,” as classified by the Bank for International Settlements in its international debt securities statistics, and a “developed market” under the S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Country Classification. Only non-U.S. dollar, G10 currency denominated bonds are eligible for inclusion in the Underlying Index. Each bond must have a fixed non-zero coupon rate and a maturity date greater than one year from the last business day of the month of inclusion, and the total outstanding value of such bond must meet a minimum issuance threshold based on the bond’s currency. The threshold may change depending on market conditions. Each bond also must be rated investment grade by Moody’s or S&P. A bond’s lower rating, if rated by both services, is used to determine eligibility for the Underlying Index. Temporary unrated tapped issues, in which the issuer reopens and sells debt instruments from past eligible rated issues, may be included in the Underlying Index. The Index Provider excludes debt issued by governments, government agencies, State or any other form of public debt, and corporate debt with a government guarantee or any form of public guarantee from inclusion in the Underlying Index.
The Index Provider weights constituents by respective market values in U.S. dollars and re-weights them on the last trading day of each month. In addition, the Index Provider rebalances the Underlying Index annually on the last trading day each September. At each monthly re-weighting, single currency exposure is capped at 50%. At each annual rebalance, if there are more than ten eligible bonds for a given currency, the Index Provider will remove 25% of the lowest-yielding eligible bonds denominated in that currency with the number of bonds subject to removal rounded down to the nearest integer. The Index Provider first calculates the weight of a bond by dividing the outstanding Underlying Index market value for the bond by the total outstanding Underlying Index market value for the eligible universe, converting all figures to U.S. dollars using spot foreign exchange rates as of the monthly rebalance date. Then, the Index Provider calculates the aggregated weight for each currency. If the aggregated weight for a currency is more than 50%, the Index Provider modifies the weighting of each bond in this currency so that the modified aggregated weight for this currency is at 50%. The excess weight above the 50% cap is distributed to the remaining currencies according to each currency’s aggregated weight. The Fund is rebalanced in accordance with the Underlying Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds
The following provides additional information regarding certain of the principal risks identified under “Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund” in each Fund's “Summary Information” section. Any of the following risks may impact a Fund’s NAV which could result in the Fund trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
Authorized Participant Concentration Risk. Only APs may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with a fund. A fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as APs, and such APs have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders. Consequently, there is no assurance that APs will establish or maintain an active trading market for the Shares. The risk may be heightened to the extent that securities held by a fund are traded outside a collateralized settlement system. In that case, APs may be required to post collateral on certain trades on an agency basis (i.e., on behalf of other market participants), which only a limited number of APs may be able to do. In addition, to the extent that APs exit the business or are unable to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to a fund and no other AP is able to step forward to create or redeem Creation Units, this may result in a significantly diminished trading
market for Shares, and Shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to NAV and to face trading halts and/or delisting. Investments in non-U.S. securities, which may have lower trading volumes, may increase this risk.
Call Risk. If interest rates fall, it is possible that issuers of callable securities with high interest coupons will “call” (or prepay) their bonds before their maturity date. If an issuer exercises such a call during a period of declining interest rates, a fund may have to replace such called security with a lower yielding security. If that were to happen, a fund’s net investment income could fall.
Changing Global Fixed-Income Market Conditions Risk. The current historically low interest rate environment was created in part by the FRB and certain foreign central banks keeping the federal funds and equivalent foreign rates at, near or below zero. The “tapering” in 2015 of the FRB’s quantitative easing program, combined with the FRB’s changes to the target range for the Federal Funds Rate (and continued possible fluctuations in equivalent foreign rates) may expose fixed-income markets to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity for certain fixed-income investments, particularly those with longer maturities, although it is difficult to predict the impact of this rate increase and any future rate increases on various markets. In addition, decreases in fixed-income dealer market-making capacity may also potentially lead to heightened volatility and reduced liquidity in the fixed-income markets. As a result, the value of a Fund’s investments and share price may decline. Changes in central bank policies could also result in higher than normal shareholder redemptions, which could potentially increase portfolio turnover and a Fund’s transaction costs.
Currency Risk. Certain funds will invest in non-U.S. dollar denominated equity securities of foreign issuers. Because each fund’s NAV is determined in U.S. dollars, a fund’s NAV could decline if the currency of the non-U.S. market in which the fund invests depreciates against the U.S. dollar, even if the value of the fund’s holdings, measured in the foreign currency, increases. Generally, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar against a foreign currency will reduce the value of a security denominated in that foreign currency, thereby decreasing a fund’s overall NAV. In addition, fluctuations in the exchange values of currencies could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in a geographic region in which a fund invests, causing an adverse impact on the fund. As a result, investors have the potential for losses regardless of the length of time they intend to hold Shares.
When a fund receives income in foreign currencies, the fund will compute and distribute its income in U.S. dollars, and the computation of income will be made on the date that the fund earns the income at the foreign exchange rates in effect on that date. Therefore, if the values of the relevant foreign currencies fall relative to the U.S. dollar between the earning of the income and the time at which those funds convert the foreign currencies to U.S. dollars, the fund may be required to liquidate securities in order to make distributions if they have insufficient cash in U.S. dollars to meet distribution requirements.
Furthermore, a fund may incur costs in connection with conversions between U.S. dollars and foreign currencies. Foreign exchange dealers realize a profit based on the difference between the prices at which they are buying and selling various currencies. Thus, a dealer normally will offer to sell a foreign currency to a fund at one rate, while offering a lesser rate of exchange should the fund desire immediately to resell that currency to the dealer. Such funds will conduct their foreign currency exchange transactions either on a spot (i.e., cash) basis at the spot rate prevailing in the foreign currency exchange market, or through entering into forwards, futures or options contracts to purchase or sell foreign currencies.
Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt Risk. Investments in emerging markets sovereign debt carry a number of risks. Government obligors in emerging market countries are among the world's largest debtors to commercial banks, other governments, international financial organizations and other financial institutions. Historically, certain issuers of the government debt securities in which a fund may invest have experienced
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substantial difficulties in meeting their external debt obligations, resulting in defaults on certain obligations and the restructuring of certain indebtedness. Such restructuring arrangements have included obtaining additional credit to finance outstanding obligations and the reduction and rescheduling of payments of interest and principal through the negotiation of new or amended credit agreements. As a holder of government debt securities, a fund may be asked to participate in the restructuring of such obligations and to extend further loans to their issuers. There can be no assurance that the securities in which a fund will invest will not be subject to restructuring arrangements or to requests for additional credit. In addition, certain participants in the secondary market for such debt may be directly involved in negotiating the terms of these arrangements and may therefore have access to information not available to other market participants.
Fixed-Income Securities Risk. Fixed-income securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. Interest rate risk refers to fluctuations in the value of a fixed-income security resulting from changes in the general level of interest rates. When the general level of interest rates goes up, the prices of most fixed-income securities go down. When the general level of interest rates goes down, the prices of most fixed-income securities go up. Fixed-income securities with longer maturities typically are more sensitive to changes in interest rates, making them more volatile than securities with shorter maturities. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of a security will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/ or repay the principal on its debt. Debt instruments are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which may be reflected in credit ratings. There is a possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security. Securities issued by the U.S. Government are subject to limited credit risk; however, securities issued by U.S. Government agencies are not necessarily backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government. Due to recent events in the fixed-income markets, including the potential impact of the Federal Reserve Board tapering its quantitative easing program, a fund may be subject to heightened interest rate risk as a result of a rise in interest rates. In addition, interest rates may exhibit increased volatility, which could cause a fund’s net asset value to fluctuate more. A decrease in fixed-income market maker capacity may act to decrease liquidity in the fixed-income markets and act to further increase volatility, affecting a fund’s returns.
Foreign Fixed-Income Investment Risk. Investments in fixed-income securities of non-U.S. issuers are subject to the same risks as other debt securities, notably credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk and liquidity risk, while also facing risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. For example, foreign securities may have relatively low market liquidity, greater market volatility, decreased publicly available information, and less reliable financial information about issuers, and inconsistent and potentially less stringent accounting, auditing and financial reporting requirements and standards of practice comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers. Foreign securities also are subject to the risks of expropriation, nationalization, political instability or other adverse political or economic developments and the difficulty of enforcing obligations in other countries. Investments in foreign securities also may be subject to dividend withholding or confiscatory taxes, currency blockage and/or transfer restrictions and higher transactional costs.
Geographic Concentration Risk. Funds that are less diversified across geographic regions or countries are generally riskier than more geographically diversified funds. The economies and financial markets of certain regions can be interdependent and may all decline at the same time. A natural or other disaster could occur in a country or geographic region in which a fund invests, which could affect the economy or particular business operations of companies in that specific country or geographic region and adversely impact a fund's investments in the affected region.
Asia Pacific Investment Risk. The level of development of the economies of countries in the Asia Pacific region varies greatly. Furthermore, since the economies of the countries in the region are
largely intertwined, if an economic recession is experienced by any of these countries, it will likely adversely impact the economic performance of other countries in the region. Certain economies in the region may be adversely affected by increased competition, high inflation rates, undeveloped financial services sectors, currency fluctuations or restrictions, political and social instability and increased economic volatility. In addition, certain countries in the Asia Pacific region in which a fund may invest are large debtors to commercial banks and foreign governments. The recent economic crisis has reduced the willingness of certain lenders to extend credit to these Asia Pacific countries and have made it more difficult for such borrowers to obtain financing on attractive terms or at all. These developments may also have a negative effect on the broader economy of such Asia Pacific countries, including issuers in which a Fund may invest. Due to heavy reliance on international trade, a decrease in demand (due to recession or otherwise in the United States, Europe or Asia) would adversely affect economic performance in the region.
Australasian Investment Risk. The economies of Australasia, which include Australia and New Zealand, are dependent on exports from the energy, agricultural and mining sectors. This makes Australasian economies susceptible to fluctuations in the commodity markets. Australasian economies are also increasingly dependent on their growing service industries. Because the economies of Australasia are dependent on the economies of Asia, Europe and the United States as key trading partners and investors, reduction in spending by any of these trading partners on Australasian products and services, or negative changes in any of these economies, may cause an adverse impact on some or all of the Australasian economies.
Central and South American Investment Risk. High interest rates, inflation, government defaults and unemployment rates characterize the economies in some Central and South American countries. Currency devaluations in any Central and South American country can have a significant effect on the entire region. Because commodities such as oil and gas, minerals and metals represent a significant percentage of the region's exports, the economies of Central and South American countries are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in commodity prices. As a result, the economies in many Central and South American countries can experience significant volatility.
European Investment Risk. The Economic and Monetary Union of the EU requires compliance with restrictions on inflation rates, deficits, interest rates, debt levels and fiscal and monetary controls, each of which may significantly affect every country in Europe. Decreasing imports or exports, changes in governmental or EU regulations on trade, changes in the exchange rate of the euro, the default or threat of default by an EU member country on its sovereign debt, and recessions in an EU member country may have a significant adverse effect on the economies of EU member countries. In recent years, the European financial markets have experienced volatility and adverse trends due to concerns about rising government debt levels of several European countries, including Greece, Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. A default or debt restructuring by any European country would adversely impact holders of that country's debt and sellers of credit default swaps linked to that country's creditworthiness. These events have adversely affected the exchange rate of the euro and may continue to significantly affect every country in Europe, including EU member countries that do not use the euro and non-EU member countries.
In a recent referendum, citizens in the United Kingdom voted to withdraw from the EU. The country’s departure (known as “Brexit”) sparked depreciation in the value of the British pound, short term declines in the stock markets and heightened risk of continued economic volatility worldwide. Although the long-term effects of Brexit are difficult to gauge and cannot be fully known, they could have wide ranging implications for the United Kingdom’s economy, including: possible inflation or recession, continued depreciation of the pound, or
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disruption to Britain’s trading arrangements with the rest of Europe. The United Kingdom is one of the EU’s largest economies; its departure also may negatively impact the EU and Europe as a whole, such as by causing volatility within the union, trigging prolonged economic downturns in certain European countries or sparking additional member states to contemplate departing the EU (thereby perpetuating political instability in the region).
North American Investment Risk. A decrease in imports or exports, changes in trade regulations or an economic recession in any North American country can have a significant economic effect on the entire North American region and on some or all of the North American countries in which a fund invests. Since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 among Canada, the United States and Mexico, total merchandise trade among the three countries has increased. Policy and legislative changes in one country may have a significant effect on North American markets generally, as well as on the value of certain securities held by a fund that invests in this region.
Index Risk. Unlike many investment companies that are “actively managed,” the funds are “passive” investors and therefore do not utilize investing strategies that seek returns in excess of an Underlying Index. Therefore, a fund would not necessarily buy or sell a security unless that security is added or removed, respectively, from its Underlying Index, even if that security generally is underperforming. If a specific security is removed from an Underlying Index, a fund may be forced to sell such security at an inopportune time or for a price lower than the security’s current market value. An Underlying Index may not contain the appropriate mix of securities for any particular economic cycle. Unlike with an actively managed fund, the Adviser does not use defensive strategies designed to lessen the impact of periods of market volatility or market decline. This means that, based on certain market and economic conditions, a fund’s performance could be lower than other types of mutual funds with investment advisers that actively manage their portfolio assets to take advantage of or defend against market events.
Industry Concentration Risk. In following its methodology, an Underlying Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers operating in a single industry or industry group. To the extent that its Underlying Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or industry group, a fund will also concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or industry group, a fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or industry groups. Such industry-based risks, any of which may adversely affect the companies in which a fund invests, may include, but are not limited to, legislative or regulatory changes, adverse market conditions and/or increased competition within the industry or industry group. In addition, at times, such industry or industry group may be out of favor and underperform other industries, industry groups or the market as a whole. Information about the funds’ exposure to a particular industry or industry group is available in the funds’ Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders, as well as on required forms filed with the SEC.
Financial Sector Risk. A fund may be susceptible to adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting the financial services sector. Investing in the financial services sector involves risks, including the following: financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation and, as a result, their profitability may be affected by new regulations or regulatory interpretations; unstable interest rates can have a disproportionate effect on the financial services sector; financial services companies whose securities a fund may purchase may themselves have concentrated portfolios, which makes them vulnerable to economic conditions that affect that sector; and financial services companies have been affected by increased competition, which could adversely affect the profitability or viability of such companies.
Inflation-Linked Security Risk. The value of inflation-linked securities generally will fluctuate in response to changes in real interest rates, generally decreasing when real interest rates rise and increasing when real interest rates fall. Real interest rates represent nominal (or stated) interest rates reduced by the expected impact of inflation. In addition, interest payments on inflation-indexed securities will generally vary up or down along with the rate of inflation.
Issuer-Specific Changes Risk. The performance of a fund depends on the performance of individual securities to which that fund has exposure. The value of an individual security or particular type of security may be more volatile than the market as a whole and may perform worse than the market as a whole, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor performance may be caused by poor management decisions, competitive pressures, changes in technology, expiration of patent protection, disruptions in supply, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures or other factors. Issuers may, in times of distress or at their own discretion, decide to reduce or eliminate dividends, which may also cause their stock prices to decline.
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when a particular investment is difficult to purchase or sell. If a fund invests in illiquid securities or current portfolio securities become illiquid, it may reduce the returns of the fund because the fund may be unable to sell the illiquid securities at an advantageous time or price. In the event that a Fund voluntarily or involuntarily liquidates portfolio assets during periods of infrequent trading, it may not receive full value for those assets.
Market Risk. The securities in each Underlying Index are subject to market fluctuations, and a fund could lose money due to short-term market movements and over longer periods during market downturns. You should anticipate that the value of Shares will decline, more or less, in correlation with any decline in value of the securities in its respective Underlying Index. The value of a security may decline due to general market conditions, economic trends or events that are not specifically related to the issuer of the security or due to factors that affect a particular industry or group of industries. During a general downturn in the securities markets, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected.
Market Trading Risk. The Funds face numerous market trading risks, including losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruption in the creation/redemption process of a fund. Although Shares are listed for trading on a securities exchange, there can be no assurance that an active trading market for Shares will develop or be maintained by market makers or APs, that Shares will continue to trade on any such exchange or that Shares will continue to meet the requirements for listing on an exchange. Any of these factors, among others, may lead to Shares trading at a premium or discount to a Fund's NAV. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods. Further, a fund may experience low trading volume and wide bid/ask spreads. Bid/ask spreads vary over time based on trading volume and market liquidity (including for the underlying securities held by a fund), and are generally lower if Shares have more trading volume and market liquidity and higher if Shares have little trading volume and market liquidity. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for the Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for a fund's portfolio holdings, which may cause a variance in the market price of the Shares and their underlying value.
Non-Correlation Risk. A fund’s return may not match the return of its Underlying Index (that is, it may experience tracking error) for a number of reasons. For example, a fund incurs operating expenses not applicable to its Underlying Index and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing the fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of its Underlying Index. If a fund has recently commenced operations or otherwise has a relatively small amount of assets, such transaction costs could have a proportionally greater impact on the fund. Additionally, if a fund uses a sampling approach, it may result in returns that are not as well-correlated with the return of its Underlying Index as would be
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the case if the fund purchased all of the components of its Underlying Index in the proportions represented in the Underlying Index.
The performance of a fund and its Underlying Index may vary due to asset valuation differences and differences between the fund’s portfolio and its Underlying Index resulting from legal restrictions, costs or liquidity constraints. Additionally, a fund that issues or redeems Creation Units principally for cash will incur higher costs in buying and selling securities than if it issued and redeemed Creation Units principally in-kind. A fund may fair value certain of the securities it holds. To the extent a fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index may be adversely affected. Since an Underlying Index is not subject to the tax diversification requirements to which the funds must adhere, a fund may be required to deviate its investments from the securities contained in, and relative weightings of, its Underlying Index. A fund may not invest in certain securities included in its Underlying Index due to liquidity constraints. Liquidity constraints also may delay a fund’s purchase or sale of securities included in its Underlying Index. For tax efficiency purposes, a fund may sell certain securities to realize losses, causing it to deviate from its respective Underlying Index.
The Adviser may not fully invest a fund’s assets at times, either as a result of cash flows into the fund, to retain a reserve of cash to meet redemptions and expenses, or because of low assets (particularly when a fund is new and has operated for only a short period).
The investment activities of one or more of the Adviser’s affiliates, including other subsidiaries of the Adviser’s parent company, Invesco Ltd., for their proprietary accounts and for client accounts also may adversely impact a fund’s ability to track its Underlying Index. For example, in regulated industries, certain emerging or international markets and under corporate and regulatory ownership definitions, there may be limits on the aggregate amount of investment by affiliated investors that may not be exceeded, or that may not be exceeded without the grant of a license or other regulatory or corporate consent, or, if exceeded, may cause the Adviser, a fund or other client accounts to suffer disadvantages or business restrictions. As a result, a fund may be restricted in its ability to acquire particular securities due to positions held by the Adviser’s affiliates.
Non-Diversified Fund Risk. A non-diversified fund can invest a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a diversified fund. Changes in the market value of a single investment could cause greater fluctuations in the share price of those Funds than would occur in a diversified fund. This may increase a fund’s volatility and cause the performance of a relatively small number of issuers to have a greater impact on the fund’s performance.
Non-Investment Grade Securities Risk. The risk of investing in non-investment grade securities is a form of credit risk. Securities that are rated non-investment grade, commonly known as “junk bonds,” and unrated securities of comparable credit quality are regarded as having predominantly speculative characteristics with respect to the capacity to pay interest and repay principal. Non-investment grade securities may be more susceptible to real or perceived adverse economic and competitive industry conditions than higher grade securities. The prices of non-investment grade securities have been found to be less sensitive to interest rate changes than more highly rated investments, but more sensitive to adverse economic downturns or individual corporate developments. Yields on non-investment grade securities will fluctuate. If the issuer of non-investment grade securities defaults, a Fund may incur additional expenses to seek recovery. The secondary markets in which non-investment grade securities are traded may be less liquid than the market for higher grade securities. Less liquidity in the secondary trading markets could adversely affect the price at which the Funds could sell a particular non-investment grade security when necessary to meet liquidity needs or in response to a specific economic event, such as a deterioration in the creditworthiness of the issuer, and could adversely affect and cause large fluctuations in the NAV of a Fund's Shares. Adverse publicity and investor perceptions may decrease the values and liquidity of non-investment grade securities.
Operational Risk. The funds are exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the funds’ service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The funds and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Restricted Securities Risk. A Fund may invest in restricted securities, including those that may be resold only in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. Regulation S securities are securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers initially offered and sold outside the United States without registration with the SEC. Accordingly, the liquidity of the market for specific Regulation S securities may vary. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to a Fund.
Sampling Risk. The use of a representative sampling approach may result in a Fund holding a smaller number of securities than are in its Underlying Index. As a result, an adverse development to an issuer of securities that a Fund holds could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in its Underlying Index. To the extent the assets in a Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater. In addition, by sampling the securities in an Underlying Index, a Fund faces the risk that the securities selected for the Fund, in the aggregate, will not provide investment performance matching that of the Fund's Underlying Index, thereby increasing tracking error.
Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Bond Risk. The amount of time until a fixed-income security matures can lead to various risks, including changes in interest rates over the life of a bond. Short-term fixed-income securities (i.e. those with three years or less until maturity) and intermediate-term fixed-income securities (i.e. those with five years or less until maturity) generally provide lower returns than longer-term fixed-income securities. The average maturity of a fund’s investments will affect the volatility of the fund’s share price.
Sovereign Debt Risk. Investments in sovereign debt securities involve special risks, including the availability of sufficient foreign exchange on the date a payment is due, the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole, and the government debtor's policy towards the International Monetary Fund and the political constraints to which a government debtor may be subject. The governmental authority that controls the repayment of sovereign debt may be unwilling or unable to repay the principal and/or interest when due in accordance with the terms of such securities due to the extent of its foreign reserves. If an issuer of sovereign debt defaults on payments of principal and/or interest, a Fund may have limited legal recourse against the issuer and/or guarantor. In certain cases, remedies must be pursued in the courts of the defaulting party itself, and the Fund's ability to obtain recourse may be limited.
Certain issuers of sovereign debt may be dependent on disbursements from foreign governments, multilateral agencies and others abroad to reduce principal and interest arrearages on their debt. Such disbursements may be conditioned upon a debtor's implementation of economic reforms and/or economic performance and the timely service of such debtor's obligations. A failure on the part of the debtor to implement such reforms, achieve such levels of economic performance or repay principal or interest when due may result in the cancellation of such third parties' commitments to lend funds to the government debtor, which may impair the debtor's ability to service its debts on a timely basis. If a Fund is a holder of government debt, it may be requested to participate in the rescheduling of such debt and to extend further loans to government debtors.
Sub-Sovereign Debt Risk. Sub-sovereign government bonds represent the debt of state, provincial, territorial, municipal, local or other political sub-divisions, including other governmental entities or agencies and other than sovereign governments. In addition to the risks of investing in sovereign debt generally, investing in sub-sovereign debt includes the risk that such investments may or may not be issued by, or guaranteed as to
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principal and interest by, the sub-sovereign’s larger sovereign entity. Certain foreign sub-sovereign securities may be backed by the issuer’s right to borrow from a central bank or other regional banking entity, while others may be backed only by the assets and credit of the issuing sub-sovereign foreign entity.
Supranational Entities Risk. Obligations issued or guaranteed by supranational entities may include, for example, entities such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank). If one or more shareholders of a supranational entity fails to make necessary additional capital contributions, the entity may be unable to pay interest or repay principal on its debt securities, and the fund may lose money on such investments.
U.S. Government Obligations/Securities Risk. U.S. Government obligations are issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities and include bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. U.S. Government securities include securities that are issued or guaranteed by the United States Treasury, by various agencies of the U.S. Government, or by various instrumentalities which have been established or sponsored by the U.S. Government. U.S. Treasury securities are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the United States. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored instrumentalities may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. In the case of those U.S. Government securities not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, the investor must look principally to the agency or instrumentality issuing or guaranteeing the security for ultimate repayment, and may not be able to assert a claim against the United States itself in the event that the agency or instrumentality does not meet its commitment. The U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities do not guarantee the market value of their securities, and consequently, the value of such securities may fluctuate.
Valuation Risk. Financial information related to securities of non-U.S. issuers may be less reliable than information related to securities of U.S. issuers, which may make it difficult to obtain a current price for a non-U.S. security held by a fund. In certain circumstances, market quotations may not be readily available for some securities, and those securities may be fair valued. The value established for a security through fair valuation may be different from what would be produced if the security had been valued using market quotations. Fund securities that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including “fair valued” securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their value from one day to the next than would be the case if market quotations were used. In addition, there is no assurance that a fund could sell a portfolio security for the value established for it at any time, and it is possible that a fund would incur a loss because a security is sold at a discount to its established value.
Valuation Time Risk. Because foreign exchanges may be open on days when a fund does not price its shares, the value of non-U.S. securities in a fund's portfolio may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares. As a result, trading spreads and the resulting premium or discount on the Shares may widen, and, therefore, increase the difference between the market price of the Shares and the NAV of such Shares.
Non-Principal Investment Strategies
Each Fund, after investing at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise its respective Underlying Index, may invest its remaining assets in securities (including other funds) not included in its Underlying Index, and in money market instruments, including repurchase agreements and other funds, including affiliated funds, that invest exclusively in money market instruments (subject to applicable limitations under the 1940 Act or exemptions therefrom), convertible securities and structured notes (notes on which the amount of principal repayment and interest payments is based on the movement of one or more specified factors, such as the movement of a particular security or securities index). Convertible securities and structured notes may be used by certain Funds in seeking performance that
corresponds to its respective Underlying Index and to manage cash flows. The Adviser anticipates that it may take approximately two business days (a business day is any day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open) for additions to, and deletions from, each Fund's Underlying Index to fully settle in the portfolio composition of that Fund.
In accordance with 1940 Act rules, each Fund has adopted a policy to invest at least 80% of the value of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in certain types of securities (e.g., corporate bonds or high yield fixed-income securities) or in securities of companies in an industry, country or geographical region, as applicable, that is suggested by its name (for each Fund, an “80% investment policy”). Each Fund will meet its 80% investment policy by investing at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in such securities.
Each Fund considers the securities suggested by its name to be those securities that comprise its respective Underlying Index. Therefore, each Fund anticipates meeting its 80% investment policy because it already is required to invest at least 80% of the value of its total assets in securities that comprise its respective Underlying Index, in accordance with the terms of the Trust’s exemptive relief.
The 80% investment policy of each Fund constitutes a non-fundamental policy. The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Trust may change the 80% investment policy for the Funds at any time without shareholder approval upon 60 days’ written notice to shareholders.
Each Fund’s investment objective constitutes a non-fundamental policy. The Board may change this non-fundamental policy without shareholder approval at any time upon 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders.
The complete list of fundamental and non-fundamental policies of the Funds is set forth in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) under the section “Investment Restrictions.”
Borrowing Money
Each Fund may borrow money up to the limits set forth in the Funds’ SAI under the section “Investment Restrictions”.
Securities Lending
Each Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers, and other financial institutions. In connection with such loans, each Fund receives liquid collateral equal to at least 102% (105% for international securities) of the value of the loaned portfolio securities. This collateral is marked-to-market on a daily basis.
Additional Risks of Investing in the Funds
The following provides additional risk information regarding investing in the Funds.
Convertible Securities Risk. A convertible security generally is a preferred stock that may be converted within a specified period of time into common stock. Convertible securities nevertheless remain subject to the risks of both debt securities and equity securities. As with other equity securities, the value of a convertible security tends to increase as the price of the underlying stock goes up, and to decrease as the price of the underlying stock goes down. Declining common stock values therefore also may cause the value of a fund’s investments to decline. Like a debt security, a convertible security provides a fixed income stream and also tends to decrease in value when interest rates rise. Moreover, many convertible securities have credit ratings that are below investment grade and are subject to the same risks as lower-rated debt securities.
Cybersecurity Risk. The funds, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational and information security risks. Cybersecurity failures or breaches of the funds or their service providers or the issuers of securities in which the funds invest, have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of fund shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement
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or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. The funds and their shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
Index Provider Risk. Each Fund seeks to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of its Underlying Index, as published by its Index Provider. There is no assurance that an Index Provider will compile the Underlying Index accurately, or that the Underlying Index will be determined, composed or calculated accurately. While an Index Provider gives descriptions of what the Underlying Index is designed to achieve, an Index Provider generally does not provide any warranty or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy or completeness of data in such Underlying Index, and it generally does not guarantee that its Underlying Index will be in line with its methodology. Errors made by the Index Provider with respect to the quality, accuracy and completeness of the data within its Underlying Index may occur from time to time and may not be identified and corrected by the Index Provider for a period of time, if at all. Therefore, gains, losses or costs associated with the Index Provider’s errors will generally be borne by a Fund and its shareholders.
Index Rebalancing Risk. Pursuant to the methodology that each Index Provider uses to calculate and maintain its Underlying Index, a security may be removed from such Underlying Index at any time in the event that it does not comply with the eligibility requirements of the Underlying Index. As a result, a fund may be forced to sell securities at inopportune times or for prices other than at current market values or may elect not to sell such securities on the day that they are removed from its Underlying Index, due to market conditions or otherwise. Due to these factors, the variation between a fund’s annual return and the return of its Underlying Index may increase significantly.
Apart from scheduled rebalances, an Index Provider may carry out additional ad hoc rebalances to its Underlying Index, for example, to correct an error in the selection of constituents. When a fund in turn rebalances its portfolio, any transaction costs and market exposure arising from such portfolio rebalancing will be borne by a fund and its shareholders. Unscheduled rebalances also expose a fund to additional tracking error risk. Therefore, errors and additional ad hoc rebalances carried out by an Index Provider may increase a fund’s costs and market exposure.
Licensing, Custody and Settlement Risk. Approval of governmental authorities may be required prior to investing in the securities of companies based in certain foreign countries. Delays in obtaining such an approval would delay investments in the particular country, and, as a consequence, a Fund may not be able to invest in all of the securities included in its Underlying Index while an approval is pending. Rules adopted under the 1940 Act permit a Fund to maintain its foreign securities and cash in the custody of certain eligible non-U.S. banks and securities depositories. Certain banks in foreign countries that are eligible foreign sub-custodians may be recently organized or otherwise lack extensive operating experience. In addition, in certain countries there may be legal restrictions or limitations on the ability of a Fund to recover assets held in custody by a foreign sub-custodian in the event of the bankruptcy of the sub-custodian. Settlement systems in emerging markets may be less organized than in developed markets. Thus, there may be a risk that settlement may be delayed and that cash or securities of a Fund may be in jeopardy because of failures of or defects in the systems. Under the laws of certain countries in which the Funds invest, the Funds may be required to release local shares before receiving cash payment or may be required to make cash payment prior to receiving local shares.
Money Market Funds Risk. Money market funds are subject to management fees and other expenses, and a Fund's investments in money market funds will cause it to bear proportionately the costs incurred by the money market funds' operations while simultaneously paying its own management fees and expenses. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency; it is possible to lose money by investing in a money market fund. To the extent that a Fund invests in money market funds, the Fund will be subject to the same risks that investors experience
when investing in money market funds. These risks may include the impact of significant fluctuations in assets as a result of the cash sweep program or purchase and redemption activity in those funds.
Money market funds are open-end registered investment companies that historically have traded at a stable $1.00 per share price. However, money market funds that do not meet the definition of a “retail money market fund” or “government money market fund” are required to transact at a floating NAV per share (i.e., in a manner similar to how all other non-money market mutual funds transact), instead of at a $1.00 stable share price. Money market funds may also impose liquidity fees and redemption gates for use in times of market stress. If a Fund invested in a money market fund with a floating NAV, the impact on the trading and value of the money market instrument may negatively affect the Fund's return potential.
Natural Disaster/Epidemic Risk. Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and may be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of a Fund’s investments. Given the increasing interdependence among global economies and markets, conditions in one country, market, or region are increasingly likely to adversely affect markets, issuers, and/or foreign exchange rates in other countries, including the U.S. Any such events could have a significant adverse impact on the value of a Fund’s investments.
Repurchase Agreement Risk. A repurchase agreement is an instrument under which the purchaser acquires a security and the seller agrees, at the time of the sale, to repurchase the security at a mutually agreed upon time and price. Repurchase agreements may be construed to be collateralized loans by the purchaser to the seller secured by the securities transferred to the purchaser. If a repurchase agreement is construed to be a collateralized loan, the underlying securities will not be considered to be owned by a fund, but only to constitute collateral for the seller’s obligation to pay the repurchase price. If the seller defaults on its obligation under the agreement, a fund may suffer delays and incur costs or lose money in exercising its rights under the agreement. If the seller fails to repurchase the security and the market value of the security declines, a fund may lose money.
Shares May Trade at Prices Different than NAV Risk. The NAV of the Shares generally will fluctuate with changes in the market value of a fund’s holdings. The market prices of Shares generally will fluctuate in accordance with changes in NAV, as well as the relative supply of and demand for Shares on the exchange on which a fund trades. The Adviser cannot predict whether Shares will trade below, at or above a fund's NAV. Price differences may be due largely to the fact that supply and demand forces at work in the secondary trading market for Shares will be related, but not identical, to the same forces influencing the prices of a fund’s holdings, individually or in the aggregate at any point in time. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions or the existence of extreme market volatility may result in trading prices that differ significantly from NAV. If a shareholder purchases at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
Structured Notes Risk. Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Depending on the factors used, changes in interest rates and movement of such factors may cause significant price fluctuations. Structured notes may be less liquid than other types of securities and more volatile than the reference factor underlying the note. This means that a Fund may lose money if the issuer of the note defaults, as a Fund may not be able to readily close out its investment in such notes without incurring losses.
Trading Issues Risk. Investors buying or selling Shares in the secondary market may pay brokerage commissions or other charges, which may be a
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significant proportional cost for investors seeking to buy or sell relatively small amounts of Shares. Moreover, trading in Shares on either NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “NYSE Arca”) or Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. ("Cboe”), (together, the “Exchanges”) may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the relevant Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable. In addition, trading in Shares on the Exchanges is subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchanges' “circuit breaker” rules. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchanges necessary to maintain the listing of each fund will continue to be met or will remain unchanged. Foreign exchanges may be open on days when Shares are not priced, and therefore, the value of the securities in a fund's portfolio may change on days when shareholders will not be able to purchase or sell Shares.

Tax Structure of ETFs
    
Unlike interests in conventional mutual funds, which typically are bought and sold only at closing NAVs, Shares are traded throughout the day in the secondary market on a national securities exchange on an intra-day basis, and are created and redeemed principally in-kind in Creation Units at each day’s next calculated NAV. These in-kind arrangements are designed to protect shareholders from the adverse effects on a Fund’s portfolio that could arise from frequent cash creation and redemption transactions. In a conventional mutual fund, redemptions can have an adverse tax impact on taxable shareholders because the mutual funds may need to sell portfolio securities to obtain cash to meet such redemptions. These sales may generate taxable gains that must be distributed to the shareholders of the mutual fund, whereas the Shares’ in-kind redemption mechanism generally will not lead to such taxable events for a Fund or its shareholders.
Each Fund may recognize gains as a result of rebalancing its securities holdings to reflect changes in the securities included in the Fund’s Underlying Index. Each Fund also may be required to distribute any such gains to its shareholders to avoid adverse federal income tax consequences. For information concerning the tax consequences of distributions, see the section entitled “Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes” in this Prospectus.

Portfolio Holdings
    
A description of the Trust's policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of the Funds' portfolio holdings is available in the Funds' SAI, which is available at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Management of the Funds
    
Invesco Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser with its offices at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515. The Adviser serves as the investment adviser to Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust, a family of ETFs with combined assets under management of approximately $134 billion as of December 31, 2019.
As the Funds’ investment adviser, the Adviser has overall responsibility for selecting and continuously monitoring the Funds’ investments, managing the Funds’ business affairs, and providing certain clerical, bookkeeping and other administrative services for the Trust.
Portfolio Managers
The Adviser uses a team of portfolio managers, investment strategists and other investment specialists in managing the Funds. This team approach brings together many disciplines and leverages the Adviser's extensive resources.
Peter Hubbard, Vice President of the Trust, oversees all research, portfolio management and trading operations of the Funds. In this capacity, Mr. Hubbard oversees a team of portfolio managers (collectively with Mr. Hubbard, the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds. In managing the Funds, Mr. Hubbard receives management assistance from Gary Jones, Jeffrey W. Kernagis, Greg Meisenger, Jeremy Neisewander and Richard Ose. Each Portfolio Manager is responsible for various functions related to portfolio management, including investing cash flows, coordinating with other team members to focus on certain asset classes, implementing investment strategy and researching and reviewing investment strategy. Each Portfolio Manager has limitations on his authority for risk management and compliance purposes that the Adviser believes to be appropriate.
■  Peter Hubbard, Director of Portfolio Management of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since June 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2005.
■  Gary Jones, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since January 2012 and has been associated with the Adviser since December 2010.
■  Jeffrey W. Kernagis, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since September 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2007.
■  Greg Meisenger, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since May 2018 and has been associated with the Adviser since March 2018. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Meisenger was a Senior Trader with Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC since 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Meisenger was a Senior Trader with Thrivent Asset Management, LLC from 2005 to 2015.
■  Jeremy Neisewander, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since April 2018 and has been associated with the Adviser since April 2018. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Neisewander was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Guggenheim Investments and joined Guggenheim Investments in May 2014. Mr. Neisewander was a member of the ETF Portfolio Management team. Prior to joining Guggenheim Investments, Mr. Neisewander held Analyst and Portfolio Management roles within the multi-asset team at UBS Global Asset Management from 2005 to 2014.
■  Richard Ose, Portfolio Manager of the Adviser, has been responsible for the management of certain Funds in the Invesco family of ETFs since October 2013 and has been associated with the Adviser since 2011.
The Funds' SAI provides additional information about the Portfolio Managers’ compensation structure, other accounts that the Portfolio Managers manage and the Portfolio Managers' ownership of Shares.
Advisory Fees
Pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and the Trust (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”), each Fund pays the Adviser an annual unitary management fee equal to a percentage of its average daily net assets set forth in the chart below:
Fund Management Fee
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF 0.50%
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Fund Management Fee
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 0.35%
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Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF 0.50%
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Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TPS ETF 0.07%
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Out of each Fund’s unitary management fee, the Adviser pays substantially all expenses of the Fund, including the costs of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, except for advisory fees, distribution fees, if any, brokerage expenses, taxes, interest, litigation expenses and other extraordinary expenses (including Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any).
The Funds may invest in money market funds that are managed by affiliates of the Adviser. The indirect portion of the management fee that a Fund incurs through such investments is in addition to the Adviser’s unitary management fee. Therefore, the Adviser has contractually agreed to waive the management fees that it receives from each Fund in an amount equal to the indirect management fees that the Fund incurs through its investments in affiliated money market funds through August 31, 2021. There is no guarantee that the Adviser will extend the waiver of these fees past that date.
A discussion regarding the basis for the Board’s approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement with respect to each Fund is available in the Funds’ applicable Semi-Annual Report to Shareholders for the fiscal period ended April 30, 2019.

How to Buy and Sell Shares
    
Each Fund issues or redeems its Shares at NAV per Share only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations. Most investors buy and sell Shares of each Fund in the secondary market transactions through brokers. Shares of each Fund are listed for trading on the secondary market on an Exchange. Shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment. Although Shares generally are purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 Shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction. The Shares of each Fund trade on the NYSE Arca (except for Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF which trades on Cboe) under the following symbols:
Fund Symbol Exchange
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF PCY NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF PGHY NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF PICB NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF PBTP Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
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Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share.
APs may acquire Shares directly from each Fund, and APs may tender their Shares for redemption directly to each Fund, at NAV per Share only in Creation Units or Creation Unit Aggregations, and in accordance with the procedures described in the SAI.
Under normal circumstances, each Fund will pay out redemption proceeds to a redeeming AP within two days after the AP’s redemption request is received, in accordance with the process set forth in the Fund’s SAI and in the agreement between the AP and the Fund’s distributor. However, each Fund reserves the right, including under stressed market conditions, to take up to seven days after the receipt of a redemption request (as discussed above) to pay an AP, all as permitted by the 1940 Act. Funds that track Underlying Indexes composed of foreign securities may pay out redemption proceeds up to 14 days after the receipt of a redemption request, consistent with the Trust’s SEC exemptive relief. Each Fund effects
creations and redemptions principally in-kind, and anticipates regularly meeting redemption requests by paying redemption proceeds to an AP primarily through in-kind redemptions. However, the Funds reserve the right to pay redemption proceeds to an AP in cash, consistent with the Trust’s exemptive relief. In addition, if an AP is not a “qualified institutional buyer,” as such term is defined under Rule 144A of the Securities Act, the AP will not be able to receive Rule 144A securities. Cash used for redemptions will be raised from the sale of portfolio assets or may come from existing holdings of cash or cash equivalents.
Each Fund may liquidate and terminate at any time without shareholder approval.
Book Entry
Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares of the Funds and is recognized as the owner of all Shares for all purposes.
Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a registered owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other securities that you hold in book entry or “street name” form.
Share Trading Prices
The trading prices of Shares of each Fund on its respective Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV. Market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors may affect the trading prices of Shares of each Fund.
The approximate value of Shares of each Fund, an amount representing on a per share basis the sum of the current market price of the securities (“Deposit Securities”) and any estimated cash component accepted by a Fund in exchange for Shares of the Fund is disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association. With respect to those Funds that invest in foreign securities, as the respective international local markets close, the market value of the Deposit Securities will continue to be updated for foreign exchange rates for the remainder of the U.S. trading day at the prescribed 15 second interval. This approximate value should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share of a Fund because the approximate value may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day. The Funds are not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the approximate value of the Shares and the Funds do not make any warranty as to its accuracy.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares
    
Shares of the Funds may be purchased and redeemed directly from the Funds only in Creation Units by APs. The vast majority of trading in Shares of the Funds occurs on the secondary market and does not involve a Fund directly. In-kind purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs and cash trades on the secondary market are unlikely to cause many of the harmful effects of frequent purchases and/or redemptions of Shares of a Fund. Cash purchases and/or redemptions of Creation Units, however, can result in increased tracking error, disruption of portfolio management, dilution to a Fund and increased transaction costs, which could negatively impact a Fund's ability to achieve its investment objective, and may lead to
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the realization of capital gains. These consequences may increase as the frequency of cash purchases and redemptions of Creation Units by APs increases. However, direct trading by APs is critical to ensuring that Shares trade at or close to NAV.
To minimize these potential consequences of frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares, each Fund imposes transaction fees on purchases and redemptions of Creation Units to cover the custodial and other costs the Funds incur in effecting trades. In addition, the Adviser monitors trades by APs for patterns of abusive trading and the Funds reserve the right to not accept orders from APs that the Adviser has determined may be disruptive to the management of the Funds or otherwise are not in the best interests of the Funds. For these reasons, the Board has not adopted policies and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions of Shares of the Funds.

Dividends, Other Distributions and Taxes
    
Dividends and Other Distributions
Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid monthly by each Fund (except for Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF). Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid quarterly by Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF. Each Fund also intends to distribute its net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders annually. Dividends and other distributions may be declared and paid more frequently to comply with the distribution requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and to avoid federal excise tax imposed on regulated investment companies (“RIC”).
Distributions in cash may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available.
Taxes
Each Fund intends to qualify each year as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) and, as such, is not subject to entity-level tax on the income and gain it distributes. If you are a taxable investor, dividends and distributions you receive generally are taxable to you whether you reinvest distributions in additional Shares or take them in cash. Every year, you will be sent information showing the amount of dividends and distributions you received during the prior calendar year. In addition, investors in taxable accounts should be aware of the following basic tax points as supplemented below where relevant:
Fund Tax Basics
■  A Fund earns income generally in the form of dividends or interest on its investments. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of a Fund, constitutes a Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to shareholders. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable to you as ordinary income.
■  Distributions of net short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. A Fund with a high portfolio turnover rate (a measure of how frequently assets within a Fund are bought and sold) is more likely to generate short-term capital gains than a Fund with a low portfolio turnover rate. For ETFs for which in-kind redemptions are the primary redemption mechanism, a Fund may be less likely to sell securities in order to generate cash for redeeming shareholders, which a mutual fund might do. This provides a greater opportunity for ETFs to defer the recognition of gain on appreciated securities which it may hold thereby reducing the distribution of capital gains to its shareholders.
■  Distributions of net long-term capital gains are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your Shares.
■  A portion of income dividends paid by a Fund may be reported as qualified dividend income eligible for taxation by individual shareholders at long-term capital gain rates, provided certain holding period requirements are met. These reduced rates generally are available for dividends derived from a Fund’s investment in stocks of domestic corporations and qualified foreign corporations. In the case of a Fund that invests primarily in debt securities, either none or only a nominal portion of the dividends paid by a Fund will be eligible for taxation at these reduced rates.
■  The use of derivatives by a Fund may cause the Fund to realize higher amounts of ordinary income or short-term capital gain, distributions from which are taxable to individual shareholders at ordinary income tax rates rather than at the more favorable tax rates for long-term capital gain.
■  Distributions declared to shareholders with a record date in December–if paid to you by the end of January–are taxable for federal income tax purposes as if received in December.
■  Any long-term or short-term capital gains realized on the sale of your Shares will be subject to federal income tax.
■  A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the sale of any of the shareholder’s Shares, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.
■  At the time you purchase your Shares, a Fund’s NAV may reflect undistributed income or undistributed capital gains. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying Shares in a Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes known as “buying a dividend.” In addition, a Fund’s NAV may, at any time, reflect net unrealized appreciation, which may result in future taxable distributions to you.
■  By law, if you do not provide a Fund with your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains, or proceeds from the sale of your Shares. A Fund also must withhold if the IRS instructs it to do so. When withholding is required, the amount will be 24% of any distributions or proceeds paid.
■  An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.
■  You will not be required to include the portion of dividends paid by a Fund derived from interest on U.S. government obligations in your gross income for purposes of personal and, in some cases, corporate income taxes in many state and local tax jurisdictions. The percentage of dividends that constitutes dividends derived from interest on federal obligations will be determined annually. This percentage may differ from the actual percentage of interest received by the Fund on federal obligations for the particular days on which you hold shares.
■  Fund distributions and gains from sale of Shares generally are subject to state and local income taxes.
■  If a Fund qualifies to pass through the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments, and elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it
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  pays on these investments may be passed through to you as a foreign tax credit. You will then be required to include your pro-rata share of these taxes in gross income, even though not actually received by you, and will be entitled either to deduct your share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax.
■  Foreign investors should be aware that U.S. withholding, special certification requirements to avoid U.S. backup withholding and claim any treaty benefits, and estate taxes may apply to an investment in a Fund.
■  Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a 30% withholding tax is imposed on income dividends made by a Fund to certain foreign entities, referred to as foreign financial institutions or non-financial foreign entities that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. After December 31, 2018, FATCA withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions, return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Shares; however, based on proposed regulations recently issued by the IRS on the Fund may rely, such withholding is no longer required unless final regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). A Fund may disclose the information that it receives from its shareholders to the IRS, non-U.S. taxing authorities or other parties as necessary to comply with FATCA or similar laws. Withholding also may be required if a foreign entity that is a shareholder of a Fund fails to provide the Fund with appropriate certifications or other documentation concerning its status under FATCA.
■  If a Fund invests in an underlying fund taxed as a RIC, please see any relevant section below for more information regarding the Fund’s investment in such underlying fund.
Fund Investments in Real Estate Securities
■  Because of “noncash” expenses such as property depreciation, the cash flow of a REIT that owns properties will exceed its taxable income. The REIT, and in turn a Fund, may distribute this excess cash. Such a distribution is classified as a return of capital. Return of capital distributions generally are not taxable to you. Your cost basis in your shares will be decreased by the amount of any return of capital. Any return of capital distributions in excess of your cost basis will be treated as capital gains.
■  Dividends paid to shareholders from a Fund’s investments in U.S. REITs generally will not qualify for taxation at long-term capital gain rates applicable to qualified dividend income.
■  A Fund may derive “excess inclusion income” from certain equity interests in mortgage pooling vehicles either directly or through an investment in a U.S. REIT. Please see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to shareholders in the event a Fund realizes excess inclusion income in excess of certain threshold amounts.
■  Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., ordinary REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends designated as qualified dividend income) are treated as eligible for a 20% deduction by noncorporate taxpayers. Proposed regulations issued by the IRS, on which a Fund can rely, enable the Fund to pass through the special character of “qualified REIT dividends” to a shareholder, provided the shareholder meets certain holding period requirements with respect to their shares.
■  A Fund’s foreign shareholders should see the SAI for a discussion of the risks and special tax consequences to them from a sale of a U.S. real property interest by a REIT in which the Fund invests.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units
To the extent that a Fund permits in-kind transactions, an AP that exchanges securities for a Creation Unit generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of exchange (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the issue) and the sum of the AP's aggregate basis in the securities surrendered plus any cash component paid. Similarly, an AP that redeems a Creation Unit in exchange for securities generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the AP's basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash paid by the AP as part of the redemption) and the aggregate market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the redemption). The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for a Creation Unit, or of a Creation Unit for securities, cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales” or on the ground that there has been no significant change in the AP's economic position. An AP exchanging securities should consult its own tax advisor(s) with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss otherwise might not be deductible.
Any capital gain or loss realized on a redemption of a Creation Unit generally is treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less, assuming that such Creation Units are held as a capital asset. If you purchase or redeem one or more Creation Units, you will be sent a confirmation statement showing how many Shares you purchased or sold and at what price.
The foregoing discussion summarizes some of the more important possible consequences under current federal, state and local tax law of an investment in the Funds. It is not a substitute for personal tax advice. You also may be subject to state, local and/or foreign tax on a Fund's distributions and sales and/or redemptions of Shares. Consult your personal tax advisor(s) about the potential tax consequences of an investment in the Shares under all applicable tax laws.

Distributor
    
Invesco Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”) serves as the distributor of Creation Units for each Fund on an agency basis. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares. The Distributor is an affiliate of the Adviser.

Net Asset Value
    
The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM”) calculates each Fund’s NAV at the close of regular trading (normally 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) every day the NYSE is open. U.S. fixed-income assets may be valued as of the announced closing time for trading in fixed- income instruments on any day that the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association announces an early closing time. The NAV for each Fund will be calculated and disseminated daily on each day that the NYSE is open. NAV is calculated by deducting all of a Fund’s liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. Generally, the portfolio securities are recorded in the NAV no later than trade date plus one day. All valuations are subject to review by the Trust’s Board or its delegate.
In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily and securities and other assets for which market quotations are readily available are valued at market value. Securities listed or traded on an exchange (except convertible securities) generally are valued at the last sales price or official closing price that day as of the close of the exchange where the security is primarily traded. Investment companies are valued using such company's NAV per share, unless the shares are exchange-traded, in which
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case they will be valued at the last sale or official closing price on the exchanges on which they primarily trade. Deposits, other obligations of U.S. and non-U.S. banks and financial institutions, and cash equivalents are valued at their daily account value. Debt obligations (including convertible securities) and securities not listed on an exchange normally are valued on the basis of prices provided by independent pricing services. Pricing services generally value debt securities assuming orderly transactions of institutional round lot size, but a Fund may hold or transact in the same securities in smaller, odd lot sizes. Odd lots often trade at lower prices than institutional round lots. 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 asked prices from the exchange on which they principally trade. Options not listed on an exchange are valued by an independent source at the mean between the last bid and asked prices. Swaps generally are valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services. For purposes of determining NAV per Share, futures and option contracts and swaps generally are valued 15 minutes after the close of the customary trading session of the NYSE.
Certain securities may not be listed on an exchange; typically, those securities are bought and sold by institutional investors in individually negotiated private transactions. Such securities, as well as listed securities whose market price is not readily available, will be valued using pricing provided from independent pricing services or by another method that the Adviser, in its judgment, believes will better reflect the security’s fair value in accordance with the Trust’s valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board.
Even when market quotations are available for portfolio securities, they may be stale or unreliable because the security is not traded frequently, trading on the security ceased before the close of the trading market or issuer-specific events occurred after the security ceased trading or because of the passage of time between the close of the market on which the security trades and the close of the NYSE and when a Fund calculates its NAV. Events that may cause the last market quotation to be unreliable include a merger or insolvency, events which affect a geographical area or an industry segment, such as political events or natural disasters, or market events, such as a significant movement in the U.S. market. Where market quotations are not readily available, including where the Adviser determines that the closing price of the security is unreliable, the Adviser will value the security at fair value in good faith using procedures approved by the Board. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that a fair value determination for a security is materially different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of the security. In addition, fair value pricing could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate a Fund's NAV and the prices used by the Fund's Underlying Index. This may adversely affect a Fund's ability to track its Underlying Index. With respect to securities that are primarily listed on foreign exchanges, the value of a Fund's portfolio securities may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares.

Fund Service Providers
    
BNYM, 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, is the administrator, custodian and fund accounting and transfer agent for each Fund.
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1601, Chicago, Illinois 60606, and 2000 K Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the Funds' independent registered public accounting firm. PwC is responsible for auditing the annual financial statements of each Fund and assists in the preparation and/or review of each Fund’s federal and state income tax returns.
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Financial Highlights
The financial highlights tables below are intended to help you understand each Fund's financial performance over the past five years, or if shorter, for the period since a Fund's inception. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Share. The total returns in each table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the Fund
(assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). This information has been derived from the Funds' financial statements, which have been audited by PwC, whose report, along with the Funds' financial statements, is included in the Funds' Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, which is available upon request.
 
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 26.20 $ 29.62 $ 29.81 $ 28.08 $ 29.03
Net investment income(a) 1.41 1.26 1.45 1.46 1.48
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 2.93 (3.42) (0.17) 1.74 (0.97)
Total from investment operations 4.34 (2.16) 1.28 3.20 0.51
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (1.42) (1.26) (1.46) (1.47) (1.46)
Return of capital - - (0.01) - -
Total distributions (1.42) (1.26) (1.47) (1.47) (1.46)
Net asset value at end of year $ 29.12 $ 26.20 $ 29.62 $ 29.81 $ 28.08
Market price at end of year(b) $ 29.13 $ 26.13 $ 29.62 $ 29.70 $ 28.02
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 16.91% (7.42)% 4.49% 11.79% 1.87%
Market Price Total Return(c) 17.28% (7.66)% 4.88% 11.61% 1.49%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $3,535,387 $3,704,365 $4,970,710 $4,125,597 $2,653,385
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.50% 0.50% 0.50% 0.50% 0.50%
Net investment income 5.03% 4.51% 4.98% 5.06% 5.25%
Portfolio turnover rate(d) 28% 54% 30% 30% 27%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 23.14 $ 24.14 $ 24.16 $ 23.50 $ 24.12
Net investment income(a) 1.20 1.24 1.34 1.51 1.04
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments (0.32) (1.00) 0.02 0.59 (0.62)
Total from investment operations 0.88 0.24 1.36 2.10 0.42
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (1.20) (1.24) (1.37) (1.42) (1.03)
Return of capital - - (0.01) (0.02) (0.01)
Total distributions (1.20) (1.24) (1.38) (1.44) (1.04)
Net asset value at end of year $ 22.82 $ 23.14 $ 24.14 $ 24.16 $ 23.50
Market price at end of year(b) $ 22.81 $ 23.03 $ 24.19 $ 24.23 $ 23.37
Net Asset Value Total Return(c) 3.90% 1.05% 5.76% 9.27% 1.83%
Market Price Total Return(c) 4.36% 0.36% 5.66% 10.17% 1.61%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $230,477 $216,400 $222,093 $68,862 $27,029
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.35% 0.35% 0.35% 0.35% 0.35%
Net investment income 5.21% 5.25% 5.52% 6.43% 4.43%
Portfolio turnover rate(d) 57% 42% 38% 53% 50%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(c) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(d) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF
  Years Ended October 31,
  2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Per Share Operating Performance:          
Net asset value at beginning of year $ 25.31 $ 26.88 $ 25.08 $ 25.95 $ 28.77
Net investment income(a) 0.39 0.43 0.42 0.55 0.62
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 1.65 (1.57) 1.80 (0.86) (2.82)
Total from investment operations 2.04 (1.14) 2.22 (0.31) (2.20)
Distributions to shareholders from:          
Net investment income (0.23) (0.43) (0.23) - (0.03)
Return of capital (0.16) - (0.19) (0.56) (0.59)
Total distributions (0.39) (0.43) (0.42) (0.56) (0.62)
Transaction fees(a) 0.00 (b) - 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b) 0.00 (b)
Net asset value at end of year $ 26.96 $ 25.31 $ 26.88 $ 25.08 $ 25.95
Market price at end of year(c) $ 26.84 $ 25.28 $ 26.89 $ 25.02 $ 25.89
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 8.12% (4.31)% 8.95% (1.26)% (7.73)%
Market Price Total Return(d) 7.77% (4.46)% 9.25% (1.26)% (7.94)%
Ratios/Supplemental Data:          
Net assets at end of year (000’s omitted) $111,878 $118,969 $159,963 $160,539 $189,454
Ratio to average net assets of:          
Expenses 0.51% (e) 0.50% 0.50% 0.50% 0.50%
Net investment income 1.49% (e) 1.58% 1.62% 2.12% 2.29%
Portfolio turnover rate(f) 23% 12% 14% 24% 13%
    
(a) Based on average shares outstanding.
(b) Amount represents less than $0.005.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.01%.
(f) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF
  Years Ended October 31, For the Period
September 19, 2017(a)
Through
October 31,
2017
  2019 2018
Per Share Operating Performance:      
Net asset value at beginning of period $24.40 $24.99 $25.00
Net investment income(b) 0.59 0.63 0.06
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 0.39 (0.55) (0.07)
Total from investment operations 0.98 0.08 (0.01)
Distributions to shareholders from:      
Net investment income (0.49) (0.67) -
Net asset value at end of period $24.89 $24.40 $24.99
Market price at end of period(c) $24.90 $24.40 $24.99
Net Asset Value Total Return(d) 4.04% 0.33% (0.04)% (e)
Market Price Total Return(d) 4.07% 0.33% (0.04)% (e)
Ratios/Supplemental Data:      
Net assets at end of period (000’s omitted) $7,467 $2,440 $2,499
Ratio to average net assets of:      
Expenses 0.20% (f) 0.07% 0.07% (g)
Net investment income 2.39% (f) 2.53% 2.22% (g)
Portfolio turnover rate(h) 30% 19% 0%
    
(a) Commencement of investment operations.
(b) Based on average shares outstanding.
(c) The mean between the last bid and ask prices.
(d) Net asset value total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption at net asset value on the last day of the period. Net asset value total return 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. Market price total return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the market price at the beginning of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at market price during the period, and sale at the market price on the last day of the period. Total investment returns calculated for a period of less than one year are not annualized.
(e) The net asset value total return from Fund Inception (September 22, 2017, the first day of trading on the Exchange) to October 31, 2017 was 0.12%. The market price total return from Fund Inception to October 31, 2017 was 0.12%.
(f) Ratios include non-recurring costs associated with a proxy statement of 0.13%.
(g) Annualized.
(h) Portfolio turnover rate is not annualized for periods less than one year, if applicable, and does not include securities received or delivered from processing creations or redemptions.
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Index Providers
    

No entity that creates, compiles, sponsors or maintains an Underlying Index is or will be an affiliated person, as defined in Section 2(a)(3) of the 1940 Act, or an affiliated person of an affiliated person, of the Trust, the Adviser, the Distributor or a promoter of a Fund.
Neither the Adviser nor any affiliate of the Adviser has any rights to influence the selection of the securities in the Underlying Indexes.
Each Underlying Index is calculated and maintained by its respective Index Provider. The Index Providers are not affiliated with the Trust, the Adviser or the Distributor. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with each Index Provider. Each Fund is entitled to use its Underlying Index pursuant to a sublicensing agreement with the Adviser.
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (“DB”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of each of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF and Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF. Each of the DBIQ Emerging Markets USD Liquid Balanced Index and DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index is a trademark of DB and has been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
ICE Data. ICE Data Indices, LLC (“ICE Data”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF. The ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury Index is a service mark and trademark of ICE Data and has been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
S&P Dow Jones Indices, LLC. S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”) is the Index Provider for the Underlying Index of Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF. The S&P International Corporate Bond Index® is a trademark of the Index Provider and has been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
Set forth below is a list of each Fund and its Underlying Index:
Fund Underlying Index
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index
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Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index
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Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF S&P International Corporate Bond Index®
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Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury IndexSM
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Disclaimers
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“DB”). Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF and Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by DB, its affiliates, or its third party licensors. Deutsche Bank®, DBIQSM, DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced IndexSM and DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond IndexSM are marks of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser.
DB makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF and Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF or Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF particularly. As the Index Provider for Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF and Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, DB’s only relationship to the Distributor, the Adviser or the Trust is through the licensing of certain trademarks and trade names of DB and Underlying Indexes.
The DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index and DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index are selected and calculated without
regard to the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or any holders of Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF or Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, respectively. DB has no obligation to take the needs of the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or the owners of Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF or Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF into consideration when determining, composing or calculating the DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index or DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index, respectively. DB is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices and amount of Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF or Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF or the timing of the issuance or sale of Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF or Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF or in the determination of any financial calculations relating thereto. DB has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration of the Trusts or marketing of the Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF or Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF. DB does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, and/or the completeness of the DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index or DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index or any data included therein, and DB shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, delays, or interruptions therein. DB makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Distributor, the Adviser, the Trust or owners of Shares of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF and Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, or any other person or entity, from the use of the DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index or DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index or any data included therein.
DB MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE DBIQ EMERGING MARKET USD LIQUID BALANCED INDEX OR DB GLOBAL SHORT MATURITY HIGH YIELD BOND INDEX, OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN, OR THE INVESCO EMERGING MARKETS SOVEREIGN DEBT ETF, INVESCO GLOBAL SHORT TERM HIGH YIELD BOND ETF, THE TRUST, OR THE SHARES OF INVESCO EMERGING MARKETS SOVEREIGN DEBT ETF AND INVESCO GLOBAL SHORT TERM HIGH YIELD BOND ETF. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL DB HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE DBIQ EMERGING MARKET USD LIQUID BALANCED INDEX AND DB GLOBAL SHORT MATURITY HIGH YIELD BOND INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN, EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THERE ARE NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. AND THE ADVISER.
No purchaser, seller or holder of this security, or any other person or entity, should use or refer to any DB trade name, trademark or service mark to sponsor, endorse, market or promote this product without first contacting DB to determine whether DB’s permission is required. Under no circumstances may any person or entity claim any affiliation with DB without the written permission of DB.
ICE DATA INDICES, LLC. Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF is based in whole, or in part, on its Underlying Index, which is owned by ICE Data Indices, LLC (“ICE Data”) or its affiliates, and is used by the Adviser with permission under license by ICE Data. “ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury Index” is a service mark and trademark of ICE Data and/or its affiliates and/or its third party licensors and has been licensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser on behalf of the Fund. BofA® is a registered trademark of Bank of America Corporation licensed by Bank of
 
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America Corporation and its affiliates (“BofA”), and may not be used without BofA’s prior written approval. The Underlying Index is maintained and calculated by ICE Data and ICE Data is the administrator of the Underlying Index. ICE Data is not affiliated with the Fund or any of its affiliates. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with ICE Data to use the Underlying Index.
None of the Adviser or the Fund is sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by ICE Data, its affiliates or its third party suppliers (“ICE Data and its Suppliers”). ICE Data and its Suppliers make no representations or warranties regarding the Adviser or the Fund or the ability of Fund to track the Underlying Index.
ICE Data’s only relationship to Invesco is the licensing of certain trademarks and trade names and the Underlying Index or components thereof. The Underlying Index is determined, composed and calculated by ICE Data without regard to the Adviser or the Fund or its holders. ICE Data has no obligation to take the needs of the Adviser or the holders of the Fund into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the Underlying Index. ICE Data is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the timing of, prices of, or quantities of the Fund to be issued or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Fund is to be priced, sold, purchased, or redeemed. Except for certain custom index calculation services, all information provided by ICE Data is general in nature and not tailored to the needs of Invesco or any other person, entity or group of persons. ICE Data has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing, or trading of the Fund. ICE Data is not an investment advisor. Inclusion of a security within an index is not a recommendation by ICE Data to buy, sell, or hold such security, nor is it considered to be investment advice.
ICE DATA AND ITS SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS AND/OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE, INCLUDING THE UNDERLYING INDEX, INDEX DATA AND ANY INFORMATION INCLUDED IN, RELATED TO, OR DERIVED THEREFROM (“INDEX DATA”). ICE DATA AND ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS OR COMPLETENESS OF THE UNDERLYING INDEX AND THE INDEX DATA, WHICH ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND YOUR USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC®(“S&P DJI“). The S&P International Corporate Bond Index (the “S&P DJI Index”) is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC or its affiliates (“SPDJI”) and has been licensed for use by the Adviser. Standard & Poor’s® and S&P® are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P“) and Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”). The trademarks have been licensed to SPDJI and have been sublicensed for use for certain purposes by the Adviser. Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF (the “S&P DJI Fund”) is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by SPDJI, Dow Jones, S&P, any of their respective affiliates (collectively, “S&P Dow Jones Indices”). S&P Dow Jones Indices does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the S&P DJI Fund or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the S&P DJI Fund particularly or the ability of the S&P DJI Index to track general market performance. S&P Dow Jones Indices only relationship to the Adviser with respect to the S&P DJI Index is the licensing of the index and certain trademarks, service marks and/or trade names of S&P Dow Jones Indices and/or its licensors. The S&P DJI Index is determined, composed and calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices without regard to the Adviser or the S&P DJI Fund. S&P Dow Jones Indices has no obligation to take the needs of the Adviser or the owners of the S&P DJI Fund into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the S&P DJI Index. S&P Dow Jones Indices is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the prices, and amount of the S&P DJI Fund or the timing of the issuance or sale of the S&P DJI Fund
or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the S&P DJI Fund is to be converted into cash, surrendered or redeemed, as the case may be. S&P Dow Jones Indices has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the S&P DJI Fund. There is no assurance that investment products based on the S&P DJI Index will accurately track index performance or provide positive investment returns. S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is not an investment advisor. Inclusion of a security within an index is not a recommendation by S&P Dow Jones Indices to buy, sell, or hold such security, nor is it considered to be investment advice.
S&P DOW JONES INDICES DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE S&P DJI INDEX OR ANY DATA RELATED THERETO OR ANY COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION (INCLUDING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS) WITH RESPECT THERETO. S&P DOW JONES INDICES SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR DELAYS THEREIN. S&P DOW JONES INDICES MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE OR AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY THE ADVISER, OWNERS OF THE S&P DJI FUND, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE S&P DJI INDEX OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY DATA RELATED THERETO. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WHATSOEVER SHALL S&P DOW JONES INDICES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS, TRADING LOSSES, LOST TIME OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. THERE ARE NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN S&P DOW JONES INDICES AND THE ADVISER, OTHER THAN THE LICENSORS OF THE S&P DJI INDEX.
The Adviser does not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of an Underlying Index or any data included therein, and the Adviser shall have no liability for any errors, omissions, restatements, re-calculations or interruptions therein. The Adviser makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by a Fund, owners of the Shares or any other person or entity from the use of an Underlying Index or any data included therein. The Adviser makes no express or implied warranties, and expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to an Underlying Index or any data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Adviser have any liability for any special, punitive, direct, indirect or consequential damages (including lost profits) arising out of matters relating to the use of an Underlying Index even if notified of the possibility of such damages.

Premium/Discount Information
    
Information on the daily NAV per Share for each Fund can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs. Additionally, information regarding how often the Shares of each Fund traded on its Exchange at a price above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) the NAV of the Fund during the prior calendar year and subsequent quarters, can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs.

Other Information
    
Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act restricts investments by investment companies (and companies relying on Sections 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act) in the securities of other investment companies. However, registered investment companies are permitted to invest in the Funds beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth
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in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust, including that such investment companies enter into a participation agreement with the Trust on behalf of a Fund prior to exceeding the limits imposed by Section 12(d)(1). Additionally, each Fund is permitted pursuant to an SEC exemptive order to invest in other registered investment companies beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in another exemptive order that the SEC has issued to the Trust. If a Fund relies on this exemptive relief, however, other investment companies may not invest in that Fund beyond the statutory provisions of Section 12(d)(1).
Continuous Offering
The method by which Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable securities laws. Because new Creation Unit Aggregations of Shares are issued and sold by a Fund on an ongoing basis, a “distribution,” as such term is used in the Securities Act, may occur at any point. Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner which could render them statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery requirement and liability provisions of the Securities Act.
For example, a broker-dealer firm or its client may be deemed a statutory underwriter if it takes Creation Unit Aggregations after placing an order with the Distributor, breaks them down into constituent Shares and sells such Shares directly to customers, or if it chooses to couple the creation of a supply of new Shares with an active selling effort involving solicitation of secondary market demand for Shares. A determination of whether one is an underwriter for purposes of the Securities Act must take into account all the facts and circumstances pertaining to the activities of the broker-dealer or its client in the particular case, and the examples mentioned above should not be considered a complete description of all the activities that could lead to a characterization as an underwriter.
Broker-dealer firms also should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are effecting transactions in Shares, whether or not participating in the distribution of Shares, generally are required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the prospectus delivery exemption in Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act is not available in respect of such transactions as a result of Section 24(d) of the 1940 Act. As a result, broker-dealer firms should note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted with engaging in ordinary secondary market transactions), and thus dealing with the Shares that are part of an overallotment within the meaning of Section 4(a)(3)(C) of the Securities Act, will be unable to take advantage of the prospectus delivery exemption provided by Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act. For delivery of prospectuses to exchange members, the prospectus delivery mechanism of Rule 153 under the Securities Act only is available with respect to transactions on a national exchange.
Delivery of Shareholder Documents–Householding
Householding is an option available to certain investors of the Funds. Householding is a method of delivery, based on the preference of the
individual investor, in which a single copy of certain shareholder documents can be delivered to investors who share the same address, even if their accounts are registered under different names. Householding for the Funds is available through certain broker-dealers. If you are interested in enrolling in householding and receiving a single copy of the Prospectus and other shareholder documents, please contact your broker-dealer. If you currently are enrolled in householding and wish to change your householding status, please contact your broker-dealer.
For More Information
For more detailed information on the Trust, the Funds and the Shares, you may request a copy of the Funds' SAI. The SAI provides detailed information about the Funds and is incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. This means that the SAI legally is a part of this Prospectus. Additional information about the Funds' investments also is available in the Funds' Annual and Semi-Annual Reports to Shareholders. In the Funds' Annual Reports, you will find a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected each Fund's performance during the last fiscal year. If you have questions about the Funds or Shares or you wish to obtain the SAI, Annual Report and/or Semi-Annual Report, free of charge, or to make shareholder inquiries, please:
Call: Invesco Distributors, Inc. at 1-800-983-0903
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time
Write: Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
c/o Invesco Distributors, Inc.
11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas 77046-1173
Visit: www.invesco.com/ETFs
Reports and other information about the Funds are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Internet site at www.sec.gov, and copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov.
No person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations about a Fund and its Shares not contained in this Prospectus, and you should not rely on any other information. Read and keep this Prospectus for future reference.
Dealers effecting transactions in the Shares, whether or not participating in this distribution, generally are required to deliver a Prospectus. This is in addition to any obligation of dealers to deliver a Prospectus when acting as underwriters.
The Trust's registration number under the 1940 Act is 811-21977.
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Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II  
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Investment Company Act File No. 811-21977
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dated February 28, 2020
This Statement of Additional Information (the “SAI”) for Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II (the “Trust”), relating to the series of the Trust listed below (each, a "Fund" and, collectively, the "Funds"), is not a prospectus. The SAI should be read in conjunction with the Prospectus (the “Prospectus”) for each Fund dated February 28, 2020, as the Prospectus may be revised from time to time.
Fund   Principal U.S. Listing Exchange   Ticker
Invesco China Technology ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   CQQQ
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF   The Nasdaq Stock Market   PIZ
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   The Nasdaq Stock Market   PIE
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PCY
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF   The Nasdaq Stock Market   IDLB
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PXF
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PDN
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PXH
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PBD
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PGHY
Invesco Global Water ETF   The Nasdaq Stock Market   PIO
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF   The Nasdaq Stock Market   IPKW
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   PICB
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   CUT
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF   Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.   PBTP
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF   Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.   PBDM
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF   Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.   PBEE
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   EELV
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   EEMO
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   CGW
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF   Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.   IDHD
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   IDLV
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   IDMO
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF   NYSE Arca, Inc.   IDHQ
Capitalized terms used herein that are not defined have the same meaning as in the Prospectus, unless otherwise noted. A copy of the Prospectus may be obtained without charge by writing to the Trust's Distributor, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”), 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77046-1173, or at no charge by calling toll free 1-800-983-0903. The audited financial statements for each Fund contained in the Trust's 2019 Annual Report and the related report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm of the Trust, are incorporated herein by reference in the section "Financial Statements." No other portions of the Trust's Annual Reports are incorporated by reference in to this SAI.

 

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST AND THE FUNDS
The Trust was organized as a Massachusetts business trust on October 10, 2006 and is authorized to have multiple series or portfolios. The Trust is an open-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). The Trust currently consists of 88 Funds. This SAI contains information for 24 of the Funds. Each Fund (except as indicated below) is “non-diversified,” and as such, each such Fund’s investments are not required to meet certain diversification requirements under the 1940 Act. The following Funds are classified as “diversified”: Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF. The shares of each of the Funds are referred to in this SAI as “Shares.”
The investment objective of each Fund is to seek to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of its specific underlying index (each, an “Underlying Index”). Invesco Capital Management LLC (the “Adviser”), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd., manages the Funds.
Each Fund (except as indicated below) issues and redeems Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in aggregations of 50,000 Shares (each a “Creation Unit” or a “Creation Unit Aggregation”). The following Funds issue and redeem Shares at NAV in aggregations of 100,000 Shares: Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM Developed ex-North America ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF. Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF issues and redeems Shares at NAV in aggregations of 80,000 Shares.
Each Fund generally issues and redeems Creation Units principally in exchange for a basket of securities included in its Underlying Index (the “Deposit Securities”), together with the deposit of a specified cash payment (the “Cash Component”), plus certain transaction fees; however, such Funds also reserve the right to permit or require Creation Units to be issued in exchange for cash.
Shares of the following Funds are listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. (“NYSE Arca”) (each such Fund is a “NYSE Arca-listed Fund”): Invesco China Technology ETF, Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF.
Shares of the following Funds are listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) (each such Fund is a “Nasdaq-listed Fund”): Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco Global Water ETF and Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF.
Shares of the following Funds are listed on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (“Cboe”) (each such Fund is a “Cboe- listed Fund”): Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF.
Collectively, Cboe, Nasdaq and NYSE Arca are the “Exchanges” and each is an “Exchange.”
Shares trade on the respective Exchanges at market prices that may be below, at, or above NAV. In the event of the liquidation of a Fund, the Trust may decrease the number of Shares in a Creation Unit.
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Each Fund may issue Shares in advance of receipt of Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Trust cash at least equal to 105% of the market value of the missing Deposit Securities. See the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section. To offset the added brokerage and other transaction costs a Fund incurs with using cash to purchase the requisite Deposit Securities, during each instance of cash creations or redemptions, the Funds may impose transaction fees that will be higher than the transaction fees associated with in-kind creations or redemptions. For more information, see the section below titled “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations.”
Each of Invesco China Technology ETF, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF is successor to a corresponding predecessor fund (each, a “Predecessor Fund” and collectively, the “Predecessor Funds”) as a result of reorganizations that were consummated after the close of business on April 6, 2018 for each Fund except Invesco China Technology ETF, and after close of business on May 18, 2018 for Invesco China Technology ETF (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, “the Reorganizations”). Each Fund adopted the performance and financial information of its corresponding Predecessor Fund; therefore, information presented prior to the Reorganizations is that of the Predecessor Fund.
EXCHANGE LISTING AND TRADING
Shares of each Cboe-listed Fund, NYSE Arca-listed Fund and each Nasdaq-listed Fund are listed for trading, and trade throughout the day, on their respective Exchanges. There can be no assurance that a Fund will continue to meet the requirements of the applicable Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of its Shares. The applicable Exchange may, but is not required to, remove the Shares of a Fund from listing if: (i) following the initial 12-month period beginning at the commencement of trading of a Fund, there are fewer than 50 beneficial owners of Shares (for each Cboe-listed Fund, there must be fewer than 50 beneficial owners for at least 30 consecutive trading days); (ii) the value of the Fund’s Underlying Index no longer is calculated or available; (iii) a Fund’s Underlying Index fails to meet certain continued listing standards of the applicable Exchange; (iv) the “intraday indicative value” (“IIV”) of a Fund is no longer calculated or available; or (v) such other event shall occur or condition shall exist that, in the opinion of the applicable Exchange, makes further dealings on such Exchange inadvisable. The applicable Exchange will remove the Shares of a Fund from listing and trading upon termination of the Fund.
As in the case of other stocks traded on the applicable Exchange, brokers' commissions on transactions will be based on negotiated commission rates at customary levels.
The Trust reserves the right to adjust the price levels of the Shares in the future to help maintain convenient trading ranges for investors. Any adjustments would be accomplished through stock splits or reverse stock splits, which would have no effect on the net assets of a Fund.
In order to provide additional information regarding the indicative value of Shares of the Funds, the applicable Exchange or a market data vendor disseminates every 15 seconds through the facilities of the Consolidated Tape Association or other widely disseminated means, an updated IIV for the Funds, as calculated by an information provider or market data vendor. The Trust is not involved in, or responsible for any aspect of, the calculation or dissemination of the IIVs and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the IIVs.
For each Cboe-listed Fund and NYSE Arca-listed Fund:
The Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by the Exchange or its affiliates. The Exchange makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of Shares of the Funds or any member of the public regarding the ability of a Fund to track the total return performance of an Underlying Index or the ability of an Underlying Index to track stock market performance. The Exchange is not responsible for, nor has it participated in, the determination of the compilation or the calculation of an Underlying Index, nor in the determination of the timing of, prices of, or quantities of Shares of the Funds to be issued, nor in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Shares are redeemable. The
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Exchange and its affiliates have no obligation or liability to owners of the Shares of the Funds in connection with the administration, marketing, or trading of the Shares of the Funds.
The Exchange and its affiliates do not guarantee the accuracy and/or the completeness of the Underlying Index or the data included therein. The Exchange makes no warranty, express or implied, as to results to be obtained by the Trust on behalf of the Fund, owners of Shares, or any other person or entity from the use of the Underlying Index or the data include therein. The Exchange makes no express or implied warranties, and hereby expressly disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to the Underlying Index or the data included therein. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall the Exchange have any liability for any lost profits or indirect, punitive, special, or consequential damages even if notified of the possibility thereof.
For each Nasdaq-listed Fund:
The Nasdaq-listed Funds are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Nasdaq or its affiliates (collectively, the “Corporations”). The Corporations have not passed on the legality or suitability of, or the accuracy or adequacy of descriptions and disclosures relating to, the Nasdaq-listed Funds. The Corporations make no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Nasdaq-listed Funds or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Funds particularly. The Corporations’ only relationship to the Trust is as a calculation agent for the IIVs for the respective Nasdaq-listed Funds’ Shares. The Corporations have no liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the Nasdaq-listed Funds.
THE CORPORATIONS DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE DATA ON WHICH THE IIV CALCULATIONS ARE BASED OR THE ACTUAL COMPUTATION OF THE VALUE OF THE IIV, NOR SHALL THE CORPORATIONS BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DELAYS IN THE COMPUTATION OR DISSEMINATION OF THE IIV VALUES. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY THE TRUST, OWNERS OF THE FUNDS, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE IIVS OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE IIVS OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CORPORATIONS HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS
The Funds have adopted as fundamental policies the respective investment restrictions numbered (1) through (13) below, except that restrictions (1) and (2) only apply to those Funds classified as “diversified” funds, as listed above in the section “General Description of the Trust and the Funds.” Except as noted in the prior sentence or as otherwise noted below, each Fund, as a fundamental policy, may not:
(1) As to 75% of its total assets, invest more than 5% of the value of its total assets in the securities of any one issuer (other than obligations issued, or guaranteed, by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities).
(2) As to 75% of its total assets, purchase more than 10% of all outstanding voting securities or any class of securities of any one issuer.
(3) With respect to Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Invesco Global Water ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF, invest 25% or more of the value of its total assets in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries, except to the extent that the underlying index that the Fund replicates
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  concentrates in an industry or group of industries. This restriction does not apply to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities.
(4) With respect to Invesco China Technology ETF, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, invest more than 25% of the value of its net assets in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries, except to the extent that the underlying index that the Fund replicates concentrates in an industry or group of industries. This restriction does not apply to obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities.
(5) With respect to Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco Global Water ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF, borrow money, except that the Fund may (i) borrow money from banks for temporary or emergency purposes (but not for leverage or the purchase of investments) up to 10% of its total assets and (ii) make other investments or engage in other transactions permissible under the 1940 Act that may involve a borrowing, provided that the combination of (i) and (ii) shall not exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the amount borrowed), less the Fund’s liabilities (other than borrowings).
(6) With respect to Invesco China Technology ETF, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, borrow money, except the Fund may borrow money to the extent permitted by (i) the 1940 Act, (ii) the rules and regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the 1940 Act, or (iii) an exemption or other relief applicable to the Fund from the provisions of the 1940 Act.
(7) Act as an underwriter of another issuer’s securities, except to the extent that the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in connection with the purchase and sale of portfolio securities.
(8) With respect to each Fund except Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, make loans to other persons, except through (i) the purchase of debt securities permissible under the Fund’s investment policies, (ii) repurchase agreements or (iii) the lending of portfolio securities, provided that no such loan of portfolio securities may be made by the Fund if, as a result, the aggregate of such loans would exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Fund’s total assets.
(9) With respect to Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM
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  FTSE Emerging Markets ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, make loans to other persons, except through (i) the purchase of debt securities permissible under the Fund’s investment policies, (ii) repurchase agreements or (iii) the lending of portfolio securities, provided that no such repurchase agreements or loan of portfolio securities may be made by the Fund if, as a result, the aggregate of such repurchase agreements and loans would exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Fund’s total assets.
(10) Purchase or sell physical commodities unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments (but this shall not prevent the Fund (i) from purchasing or selling options, futures contracts or other derivative instruments, or (ii) from investing in securities or other instruments backed by physical commodities).
(11) Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments (but this shall not prohibit the Fund from purchasing or selling securities or other instruments backed by real estate or of issuers engaged in real estate activities).
(12) With respect to Invesco China Technology ETF, Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco Global Water ETF, Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, issue senior securities, except as permitted under the 1940 Act.
(13) With respect to Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, issue senior securities.
Except for restrictions (5), (6), (8)(iii), (9)(iii), (12) and (13), if a Fund adheres to a percentage restriction at the time of investment, a later increase in percentage resulting from a change in market value of the investment or the total assets, or the sale of a security out of the portfolio, will not constitute a violation of that restriction. With respect to restrictions (5), (6), (8)(iii), (9)(iii), (12) and (13), in the event that a Fund’s borrowings, repurchase agreements and loans of portfolio securities at any time exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the amount borrowed and the collateral received) less the Fund’s liabilities (other than borrowings or loans) due to subsequent changes in the value of the Fund’s assets or otherwise, within three days (excluding Sundays and holidays), the Fund will take corrective action to reduce the amount of its borrowings, repurchase agreements and loans of portfolio securities to an extent that such borrowings, repurchase agreements and loans of portfolio securities will not exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the amount borrowed and the collateral received) less the Fund’s liabilities (other than borrowings or loans).
The foregoing fundamental investment policies cannot be changed as to a Fund without approval by holders of a “majority of the Fund’s outstanding voting securities.” As defined in the 1940 Act, this means the vote of (i) 67% or more of the Fund’s Shares present at a meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the Fund’s Shares are present or represented by proxy, or (ii) more than 50% of the Fund’s Shares, whichever is less.
In addition to the foregoing fundamental investment policies, each Fund also is subject to the following non-fundamental restrictions and policies, which may be changed by the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”) without shareholder approval. Each Fund may not:
(1) Except for Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P
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  International Developed Momentum ETF, sell securities short, unless the Fund owns or has the right to obtain securities equivalent in kind and amount to the securities sold short at no added cost, and provided that transactions in options, futures contracts, options on futures contracts or other derivative instruments are not deemed to constitute selling securities short.
(2) With respect to Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, sell securities short, unless the Fund owns or has the right to obtain securities equivalent in kind and amount to the securities sold short at no added cost.
(3) Except for Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, purchase securities on margin, except that the Fund may obtain such short- term credits as are necessary for the clearance of transactions; and provided that margin deposits in connection with futures contracts, options on futures contracts or other derivative instruments shall not constitute purchasing securities on margin.
(4) With respect to Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF, purchase securities on margin, except that the Fund may obtain such short-term credits as are necessary for the clearance of transactions.
(5) Purchase securities of open-end or closed-end investment companies except in compliance with the 1940 Act, although the Fund may not acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on Sections 12(d)(1)(F) and 12(d)(1)(G) of the 1940 Act.
(6) Invest in direct interests in oil, gas or other mineral exploration programs or leases; however, the Fund may invest in the securities of issuers that engage in these activities.
(7) Invest in illiquid securities if, as a result of such investment, more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets would be invested in illiquid securities.
The investment objective of each Fund is a non-fundamental policy that the Board can change without approval by shareholders upon 60 days’ written notice to shareholders.
In accordance with the 1940 Act, each Fund (except for Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF) has adopted a non-fundamental policy to invest in securities suggested by the Fund’s name (each, an “80% investment policy”). Each Fund considers securities suggested by its name to be those securities that comprise its Underlying Index.
Each Fund will meet its 80% investment policy by investing at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in such securities. The 80% investment policy for each Fund is a non- fundamental policy, and each of these Funds will provide its shareholders with at least 60 days’ prior written notice of any change to its 80% investment policy.
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISKS
Investment Strategies
Each Fund's investment objective is to seek to track the investment results, before fees and expenses, of its respective Underlying Index. Each Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in securities that comprise its Underlying Index.
Each Fund operates as an index fund and will not be actively managed. Each Fund (except for Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF) attempts to
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replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of its Underlying Index by generally investing in all of the securities comprising its Underlying Index in proportion to their weightings in the Underlying Index, although any Fund may use sampling techniques for the purpose of complying with regulatory or investment restrictions or when sampling is deemed appropriate to track an Underlying Index.
Each of Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF and Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF generally uses a “sampling” methodology to seek to achieve its respective investment objective. Funds using a sampling methodology may not be as well-correlated with the return of its Underlying Index as would be the case if such Fund purchased assets of the securities in its respective Underlying Index in the proportions represented in such Underlying Index.
Investment Risks
A discussion of the risks associated with an investment in the Funds is contained in the Funds' Prospectus in the “Summary Information—Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund” “Additional Information About the Funds' Strategies and Risks—Principal Risks of Investing in the Funds” and “—Additional Risks of Investing in the Funds” sections. The discussion below supplements, and should be read in conjunction with, these sections.
An investment in a Fund should be made with an understanding that the value of the Fund's portfolio securities may fluctuate in accordance with changes in the financial condition of the issuers of the portfolio securities, the value of securities in general and other factors that affect the market.
An investment in a Fund also should be made with an understanding of the risks inherent in an investment in securities, including the risk that the financial condition of issuers may become impaired or that the general condition of the securities market may deteriorate (either of which may cause a decrease in the value of the portfolio securities and thus in the value of Shares). Securities are susceptible to general securities market fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence and perceptions of their issuers' change. These investor perceptions are based on various and unpredictable factors, including expectations regarding government, economic, monetary and fiscal policies, inflation and interest rates, economic expansion or contraction, and global or regional political, economic or banking crises.
The Funds are not actively managed, and therefore the adverse financial condition of any one issuer will not result in the elimination of its securities from the securities a Fund holds unless the respective index provider removes the securities of such issuer from its respective Underlying Index.
Bonds. Certain Funds may invest in bonds. A bond is an interest-bearing security issued by a company, governmental unit or, in some cases, a non-U.S. entity. The issuer of a bond has a contractual obligation to pay interest at a stated rate on specific dates and to repay principal (the bond's face value) periodically or on a specified maturity date. Bonds generally are used by corporations and governments to borrow money from investors.
An issuer may have the right to redeem or “call” a bond before maturity, in which case the investor may have to reinvest the proceeds at lower market rates. Most bonds bear interest income at a “coupon” rate that is fixed for the life of the bond. The value of a fixed-rate bond usually rises when market interest rates fall and falls when market interest rates rise. Accordingly, a fixed-rate bond's yield (income as a percent of the bond's current value) may differ from its coupon rate as its value rises or falls. Other types of bonds bear income at an interest rate that is adjusted periodically. Because of their adjustable interest rates, the value of “floating-rate” or “variable-rate” bonds fluctuates much less in response to market interest rate movements than the value of fixed-rate bonds. A Fund may treat some of these types of bonds as having a shorter maturity for purposes of calculating the weighted average maturity of its investment portfolio. Generally, prices of higher quality issues tend to fluctuate less with changes in market interest rates than prices of lower quality issues and prices of longer maturity issues tend to fluctuate more than prices of shorter maturity issues. Bonds may be senior or subordinated obligations. Senior obligations generally have
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the first claim on a corporation's earnings and assets and, in the event of liquidation, are paid before subordinated obligations. Bonds may be unsecured (backed only by the issuer's general creditworthiness) or secured (backed by specified collateral).
The investment return of corporate bonds reflects interest on the security and changes in the market value of the security. The market value of a corporate bond may be affected by the credit rating of the corporation, the corporation's performance and perceptions of the corporation in the market place. There is a risk that the issuers of the bonds may not be able to meet their obligations on interest or principal payments at the time called for by the bond.
Borrowing. Each Fund may borrow money from a bank or another person up to the limits and for the purposes set forth in the section “Investment Restrictions” to meet shareholder redemptions, for temporary or emergency purposes and for other lawful purposes. Borrowed money will cost a Fund interest expense and/or other fees. The costs of borrowing may reduce a Fund's return. Borrowing also may cause a Fund to liquidate positions when it may not be advantageous to do so to satisfy its obligations to repay borrowed monies. To the extent that a Fund has outstanding borrowings, it will be leveraged. Leveraging generally exaggerates the effect on NAV of any increase or decrease in the market value of a Fund's portfolio securities.
Under the 1940 Act, a registered investment company can borrow an amount up to 33 1/3% of its assets for temporary or emergency purposes or to allow for an orderly liquidation of securities to meet redemption requests.
China Investment Risk. The value of securities of companies that derive the majority of their revenues from China is likely to be more volatile than that of other issuers. The economy of China differs, often unfavorably, from the U.S. economy in such respects as structure, general development, government involvement, wealth distribution, rate of inflation, growth rate, allocation of resources and capital reinvestment, among others. Under China’s political and economic system, the central government has historically exercised substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through administrative regulation and/or state ownership. Since 1978, the Chinese government has been, and is expected to continue, reforming its economic policies, which has resulted in less direct central and local government control over the business and production activities of Chinese enterprises and companies. Notwithstanding the economic reforms instituted by the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, actions of the Chinese central and local government authorities continue to have a substantial effect on economic conditions in China, which could affect its public and private sector companies. In the past, the Chinese government has, from time to time, taken actions that influenced the prices at which certain goods may be sold, encouraged companies to invest or concentrate in particular industries, induced mergers between companies in certain industries and induced private companies to publicly offer their securities to increase or continue the rate of economic growth, controlled the rate of inflation or otherwise regulated economic expansion. It may do so in the future as well. As a result, Chinese markets generally continue to experience inefficiency, volatility and pricing anomalies. Further, health events, such as the recent coronavirus outbreak, may cause uncertainty and volatility in the Chinese economy, especially in the consumer discretionary (leisure, retail, gaming, tourism), industrials, and commodities sectors. In addition, any reduction in spending on Chinese products and services, institution of tariffs or other trade barriers or a downturn in any of the economies of China’s key trading partners may have an adverse impact on the Chinese economy.
China A-Share Investment Risk. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program (both programs collectively referred to as the Connect Program) are securities trading and clearing programs through which a fund can trade eligible listed China A-shares. Investing in A-shares through the Connect Program is subject to trading, clearance, settlement and other procedures, which could pose risks to a fund. Trading through the Connect Program is subject to the Daily Quota, which may restrict a fund’s ability to invest in A-shares through the Connect Program on a timely basis. The Connect Program will only operate on days when both the Chinese and Hong Kong markets are open for trading and when banking services are available in both
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markets on the corresponding settlement days. Therefore, an investment in A-shares through the Connect Program may subject a fund to the risk of price fluctuations on days when the Chinese markets are open, but the Connect Program is not trading.
Common Stocks and Other Equity Securities. For those Funds that invest in equity securities and common stocks, holders of such securities incur more risk than holders of preferred stock and debt obligations because common stockholders, as owners of the issuer, generally have inferior rights to receive payments from the issuer in comparison with the rights of creditors, or holders of debt obligations or preferred stocks. Unlike debt securities, which typically have a stated principal amount payable at maturity (whose value, however, is subject to market fluctuations prior thereto), or preferred stock, which typically have a liquidation preference and which may have stated optional or mandatory redemption provisions, equity securities have neither a fixed principal amount nor a maturity.
Convertible Securities. A convertible security is a bond, debenture, note, preferred stock, right, warrant or other security that may be converted into or exchanged for a prescribed amount of common stock or other security of the same or a different issuer or into cash within a particular period of time at a specified price or formula. A convertible security generally entitles the holder to receive interest paid or accrued on debt securities or the dividend paid on preferred stock until the convertible security matures or is redeemed, converted or exchanged. Before conversion, convertible securities generally have characteristics similar to both debt and equity securities. As with other equity securities, the value of a convertible security tends to increase as the price of the underlying stock goes up, and to decrease as the price of the underlying stock goes down. Declining common stock values therefore also may cause the value of a Fund's investments to decline. Like a debt security, a convertible security provides a fixed income stream with generally higher yields than those of common stock of the same or similar issuers, which tends to decrease in value when interest rates rise.
Convertible securities generally rank senior to common stock in a corporation’s capital structure but are usually subordinated to comparable nonconvertible securities. Convertible securities generally do not participate directly in any dividend increases or decreases of the underlying securities although the market prices of convertible securities may be affected by any dividend changes or other changes in the underlying securities. Many convertible securities have credit ratings that are below investment grade and are subject to the same risks as lower-rated debt securities.
Correlation and Tracking Error. Correlation measures the degree of association between the returns of a Fund and its Underlying Index. Each Fund seeks a correlation over time of 0.95 or better between the Fund's performance and the performance of the Underlying Index; a figure of 1.00 would indicate perfect correlation. Correlation is calculated at each Fund's fiscal year-end by comparing the Fund's average monthly total returns, before fees and expenses, to its Underlying Index's average monthly total returns over the prior one-year period or since inception if the Fund has been in existence for less than one year. Another means of evaluating the degree of correlation between the returns of a Fund and its Underlying Index is to assess the “tracking error” between the two. Tracking error means the variation between each Fund's annual return and the return of its Underlying Index, expressed in terms of standard deviation. Each Fund seeks to have a tracking error of less than 5%, measured on a monthly basis over a one-year period by taking the standard deviation of the difference in the Fund's returns versus the Underlying Index's returns.
An investment in each Fund should be made with an understanding that the Fund will not be able to replicate exactly the performance of its Underlying Index, because the total return that the securities generate will be reduced by transaction costs incurred in adjusting the actual balance of the securities and other Fund expenses, whereas such transaction costs and expenses are not included in the calculation of its Underlying Index. Funds that issue and redeem Creation Units principally for cash will incur higher costs in buying and selling securities than if they issued and redeemed Creation Units principally in-kind.
In addition, the use of a representative sampling approach (which may arise for a number of reasons, including a large number of securities within an Underlying Index, or the limited assets of a Fund) may cause a Fund not to be as well correlated with the return of its Underlying Index as would be the case if the
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Fund purchased all of the securities in its Underlying Index in the proportions represented in such Underlying Index. It also is possible that, for short periods of time, a Fund may not replicate fully the performance of its Underlying Index due to the temporary unavailability of certain Underlying Index securities in the secondary market or due to other extraordinary circumstances. Such events are unlikely to continue for an extended period of time because each Fund is required to correct such imbalances by means of adjusting the composition of its portfolio holdings. It also is possible that the composition of a Fund may not replicate exactly the composition of its respective Underlying Index if the Fund has to adjust its portfolio holdings to continue to qualify as a “regulated investment company” (a “RIC”) under Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”), as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”).
Cybersecurity Risk. The Funds, like all companies, may be susceptible to operational and information security risks. Cyber security failures or breaches of the Funds or their service providers or the issuers of securities in which the Funds invest, have the ability to cause disruptions and impact business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of Fund shareholders to transact business, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. The Funds and their shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result.
Derivatives Risk. Derivatives are financial instruments that derive their performance from an underlying asset, index, interest rate or currency exchange rate. Derivatives are subject to a number of risks including credit risk, interest rate risk, and market risk. They also involve the risk that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index. The counterparty to a derivative contract might default on its obligations.
Derivatives can be volatile and may be less liquid than other securities. As a result, the value of an investment in a Fund that invests in derivatives may change quickly and without warning. For some derivatives, it is possible to lose more than the amount invested in the derivative. Derivatives may be used to create synthetic exposure to an underlying asset or to hedge a portfolio risk. If a Fund uses derivatives to “hedge” a portfolio risk, it is possible that the hedge may not succeed. This may happen for various reasons, including unexpected changes in the value of the rest of the portfolio of a Fund. Over-the-counter derivatives are also subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party to the contract will not fulfill its contractual obligation to complete the transaction with a Fund.
Foreign Currency Transactions. A Fund's transactions in foreign currencies, foreign currency-denominated debt obligations and certain foreign currency options, futures contracts and forward contracts (and similar instruments) may give rise to ordinary income or loss to the extent such income or loss results from fluctuations in the value of the foreign currency concerned. This treatment could increase or decrease a Fund's ordinary income distributions to you, and may cause some or all of the Fund's previously distributed income to be classified as a return of capital. In certain cases, a Fund may make an election to treat such gain or loss as capital.
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts. A Fund may engage in forward foreign currency contracts in anticipation of, or to protect itself against, fluctuations in exchange rates. A forward foreign currency contract is an obligation to buy or sell a particular currency in exchange for another currency, which may be U.S. dollars, at a specified price at a future date. Forward foreign currency contracts are typically individually negotiated and privately traded by currency traders and their customers in the interbank market. A Fund may enter into forward foreign currency contracts with respect to a specified purchase or sale of a security, or with respect to its portfolio positions generally.
At the maturity of a forward foreign currency contract, a Fund may either exchange the currencies specified at the maturity of the contract or, prior to maturity, enter into a closing transaction involving the purchase or sale of an offsetting contract. Closing transactions with respect to forward foreign currency contracts are usually effected with the counterparty to the original forward contract. A Fund may also enter into forward foreign currency contracts that do not provide for physical settlement of the two currencies but
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instead are settled by a single cash payment calculated as the difference between the agreed upon exchange rate and the spot rate at settlement based upon an agreed upon notional amount (non-deliverable forwards).
The Funds generally will invest in forward foreign currency contracts that are not contractually required to “cash-settle” (i.e., are deliverable). The Funds will comply with guidelines established by the SEC and its staff with respect to “cover” requirements of forward foreign currency contracts. Generally, with respect to deliverable forward foreign currency contracts, a Fund will cover its open positions by setting aside liquid assets equal to the contracts’ full notional value.
Under definitions adopted by the CFTC and SEC, non-deliverable forwards are considered swaps, and therefore are included in the definition of commodity interests. Although non-deliverable forwards have historically been traded in the OTC market, as swaps they may in the future be required to be centrally cleared and traded on public facilities. Forward foreign currency contracts that qualify as deliverable forwards are not regulated as swaps for most purposes, and are not included in the definition of commodity interests. However these forwards are subject to some requirements applicable to swaps, including reporting to swap data repositories, margin requirements, documentation requirements, and business conduct rules applicable to swap dealers. CFTC regulation of forward foreign currency contracts, especially non-deliverable forwards, may restrict a Fund’s ability to use these instruments in the manner described above.
The cost to a Fund of engaging in forward foreign currency contracts varies with factors such as the currencies involved, the length of the contract period, interest rate differentials and the prevailing market conditions. Because forward foreign currency contracts are usually entered into on a principal basis, no fees or commissions are typically involved. The use of forward foreign currency contracts does not eliminate fluctuations in the prices of the underlying securities a Fund owns or intends to acquire, but it does establish a rate of exchange in advance. While forward foreign currency contract sales limit the risk of loss due to a decline in the value of the hedged currencies, they also limit any potential gain that might result should the value of the currencies increase.
Futures and Options. Certain Funds may enter into futures contracts, options and options on futures contracts. These futures contracts and options will be used to simulate full investment in the respective Underlying Indexes, to facilitate trading or to reduce transaction costs. The Funds only will enter into futures contracts and options on futures contracts that are traded on an exchange. The Funds will use futures or options for speculative purposes.
A call option gives a holder the right to purchase a specific security or an index at a specified price (“exercise price”) within a specified period of time. A put option gives a holder the right to sell a specific security or an index at a specified price within a specified period of time. The initial purchaser of a call option pays the “writer,” i.e., the party selling the option, a premium which is paid at the time of purchase and is retained by the writer whether or not such option is exercised.
The Funds may purchase put options to hedge their portfolios against the risk of a decline in the market value of securities held and may purchase call options to hedge against an increase in the price of securities they are committed to purchase. The Funds may write put and call options along with a long position in options to increase their ability to hedge against a change in the market value of the securities they hold or are committed to purchase.
Futures contracts provide for the future sale by one party and purchase by another party of a specified amount of a specific instrument or index at a specified future time and at a specified price. Stock index contracts are based on indices that reflect the market value of common stock of the firms included in the indices. The Funds may enter into futures contracts to purchase security indices when the Adviser anticipates purchasing the underlying securities and believes prices will rise before the purchase will be made. The custodian will segregate assets committed to futures contracts to the extent required by law.
An option on a futures contract, as contrasted with the direct investment in such a contract, gives the purchaser the right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a position in the underlying futures contract at a specified exercise price at any time prior to the expiration date of the option. Upon exercise of an option,
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the delivery of the futures position by the writer of the option to the holder of the option will be accompanied by delivery of the accumulated balance in the writer's futures margin account that represents the amount by which the market price of the futures contract exceeds (in the case of a call) or is less than (in the case of a put) the exercise price of the option on the futures contract. The potential for loss related to the purchase of an option on a futures contract is limited to the premium paid for the option plus transaction costs. Because the value of the option is fixed at the point of purchase, there are no daily cash payments by the purchaser to reflect changes in the value of the underlying contract; however, the value of the option changes daily and that change would be reflected in the NAVs of the Funds. The potential for loss related to writing call options on equity securities or indices is unlimited. The potential for loss related to writing put options is limited only by the aggregate strike price of the put option less the premium received.
Each of the Funds may purchase and write put and call options on futures contracts that are traded on a U.S. exchange as a hedge against changes in value of its portfolio securities, or in anticipation of the purchase of securities, and may enter into closing transactions with respect to such options to terminate existing positions. There is no guarantee that such closing transactions can be effected.
Upon entering into a futures contract, the Funds will be required to deposit with the broker an amount of cash or cash equivalents in the range of approximately 5% to 7% of the contract amount (this amount is subject to change by the exchange on which the contract is traded). This amount, known as “initial margin,” is in the nature of a performance bond or good faith deposit on the contract and is returned to the Funds upon termination of the futures contract, assuming all contractual obligations have been satisfied. Subsequent payments, known as “variation margin,” to and from the broker will be made daily as the price of the index underlying the futures contract fluctuates, making the long and short positions in the futures contract more or less valuable, a process known as “marking-to-market.” At any time prior to expiration of a futures contract, the Funds may elect to close the position by taking an opposite position, which will operate to terminate the existing position in the contract.
High Yield Debt Securities. Certain Funds may invest in high yield debt securities, which are rated below investment grade and commonly are known as “junk bonds.” Investment in high yield debt securities generally provides greater income and increased opportunity for capital appreciation than investments in higher quality securities, but they also typically entail greater price volatility and credit risk. These high yield debt securities are regarded as predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer's continuing ability to meet principal and interest payments. Analysis of the creditworthiness of issuers of debt securities that are high yield may be more complex than for issuers of higher quality debt securities. In addition, high yield debt securities often are issued by smaller, less creditworthy companies or by highly leveraged (indebted) firms, which generally are less able than more financially stable firms to make scheduled payments of interest and principal. The risks posed by securities issued under such circumstances are substantial.
Investing in high yield debt securities involves risks that are greater than the risks of investing in higher quality debt securities. These risks include: (i) changes in credit status, including weaker overall credit conditions of issuers and risks of default; (ii) industry, market and economic risk; and (iii) greater price variability and credit risks of certain high yield debt securities such as zero coupon and payment-in-kind securities. While these risks provide the opportunity for maximizing return over time, they may result in greater volatility of the value of a Fund than a fund that invests in higher-rated securities.
Furthermore, the value of high yield securities may be more susceptible to real or perceived adverse economic, company or industry conditions than is the case for higher quality securities. The market values of certain of these lower-rated debt securities tend to reflect individual corporate developments to a greater extent than do higher-rated securities, which react primarily to fluctuations in the general level of interest rates, and tend to be more sensitive to economic conditions than are higher-rated securities. Adverse market, credit or economic conditions could make it difficult at certain times to sell certain high yield debt securities.
The secondary market on which high yield debt securities are traded may be less liquid than the market for higher grade securities. Less liquidity in the secondary trading market could adversely affect the price at which a Fund could sell a high yield debt security, and could adversely affect the daily NAV per share of a
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Fund. When secondary markets for high yield debt securities are less liquid than the market for higher grade securities, it may be more difficult to value the securities because there is less reliable, objective data available.
The use of credit ratings as a principal method of selecting high yield debt securities can involve certain risks. For example, credit ratings evaluate the safety of principal and interest payments, not the market value risk of high yield debt securities. Also, credit rating agencies may fail to change credit ratings in a timely fashion to reflect events since the security was last rated.
Illiquid Securities. The Funds may not acquire any illiquid investment if, immediately after the acquisition, the Fund would have invested more than 15% of its net assets in illiquid investments that are assets. For purposes of this 15% limitation, illiquid investment means any investment that the Fund reasonably expects cannot be sold or disposed of in current market conditions in seven calendar days or less without the sale or disposition significantly changing the market value of the investment, as determined pursuant to the 1940 Act and applicable rules and regulations thereunder. Each Fund will monitor its portfolio liquidity on an ongoing basis to determine whether, in light of current circumstances, the appropriate level of liquidity is being maintained, and will take steps to ensure it adjusts its liquidity consistent with the policies and procedures adopted by the Trust on behalf of the Funds. The existence of a liquid trading market for certain securities may depend on whether dealers will make a market in such securities. There can be no assurance that dealers will make or maintain a market or that any such market will be or remain liquid. The price at which securities may be sold and the value of Shares will be adversely affected if trading markets for a Fund’s portfolio securities are limited or absent, or if bid/ask spreads are wide.
Lending Portfolio Securities. From time to time, a Fund (as the Adviser shall so determine) may lend its portfolio securities (principally to brokers, dealers or other financial institutions) to generate additional income. Such loans are callable at any time and are secured continuously by segregated cash collateral equal to at least 102% (105% for international securities) of the market value, determined daily, of the loaned securities. A Fund may lend portfolio securities to the extent of one-third of its total assets. A Fund will loan its securities only to parties that the Adviser has determined are in good standing and when, in the Adviser's judgment, the potential income earned would justify the risks.
A Fund will not have the right to vote securities while they are on loan, but it will recall securities on loan if the Adviser determines that the shareholder meeting is called for purposes of voting on material events that could have a material impact on the Fund's loaned securities and for which the vote could be material to the Fund. A Fund would receive income in lieu of dividends on loaned securities and may, at the same time, generate income on the loan collateral or on the investment of any cash collateral.
Securities lending involves a risk of loss because the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, a Fund could experience delays and costs in recovering securities loaned or gaining access to the collateral. If a Fund is not able to recover the securities loaned, the Fund may sell the collateral and purchase a replacement security in the market. Lending securities entails a risk of loss to a Fund if, and to the extent that, the market value of the loaned securities increases and the collateral is not increased accordingly. Securities lending also involves exposure to operational risk (the risk of loss resulting from errors in the settlement and accounting process) and “gap risk” (the risk that the return on cash collateral reinvestments will be less than the fees paid to the borrower).
Any cash received as collateral for loaned securities will be invested, in accordance with a Fund's investment guidelines, in an affiliated money market fund. Investing this cash subjects that investment to market appreciation or depreciation. For purposes of determining whether a Fund is complying with its investment policies, strategies and restrictions, the Fund or Invesco will consider the loaned securities as assets of the Fund, but will not consider any collateral received as a Fund asset. A Fund will bear any loss on the investment of cash collateral. A Fund may have to pay the borrower a fee based on the amount of cash collateral.
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For a discussion of the federal income tax considerations relating to lending portfolio securities, see Taxes.
Money Market Instruments. Each Fund may invest a portion of its assets in high-quality money market instruments on an ongoing basis to provide liquidity. The instruments in which a Fund may invest include: (i) short-term obligations issued by the U.S. Government; (ii) negotiable certificates of deposit (“CDs”), fixed time deposits and bankers' acceptances of U.S. and foreign banks and similar institutions; (iii) commercial paper rated at the date of purchase “Prime-1” by Moody's or “A-1+” or “A-1” by S&P or, if unrated, of comparable quality, as the Adviser determines; (iv) repurchase agreements; and (v) money market mutual funds, including affiliated money market funds. CDs are short- term negotiable obligations of commercial banks. Time deposits are non-negotiable deposits maintained in banking institutions for specified periods of time at stated interest rates. Banker's acceptances are time drafts drawn on commercial banks by borrowers, usually in connection with international transactions.
Portfolio Turnover Risk. A Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of its portfolio securities to reflect the rebalancing of the Underlying Index. A portfolio turnover rate of 200%, for example, is equivalent to a Fund buying and selling all of its securities two times during the course of the year. A high portfolio turnover rate (such as 100% or more) could result in high brokerage costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account.
Other Investment Companies. The Funds may invest in shares of other investment companies, which may include closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The investment companies in which a Fund invests may have adopted certain investment restrictions that are more or less restrictive than the Fund’s investment restrictions, which may permit the Fund to engage in investment strategies indirectly that are prohibited under the Fund’s investment restrictions. For example, to the extent a Fund invests in underlying investment companies that concentrate their investments in an industry, a corresponding portion of the Fund’s assets may be indirectly exposed to that particular industry. A Fund may purchase securities of other investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable exemptive relief.
The main risk of investing in index-based investment companies is the same as investing in a portfolio of securities comprising an index. The market prices of index-based investments will fluctuate in accordance with both changes in the market value of their underlying portfolio securities and due to supply and demand for the instruments on the exchanges on which they are traded. Index-based investments may not replicate exactly the performance of their specified index because of transaction costs and because of the temporary unavailability of certain component securities of the index.
Each Fund may invest in the securities of other investment companies, including ETFs, non-exchange traded U.S. registered open-end investment companies (mutual funds), closed-end investment companies, or non-U.S. investment companies traded on foreign exchanges beyond the limits permitted under the 1940 Act, subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust or an affiliate of the Trust in 2012 pursuant to Section 12(d)(1)(J) of the 1940 Act (the “2012 Order”). Absent such exemptive relief, each Fund's investments in investment companies would be limited to, subject to certain exceptions, (i) 3% of the total outstanding voting stock of any one investment company, (ii) 5% of the Fund's total assets with respect to any one investment company and (iii) 10% of the Fund's total assets of investment companies in the aggregate. However, as a non-fundamental restriction, no Fund may acquire any securities of registered open-end investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on Sections 12(d)(1)(F) and 12(d)(1)(G) of the 1940 Act.
Under the pertinent terms of the 2012 Order, each Fund may invest in registered investment companies in excess of the 3% limitations imposed by Sections 12(d)(1)(A) and 12(d)(1)(C) of the 1940 Act. The total amount of securities held by each Fund, both individually and when aggregated with all other shares of the acquired fund held by other registered investment companies or private investment pools advised by the Adviser or its affiliates (as well as shares held by the Adviser and its affiliates) cannot exceed 25% of the outstanding voting securities of the acquired investment company, and none of these entities (including the Funds) may individually or collectively exert a controlling influence over the acquired investment company.
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Each Fund may not rely on the 2012 Order to acquire an investment company that itself has ownership of investment company shares in excess of the limitations contained in Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the 1940 Act. To the extent necessary to comply with the provisions of the 1940 Act or the 2012 Order, on any matter upon which an underlying investment company’s shareholders are solicited to vote, the Adviser will vote the underlying investment company shares in the same general proportion as shares held by other shareholders of the underlying investment company.
In addition, an affiliate of the Trust previously obtained exemptive relief in 2007 (which extends to the Trust) that allows other investment companies to acquire shares of the Funds in excess of the limitations imposed by Section 12(d)(1)(A) (the “2007 Order”). This relief is conditioned on those acquiring funds obtaining a participation agreement signed by both the acquiring fund and the Fund that it wishes to acquire in excess of the 12(d)(1)(A) limitations. If a Fund relies on the 2012 Order, it will not enter into a participation agreement pursuant to the 2007 Order, and if a Fund has a signed participation agreement in effect pursuant to the 2007 Order, it will not rely on the 2012 Order.
Political and Economic Risks of Investing in China. The value of a Fund’s assets may be adversely affected by political and economic factors, inadequate investor protection and changes in Chinese laws or regulations. In addition, the Chinese economy may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in respects such as the rate of growth of gross domestic product, the rate of inflation, capital reinvestment, resource self-sufficiency, balance of payments position and sensitivity to changes in global trade. The Chinese government has exercised and continues to exercise significant influence over many aspects of the economy. Accordingly, future government actions could have a significant effect on the country’s economy, which could affect a fund, market conditions, and prices and yields of securities of the fund.
Ratings. An investment grade rating means the security or issuer is rated investment-grade by S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc. (“S&P”), Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody's”), Fitch Ratings, Ltd. (“Fitch”) or another nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or is unrated but considered to be of equivalent quality by the Adviser. Bonds rated Baa3 and above by Moody's or BBB- and above by S&P or Fitch are considered “investment grade” securities; bonds rated Baa3 are considered medium grade obligations which lack outstanding investment characteristics and have speculative characteristics; and bonds rated BBB- are regarded as having adequate capacity to pay principal and interest.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (“REITs”). REITs pool investors’ funds for investments primarily in real estate properties to the extent allowed by law. Investment in REITs may be the most practical available means for a Fund to invest in the real estate industry. As a shareholder in a REIT, a Fund would bear its ratable share of the REIT’s expenses, including its advisory and administration fees. At the same time, a Fund would continue to pay its own investment advisory fees and other expenses, as a result of which the Fund and its shareholders in effect will be absorbing duplicate levels of fees with respect to investments in REITs. A REIT may focus on particular projects, such as apartment complexes, or geographic regions, such as the southeastern United States, or both.
REITs generally can be classified as equity REITs, mortgage REITs and hybrid REITs. Equity REITs generally invest a majority of their assets in income-producing real estate properties to generate cash flow from rental income and a gradual asset appreciation. The income-producing real estate properties in which equity REITs invest typically include properties such as office, retail, industrial, hotel and apartment buildings, self-storage, specialty and diversified and healthcare facilities. Equity REITs can realize capital gains by selling properties that have appreciated in value. Mortgage REITs invest the majority of their assets in real estate mortgages and derive their income primarily from interest payments on the mortgages. Hybrid REITs combine the characteristics of both equity REITs and mortgage REITs.
REITs can be listed and traded on national securities exchanges or can be traded privately between individual owners. The Funds may invest in both publicly and privately traded REITs.
A Fund conceivably could own real estate directly as a result of a default on the securities it owns. A Fund, therefore, may be subject to certain risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate, including
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difficulties in valuing and trading real estate, declines in the values of real estate, risks related to general and local economic conditions, adverse changes in the climate for real estate, environmental liability risks, increases in property taxes, capital expenditures and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws, casualty or condemnation losses, limitations on rents, changes in neighborhood values, the appeal of properties to tenants and increases in interest rates.
In addition to the risks described above, equity REITs may be affected by any changes in the value of the underlying property owned by the trusts, while mortgage REITs may be affected by the quality of any credit extended. Equity and mortgage REITs depend upon management skill, are not diversified and are therefore subject to the risk of financing single or a limited number of projects. Such REITs also are subject to heavy cash flow dependency, defaults by borrowers, self-liquidation and the possibility of failing to maintain an exemption from the 1940 Act. Changes in interest rates also may affect the value of debt securities held by a Fund. By investing in REITs indirectly through a Fund, a shareholder will bear not only his/her proportionate share of the expenses of the Fund, but also, indirectly, similar expenses of the REITs.
Repurchase Agreements. Each Fund may enter into repurchase agreements, which are agreements pursuant to which a Fund acquires securities from a third party with the understanding that the seller will repurchase them at a fixed price on an agreed date. These agreements may be made with respect to any of the portfolio securities in which the Fund is authorized to invest. Repurchase agreements may be characterized as loans secured by the underlying securities. Each Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with (i) member banks of the Federal Reserve System having total assets in excess of $500 million and (ii) securities dealers (“Qualified Institutions”). The Adviser for a Fund will monitor the continued creditworthiness of Qualified Institutions.
The use of repurchase agreements involves certain risks. For example, if the seller of securities under a repurchase agreement defaults on its obligation to repurchase the underlying securities, as a result of its bankruptcy or otherwise, the Fund will seek to dispose of such securities, which action could involve costs or delays. If the seller becomes insolvent and subject to liquidation or reorganization under applicable bankruptcy or other laws, the Fund's ability to dispose of the underlying securities may be restricted. Finally, it is possible that the Fund may not be able to substantiate its interest in the underlying securities. To minimize this risk, the custodian will hold the securities underlying the repurchase agreement at all times in an amount at least equal to the repurchase price, including accrued interest. If the seller fails to repurchase the securities, the Fund may suffer a loss to the extent proceeds from the sale of the underlying securities are less than the repurchase prices.
The resale price reflects the purchase price plus an agreed upon market rate of interest. The collateral is marked-to-market daily.
Restrictions on the Use of Futures Contracts, Options on Futures Contracts and Swaps. Rule 4.5 of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) significantly limits the ability of certain regulated entities, including registered investment companies such as the Trust, to rely on an exclusion that would not require its investment adviser from having to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) as a commodity pool operator (“CPO”). However, under Rule 4.5, the investment adviser of a registered investment company may claim exclusion from registration as a CPO only if the registered investment company that it advises uses futures contracts solely for “bona fide hedging purposes” or limits its use of futures contracts for non-bona fide hedging purposes such that (i) the aggregate initial margin and premiums required to establish non-bona fide hedging positions with respect to futures contracts do not exceed 5% of the liquidation value of the registered investment company's portfolio, or (ii) the aggregate “notional value” of the non-bona fide hedging commodity interests do not exceed 100% of the liquidation value of the registered investment company's portfolio (taking into account unrealized profits and unrealized losses on any such positions). The Adviser has claimed exclusion on behalf of each Fund under Rule 4.5 which effectively limits the Funds' use of futures, options on futures, swaps, or other commodity interests. Each Fund currently intends to comply with the terms of Rule 4.5 so as to avoid regulation as a commodity pool, and as a result, the ability of each Fund to utilize futures, options on futures, swaps, or other commodity interests may be limited in accordance with the terms of the rule, as well as any limits set forth
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in the Funds' Prospectuses and this SAI. Each Fund therefore is not subject to CFTC registration or regulation as a commodity pool.
The terms of the CPO exclusion require each Fund claiming such exemption, among other things, to adhere to certain limits on its investments in “commodity interests.” Commodity interests include commodity futures, commodity options and swaps, which in turn include non-deliverable forwards. Each Fund is permitted to invest in these instruments as further described in this SAI. However, each Fund is not intended as a vehicle for trading in the commodity futures, commodity options or swaps markets. The CFTC has neither reviewed nor approved the Adviser's reliance on these exclusions, or the Funds, their investment strategies or the Prospectus.
While not anticipated, should a Fund invest in futures contracts for purposes that are not solely for “bona fide hedging” in excess of the limitations imposed by Rule 4.5, such Fund may be subject to regulation under the CEA and CFTC Rules as a commodity pool. Registration as a commodity pool may have negative effects on the ability of a Fund to engage in its planned investment program, while registration as a CPO imposes additional laws, regulations and enforcement policies, which could increase compliance costs and may affect the operations and financial performance of the Fund.
Reverse Repurchase Agreements. Certain Funds may enter into reverse repurchase agreements, which involve the sale of securities with an agreement to repurchase the securities at an agreed-upon price, date and interest payment and have the characteristics of borrowing. The securities purchased with the funds obtained from the agreement and securities collateralizing the agreement will have maturity dates no later than the repayment date. Generally, the effect of such transactions is that a Fund can recover all or most of the cash invested in the portfolio securities involved during the term of the reverse repurchase agreement, while in many cases the Fund is able to keep some of the interest income associated with those securities. Such transactions are only advantageous if a Fund has an opportunity to earn a greater rate of return on the cash derived from these transactions than the interest cost of obtaining the same amount of cash. Opportunities to realize earnings from the use of the proceeds equal to or greater than the interest required to be paid may not always be available and the Funds intend to use the reverse repurchase technique only when the Adviser believes it will be advantageous to a Fund. The use of reverse repurchase agreements may exaggerate any interim increase or decrease in the value of a Fund's assets. The custodian bank will maintain a separate account for a Fund with securities having a value equal to or greater than such commitments. Under the 1940 Act, reverse repurchase agreements are considered borrowings.
Risks of Futures and Options Transactions. There are several risks accompanying the utilization of futures contracts and options on futures contracts. First, there is no guarantee that a liquid market will exist for a futures contract at a specified time. A Fund would utilize futures contracts only if an active market exists for such contracts.
Furthermore, because, by definition, futures contracts project price levels in the future and not current levels of valuation, market circumstances may result in a discrepancy between the price of the future and the movement in an Underlying Index of a Fund. In the event of adverse price movements, a Fund would continue to be required to make daily cash payments to maintain its required margin. In such situations, if a Fund has insufficient cash, it may have to sell portfolio securities to meet daily margin requirements at a time when it may be disadvantageous to do so. In addition, a Fund may be required to deliver the instruments underlying futures contracts it has sold.
The risk of loss in trading futures contracts or uncovered call options in some strategies (e.g., selling uncovered stock index futures contracts) potentially is unlimited. No Fund plans to use futures and options contracts in this way. The risk of a futures position may still be large as traditionally measured due to the low margin deposits required. In many cases, a relatively small price movement in a futures contract may result in immediate and substantial loss or gain to the investor relative to the size of a required margin deposit. A Fund, however, intends to utilize futures and options in a manner designed to limit its risk exposure to levels comparable to direct investment in stocks.
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Utilization of futures and options on futures by a Fund involves the risk of imperfect or even negative correlation to an underlying index if the index underlying the futures contract differs from an Underlying Index of a Fund.
There also is the risk of loss of margin deposits in the event of bankruptcy of a broker with whom a Fund has an open position in the futures contract or option; however, this risk substantially is minimized because (a) of the regulatory requirement that the broker has to “segregate” customer funds from its corporate funds, and (b) in the case of regulated exchanges in the United States, the clearing corporation stands behind the broker to make good losses in such a situation. The purchase of put or call options could be based upon predictions by the Adviser as to anticipated trends, which could prove to be incorrect and a part or all of the premium paid therefore could be lost.
Because the futures market imposes less burdensome margin requirements than the securities market, an increased amount of participation by speculators in the futures market could result in price fluctuations. Certain financial futures exchanges limit the amount of fluctuation permitted in futures contract prices during a single trading day. The daily limit establishes the maximum amount by which the price of a futures contract may vary either up or down from the previous day's settlement price at the end of a trading session. Once the daily limit has been reached in a particular type of contract, no trades may be made on that day at a price beyond that limit. It is possible that futures contract prices could move to the daily limit for several consecutive trading days with little or no trading, thereby preventing prompt liquidation of futures positions and subjecting a Fund to substantial losses. In the event of adverse price movements, a Funds would be required to make daily cash payments of variation margin.
Although the Funds intend to enter into futures contracts only if there is an active market for such contracts, there is no assurance that an active market will exist for the contracts at any particular time.
Rule 144A Securities Risk. A Fund may invest in securities that are normally purchased or resold pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. Rule 144A securities are restricted securities that are not publicly traded. As such Rule 144A securities may be subject to legal restrictions on resale. Rule 144A securities are generally not traded on established markets and may be illiquid, difficult to value and subject to wide fluctuations in value. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to a Fund.
Russian Securities Risk. The United States and the European Union have imposed economic sanctions on certain Russian individuals and entities, and either the United States or the European Union also could institute broader sanctions. The current sanctions, or the threat of further sanctions, may result in the decline of the value or liquidity of Russian securities, a weakening of the ruble or other adverse consequences to the Russian economy, any of which could negatively impact the investments in Russian securities by certain Funds. These economic sanctions also could result in the immediate freeze of Russian securities, which could impair the ability of a Fund to buy, sell, receive or deliver those securities. Both the existing and potential future sanctions also could result in Russia taking counter measures or retaliatory actions, which may impair further the value or liquidity of Russian securities, and therefore may negatively impact a Fund.
Structured Notes. A structured note is a derivative security for which the amount of principal repayment and/or interest payments is based on the movement of one or more “factors.” These factors include, but are not limited to, currency exchange rates, interest rates (such as the prime lending rate or LIBOR), referenced bonds and stock indices. Some of these factors may or may not correlate to the total rate of return on one or more underlying instruments referenced in such notes. Investments in structured notes involve risks including interest rate risk, credit risk and market risk. Depending on the factor(s) used and the use of multipliers or deflators, changes in interest rates and movement of such factor(s) may cause significant price fluctuations. Structured notes may be less liquid than other types of securities and more volatile than the reference factor underlying the note. This means that the Fund may lose money if the issuer of the note defaults, as the Fund may not be able to readily close out its investment in such notes without incurring losses.
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Swap Agreements. Certain Funds may enter into swap agreements. Swap agreements are contracts between parties in which one party agrees to make periodic payments to the other party (the “Counterparty”) based on the change in market value or level of a specified rate, index or asset. In return, the Counterparty agrees to make periodic payments to the first party based on the return of a different specified rate, index or asset. Swap agreements usually are on a net basis, with the respective Funds receiving or paying only the net amount of the two payments. The net amount of the excess, if any, of a Fund’s obligations over its entitlements with respect to each swap is accrued on a daily basis and an amount of cash or highly liquid securities having an aggregate value at least equal to the accrued excess is maintained in an account at the Trust’s custodian bank.
Risks of Swap Agreements. The risk of loss with respect to swaps generally is limited to the net amount of payments that the Fund is contractually obligated to make. Swap agreements are subject to the risk that the Counterparty will default on its obligations. If such a default were to occur, the Fund will have contractual remedies pursuant to the agreements related to the transaction. However, such remedies may be subject to bankruptcy and insolvency laws that could affect the Fund’s rights as a creditor (e.g., the Fund may not receive the net amount of payments that it contractually is entitled to receive).
Swaps could result in losses for the Fund if the underlying asset or reference does not perform as anticipated. Total return swaps can have the potential for unlimited losses. The Fund will earmark or segregate assets in the form of cash and cash equivalents in an amount equal to the aggregate market value of the swaps of which it is the seller, marked-to-market on a daily basis.
Whether the Fund’s use of swap agreements enhance the Fund’s total return will depend on the Adviser’s ability correctly to predict whether certain types of investments are likely to produce greater returns than other investments. Because they are two-party contracts and may have terms of greater than seven days, swap agreements may be considered to be illiquid. Moreover, the Fund bears the risk of loss of the amount expected to be received under a swap agreement in the event of the default or bankruptcy of a swap agreement counterparty.
U.S. Government Obligations. Each Fund may invest in short-term U.S. Government obligations. U.S. Government obligations are a type of bond and include securities issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities. These include bills, notes and bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, as well as “stripped” or “zero coupon” U.S. Treasury obligations representing future interest or principal payments on U.S. Treasury notes or bonds. Stripped securities are created when the issuer separates the interest and principal components of an instrument and sells them as separate securities. In general, one security is entitled to receive the interest payments on the underlying assets (the interest only or “IO” security) and the other to receive the principal payments (the principal only or “PO” security). Some stripped securities may receive a combination of interest and principal payments. The yields to maturity on IOs and POs are sensitive to the expected or anticipated rate of principal payments (including prepayments) on the related underlying assets, and principal payments may have a material effect on yield to maturity. If the underlying assets experience greater than anticipated prepayments of principal, the Fund may not fully recoup its initial investment in IOs. Conversely, if the underlying assets experience less than anticipated prepayments of principal, the yield on POs could be adversely affected. Stripped securities may be highly sensitive to changes in interest rates and rates of prepayment.
Short-term obligations of certain agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government, such as the Government National Mortgage Association (“GNMA”), are supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury; others, such as those of the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), are supported by the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; others, such as those of the former Student Loan Marketing Association (“SLMA”), are supported by the discretionary authority of the U.S. Government to purchase the agency’s obligations; still others, although issued by an instrumentality chartered by the U.S. Government, like the Federal Farm Credit Bureau (“FFCB”), are supported only by the credit of the instrumentality.
In 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) placed Fannie Mae and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) into conservatorship. Since that time, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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have received significant capital support through U.S. Treasury preferred stock purchases as well as U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve purchases of their mortgage-backed securities. While the purchase programs for mortgage-backed securities ended in 2010, the U.S. Treasury continued its support for the entities’ capital as necessary to prevent a negative net worth. However, no assurance can be given that the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury, or FHFA initiatives discussed above will ensure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will remain successful in meeting their obligations with respect to the debt and mortgage-backed securities they issue. In addition, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are also the subject of several continuing class action lawsuits and investigations by federal regulators, which (along with any resulting financial restatements) may adversely affect the guaranteeing entities. Importantly, the future of the entities is in serious question as the U.S. Government is considering multiple options, ranging from significant reform, nationalization, privatization, consolidation, or abolishment of the entities.
The FHFA and the U.S. Treasury (through its agreements to purchase preferred stock of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) also have imposed strict limits on the size of the mortgage portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In August 2012, the U.S. Treasury amended its preferred stock purchase agreements to provide that the portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be wound down at an annual rate of 15 percent (up from the previously agreed annual rate of 10 percent), requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reach the $250 billion target four years earlier than previously planned. Further, when a ratings agency downgraded long-term U.S.
Government debt in August 2011, the agency also downgraded the bond ratings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from AAA to AA+, based on their direct reliance on the U.S. Government (although that rating did not directly relate to their mortgage-backed securities). The U.S. Government’s commitment to ensure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have sufficient capital to meet their obligations was, however, unaffected by the downgrade.
The U.S. Treasury has put in place a set of financing agreements to help ensure that these entities continue to meet their obligations to holders of bonds they have issued or guaranteed. The U.S. Government may choose not to provide financial support to U.S. Government-sponsored agencies or instrumentalities if it is not legally obligated to do so, in which case, if the issuer were to default, a Fund holding securities of such issuer might not be able to recover their investment from the U.S. Government.
U.S. Registered Securities of Foreign Issuers. Certain Funds may invest in U.S. registered, dollar- denominated bonds of foreign corporations, governments, agencies and supra-national entities, preferred securities of foreign issuers, or preferred securities otherwise exempt from registration. Investing in U.S. registered, dollar-denominated, investment grade bonds or preferred securities issued by non-U.S. issuers involves some risks and considerations not typically associated with investing in U.S. companies. These include differences in accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards, the possibility of expropriation or confiscatory taxation, adverse changes in investment or exchange control regulations, political instability that could affect U.S. investments in foreign countries, and potential restrictions of the flow of international capital. Foreign companies may be subject to less governmental regulation than U.S. issuers. Moreover, individual foreign economies may differ favorably or unfavorably from the U.S. economy in such respects as growth of gross domestic product, rate of inflation, capital reinvestment, resource self-sufficiency and balance of payment positions.
PORTFOLIO TURNOVER
Each Fund calculates its portfolio turnover rate by dividing the value of the lesser of purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the fiscal period by the monthly average of the value of portfolio securities owned by the Fund during the fiscal period. A 100% portfolio turnover rate would occur, for example, if all of the portfolio securities (other than short-term securities) were replaced once during the fiscal period. Portfolio turnover rates will vary from year to year, depending on market conditions and the nature of the Fund's
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holdings. The Fund listed in the table below experienced significant variation in its portfolio turnover rate during the two most recently completed fiscal years/periods for the reason set forth below.
Fund   2019   2018   2018
Invesco China Technology ETF(1)   80%   4% (2)   21%
1. The Fund experienced significant variation in portfolio turnover during the two most recently completed fiscal years due to change in the Fund’s Underlying Index methodology.
2. For the fiscal period September 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018.
DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
Quarterly Portfolio Schedule. The Trust is required to disclose, after its first and third fiscal quarters, the complete schedule of each Fund’s portfolio holdings with the SEC on Form N-PORT. The Trust also discloses a complete schedule of each Fund’s portfolio holdings with the SEC on Form N-CSR after its second and fourth fiscal quarters.
The Trust's Forms N-PORT and Forms N-CSR on behalf of each Fund are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.The Trust's Forms N-PORT and Forms N-CSR will be available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-630-933-9600 or 1-800- 983-0903 or by writing to Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515.
Portfolio Holdings Policy. The Trust has adopted a policy regarding the disclosure of information about the Trust's portfolio holdings. The Board must approve all material amendments to this policy.
The Funds' portfolio holdings are disseminated publicly each day that the Funds are open for business through financial reporting and news services, including publicly accessible Internet websites. In addition, in the event Creation Units are issued in-kind, a basket composition file, which includes the security names and share quantities to deliver in exchange for Shares, together with estimates and actual cash components, would be disseminated publicly each day prior to the opening of the applicable Exchange via www.invesco.com/capitalmarkets and the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”). The basket would represent one Creation Unit of each Fund. The Trust, the Adviser and The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM” or the “Administrator”) will not disseminate non-public information concerning the Trust.
Access to information concerning the Funds' portfolio holdings may be permitted at other times to personnel of third-party service providers, including the Funds' custodian, transfer agent, auditors and counsel, as may be necessary to conduct business in the ordinary course in a manner consistent with such service providers' agreements with the Trust on behalf of the Funds.
MANAGEMENT
The primary responsibility of the Board is to represent the interests of the Funds and to provide oversight of the management of the Funds. The Trust currently has 10 Trustees. Nine Trustees are not “interested,” as that term is defined under the 1940 Act, and have no affiliation or business connection with the Adviser or any of its affiliated persons and do not own any stock or other securities issued by the Adviser (the “Independent Trustees”). The remaining Trustee (the “Interested Trustee”) is affiliated with the Adviser.
The Independent Trustees of the Trust, their term of office and length of time served, their principal business occupations during at least the past five years, the number of portfolios in the Fund Complex (defined below) that they oversee and other directorships, if any, that they hold are shown below. The “Fund Complex” includes all open- and closed-end funds (including all of their portfolios) advised by the Adviser
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and any affiliated person of the Adviser. As of the date of this SAI, the “Fund Family” consists of the Trust and five other ETF trusts advised by the Adviser.
Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Independent Trustees
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Independent
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Independent Trustees
During the Past 5 Years
Ronn R. Bagge—1958
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Vice Chairman of the Board;
Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Trustee
  Vice Chairman since 2018; Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Trustee since 2007   Founder and Principal, YQA Capital Management LLC (1998-Present); formerly, Owner/CEO of Electronic Dynamic Balancing Co., Inc. (high-speed rotating equipment service provider).   215   Trustee and Investment Oversight Committee member, Mission Aviation Fellowship (2017-Present).
Todd J. Barre—1957
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Trustee   Since 2010   Assistant Professor of Business, Trinity Christian College (2010-2016); formerly, Vice President and Senior Investment Strategist (2001-2008), Director of Open Architecture and Trading (2007-2008), Head of Fundamental Research (2004-2007) and Vice President and Senior Fixed Income Strategist (1994-2001), BMO Financial Group/Harris Private Bank.   215   None
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.—1948
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Trustee   Since 2019   President, Giambastiani Group LLC (national security and energy consulting) (2007-Present); Director, The Boeing Company (2009-Present); Trustee, MITRE Corporation (federally-funded research development) (2008-Present); Director, THL Credit, Inc. (alternative credit investment manager) (2016-Present); Trustee, U.S. Naval Academy Foundation Athletic & Scholarship Program (2010-Present); Advisory Board Member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (federally-funded research development) (2010-Present); Defense Advisory Board Member, Lawrence Livermore   215   Formerly, Trustee, certain funds of the Oppenheimer Funds complex (2013-2019); Director, Mercury Defense Systems Inc. (information technology) (2011-2013); Independent Director, QinetiQ Group Plc (defense technology and security) (2008-2011); Chairman, Alenia North America, Inc. (military and defense products) (2008-2009); Director, SRA International, Inc. (information technology and services) (2008- 2011).
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Independent Trustees
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Independent
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Independent Trustees
During the Past 5 Years
            National Laboratory (2013-Present); formerly, Chairman (2015-2016), Lead Director (2011-2015) and Director (2008-2011), Monster Worldwide, Inc. (career services); Advisory Board Member, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University (2012-2016); United States Navy, career nuclear submarine officer (1970-2007); Seventh Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005-2007); first NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (2003-2005); Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (2002-2005).        
Victoria J. Herget—1951
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Trustee   Since 2019   Formerly, Managing Director (1993-2001), Principal (1985-1993), Vice President (1978-1985) and Assistant Vice President (1973-1978), Zurich Scudder Investments (investment adviser) (and its predecessor firms).   215   Trustee (2000-Present) and Chair (2010-2017), Newberry Library; Trustee, Mather LifeWays (2001-Present); Trustee, Chikaming Open Lands (2014-Present); formerly, Trustee, certain funds in the Oppenheimer Funds complex (2012-2019); Board Chair (2008-2015) and Director (2004-2018), United Educators Insurance Company; Independent Director, First American Funds (2003-2011); Trustee (1992-2007), Chair of the Board of Trustees (1999-2007), Investment Committee Chair (1994-1999) and Investment Committee member (2007-2010), Wellesley College; Trustee, BoardSource (2006-2009); Trustee, Chicago City Day School (1994-2005).
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Independent Trustees
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Independent
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Independent Trustees
During the Past 5 Years
Marc M. Kole—1960
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Chairman of the Audit Committee and Trustee   Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2008; Trustee since 2007   Senior Director of Finance, By The Hand Club for Kids (not-for-profit) (2015-Present); formerly, Chief Financial Officer, Hope Network (social services) (2008-2012); Assistant Vice President and Controller, Priority Health (health insurance) (2005-2008); Regional Chief Financial Officer, United Healthcare (2005); Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President of Finance, Oxford Health Plans (2000-2004); Audit Partner, Arthur Andersen LLP (1996-2000).   215   Treasurer (2018-Present), Finance Committee Member (2015-Present) and Audit Committee Member (2015), Thornapple Evangelical Covenant Church; formerly, Board and Finance Committee Member (2009-2017) and Treasurer (2010-2015, 2017), NorthPointe Christian Schools.
Yung Bong Lim—1964
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Chairman of the Investment Oversight Committee and Trustee   Chairman of the Investment Oversight Committee since 2014; Trustee since 2013   Managing Partner, RDG Funds LLC (real estate) (2008-Present); formerly, Managing Director, Citadel LLC (1999-2007).   215   Advisory Board Member, Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC (2008-Present); Board Director, Beacon Power Services, Corp. (2019-Present).
Joanne Pace—1958
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Trustee   Since 2019   Formerly, Senior Advisor, SECOR Asset Management, LP (2010-2011); Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Morgan Stanley Investment Management (2006-2010); Partner and Chief Operating Officer, FrontPoint Partners, LLC (alternative investments) (2005-2006); Managing Director (2003-2005), Global Head of Human Resources and member of Executive Board and Operating Committee (2004-2005), Global Head of Operations and Product Control (2003-2004), Credit Suisse (investment banking); Managing Director (1997-2003), Controller and Principal Accounting Officer (1999-2003), Chief Financial Officer (temporary assignment) for the   215   Board Director, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (2012-Present); Advisory Board Director, The Alberleen Group LLC (2012-Present); Governing Council Member (2016-Present) and Chair of Education Committee (2017-Present), Independent Directors Council (IDC); Board Member, 100 Women in Finance (2015-Present); Council Member, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Leadership Council on Children’s and Women’s Health (2012-Present); formerly, Trustee, certain funds in the Oppenheimer Funds complex (2012-2019); Lead Independent
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Independent Trustees
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Independent
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Independent Trustees
During the Past 5 Years
            Oversight Committee, Long Term Capital Management (1998-1999), Morgan Stanley.       Director and Chair of the Audit and Nominating Committee of The Global Chartist Fund, LLC, Oppenheimer Asset Management (2011-2012); Board Director, Managed Funds Association (2008-2010); Board Director (2007-2010) and Investment Committee Chair (2008-2010), Morgan Stanley Foundation.
Gary R. Wicker—1961
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Trustee   Since 2013   Senior Vice President of Global Finance and Chief Financial Officer, RBC Ministries (publishing company) (2013-Present); formerly, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Zondervan Publishing (a division of Harper Collins/NewsCorp) (2007-2012); Senior Vice President and Group Controller (2005- 2006), Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2003-2004), Chief Financial Officer (2001-2003), Vice President, Finance and Controller (1999-2001) and Assistant Controller (1997-1999), divisions of The Thomson Corporation (information services provider); Senior Audit Manager (1994-1997), PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.   215   Board Member and Treasurer, Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada (2015-Present); Board and Finance Committee Member, West Michigan Youth For Christ (2010-Present).
Donald H. Wilson—1959
c/o Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Chairman of the Board and Trustee   Chairman since 2012; Trustee since 2007   Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, McHenry Bancorp Inc. and McHenry Savings Bank (subsidiary) (2018-Present); formerly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stone Pillar Advisors, Ltd. (2010-2017); formerly, President   215   Director, Penfield Children’s Center (2004-Present); Board Chairman, Gracebridge Alliance, Inc. (2015-Present).
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Independent Trustees
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Independent
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Independent Trustees
During the Past 5 Years
            and Chief Executive Officer, Stone Pillar Investments, Ltd. (advisory services to the financial sector) (2016- 2018); Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Community Financial Shares, Inc. and Community Bank—Wheaton/Glen Ellyn (subsidiary) (2013-2015); Chief Operating Officer, AMCORE Financial, Inc. (bank holding company) (2007-2009); Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, AMCORE Financial, Inc. (2006-2007); Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (bank holding company) (1995-2006).        
* This is the date the Independent Trustee began serving the Trust. Each Independent Trustee serves an indefinite term, until his or her successor is elected.
The Interested Trustee and the executive officers of the Trust, their term of office and length of time served, their principal business occupations during at least the past five years, the number of portfolios in the Fund Complex overseen by the Interested Trustee and the other directorships, if any, held by the Interested Trustee, are shown below.
Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Interested Trustee
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Interested
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Interested Trustee
During the Past 5 Years
Kevin M. Carome—1956
Invesco Ltd.
Two Peachtree Pointe
1555 Peachtree St., N.E.,
Suite 1800
Atlanta, GA 30309
  Trustee   Since 2010   Senior Managing Director, Secretary and General Counsel, Invesco Ltd. (2007-Present); Director, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (2009-Present); Director (2006-Present) and Executive Vice President (2008-Present), Invesco North American Holdings, Inc.; Executive Vice President (2008-Present), Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd.; Manager, Horizon Flight Works LLC; Director and Secretary (2012-Present), Invesco   215   None
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Interested Trustee
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s)
During Past 5 Years
  Number of
Portfolios in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Interested
Trustees
  Other Directorships
Held by
Interested Trustee
During the Past 5 Years
            Services (Bahamas) Private Limited; and Executive Vice President (2014-Present), INVESCO Asset Management (Bermuda) Ltd.; formerly, Director, Invesco Finance PLC (2011-2019); Director, INVESCO Asset Management (Bermuda) Ltd. (2014-2019); Director and Executive Vice President, Invesco Finance, Inc. (2011-2018); Director (2006-2018) and Executive Vice President (2008-2018), Invesco Group Services, Inc., Invesco Holding Company (US), Inc.; Director, Invesco Holding Company Limited (2007- 2019); Director and Chairman, INVESCO Funds Group, Inc., Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (2003-2006); Director, Invesco Investments (Bermuda) Ltd. (2008-2016); Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Liberty Financial Companies, Inc. (2000-2001); General Counsel of certain investment management subsidiaries of Liberty Financial Companies, Inc. (1998-2000); Associate General Counsel, Liberty Financial Companies, Inc. (1993-1998); Associate, Ropes & Gray LLP.        
* This is the date the Interested Trustee began serving the Trust. The Interested Trustee serves an indefinite term, until his successor is elected.
    
Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Executive Officer
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s) During at Least the Past 5 Years
Daniel E. Draper—1968
Invesco Capital
Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  President and
Principal
Executive
Officer
  Since 2015   Chief Executive Officer, Manager and Principal Executive Officer, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018-Present); President and Principal Executive Officer, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Executive Officer
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s) During at Least the Past 5 Years
            Commodity Fund Trust (2015-Present) and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2016-Present); Chief Executive Officer and Principal Executive Officer (2016-Present) and Managing Director (2013-Present), Invesco Capital Management LLC; Senior Vice President, Invesco Distributors, Inc. (2014-Present); formerly, Vice President, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (2013-2015) and Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust (2014-2015); Managing Director, Credit Suisse Asset Management (2010-2013) and Lyxor Asset Management/Societe Generale (2007-2010).
Kelli Gallegos —1970 Invesco Capital Management LLC,
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Vice President
and Treasurer
  Since 2018   Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (2020-Present); Principal Financial and Accounting Officer- Pooled Investments, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018-Present); Vice President and Treasurer, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2018-Present); Principal Financial and Accounting Officer-Pooled Investments, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2018-Present); Vice President, Principal Financial Officer (2016-Present) and Assistant Treasurer (2008-Present), The Invesco Funds; formerly, Assistant Treasurer, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018); Assistant Treasurer, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (2012-2018), Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust (2014-2018) and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2016-2018); Assistant Treasurer, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2013-2018); and Assistant Vice President, The Invesco Funds (2008-2016).
Peter Hubbard—1981
Invesco Capital
Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Vice President   Since 2009   Vice President, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018-Present); Vice President, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (2009-Present), Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust (2014-Present) and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2016-Present); Vice President and Director of Portfolio Management, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2010-Present); formerly, Vice President of Portfolio Management, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2008-2010); Portfolio Manager, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2007-2008); Research Analyst, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2005-2007); Research Analyst and Trader, Ritchie Capital, a hedge fund operator (2003-2005)
Sheri Morris—1964
Invesco Capital Management LLC,
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Vice President   Since 2012   Head of Global Fund Services, Invesco Ltd. (2019-Present); Vice President, OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (2019-Present); President and Principal Executive Officer, The Invesco Funds (2016-Present); Treasurer, The Invesco Funds (2008-Present); Vice President, Invesco Advisers, Inc. (formerly known as Invesco Institutional (N.A.), Inc.) (registered investment adviser) (2009-Present) and Vice President, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund
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Name, Address and
Year of Birth
of Executive Officer
  Position(s) Held
with Trust
  Term of
Office and
Length of
Time Served*
  Principal Occupation(s) During at Least the Past 5 Years
            Trust (2012-Present), Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust (2014-Present) and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2016-Present); formerly, Vice President and Principal Financial Officer, The Invesco Funds (2008-2016); Treasurer, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust and Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (2011-2013); 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.
Anna Paglia—1974
Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Secretary   Since 2011   Authorized Person, Accretive Asset Management LLC (2018-Present); Head of Legal and Secretary, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018-Present); Secretary, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (2011-Present), Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust (2014-Present) and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2015-Present); Head of Legal (2010-Present) and Secretary (2015-Present), Invesco Capital Management LLC; Manager and Assistant Secretary, Invesco Indexing LLC (2017-Present); formerly, Partner, K&L Gates LLP (formerly, Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLP) (2007-2010); Associate Counsel at Barclays Global Investors Ltd. (2004-2006).
Rudolf E. Reitmann—1971
Invesco Capital
Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Vice President   Since 2013   Head of Global Exchange Traded Funds Services, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018-Present); Vice President, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (2013-Present), Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust (2014-Present) and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2016-Present); Head of Global Exchange Traded Funds Services, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2013-Present); Vice President, Invesco Capital Markets, Inc. (2018-Present).
Melanie Zimdars—1976
Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road,
Suite 700
Downers Grove, IL 60515
  Chief Compliance
Officer
  Since 2017   Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Specialized Products, LLC (2018-Present); Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Capital Management LLC (2017-Present); Chief Compliance Officer, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II, Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust and Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust (2017-Present); formerly, Vice President and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, ALPS Holding, Inc. (2009-2017); Mutual Fund Treasurer/ Chief Financial Officer, Wasatch Advisors, Inc. (2005-2008); Compliance Officer, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC (2001-2005).
* This is the date the Officer began serving the Trust. Each Officer serves an indefinite term, until his or her successor is elected.
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For each Trustee, the dollar range of equity securities beneficially owned by the Trustee in the Trust and in all registered investment companies overseen by the Trustee as of December 31, 2019, is shown below.
Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco China
Technology ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco DWA
Developed Markets
Momentum ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco DWA
Emerging Markets
Momentum ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Emerging
Markets Sovereign
Debt ETF
Independent Trustees                
Ronn R. Bagge   None   None   None   None
Todd J. Barre   None   None   None   None
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   None   None   None   None
Victoria J. Herget   None   None   None   None
Marc M. Kole   None   None   None   $10,001-$50,000
Yung Bong Lim   None   None   None   Over $100,000
Joanne Pace   None   None   None   None
Gary R. Wicker   None   None   $10,001-$50,000   None
Donald H. Wilson   None   None   None   None
Interested Trustee        
Kevin M. Carome   None   None   None   None
    
Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco FTSE
International Low
Beta Equal Weight
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco FTSE RAFI
Developed Markets
ex-U.S. ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco FTSE RAFI
Developed Markets
ex-U.S. Small-Mid
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco
FTSE RAFI
Emerging Markets
ETF
Independent Trustees                
Ronn R. Bagge   None   None   None   None
Todd J. Barre   None   $50,001-$100,000   None   None
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   None   None   None   None
Victoria J. Herget   None   None   None   None
Marc M. Kole   None   None   None   None
Yung Bong Lim   None   None   None   None
Joanne Pace   None   None   None   None
Gary R. Wicker   None   None   $10,001-$50,000   None
Donald H. Wilson   None   $50,001-$100,000   None   None
Interested Trustee        
Kevin M. Carome   None   None   None   None
    
Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Global
Clean Energy
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Global
Short Term High
Yield Bond
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Global
Water ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco International
BuyBack Achievers™
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco International
Corporate Bond
ETF
Independent Trustees                    
Ronn R. Bagge   None   None   None   None   None
Todd J. Barre   None   None   None   None   None
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   None   None   None   None   None
Victoria J. Herget   None   None   None   None   None
Marc M. Kole   None   None   None   None   None
Yung Bong Lim   None   Over $100,000   None   None   None
Joanne Pace   None   None   None   None   None
Gary R. Wicker   None   None   None   None   None
Donald H. Wilson   None   None   $1-$10,000   $10,001-$50,000   None
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Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Global
Clean Energy
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Global
Short Term High
Yield Bond
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco Global
Water ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco International
BuyBack Achievers™
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities in
Invesco International
Corporate Bond
ETF
Interested Trustee            
Kevin M. Carome   None   None   None   None   None
    
Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco MSCI
Global Timber
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco PureBetaSM0-5 Yr
US TIPS ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco
PureBetaSM FTSE
Developed ex-North America
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE
Emerging Markets
ETF
Independent Trustees                
Ronn R. Bagge   $1-$10,000   None   None   None
Todd J. Barre   None   None   None   None
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   None   None   None   None
Victoria J. Herget   None   None   None   None
Marc M. Kole   None   None   None   None
Yung Bong Lim   None   None   None   None
Joanne Pace   None   None   None   None
Gary R. Wicker   None   None   None   None
Donald H. Wilson   None   None   None   None
Interested Trustee        
Kevin M. Carome   None   None   None   None
    
Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P
Emerging Markets Low
Volatility ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P Emerging
Markets Momentum ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P
Global Water Index
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P
International Developed
High Dividend
Low Volatility
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P
International
Developed Low
Volatility ETF
Independent Trustees                    
Ronn R. Bagge   None   None   None   None   None
Todd J. Barre   None   None   None   None   None
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   None   None   None   None   None
Victoria J. Herget   None   None   None   None   None
Marc M. Kole   None   None   None   None   None
Yung Bong Lim   None   None   None   None   None
Joanne Pace   None   None   None   None   None
Gary R. Wicker   None   None   None   None   None
Donald H. Wilson   None   None   None   None   None
Interested Trustee            
Kevin M. Carome   $10,001-$50,000   None   None   None   None
    
Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P
International
Developed Momentum
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco
S&P International
Developed Quality
ETF
  Aggregate Dollar
Range of Equity
Securities in All
Registered Investment
Companies Overseen by
Trustee in Fund
Family
Independent Trustees            
Ronn R. Bagge   None   None   over $100,000
Todd J. Barre   None   None   over $100,000
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   None   None   None
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Name of Trustee   Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco S&P
International
Developed Momentum
ETF
  Dollar Range of
Equity Securities
in Invesco
S&P International
Developed Quality
ETF
  Aggregate Dollar
Range of Equity
Securities in All
Registered Investment
Companies Overseen by
Trustee in Fund
Family
Victoria J. Herget   None   None   None
Marc M. Kole   None   $50,001-$100,000   over $100,000
Yung Bong Lim   None   None   over $100,000
Joanne Pace   None   None   over $100,000
Gary R. Wicker   None   None   over $100,000
Donald H. Wilson   None   None   over $100,000
Interested Trustee            
Kevin M. Carome   None   None   over $100,000
The dollar range of Shares for Mr. Lim includes Shares of certain funds in which Mr. Lim is deemed to be invested pursuant to the Trust’s deferred compensation plan (“DC Plan”), which is described below.
As of December 31, 2019, as to each Independent Trustee and his or her immediate family members, no person owned, beneficially or of record, securities in an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Funds, or a person (other than a registered investment company) directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with an investment adviser or principal underwriter of the Funds.
Board and Committee Structure. As noted above, the Board is responsible for oversight of the Funds, including oversight of the duties performed by the Adviser for the Funds under the investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and the Trust, on behalf of the Funds (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”). The Board generally meets in regularly scheduled meetings five times a year and may meet more often as required. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, the Board held six meetings.
The Board has three standing committees, the Audit Committee, the Investment Oversight Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee, and has delegated certain responsibilities to those Committees.
Mr. Kole (Chair), Ms. Pace, and Messrs. Wicker and Wilson currently serve as members of the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee has the responsibility, among other things, to: (i) approve and recommend to the Board the selection of the Trust’s independent registered public accounting firm, (ii) review the scope of the independent registered public accounting firm’s audit activity, (iii) review the audited financial statements and (iv) review with such independent registered public accounting firm the adequacy and the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal controls over financial reporting. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, the Audit Committee held eight meetings.
Mr. Bagge, Dr. Barre, Admiral Giambastiani, Ms. Herget and Mr. Lim (Chair) currently serve as members of the Investment Oversight Committee. The Investment Oversight Committee has the responsibility, among other things, (i) to review fund investment performance, including tracking error and correlation to its underlying index, (ii) to review any proposed changes to a fund’s investment policies, comparative benchmark indices or underlying index, and (iii) to review a fund’s market trading activities and portfolio transactions. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, the Investment Oversight Committee held four meetings.
Mr. Bagge (Chair), Dr. Barre, Admiral Giambastiani, Ms. Herget, Messrs. Kole and Lim, Ms. Pace, and Messrs. Wicker and Wilson currently serve as members of the Nominating and Governance Committee. The Nominating and Governance Committee has the responsibility, among other things, to identify and recommend individuals for Board membership and evaluate candidates for Board membership. The Board will consider recommendations for trustees from shareholders. Nominations from shareholders should be in writing and sent to the Secretary of the Trust to the attention of the Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee, as described below under the caption “Shareholder Communications.” During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, the Nominating and Governance Committee held five meetings.
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Mr. Wilson, one of the Independent Trustees, serves as the chair of the Board (the “Independent Chair”). The Independent Chair, among other things, chairs the Board meetings, participates in the preparation of the Board agendas and serves as a liaison between, and facilitates communication among, the other Independent Trustees, the full Board, the Adviser and other service providers with respect to Board matters. Mr. Bagge, as Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, serves as vice chair of the Board (the “Vice Chair”). In the absence of the Independent Chair, the Vice Chair is responsible for all of the Independent Chair’s duties and may exercise any of the Independent Chair’s powers. The Chairs of each Committee also serve as liaisons between the Adviser and other service providers and the other Independent Trustees for matters pertaining to the respective Committee. The Board believes that its current leadership structure is appropriate taking into account the assets and number of funds in the Fund Family overseen by the Trustees, the size of the Board and the nature of the funds’ business, as the Interested Trustee and officers of the Trust provide the Board with insight as to the daily management of the funds while the Independent Chair promotes independent oversight of the funds by the Board.
Risk Oversight. Each Fund is subject to a number of risks, including operational, investment and compliance risks. The Board, directly and through its Committees, as part of its oversight responsibilities, oversees the services provided by the Adviser and the Trust’s other service providers in connection with the management and operations of the Funds, as well as their associated risks. Under the oversight of the Board, the Trust, the Adviser and other service providers have adopted policies, procedures and controls to address these risks. The Board, directly and through its Committees, receives and reviews information from the Adviser, other service providers, the Trust’s independent registered public accounting firm, Trust counsel and counsel to the Independent Trustees to assist it in its oversight responsibilities. This information includes, but is not limited to, reports regarding the Funds’ investments, including Fund performance and investment practices, valuation of Fund portfolio securities, and compliance. The Board also reviews, and must approve any proposed changes to, the Funds’ investment objective, policies and restrictions, and reviews any areas of non-compliance with the Funds’ investment policies and restrictions. The Audit Committee monitors the Trust’s accounting policies, financial reporting and internal control system and reviews any internal audit reports impacting the Trust. As part of its compliance oversight, the Board reviews the annual compliance report issued by the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer on the policies and procedures of the Trust and its service providers, proposed changes to those policies and procedures and quarterly reports on any material compliance issues that arose during the period.
Experience, Qualifications and Attributes. As noted above, the Nominating and Governance Committee is responsible for identifying, evaluating and recommending trustee candidates. The Nominating and Governance Committee reviews the background and the educational, business and professional experience of trustee candidates and the candidates’ expected contributions to the Board. Trustees selected to serve on the Board are expected to possess relevant skills and experience, time availability and the ability to work well with the other Trustees. In addition to these qualities and based on each Trustee’s experience, qualifications and attributes and the Trustees’ combined contributions to the Board, following is a brief summary of the information that led to the conclusion that each Board member should serve as a Trustee.
Mr. Bagge has served as a trustee and Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee with the Fund Family since 2003 and as Vice Chair with the Fund Family since 2018. He founded YQA Capital Management, LLC in 1998 and has since served as a principal. Mr. Bagge serves as a Trustee and a member of the Investment Oversight Committee of Mission Aviation Fellowship. Previously, Mr. Bagge was the owner and CEO of Electronic Dynamic Balancing Company from 1988 to 2001. He began his career as a securities analyst for institutional investors, including CT&T Asset Management and J.C. Bradford & Co. The Board considered that Mr. Bagge has served as a board member or advisor for several privately held businesses and charitable organizations and the executive, investment and operations experience that Mr. Bagge has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
Dr. Barre has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2010. He served as Assistant Professor of Business at Trinity Christian College from 2010 to 2016. Additionally, he earned his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Anderson University in 2019 with final dissertation researched focused on exchange-traded funds. Previously, he served in various positions with BMO Financial Group/Harris Private
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Bank, including Vice President and Senior Investment Strategist (2001-2008), Director of Open Architecture and Trading (2007-2008), Head of Fundamental Research (2004-2007) and Vice President and Senior Fixed Income Strategist (1994-2001). From 1983 to 1994, Dr. Barre was with the Office of the Manager of Investments at Commonwealth Edison Co. He also was a staff accountant at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. from 1981 to 1983. The Board considered the executive, financial and investment experience that Dr. Barre has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
Mr. Carome has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2010. He has served as the Senior Managing Director and General Counsel of Invesco Ltd. since 2007, and has held various senior executive positions with Invesco Ltd. since 2003. Previously, he served in various positions with Liberty Financial Companies, Inc., including Senior Vice President and General Counsel (2000-2001), General Counsel of certain investment management subsidiaries (1998-2000) and Associate General Counsel (1993-1998). Prior to his employment with Liberty Financial Companies, Inc., Mr. Carome was an associate with Ropes & Gray LLP. The Board considered Mr. Carome’s senior executive position with Invesco Ltd.
Admiral Giambastiani has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2019. He founded Giambastiani Group LLC in 2007 and has since served as its President. He has served as Director of The Boeing Company since 2009, as Director of THL Credit, Inc. since 2016, as Trustee of the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation Athletic & Scholarship Program since 2010, as an Advisory Board Member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory since 2010, as Trustee of MITRE Corporation since September 2008 and as a Defense Advisory Board Member of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2013. Previously, he served as Trustee of certain funds in the Oppenheimer Funds complex (2013-2019), an Advisory Board Member of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University (2012-2016), Director of Mercury Defense Systems Inc. (2011-2013), Independent Director of QinetiQ Group Plc (2008-2011), Chairman (2015-2016), Lead Director (2011-2015) and Director (2008-2011) of Monster Worldwide, Inc., and Chairman of Alenia North America, Inc. (2008-2009) and Director of SRA International, Inc. (2008-2011). Admiral Giambastiani also served in the United States Navy as a career nuclear submarine officer (1970-2007), as Seventh Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005-October 2007), as the first NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (2003-2005) and Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (2002-2005). Since his retirement from the U.S. Navy in October 2007, Admiral Giambastiani has also served on numerous U.S. Government advisory boards, investigations and task forces for the Secretaries of Defense, State and Interior and the Directors of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency. He recently completed serving as a federal commissioner on the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission. The Board considered the executive and operations experience that Admiral Giambastiani has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
Ms. Herget has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2019. She has served as Trustee of Mather LifeWays since 2001, as Chair (2010-2017) and Trustee of Newberry Library since 2000, and as Trustee of Chikaming Open Lands since 2014. Previously, she served as Board Chair (2008-2015) and Director (2004-2018) of United Educators Insurance Company, as Trustee of certain funds in the Oppenheimer Funds complex (2012-2019) and as Independent Director of the First American Funds (2003-2011). Ms. Herget served as Managing Director (1993-2001), Principal (1985-1993), Vice President (1978-1985) and Assistant Vice President (1973-1978) of Zurich Scudder Investments (and its predecessor firms), as Trustee (1992-2007), Chair of the Board of Trustees (1999-2007), Investment Committee Chair (1994-1999) and Investment Committee member (2007-2010) of Wellesley College and as Trustee of BoardSource (2006-2009) and Chicago City Day School (1994-2005). The Board considered the executive, financial and investment experience that Ms. Herget has gained over the course of her career and through her financial industry experience.
Mr. Kole has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2006 and Chairman of the Audit Committee with the Fund Family since 2008. He has been the Senior Director of Finance of By The Hand Club for Kids since 2015. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Hope Network from 2008 to 2012 and he was the Assistant Vice President and Controller at Priority Health from 2005 to 2008, Regional Chief Financial Officer of United Healthcare from 2004 to 2005, Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of
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Finance of Oxford Health Plans from 2000 to 2004 and Audit Partner at Arthur Andersen LLP from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Kole has served as Treasurer (2018-Present), Finance Committee Member (2015-Present) and Audit Committee Member (2015) of Thornapple Evangelical Covenant Church and previously served as Board and Finance Committee Member (2009-2017) and Treasurer (2010-2015, 2017) of NorthPointe Christian Schools. The Board has determined that Mr. Kole qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined by the SEC. The Board considered the executive, financial and operations experience that Mr. Kole has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
Mr. Lim has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2013 and Chairman of the Investment Oversight Committee with the Fund Family since 2014. He has been a Managing Partner of RDG Funds LLC since 2008. Previously, he was a Managing Director and the Head of the Securitized Products Group of Citadel LLC (1999-2007). Prior to his employment with Citadel LLC, he was a Managing Director with Salomon Brothers Inc. Mr. Lim has served as an Advisory Board Member of Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC (2008-Present) and as a Board Director of Beacon Power Services, Corp. (2019-Present). The Board considered the executive, financial, operations and investment experience that Mr. Lim has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
Ms. Pace has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2019. She has served as Board Director of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey since 2012, as an Advisory Board Director of The Alberleen Group LLC since 2012, as Governing Council Member (since 2016) and Chair of Education Committee (since 2017) of Independent Directors Council (IDC), as a Board Member of 100 Women in Finance since January 2015 and as a Council Member of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Leadership Council on Children’s and Women’s Health since 2012. Previously, she has served as Trustee of certain funds in the Oppenheimer Funds complex (2012-2019), as Senior Advisor of SECOR Asset Management, LP (2010-2011), as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (2006-2010) and as Partner and Chief Operating Officer of FrontPoint Partners, LLC (2005-2006). Ms. Pace also held the following positions at Credit Suisse: Managing Director (2003-2005); Global Head of Human Resources and member of Executive Board and Operating Committee (2004-2005), and Global Head of Operations and Product Control (2003-2004). She also held the following positions at Morgan Stanley: Managing Director (1997-2003), Controller and Principal Accounting Officer (1999-2003); and Chief Financial Officer (temporary assignment) for the Oversight Committee, Long Term Capital Management (1998-1999). She also served as Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Audit and Nominating Committee of The Global Chartist Fund, LLC of Oppenheimer Asset Management (2011-2012), as Board Director of Managed Funds Association (2008-2010) and as Board Director of Morgan Stanley Foundation (2007-2010) and Investment Committee Chair (2008-2010). The Board has determined that Ms. Pace qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined by the SEC. The Board considered the executive, financial, operations and investment experience that Ms. Pace has gained over the course of her career and through her financial industry experience.
Mr. Wicker has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2013. He has served as Senior Vice President of Global Finance and Chief Financial Officer at RBC Ministries since 2013. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Zondervan Publishing from 2007 to 2012. Prior to his employment with Zondervan Publishing, he held various positions with divisions of The Thomson Corporation, including Senior Vice President and Group Controller (2005-2006), Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2003-2004), Chief Financial Officer (2001-2003), Vice President, Finance and Controller (1999-2001) and Assistant Controller (1997-1999). Prior to that, Mr. Wicker was Senior Manager in the Audit and Business Advisory Services Group of Price Waterhouse (1994-1996). Mr. Wicker has served as a Board Member and Treasurer of Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada (2015-Present) and as a Board and Finance Committee Member of West Michigan Youth For Christ (2010-Present). The Board has determined that Mr. Wicker qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined by the SEC. The Board considered the executive, financial and operations experience that Mr. Wicker has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
Mr. Wilson has served as a trustee with the Fund Family since 2006 and as the Independent Chair with the Fund Family since 2012. He also served as lead Independent Trustee in 2011. He has served as the
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Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of McHenry Bancorp Inc. and McHenry Savings Bank since 2018. Previously, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stone Pillar Advisors, Ltd. (2010-2017). He was also President and Chief Executive Officer of Stone Pillar Investments, Ltd. (2016-2018). Mr. Wilson was also the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Financial Shares, Inc. and its subsidiary, Community Bank—Wheaton/Glen Ellyn (2013-2015). He also was the Chief Operating Officer (2007-2009) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (2006-2007) of AMCORE Financial, Inc. Mr. Wilson also served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Marshall & Ilsley Corp. from 1995 to 2006. He started his career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, serving in several roles in the bank examination division and the economic research division. Mr. Wilson has served as a Director of Penfield Children’s Center (2004-Present) and as Board Chairman of Gracebridge Alliance, Inc. (2015-Present). The Board has determined that Mr. Wilson qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined by the SEC. The Board considered the executive, financial and operations experience that Mr. Wilson has gained over the course of his career and through his financial industry experience.
This disclosure is not intended to hold out any Trustee as having any special expertise and shall not impose greater duties, obligations or liabilities on the Trustees. The Trustees’ principal occupations during at least the past five years are shown in the above tables.
Effective January 1, 2019, for his or her services as a Trustee of the Trust and other trusts in the Fund Family, each Independent Trustee receives an annual retainer of $320,000 (the “Retainer”). The Retainer for the Independent Trustees is allocated half pro rata among all the funds in the Fund Family and the other half is allocated among all of the funds in the Fund Family based on average net assets. The Independent Chair receives an additional $120,000 per year for his service as the Independent Chair, allocated in the same manner as the Retainer. The chair of the Audit Committee receives an additional fee of $35,000 per year and the chairs of the Investment Oversight Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee each receive an additional fee of $20,000 per year, each allocated in the same manner as the Retainer. Prior to January 1, 2019, the Retainer was $290,000, the additional fee paid to the Independent Chair was $100,000 per year, the additional fee paid to the Audit Committee Chair was $28,000 per year and the additional fee paid to each chair of the Investment Oversight Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee was $17,000 per year. Each Trustee also is reimbursed for travel and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending Board and committee meetings.
The DC Plan allows each Independent Trustee to defer payment of all, or a portion, of the fees that the Trustee receives for serving on the Board throughout the year. Each eligible Trustee generally may elect to have deferred amounts credited with a return equal to the total return of one or more registered investment companies within the Fund Family that are offered as investment options under the DC Plan. At the Trustee’s election, distributions are either in one lump sum payment, or in the form of equal annual installments over a period of years designated by the Trustee. The rights of an eligible Trustee and the beneficiaries to the amounts held under the DC Plan are unsecured, and such amounts are subject to the claims of the creditors of a fund. The Independent Trustees are not eligible for any pension or profit sharing plan in their capacity as Trustees.
The following sets forth the fees paid to each Trustee for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019.
Name of Trustee   Aggregate
Compensation From
Funds
  Pension or Retirement
Benefits accrued as part of
Fund Expenses
  Total Compensation Paid
From Fund Complex (1)
Independent Trustees            
Ronn R. Bagge   $31,738   N/A   $334,500
Todd J. Barre   $29,887   N/A   $315,000
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.(2)   $12,920   N/A   $133,333
Victoria J. Herget(2)   $12,920   N/A   $133,333
Marc M. Kole   $33,099   N/A   $348,833
Yung Bong Lim   $31,738   N/A   $334,500
Joanne Pace(2)   $12,920   N/A   $133,333
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Name of Trustee   Aggregate
Compensation From
Funds
  Pension or Retirement
Benefits accrued as part of
Fund Expenses
  Total Compensation Paid
From Fund Complex (1)
Gary R. Wicker   $29,887   N/A   $315,000
Donald H. Wilson   $40,961   N/A   $431,668
Interested Trustee            
Kevin M. Carome   N/A   N/A   N/A
1. The amounts shown in this column represent the aggregate compensation paid by all of the funds of the trusts in the Fund Family for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, before deferral by the Trustees under the DC Plan. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, Mr. Lim deferred 100% of his compensation, which amounts are reflected in the above table.
2. Admiral Giambastiani, Ms. Herget and Ms. Pace were appointed as Trustees of the Trust effective May 24, 2019, and their compensation amounts shown in the above table are for the period May 24, 2019 through October 31, 2019.
Portfolio Holdings. As of December 31, 2019, the Trustees and Officers, as a group, owned less than 1% of each Fund’s outstanding Shares.
Principal Holders and Control Persons. The following tables set forth the name, address and percentage of ownership of each person who is known by the Trust to own, of record or beneficially, 5% or more of each Fund’s outstanding Shares as of January 31, 2020.
INVESCO CHINA TECHNOLOGY ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Citibank
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10043
  13.01%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  12.50%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  11.84%
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
525 Washington Blvd
Jersey City, NJ 07310
  10.82%
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  6.71%
INVESCO DWA DEVELOPED MARKETS MOMENTUM ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC
One North Jefferson Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
  14.40%
Raymond, James & Associates, Inc.
880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
  13.90%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  11.47%
UBS Financial
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
  9.40%
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INVESCO DWA DEVELOPED MARKETS MOMENTUM ETF (continued)
Name & Address   % Owned
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  7.64%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  6.85%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  5.95%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC
Royal Bank Plaza
200 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5J 2W7
  5.16%
INVESCO DWA EMERGING MARKETS MOMENTUM ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Wells Fargo
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
  17.01%
Raymond, James & Associates, Inc.
880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
  10.99%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  9.68%
Folio Investments
8180 Greensboro Dr 8th Floor
McLean, VA 22102
  8.11%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  7.70%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  7.36%
UBS Financial
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
  5.95%
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  5.17%
INVESCO EMERGING MARKETS SOVEREIGN DEBT ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  24.00%
Wells Fargo
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
  16.08%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  12.46%
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INVESCO EMERGING MARKETS SOVEREIGN DEBT ETF (continued)
Name & Address   % Owned
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  6.92%
American Enterprise Investment Services, Inc.
707 2nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55402
  5.45%
INVESCO FTSE INTERNATIONAL LOW BETA EQUAL WEIGHT ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
SEI Private Trust Company
One Freedom Valley Drive
Oaks, PA 19456
  54.15%
Bank of America
100 N Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  22.23%
RBC Capital Markets LLC
Royal Bank Plaza
200 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5J 2W7
  5.56%
INVESCO FTSE RAFI DEVELOPED MARKETS EX-U.S. ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  40.24%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  22.10%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  7.72%
UBS Financial Services Inc.
1000 Harbor Blvd.
Weehawken, NJ 07086
  5.68%
Citibank
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10043
  5.66%
INVESCO FTSE RAFI DEVELOPED MARKETS EX-U.S. SMALL-MID ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  62.73%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  5.40%
INVESCO FTSE RAFI EMERGING MARKETS ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  22.34%
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INVESCO FTSE RAFI EMERGING MARKETS ETF (continued)
Name & Address   % Owned
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  12.95%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  12.90%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  11.78%
Citibank
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10043
  8.47%
Fifth Third Bank
38 Fountain Square Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45263
  6.54%
INVESCO GLOBAL CLEAN ENERGY ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  19.09%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  11.02%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  8.04%
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  6.60%
INVESCO GLOBAL SHORT TERM HIGH YIELD BOND ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  32.97%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  12.94%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  9.96%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  9.62%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  6.86%
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INVESCO GLOBAL WATER ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  12.09%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  11.47%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  9.84%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  8.66%
Bank of America
100 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  7.28%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  5.95%
State Street Bank and Trust Company
One Lincoln Street
Boston, MA 02111
  5.06%
INVESCO INTERNATIONAL BUYBACK ACHIEVERS™ ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  16.66%
Raymond, James & Associates, Inc.
880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
  12.95%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  11.59%
LPL Financial
75 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
  10.36%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  6.77%
Ameriprise Enterprise Investment Services Inc.
55 Ameriprise Financial Center
Minneapolis, MN 55474
  6.59%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  6.21%
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  6.08%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  5.26%
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INVESCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE BOND ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Northern Trust Company
801 S Canal Street
Chicago, IL 60607
  32.14%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  13.69%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  7.19%
Wells Fargo
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
  6.66%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  5.77%
INVESCO MSCI GLOBAL TIMBER ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  26.68%
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
85 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
  12.85%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  10.22%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  9.21%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  7.66%
Bank of America
100 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  7.32%
INVESCO PUREBETASM 0-5 YR US TIPS ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  73.53%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
  8.24%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  7.46%
Bank of America
100 N Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  6.49%
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INVESCO PUREBETASM FTSE DEVELOPED EX-NORTH AMERICA ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
  52.50%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  26.42%
Bank of America
100 N Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  8.79%
INVESCO PUREBETASM FTSE EMERGING MARKETS ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  77.41%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
  7.24%
INVESCO S&P EMERGING MARKETS LOW VOLATILITY ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  35.25%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  20.37%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  9.02%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  6.48%
INVESCO S&P EMERGING MARKETS MOMENTUM ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  22.70%
Wells Fargo
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
  16.64%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  15.84%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  8.15%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  7.44%
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INVESCO S&P EMERGING MARKETS MOMENTUM ETF (continued)
Name & Address   % Owned
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  7.07%
INVESCO S&P GLOBAL WATER INDEX ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  14.53%
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10281
  13.71%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  12.49%
State Street Bank and Trust Company
One Lincoln Street
Boston, MA 02111
  9.13%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  7.60%
UBS Financial
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
  5.70%
INVESCO S&P INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPED HIGH DIVIDEND LOW VOLATILITY ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  17.18%
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
  16.67%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  15.36%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  12.38%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  10.04%
Wells Fargo
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
  9.44%
LPL Financial
75 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
  5.83%
Bank of America
100 N Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  5.01%
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INVESCO S&P INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPED LOW VOLATILITY ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  34.77%
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
  7.56%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  7.24%
Ameriprise Enterprise Investment Services Inc.
55 Ameriprise Financial Center
Minneapolis, MN 55474
  6.72%
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
  6.14%
INVESCO S&P INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPED MOMENTUM ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  34.43%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
  20.20%
Bank of America
100 N Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28255
  12.61%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  7.23%
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
200 West Street
New York, NY 10282
  6.87%
INVESCO S&P INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPED QUALITY ETF
Name & Address   % Owned
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
4 Corporate Place
Piscataway, NJ 08854
  19.90%
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
211 Main Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
  18.16%
Fifth Third Bank
38 Fountain Square Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45263
  13.53%
Raymond, James & Associates, Inc.
880 Carillon Parkway
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
  10.19%
TD Ameritrade Clearing, Inc.
4211 South 102nd Street
Omaha, NE 68127
  5.94%
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INVESCO S&P INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPED QUALITY ETF (continued)
Name & Address   % Owned
National Financial Services LLC
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 1021
  5.74%
Pershing LLC
1 Pershing Plaza
Jersey City, NJ 07399
  5.44%
Shareholder Communications. Shareholders may send communications to the Trust's Board by addressing the communications directly to the Board (or individual Board members) and/or otherwise clearly indicating in the salutation that the communication is for the Board (or individual Board members). Shareholders may send the communication to either the Trust's office or directly to such Board members at the address specified for each Trustee. Management will review and generally respond to other shareholder communications the Trust receives that are not directly addressed and sent to the Board. Such communications will be forwarded to the Board at management's discretion based on the matters contained therein.
Investment Adviser. The Adviser provides investment tools and portfolios for advisers and investors. The Adviser is committed to theoretically sound portfolio construction and empirically verifiable investment management approaches. Its asset management philosophy and investment discipline is rooted deeply in the application of intuitive factor analysis and model implementation to enhance investment decisions.
The Adviser acts as investment adviser for, and manages the investment and reinvestment of, the assets of the Funds. The Adviser also administers the Trust's business affairs, provides office facilities and equipment and certain clerical, bookkeeping and administrative services, and permits any of its officers or employees to serve without compensation as Trustees or officers of the Trust if elected to such positions.
Invesco Capital Management LLC, organized February 7, 2003, is located at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515. Invesco Ltd. is the parent company of Invesco Capital Management LLC and is located at Two Peachtree Pointe, 1555 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Invesco Ltd. and its subsidiaries are an independent global investment management group.
Portfolio Managers. The Adviser uses a team of portfolio managers (the “Portfolio Managers”), investment strategists and other investment specialists. This team approach brings together many disciplines and leverages the Adviser’s extensive resources. Peter Hubbard oversees all research, portfolio management and trading operations of the Adviser. In this capacity, he oversees a team of the Portfolio Managers responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds. Mr. Hubbard receives management assistance from Pratik Doshi, Michael Jeanette, Gary Jones, Jeffrey W. Kernagis, Richard Ose, Greg Meisenger, Jeremy Neisewander and Tony Seisser.
As of October 31, 2019, Mr. Hubbard managed 239 registered investment companies with approximately $127.1 billion in assets, 88 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $113.6 billion in assets and no other accounts.
As of October 31, 2019, Mr. Jeanette managed 171 registered investment companies with approximately $89.3 billion in assets, 51 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $83.4 billion in assets and no other accounts.
As of October 31, 2019, Mr. Jones managed 23 registered investment companies with approximately $22.7 billion in assets, 8 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $881.2 million in assets and no other accounts.
As of October 31, 2019, Mr. Kernagis managed 65 registered investment companies with approximately $38.8 billion in assets, 17 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $2.7 billion in assets and no other accounts.
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As of October 31, 2019, Mr. Ose managed 29 registered investment companies with approximately $23.0 billion in assets, 17 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $2.7 billion in assets and no other accounts.
As of October 31, 2019, Mr. Seisser managed 167 registered investment companies with approximately $89.3 billion in assets, 51 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $83.4 billion in assets and no other accounts.
As of February 1, 2020, Mr. Doshi managed 46 registered investment companies with approximately $28.4 billion in assets, 52 other pooled investment vehicles with approximately $94.3 billion in assets and 1 other account with approximately $464.5 million in assets.
As of February 1, 2020, Mr. Meisenger managed 43 registered investment companies with approximately $13.3 billion in assets, and no other pooled investment vehicles or other accounts.
As of February 1, 2020, Mr. Neisewander managed 45 registered investment companies with approximately $16.7 billion in assets, and no other pooled investment vehicles or other accounts.
To the extent that any of the registered investment companies, other pooled investment vehicles or other accounts pay advisory fees that are based on performance (“performance-based fees”), information on those accounts is specifically broken out.
Because the portfolio managers of the Adviser may manage assets for other investment companies, pooled investment vehicles and/or other accounts (including institutional clients, pension plans and certain high net worth individuals), there may be an incentive to favor one client over another, resulting in conflicts of interest. For instance, the Adviser may receive fees from certain accounts that are higher than the fee it receives from the Funds, or it may receive a performance-based fee on certain accounts. In those instances, the portfolio managers may have an incentive to favor the higher and/or performance-based fee accounts over the Funds. In addition, a conflict of interest could exist to the extent that the Adviser has proprietary investments in certain accounts, where portfolio managers have personal investments in certain accounts or when certain accounts are investment options in the Adviser’s employee benefits and/or deferred compensation plans. The portfolio manager may have an incentive to favor these accounts over others. If the Adviser manages accounts that engage in short sales of securities of the type in which the Fund invests, the Adviser could be seen as harming the performance of the Fund for the benefit of the accounts engaging in short sales if the short sales cause the market value of the securities to fall. The Adviser has adopted trade allocation and other policies and procedures that it believes are reasonably designed to address these and other conflicts of interest.
Description of Compensation Structure. The Portfolio Managers are compensated with a fixed salary amount by the Adviser. The Portfolio Managers are eligible, along with other senior employees of the Adviser, to participate in a year-end discretionary bonus pool. The Compensation Committee of the Adviser will review management bonuses and, depending upon the size, the Compensation Committee may approve the bonus in advance. There is no policy regarding, or agreement with, the Portfolio Managers or any other senior executive of the Adviser to receive bonuses or any other compensation in connection with the performance of any of the accounts managed by the Portfolio Managers.
Portfolio Holdings. As of October 31, 2019, Messrs. Hubbard, Doshi, Jeanette, Jones, Meisenger, Neisewander, Ose and Seisser did not own any securities of the Funds.
As of October 31, 2019, the dollar range of securities beneficially owned by Mr. Kernagis in the Funds was $100,001 to $500,000. The portfolio holdings of Mr. Kernagis, as of October 31, 2019, in the Funds in which he owns securities are shown below.
Jeffrey W. Kernagis   Dollar Range
Fund   $1 to
$10,000
  $10,001 to
$50,000
  $50,001 to
$100,000
  $100,001 to
$500,000
  $500,001 to
$1,000,000
  over
$1,000,000
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF       X                
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF       X                
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Jeffrey W. Kernagis   Dollar Range
Fund   $1 to
$10,000
  $10,001 to
$50,000
  $50,001 to
$100,000
  $100,001 to
$500,000
  $500,001 to
$1,000,000
  over
$1,000,000
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF       X                
Investment Advisory Agreement. Pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between the Adviser and the Trust (the “Investment Advisory Agreement”), each Fund has agreed to pay the Adviser for its services an annual fee equal to a percentage of its average daily net assets as set forth in the chart below (the “Advisory Fees”).
Fund   Advisory Fee
Invesco China Technology ETF   0.70% (1)
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF   0.80%
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   0.90%
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF   0.50%
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF   0.45%
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF   0.45%
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF   0.49%
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF   0.49%
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF   0.75%
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF   0.35%
Invesco Global Water ETF   0.75%
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF   0.55%
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF   0.50%
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   0.50%
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF   0.07%
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF   0.07%
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF   0.14%
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF   0.45% (2)
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   0.45% (2)
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   0.50%
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF   0.30%
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF   0.35% (3)
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF   0.35% (3)
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF   0.29%
(1) The Adviser has agreed to waive a portion of its Advisory Fee to the extent necessary to prevent the Fund’s operating expenses (excluding interest expenses, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, taxes and litigation expenses, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding the management fee through at least May 18, 2020.
(2) The Adviser has agreed to waive 0.16% of the Fund’s unitary management fee through February 28, 2021 and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
(3) The Adviser has agreed to waive 0.10% of the Fund’s unitary management fee through February 28, 2021 and the Adviser cannot discontinue the agreement prior to its expiration.
The Advisory Fee paid by each Fund (except, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF) to the Adviser set forth in the table above is an annual unitary management fee. Out of the unitary management fee, the Adviser pays for substantially all expenses of each Fund including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, except for advisory fees, distribution fees, if any, brokerage expenses, taxes, interest, litigation expenses, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, and other extraordinary expenses.
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Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF are responsible for all of their own expenses, including the Advisory Fee, costs of transfer agency, custody, fund administration, legal, audit and other services, interest, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if any, brokerage commissions and other expenses connected with executions of portfolio transactions, licensing fees related to their Underlying Index, as applicable, any distribution fees or expenses, litigation expenses, fees payable to the Trust’s Board members and officers who are not “interested persons” of the Trust or the Adviser, expenses incurred in connection with the Board members’ services, including travel expenses and legal fees of counsel for those members of the Board who are not “interested persons” of the Trust and extraordinary expenses.
The Trust and the Adviser have entered into an Amended and Restated Excess Expense Agreement (the “Expense Agreement”) on behalf of Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF pursuant to which the Adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or pay Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of such Fund (excluding interest expenses, sub-licensing fees, offering costs, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, if applicable, and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding the percentage of its average daily net assets per year, as set forth in the chart below (each, an “Expense Cap”) through August 31, 2021.
Fund   Expense Cap (1)
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   0.55%
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   0.63%
(1) The Adviser further agrees to reimburse a Fund in the amount equal to the licensing fees that the Fund pays that cause the Fund’s operating expenses (excluding interest expenses, offering costs, brokerage commissions and other trading expenses, taxes, Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and extraordinary expenses) to exceed the amount shown below through December 31, 2020 for Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and through April 6, 2020 for Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF:
   
Fund   Operating Expenses
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   0.55%
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   0.63%
The offering costs excluded from the Expense Cap for Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, as applicable, are: (a) initial legal fees pertaining to the Fund’s Shares offered for sale; (b) initial SEC and state registration fees; and (c) initial fees paid to be listed on an exchange.
The Expense Agreement provides that for each Fund listed above, the fees waived and/or expenses borne by the Adviser are subject to recapture by the Adviser for up to three years from the date that the fees were waived or the expenses were incurred, but no recapture payment will be made by a Fund if it would result in the Fund exceeding (i) its Expense Cap or (ii) the expense cap in effect at the time the fees and/or expenses subject to recapture were waived and/or borne by the Adviser.
The Funds may invest in money market funds that are managed by affiliates of the Adviser. The indirect portion of the management fee that a Fund incurs through such investments is in addition to the Adviser’s unitary management fee. Therefore, the Adviser has contractually agreed to waive the management fees that it receives from each Fund in an amount equal to the indirect management fees that the Fund incurs through its investments in affiliated money market funds through August 31, 2021. There is no guarantee that the Adviser will extend the waiver of these fees past that date.
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The aggregate amount of the Advisory Fees paid by each Fund to the Adviser and the Advisory Fees waived by the Adviser for each Fund are shown below for the fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019.
    Advisory Fees Paid for the
Fiscal Year Ended October 31
  Advisory Fees Waived for the
Fiscal Year Ended*
   
Fund   2019   2018   2017   2019   2018   2017   Date of
Commencement
of Investment
Operations
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF   $1,489,318   $1,976,606   $1,457,039   $(304)   $(189)   $(193)   12/27/2007
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   $1,511,759   $2,343,862   $1,533,395   $(302)   $(786)   $(486)   12/27/2007
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF   $17,484,511   $22,955,325   $21,597,857   $(21,396)   $(32,326)   $(32,622)   10/11/2007
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF   $438,335   $559,851   $663,380   $(150)   $(202)   $(181)   11/04/2015
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF   $5,966,751   $5,646,833   $4,901,240   $(2,012)   $(1,494)   $(1,132)   06/25/2007
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF   $1,564,440   $1,167,119   $887,692   $(527)   $(437)   $(228)   09/27/2007
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF   $6,139,602   $5,234,900   $3,941,839   $(29,585)   $(72,429)   $(64,506)   09/27/2007
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF   $365,107   $425,784   $410,911   $(56)   $(78)   $(13)   06/13/2007
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF   $773,325   $810,996   $547,742   $(5,763)   $(6,249)   $(6,504)   06/17/2013
Invesco Global Water ETF   $1,351,872   $1,400,044   $1,410,564   $(85)   $(47)   $(30)   06/13/2007
Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF   $990,925   $1,586,024   $741,622   $(297)   $(614)   $(209)   02/24/2014
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF   $585,846   $737,540   $856,653   $(85)   $(433)   $(558)   06/01/2010
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF   $3,761   $1,733   $191   $(11)   $(13)   None   9/19/2017
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF   $1,623   $1,776   $191   $(6)   $(4)   None   9/19/2017
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF   $3,262   $3,519   $382   $(1,002)   $(681)   $(3)   9/19/2017
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF   $1,436,487   $2,019,164   $1,153,486   $(511,307)   $(719,775)   $(410,442)   01/11/2012
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   $37,744   $919,530   $743,822   $(14,861)   $(361,239)   $(297,822)   02/22/2012
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF   $29,629   $15,558   $9,302   $(18)   $(11)   $(18)   11/29/2016
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF   $2,583,026   $2,044,332   $1,761,747   $(739,162)   $(585,068)   $(504,812)   01/11/2012
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF   $8,931   $9,730   $9,402   $(2,553)   $(2,783)   $(2,693)   02/22/2012
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF   $101,577   $99,725   $72,493   $(49)   $(29)   $(18)   06/13/2007
* Includes unitary fee waivers and waiver of fees equal to the indirect management fees that a Fund incurs through its investments in affiliated money market funds, as applicable.
For Invesco China Technology ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, effective October 31, 2018, the Funds changed their fiscal year from August 31 to October 31. The aggregate amount of the Advisory Fees paid by each such Fund to the Adviser and the Advisory Fees waived by the Adviser for each such Fund are shown below for the fiscal years ended August 31, 2017, 2018, the fiscal period September 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019. With respect to the Predecessor Funds, all fees paid and all expenses paid or fees waived prior to the Reorganization are for the Predecessor Funds and are not subject to recapture.
    Advisory Fees Paid for the
Fiscal Year Ended
  Advisory Fees Waived for the
Fiscal Year Ended*
   
Fund   2019   September 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018   2018   2017   2019   September 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018   2018   2017   Date of
Commencement
of Investment
Operations
Invesco China Technology ETF (1)   $3,536,381   $445,000   $2,571,332   $544,473   $(646)   $(88)   $(150)   $0   12/08/09
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF (1)   $3,027,356   $479,163   $3,066,586   $2,484,224   $(965)   $(157)   $(2,586)   $(13,768)   5/14/07
(1) Prior to the Reorganization, the Predecessor Fund was managed by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors and the aggregate amount of the Advisory Fees shown for periods prior to the Reorganization were paid by the Predecessor Fund to Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors (before giving effect to any amounts reimbursed by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors) and the aggregate amount of expenses reimbursed prior to the Reorganization were by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors.
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For Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF, effective October 31, 2018, the Fund changed its fiscal year from May 31 to October 31. The aggregate amount of the Advisory Fees paid by Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF to the Adviser and the Advisory Fees waived by the Adviser for Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF are shown below for the fiscal years ended May 31, 2017, 2018, the fiscal period June 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019.
    Advisory Fees Paid for the
Fiscal Year Ended
  Advisory Fees Waived for the
Fiscal Year Ended*
   
Fund   2019   June 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018   2018   2017   2019   June 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018   2018   2017   Date of
Commencement
of Investment
Operations
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF (1)   $767,200   $448,728   $1,085,835   $872,180   $(191,547)   $(76,726)   $(255,325)   $ (229,118)   11/9/2007
(1) Prior to the Reorganization, the Predecessor Fund was managed by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors and the aggregate amount of the Advisory Fees shown for periods prior to the Reorganization were paid by the Predecessor Fund to Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors (before giving effect to any amounts reimbursed by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors) and the aggregate amount of expenses reimbursed prior to the Reorganization were by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors.
Under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Adviser will not be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by a Fund in connection with the performance of the Investment Advisory Agreement, except a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Adviser in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard of its duties and obligations thereunder. For each Fund, the Investment Advisory Agreement continues in effect only if approved annually by the Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees. The Investment Advisory Agreement terminates automatically upon assignment and is terminable at any time without penalty as to a Fund by the Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, or by vote of the holders of a majority of that Fund’s outstanding voting securities on 60 days’ written notice to the Adviser, or by the Adviser on 60 days’ written notice to the Fund.
Payments to Financial Intermediaries. The Adviser, the Distributor and/or their affiliates may enter into contractual arrangements with certain broker-dealers, banks and other financial intermediaries (each, an “Intermediary” and together, the “Intermediaries”) that the Adviser, the Distributor and/or their affiliates believe may benefit the Funds. Pursuant to such arrangements, the Adviser, the Distributor and/or their affiliates may provide cash payments or non-cash compensation, from their own assets and not from the assets of the Funds, to Intermediaries for certain activities that are designed to make registered representatives and other professionals more knowledgeable about exchange-traded products, including each Fund; or for other activities, such as marketing, presentations, educational training programs, conferences, data collection and provision, technology support, the development of technology platforms and reporting systems, and providing their customers with access to the Funds via online platforms.
Any payments made pursuant to such arrangements may vary in any year and may be different for different Intermediaries. In certain cases, the payments described here may be subject to certain minimum payment levels. Although a portion of the Adviser’s revenue comes directly or indirectly in part from fees paid by the Funds, payments to Intermediaries are not financed by the Funds and therefore do not increase the price paid by investors for the purchase of shares of, or the cost of owning, a Fund or reduce the amount received by a shareholder as proceeds from the redemption of Shares. As a result, such payments are not reflected in the fees and expenses listed in the fees and expenses sections of the Funds’ Prospectuses.
The Adviser periodically assesses the advisability of continuing to make these payments. Payments to an Intermediary may be significant to that Intermediary, and amounts that Intermediaries pay to your adviser, broker or other investment professional, if any, may also be significant to such adviser, broker or investment professional. Because an Intermediary may make decisions about what investment options it will make available or recommend, and what services to provide in connection with various products, based on
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payments it receives or is eligible to receive, such payments create conflicts of interest between the Intermediary and its clients. For example, these financial incentives may cause the Intermediary to recommend the Funds over other investments. The same conflict of interest exists with respect to your financial adviser, broker or investment professionals if he or she receives similar payments from his or her intermediary firm.
As of the date of this SAI, as amended or supplemented from time to time, the Intermediaries receiving such payments include Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, Pershing LLC, CLS Investments, LLC, Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., LPL Financial and Investment Grade Technologies, LLC dba Oranj.
Please contact your salesperson, adviser, broker or other investment professional for more information regarding any such payments or financial incentives his or her intermediary firm may receive. Any payments made, or financial incentives offered, by the Adviser, Distributor and/or their affiliates made to an Intermediary may create the incentive for the Intermediary to encourage customers to buy Shares of the Funds.
Administrator. BNYM serves as administrator for the Funds. Its principal address is 240 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10286.
BNYM serves as Administrator for the Funds pursuant to a fund administration and accounting agreement (the “Administrative Services Agreement”) with the Trust. Under the Administrative Services Agreement, BNYM is obligated, on a continuous basis, to provide such administrative services as the Board reasonably deems necessary for the proper administration of the Trust and the Funds. BNYM will generally assist in many aspects of the Trust's and the Funds' operations, including accounting, bookkeeping and record keeping services (including, without limitation, the maintenance of such books and records as are required under the 1940 Act and the rules thereunder, except as maintained by other service providers); assist in preparing reports to shareholders or investors; prepare and file tax returns; supply financial information and supporting data for reports to and filings with the SEC and various Blue Sky authorities; and supply supporting documentation for meetings of the Board.
Pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement, the Trust has agreed to indemnify the Administrator for certain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the federal securities laws, unless such loss or liability results from negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of its duties.
Each Fund, other than Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF, pays a unitary management fee to the Adviser, out of which the Adviser pays substantially all of the Fund’s expenses and therefore does not pay separate administrative fees. The administrative fees for the Predecessor Funds were paid solely by the Predecessor Funds’ investment adviser from the unitary management fee and therefore the Predecessor Funds did not pay separate administrative fees.
Effective October 31, 2018, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF changed its fiscal year end from May 31 to October 31. The aggregate amount of the administrative fees paid by Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF to BNYM pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement during the Fund’s fiscal years ended May 31, 2018 and 2017, the fiscal period June 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019 are set forth in the chart below. With respect to the Predecessor Fund, any administrative fees paid prior to the Reorganizations were paid by the Predecessor Fund.
Fund   October 31, 2019   June 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018   May 31, 2018   May 31, 2017
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   $41,446   $20,000   $49,340   $47,970
Effective October 31, 2018, Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF changed its fiscal year end from August 31 to October 31. The aggregate amount of the administrative fees paid by Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF to BNYM pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement during the Fund’s fiscal years ended August 31, 2018 and 2017, the fiscal period September 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the
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fiscal year ended October 31, 2019 are set forth in the chart below. With respect to the Predecessor Fund, any administrative fees paid prior to the Reorganizations were paid by the Predecessor Fund.
Fund   October 31, 2019   September 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018   August 31, 2018   August 31, 2017
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   $62,530   $18,741   $130,093   $113,089
Custodian, Transfer Agent and Fund Accounting Agent. BNYM, (the “Custodian” or “Transfer Agent”), located at 240 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10286, also serves as custodian for the Funds pursuant to a custodian agreement. As Custodian, BNYM holds the Funds’ assets, calculates the NAV of the Shares and calculates net income and realized capital gains or losses. BNYM also serves as Transfer Agent for the Funds pursuant to a transfer agency agreement. Further, BNYM serves as Fund accounting agent pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement. As compensation for the foregoing services, BNYM may be reimbursed for its out-of-pocket costs, and receive transaction fees and asset-based fees which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Adviser from the Advisory Fee.
Distributor. Invesco Distributors, Inc. (previously defined as the “Distributor”) is the distributor of the Funds’ Shares. The Distributor's principal address is 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, TX 77046- 1173. The Distributor has entered into a distribution agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”) with the Trust pursuant to which it distributes the Funds’ Shares. Each Fund continuously offers Shares for sale through the Distributor only in Creation Unit Aggregations, as described in the Prospectuses and below under the heading “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations.”
The Distribution Agreement for the Funds provides that it may be terminated as to a Fund at any time, without the payment of any penalty, on at least 60 days' written notice by the Trust to the Distributor (i) by vote of a majority of the Independent Trustees or (ii) by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Fund. The Distribution Agreement will terminate automatically in the event of its assignment (as defined in the 1940 Act).
Securities Lending Arrangement. The Funds may participate in a securities lending program (the “Program”) pursuant to a securities lending agreement that establishes the terms of the loan, including collateral requirements. While collateral may consist of cash, U.S. Government securities, letters of credit, or such other collateral as may be permitted under the Program. Funds participating in the Program may lend securities to securities brokers and other borrowers. The Adviser renders certain administrative services to the Funds that engage in securities lending activities, which includes: (a) overseeing participation in the Program to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory and investment guidelines; (b) assisting the securities lending agent or principal (the agent) in determining which specific securities are available for loan; (c) monitoring the agent to ensure that securities loans are effected in accordance with the Adviser's instructions and with procedures adopted by the Board; (d) monitoring the creditworthiness of the agent and borrowers to ensure that securities loans are effected in accordance with the Adviser's risk policies; (e) preparing appropriate periodic Board reports with respect to securities lending activities; (f) responding to agent inquiries; and (g) performing such other duties as may be necessary.
BNYM serves as the securities lending agent for the Program. Prior to December 3, 2018, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. and Citibank N.A. served as securities lending agents for certain Funds participating in the Program. Prior to the Reorganization, the Predecessor Funds participated in a securities lending program, for which an unaffiliated third-party served as securities lending agent.
Each securities lending agent provides the following services for the Funds in connection with securities lending activities: (i) entering into loans with approved entities subject to guidelines or restrictions provided by the Funds; (ii) receiving and holding collateral from borrowers, and facilitating the investment and reinvestment of cash collateral; (iii) monitoring daily the value of the loaned securities and collateral, including receiving and delivering additional collateral as necessary from/to borrowers; (iv) negotiating loan terms; (v) selecting securities to be loaned subject to guidelines or restrictions provided by the Funds; (vi) recordkeeping and account servicing; (vii) monitoring dividend/distribution activity and material proxy votes relating to loaned securities; and (viii) arranging for return of loaned securities to the Funds at loan termination.
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For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019, the income earned by the Funds, as well as the fees and/or compensation paid by the Funds (in dollars) to a securities lending agent pursuant to a securities lending agreement were as follows:
  Gross
income
from
securities
lending
activities
  Fees paid
to
Securities
Lending
Agent
from a
revenue
split
  Fees paid for
any cash
collateral
management
service
(including
fees
deducted
from a
pooled cash
collateral
reinvestment
vehicle) not
included in
the revenue
split
  Administrative
fees not
included in the
revenue split
  Indemnification
fees not
included in the
revenue split
  Rebate
(paid to
borrower)
  Other
fees not
included
in the
revenue
split
  Aggregate
fees/
compensation
for securities
lending
activities
  Net income
from
securities
lending
activities
 
Invesco China Technology ETF $637,169   $71,653   $0   $0   $0   $(79,407)   $0   $(7,754)   $644,923  
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF $101,661   $3,384   $0   $0   $0   $67,815   $0   $71,199   $30,462  
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF $22,614   $1,358   $0   $0   $0   $9,034   $0   $10,392   $12,222  
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF $75,598   $707   $0   $0   $0   $68,522   $0   $69,229   $6,369  
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF $56,838   $3,759   $0   $0   $0   $19,208   $0   $22,967   $33,871  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF $780,737   $63,186   $0   $0   $0   $148,806   $0   $211,992   $568,745  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF $362,572   $36,519   $0   $0   $0   $(2,759)   $0   $33,760   $328,812  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF $82,746   $4,947   $0   $0   $0   $33,266   $0   $38,213   $44,533  
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF $164,701   $55,887   $0   $0   $0   $(394,224)   $0   $(338,337)   $503,038  
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF $95,598   $8,350   $0   $0   $0   $12,070   $0   $20,420   $75,178  
Invesco Global Water ETF $90,006   $6,446   $0   $0   $0   $25,542   $0   $31,988   $58,018  
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF $128,968   $8,829   $0   $0   $0   $40,670   $0   $49,499   $79,469  
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF $0   $0   $0   $0   $0   $0   $0   $0   $0  
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF $119,029   $7,111   $0   $0   $0   $47,900   $0   $55,011   $64,018  
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF $189   $1   $0   $0   $0   $176   $0   $177   $12  
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF $692   $49   $0   $0   $0   $175   $0   $224   $468  
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF $400   $21   $0   $0   $0   $179   $0   $200   $200  
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF $5,793   $173   $0   $0   $0   $4,058   $0   $4,231   $1,562  
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  Gross
income
from
securities
lending
activities
  Fees paid
to
Securities
Lending
Agent
from a
revenue
split
  Fees paid for
any cash
collateral
management
service
(including
fees
deducted
from a
pooled cash
collateral
reinvestment
vehicle) not
included in
the revenue
split
  Administrative
fees not
included in the
revenue split
  Indemnification
fees not
included in the
revenue split
  Rebate
(paid to
borrower)
  Other
fees not
included
in the
revenue
split
  Aggregate
fees/
compensation
for securities
lending
activities
  Net income
from
securities
lending
activities
 
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF $860   $26   $0   $0   $0   $602   $0   $628   $232  
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF $210,517   $15,215   $0   $0   $0   $58,345   $0   $73,560   $136,957  
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF $3,386   $266   $0   $0   $0   $722   $0   $988   $2,398  
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF $497,854   $20,351   $0   $0   $0   $294,326   $0   $314,677   $183,177  
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF $821   $40   $0   $0   $0   $415   $0   $455   $366  
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF $7,470   $579   $0   $0   $0   $1,675   $0   $2,254   $5,216  
Aggregations. The Distributor does not distribute Shares in less than Creation Unit Aggregations. The Distributor will deliver a Prospectus (or a Summary Prospectus) and, upon request, this SAI to persons purchasing Creation Unit Aggregations and will maintain records of both orders placed with it and confirmations of acceptance furnished by it. The Distributor is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”).
The Distributor also may enter into agreements with securities dealers (“Soliciting Dealers”) who will solicit purchases of Creation Unit Aggregations of the Shares. Such Soliciting Dealers also may be Participating Parties (as defined in “Procedures for Creation of Creation Unit Aggregations” below) and DTC Participants (as defined in “DTC Acts as Securities Depository for Shares” below).
Index Providers. No entity that creates, compiles, sponsors or maintains the Underlying Indexes is or will be an affiliated person, as defined in Section 2(a)(3) of the 1940 Act, or an affiliated person of an affiliated person, of the Trust, the Adviser, the Distributor or a promoter of the Funds.
Neither the Adviser nor any affiliate of the Adviser has any rights to influence the selection of the securities in the Underlying Indexes.
Set forth below is a list of each Fund and the Underlying Index upon which it is based.
Fund   Underlying Index
Invesco China Technology ETF   FTSE China Incl A 25% Technology Capped Index
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF   Dorsey Wright® Developed Markets Technical Leaders Index
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   Dorsey Wright® Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Index
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF   DBIQ Emerging Market USD Liquid Balanced Index
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF   FTSE Developed ex-U.S. Low Beta Equal Weight Index
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF   FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-U.S. 1000 Index
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF   FTSE RAFITM Developed ex-U.S. Mid-Small 1500 Index
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Fund   Underlying Index
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF   FTSE RAFITM Emerging Index
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF   WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF   DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index
Invesco Global Water ETF   Nasdaq OMX Global Water IndexSM
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF   Nasdaq International BuyBack Achievers™ Index
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF   S&P International Corporate Bond Index®*
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   MSCI ACWI IMI Timber Select Capped Index
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF   ICE BofA 0-5 Year US Inflation-Linked Treasury Index
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF   FTSE Developed ex North America Index
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF   FTSE Emerging Index
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF   S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index*
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   S&P Momentum Emerging Plus LargeMidCap Index*
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   S&P Global Water Index
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF   S&P EPAC Ex-Korea Low Volatility High Dividend Index*
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF   S&P BMI International Developed Low Volatility Index*
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF   S&P Momentum Developed ex-U.S. & South Korea LargeMidCap*
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF   S&P Quality Developed ex-U.S. LargeMidCap Index*
* S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”) is the Index Provider for the Fund’s Underlying Index. Standard & Poor’s® and S&P® are registered trademarks of S&P DJI and have been licensed for use by the Adviser.
BROKERAGE TRANSACTIONS AND COMMISSIONS ON AFFILIATED TRANSACTIONS
The policy of the Adviser regarding purchases and sales of securities is to give primary consideration to obtaining the most favorable prices and efficient executions of transactions under the circumstances. Consistent with this policy, when securities transactions are effected on a stock exchange, the Adviser’s policy is to pay commissions that are considered fair and reasonable without necessarily determining that the lowest possible commissions are paid in all circumstances. In seeking to determine the reasonableness of brokerage commissions paid in any transaction, the Adviser relies upon its experience and knowledge regarding commissions various brokers generally charge. The sale of Shares by a broker-dealer is not a factor in the selection of broker-dealers.
In seeking to implement its policies, the Adviser effects transactions with those brokers and dealers that the Adviser believes provide the most favorable prices and are capable of providing efficient executions. The Adviser and its affiliates currently do not participate in soft dollar transactions.
The Adviser assumes general supervision over placing orders on behalf of a Fund for the purchase or sale of portfolio securities. If purchases or sales of portfolio securities by a Fund and one or more other investment companies or clients supervised by the Adviser are considered at or about the same time, the Adviser allocates transactions in such securities among a Fund, the several investment companies and clients in a manner deemed equitable to all. In some cases, this procedure could have a detrimental effect on the price or volume of the security as far as a Fund is concerned. However, in other cases, it is possible that the ability to participate in volume transactions and to negotiate lower brokerage commissions will be beneficial to a Fund. The primary consideration is prompt execution of orders at the most favorable net price under the circumstances.
Purchases and sales of fixed-income securities for a Fund usually are principal transactions and ordinarily are purchased directly from the issuer or from an underwriter or broker-dealer. A Fund does not usually pay brokerage commissions in connection with such purchases and sales, although purchases of new issues from underwriters of securities typically include a commission or concession paid by the issuer to the underwriter, and purchases from dealers serving as market-makers typically include a dealer’s mark-up (i.e., a spread between the bid and the ask prices).
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When a Fund purchases a newly issued security at a fixed price, the Adviser may designate certain members of the underwriting syndicate to receive compensation associated with that transaction. Certain dealers have agreed to rebate a portion of such compensation directly to a Fund to offset a Fund’s management expenses.
The aggregate brokerage commissions paid by each Fund during the fiscal years ended 2017, 2018 and 2019 are set forth in the chart below. Effective October 31, 2018, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF changed its fiscal year end from May 31 to October 31 and therefore, information is presented for the prior fiscal years ended May 31, 2017 and 2018, the fiscal period June 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019. With respect to the Predecessor Fund, any commissions paid prior to the Reorganizations were paid by the Predecessor Fund.
Effective August 31, 2018, Invesco China Technology ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF changed their fiscal year end from August 31 to October 31 and therefore, information is presented for the prior fiscal years ended August 31, 2017 and 2018, the fiscal period September 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019. With respect to the Predecessor Funds, any commissions paid prior to the Reorganizations were paid by the Predecessor Funds.
The Adviser may place trades with Invesco Capital Markets, Inc. (“ICMI”) a broker-dealer with whom it is affiliated, provided the Adviser determines that ICMI's trade execution abilities and costs are at least comparable to those of non-affiliated brokerage firms with which the Adviser could otherwise place similar trades. ICMI receives brokerage commissions in connection with effecting trades for the Funds and, therefore, use of ICMI presents a conflict of interest for the Adviser. Trades placed through ICMI, including the brokerage commissions paid to ICMI, are subject to procedures adopted by the Board.
Brokerage commissions on affiliated transactions paid by each Fund during the fiscal years ended 2017, 2018, and 2019 are set forth in the chart below. Effective October 31, 2018, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF changed its fiscal year end from May 31 to October 31 and therefore, information is presented for the prior fiscal years ended May 31, 2017 and 2018, the fiscal period June 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year October 31, 2019. Effective August 31, 2018, Invesco China Technology ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF changed their fiscal year end from August 31 to October 31 and therefore, information is presented for the prior fiscal years ended August 31, 2017 and 2018, the fiscal period September 1, 2018 through October 31, 2018 and the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019. The percentage of each Fund’s aggregate brokerage commissions paid to the affiliated broker and the percentage of each Fund’s aggregate dollar amount of transactions involving the payment of commissions through the affiliated broker for the last fiscal year are also set forth in the chart below.
Unless otherwise indicated, the amount of brokerage commissions paid by a Fund may change from year to year because of, among other things, changing asset levels, shareholder activity and/or portfolio turnover, including due to application of the Fund’s Underlying Index methodology.
    Date of
Commencement
of Investment
Operations
  Total $ Amount
of Brokerage
Commissions Paid
  Total $ Amount
of Brokerage
Commissions
Paid to
Affiliated
Brokers
  % of Total
Brokerage
Commissions
Paid to the
Affiliated
Brokers
% of Total
Transaction
Dollars
Effected
Through
Affiliated
Brokers
 
Fund       2019   2018   2017   2019   2018   2017   2019 2019  
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF   12/27/2007   $117,197   $141,226   $108,685   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   12/27/2007   $371,426   $542,486   $411,101   $ 0   $ 3   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF   10/11/2007   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF   11/4/2015   $ 44,704   $ 46,705   $ 46,155   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF   6/25/2007   $145,981   $ 94,452   $ 98,280   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF   9/27/2007   $ 83,818   $ 50,958   $ 32,867   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF   9/27/2007   $578,121   $284,530   $302,480   $ 0   $203   $ 0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF   6/13/2007   $ 32,324   $ 26,257   $ 23,827   $833   $ 68   $207   3.49% 2.57%  
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    Date of
Commencement
of Investment
Operations
  Total $ Amount
of Brokerage
Commissions Paid
  Total $ Amount
of Brokerage
Commissions
Paid to
Affiliated
Brokers
  % of Total
Brokerage
Commissions
Paid to the
Affiliated
Brokers
% of Total
Transaction
Dollars
Effected
Through
Affiliated
Brokers
 
Fund       2019   2018   2017   2019   2018   2017   2019 2019  
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF   6/17/2013   $ 302   $ 3   $ 88   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco Global Water ETF   6/13/2007   $ 32,130   $ 35,504   $ 34,230   $ 20   $ 0   $0   0.23% 0.06%  
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF   2/24/2014   $137,911   $249,080   $141,828   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF   6/1/2010   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF   9/19/2017   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF   9/19/2017   $ 65   $ 134   $ 832   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF   9/19/2017   $ 442   $ 450   $ 1,619   $ 1   $ 2   $0   2.60% 0.21%  
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF   1/11/2012   $402,910   $913,797   $357,675   $132   $250   $0   0.09% 0.03%  
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   2/22/2012   $ 19,168   $428,014   $350,364   $ 12   $ 0   $0   0.50% 0.06%  
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF   11/29/2016   $ 3,689   $ 2,280   $ 1,845   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF   1/10/2012   $273,105   $239,494   $215,290   $ 0   $ 0   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF   2/22/2012   $ 1,509   $ 2,143   $ 2,206   $ 1   $ 0   $0   0.11% 0.10%  
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF   6/13/2007   $ 13,233   $ 13,408   $ 7,110   $ 0   $ 5   $0   0.00% 0.00%  
    
    Date of
Commencement
of Investment
Operations
      Total $ Amount
of Brokerage
Commissions Paid
  Total $ Amount
of Brokerage
Commissions
Paid to
Affiliated
Brokers
  % of Total
Brokerage
Commissions
Paid to the
Affiliated
Brokers
  % of Total
Transaction
Dollars
Effected
Through
Affiliated
Brokers
Fund       October 31,
2019
  October 31,
2018
  August 31,
2018
  August 31,
2017
  October 31,
2019
  October 31,
2018
  August 31,
2018
  August 31,
2017
  2019   2019
Invesco China Technology ETF   12/08/09   $323,147   $ 9,446   $50,906   $ 6,934   $939   $0   $0   $0   1.60%   0.29%
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   5/14/07   $ 43,722   $18,542   $61,220   $29,289   $ 58   $0   $0   $0   0.39%   0.13%
        October 31,
2019
  October 31,
2018
  May 31,
2018
  May 31,
2017
  October 31,
2019
  October 31,
2018
  May 31,
2018
  May 31,
2017
  2019   2019
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   11/09/07   $ 22,637   $ 9,603   $17,103   $10,388   $ 64   $0   $0   $0   0.38%   0.28%
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE TRUST
The Trust is an open-end management investment company registered under the 1940 Act. The Trust was organized as a Massachusetts business trust on October 10, 2006, pursuant to a Declaration of Trust (the “Declaration”).
The Trust is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares in one or more series or “funds.” The Trust currently offers shares of 90 funds. The Board has the right to establish additional series in the future, to determine the preferences, voting powers, rights and privileges thereof and to modify such preferences, voting powers, rights and privileges, without shareholder approval.
Each Share issued by a Fund has a pro rata interest in the assets of the Fund. Shares have no preemptive, exchange, subscription or conversion rights and are freely transferable. Each Share is entitled to participate equally in dividends and distributions declared by the Board with respect to the Fund and in the net distributable assets of the Fund on liquidation.
Shareholders are entitled to vote on any matter as required by the 1940 Act or other applicable laws, but otherwise the Trustees are permitted to take any action without seeking the consent of shareholders.
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The Trustees, without shareholder approval, may amend the Declaration in any respect or authorize the merger or consolidation of the Trust or any Fund into another trust or entity, reorganize the Trust or the Fund into another trust or entity or a series or class of another entity, sell all or substantially all of the assets of the Trust or the Fund to another entity, or a series or class of another entity, or terminate the Trust or any Fund.
The Trust is not required, and does not intend to hold an annual meeting of shareholders, but will call special meetings of shareholders whenever required by the 1940 Act or by the terms of the Declaration.
Each Share has one vote with respect to matters upon which a shareholder vote is required consistent with the requirements of the 1940 Act and the rules promulgated thereunder. Shares of all Funds of the Trust vote together as a single class except as otherwise required by the 1940 Act, or if the matter being voted on affects only a particular Fund, and, if a matter affects a particular Fund differently from other Funds, the shares of that Fund will vote separately on such matter.
The Declaration provides that by becoming a shareholder of a Fund, each shareholder shall be held expressly to have agreed to be bound by the provisions of the Declaration. The holders of Shares are required to disclose information on direct or indirect ownership of Shares as may be required to comply with various laws applicable to the Funds or as otherwise determined by the Trustees, and ownership of Shares may be disclosed by the Funds if so required by law or regulation or as the Trustees may otherwise determine.
Under Massachusetts law applicable to Massachusetts business trusts, shareholders of such a trust may, under certain circumstances, be held personally liable as partners for its obligations. However, the Declaration contains an express disclaimer of shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Trust and requires that notice of this disclaimer be given in each agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by the Trust or the Trustees. The Declaration further provides for indemnification out of the assets and property of the Trust for all losses and expenses of any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the Trust. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss on account of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances in which both inadequate insurance existed and the Trust or Fund itself was unable to meet its obligations. The Trust believes the likelihood of the occurrence of these circumstances is remote.
The Trust's Declaration also provides that a Trustee acting in his or her capacity of trustee is not liable personally to any person other than the Trust or its shareholders for any act, omission, or obligation of the Trust. The Declaration further provides that a Trustee or officer is liable to the Trust or its shareholders only for his or her bad faith, willful misfeasance, gross negligence or reckless disregard of his or her duties, and shall not be liable for errors of judgment or mistakes of fact or law. The Declaration requires the Trust to indemnify any persons who are or who have been Trustees, officers or employees of the Trust for any liability for actions or failure to act except to the extent prohibited by applicable federal law. In making any determination as to whether any person is entitled to the advancement of expenses in connection with a claim for which indemnification is sought, such person is entitled to a rebuttable presumption that he or she did not engage in conduct for which indemnification is not available.
The Declaration provides that any Trustee who serves as chair of the Board or of a committee of the Board, lead independent Trustee, or audit committee financial expert, or in any other similar capacity will not be subject to any greater standard of care or liability because of such position.
The Declaration provides a detailed process for the bringing of derivative actions by shareholders in order to permit legitimate inquiries and claims while avoiding the time, expense, distraction, and other harm that can be caused to a Fund or its shareholders as a result of spurious shareholder demands and derivative actions. Prior to bringing a derivative action, a demand by the complaining shareholder must first be made on the Trustees. The Declaration details various information, certifications, undertakings and acknowledgements that must be included in the demand. Following receipt of the demand, the Trustees have a period of 90 days, which may be extended by an additional 60 days, to consider the demand. If a majority of the Trustees who are considered independent for the purposes of considering the demand
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determine that maintaining the suit would not be in the best interests of a Fund, the Trustees are required to reject the demand and the complaining shareholder may not proceed with the derivative action unless the shareholder is able to sustain the burden of proof to a court that the decision of the Trustees not to pursue the requested action was not a good faith exercise of their business judgment on behalf of that Fund. Trustees are not considered to have a personal financial interest by virtue of being compensated for their services as Trustees.
If a demand is rejected, the complaining shareholder will be responsible for the costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by a Fund in connection with the consideration of the demand, if a court determines that the demand was made without reasonable cause or for an improper purpose. If a derivative action is brought in violation of the Trust's Declaration, the shareholders bringing the action may be responsible for a Fund's costs, including attorneys' fees.
The Declaration further provides that a Fund shall be responsible for payment of attorneys' fees and legal expenses incurred by a complaining shareholder only if required by law, and any attorneys' fees that a fund is obligated to pay on the basis of hourly rates shall be calculated using reasonable hourly rates. The Declaration also requires that actions by shareholders against a Fund be brought only in a certain federal court in Illinois, or if not permitted to be brought in federal court, then in an Illinois state court, and that the right to jury trial be waived to the full extent permitted by law.
The Trust does not have information concerning the beneficial ownership of Shares held by DTC Participants (as defined below).
Shareholders may make inquiries by writing to the Trust, c/o the Distributor, Invesco Distributors, Inc. 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77046-1173.
Book Entry Only System. The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Funds' Prospectuses entitled “Book Entry.”
DTC Acts as Securities Depository for Shares. Shares of the Funds are represented by securities registered in the name of DTC or its nominee and deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC.
DTC, a limited purpose trust company, was created to hold securities of its participants (the “DTC Participants”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among the DTC Participants in such securities through electronic book entry changes in accounts of the DTC Participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates. DTC Participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations, some of whom (and/or their representatives) own DTC. More specifically, DTC is owned by a number of its DTC Participants and by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and FINRA. Access to the DTC system also is available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a DTC Participant, either directly or indirectly (the “Indirect Participants”).
Beneficial ownership of Shares is limited to DTC Participants, Indirect Participants and persons holding interests through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in Shares (owners of such beneficial interests are referred to herein as “Beneficial Owners”) is shown on, and the transfer of ownership is effected only through, records DTC maintains (with respect to DTC Participants) and on the records of DTC Participants (with respect to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners that are not DTC Participants). Beneficial Owners will receive from or through the DTC Participant a written confirmation relating to their purchase and sale of Shares.
Conveyance of all notices, statements and other communications to Beneficial Owners is effected as follows. Pursuant to the Depositary Agreement between the Trust and DTC, DTC is required to make available to the Trust upon request and for a fee to be charged to the Trust a listing of the Shares of the Funds held by each DTC Participant. The Trust shall inquire of each such DTC Participant as to the number of Beneficial Owners holding Shares, directly or indirectly, through such DTC Participant. The Trust shall provide each such DTC Participant with copies of such notice, statement or other communication, in such
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form, number and at such place as such DTC Participant may reasonably request, in order that such DTC Participant may transmit such notice, statement or communication, directly or indirectly, to such Beneficial Owners. In addition, the Trust shall pay to each such DTC Participant a fair and reasonable amount as reimbursement for the expenses attendant to such transmittal, all subject to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
Fund distributions shall be made to DTC or its nominee, Cede & Co., as the registered holder of all Shares. DTC or its nominee, upon receipt of any such distributions, shall immediately credit DTC Participants' accounts with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in Shares of the Fund as shown on the records of DTC or its nominee. Payments by DTC Participants to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners of Shares held through such DTC Participants will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in a “street name,” and will be the responsibility of such DTC Participants.
The Trust has no responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or notices to Beneficial Owners, or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in such Shares, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests, or for any other aspect of the relationship between DTC and the DTC Participants or the relationship between such DTC Participants and the Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners owning through such DTC Participants.
DTC may decide to discontinue providing its service with respect to Shares at any time by giving reasonable notice to the Trust and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto under applicable law. Under such circumstances, the Trust shall take action to find a replacement for DTC to perform its functions at a comparable cost.
Proxy Voting. The Board has delegated responsibility for decisions regarding proxy voting for securities each Fund holds to the Adviser. The Adviser will vote such proxies in accordance with its proxy policies and procedures, which are summarized in Appendix A to this SAI. The Board will review periodically each Fund's proxy voting record.
The Trust is required to disclose annually the Funds' complete proxy voting record on Form N-PX covering the period July 1 through June 30 and file it with the SEC no later than August 31. Form N-PX for the Funds also will be available at no charge upon request by calling 1-800-983-0903 or by writing to Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II at 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515. The Trust's Form N-PX will also be available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Codes of Ethics. Pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act, the Board has adopted a Code of Ethics for the Trust and approved Codes of Ethics adopted by the Adviser and the Distributor (collectively the “Ethics Codes”). The Ethics Codes are intended to ensure that the interests of shareholders and other clients are placed ahead of any personal interest, that no undue personal benefit is obtained from the person's employment activities and that actual and potential conflicts of interest are avoided.
The Ethics Codes apply to the personal investing activities of Trustees and Officers of the Trust, the Adviser and the Distributor (“Access Persons”). Rule 17j-1 and the Ethics Codes are designed to prevent unlawful practices in connection with the purchase or sale of securities by Access Persons. Under the Ethics Codes, Access Persons may engage in personal securities transactions, but must report their personal securities transactions for monitoring purposes. The Ethics Codes permit personnel subject to the Ethics Codes to invest in securities subject to certain limitations, including securities that a Fund may purchase or sell. In addition, certain Access Persons must obtain approval before investing in initial public offerings or private placements. The Ethics Codes are on file with the SEC and are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC's Internet site at www.sec.gov. Codes of Ethics may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by e-mail at publicinfo@sec.gov.
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CREATION AND REDEMPTION OF CREATION UNIT AGGREGATIONS
General
The Trust issues and sells Shares of each Fund only in Creation Unit Aggregations on a continuous basis through the Distributor, without a sales load, at the Fund's NAV next determined after receipt of an order in “proper form” (as defined below) on any Business Day. A “Business Day” is any day on which the Exchange is open for business. As of the date of this SAI, the Exchange is closed in observance of the following holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. On days when the Exchange closes earlier than normal, a Fund may require orders to be placed earlier in the day.
The number of Shares of a Fund that constitute a Creation Unit Aggregation for such Fund is set forth in the Fund's Prospectus. In its discretion, the Trust reserves the right to increase or decrease the number of Shares that constitutes a Creation Unit Aggregation for a Fund.
Role of the Authorized Participant
A Fund only may issue Creation Units to, or redeem Creation Units from, an authorized participant, referred to herein as an “AP.” To be eligible to place orders to create a Creation Unit of a Fund, an AP must have executed an agreement with the Distributor (“Participant Agreement”) and must be a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of the FINRA, or otherwise be exempt from or not required to be licensed as a broker-dealer or a member of FINRA. In addition, an AP must be either (i) a “Participating Party,” i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the clearing process of the Continuous Net Settlement System (the “Clearing Process”) of the NSCC, a clearing agency that is registered with the SEC, or (ii) a “DTC Participant,” i.e., eligible to utilize the Fed Book Entry System and/or DTC. A Participating Party and DTC Participant are collectively referred to herein as an AP. All Shares of a Fund, however created, will be entered on the records of DTC in the name of Cede & Co. for the account of a DTC Participant.
All orders to purchase or redeem Creation Units must be placed by an AP. An AP may place orders for the creation or redemption of Creation Units through the Clearing Process, the Fed Book-Entry System and/or DTC or Euroclear, subject to the procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement. Transfers of securities settling through Euroclear or other foreign depositories may require AP access to such facilities.
Pursuant to the terms of its Participant Agreement, an AP will agree, and on behalf of itself or any investor on whose behalf it will act, to certain conditions, including that the AP will make available in advance of each purchase of Shares an amount of cash sufficient to pay the Cash Component, together with the transaction fees described below. An AP acting on behalf of an investor may require the investor to enter into an agreement with such AP with respect to certain matters, including payment of the Cash Component. Investors who are not APs make appropriate arrangements with an AP to submit orders to purchase or redeem Creation Units of a Fund. Investors should be aware that their particular broker may not be a DTC Participant or may not have executed a Participant Agreement and that, therefore, orders to purchase Creation Units may have to be placed by the investor's broker through an AP. In such cases, there may be additional charges to such investor. At any given time, there may be only a limited number of APs. A list of current APs may be obtained from the Distributor. In addition, the Distributor may be appointed as the proxy of the AP and may be granted a power of attorney under the Participant Agreement.
Creations
Portfolio Deposit. The consideration for purchase of a Creation Unit of a Fund generally consists of the in-kind deposit of a portfolio of securities constituting a substantial replication of the securities included in the relevant Underlying Index (the “Deposit Securities”) and an amount of cash denominated in U.S. dollars (the “Cash Component”) computed as described below, plus any applicable administrative or other transaction fees, also as discussed below. Together, the Deposit Securities and the Cash Component constitute the “Portfolio Deposit,” which represents the minimum initial and subsequent investment amount for a Creation Unit Aggregation of any Fund.
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The “Cash Component” is an amount equal to the difference between the aggregate NAV of the Shares per Creation Unit and the “Deposit Amount,” which is an amount equal to the total aggregate market value (per Creation Unit) of the Deposit Securities. The Cash Component, which is sometimes called the “Balancing Amount,” serves to compensate for any differences between the NAV per Creation Unit and the Deposit Amount. Payment of any stamp duty or other similar fees and expenses payable upon transfer of beneficial ownership of the Deposit Securities are the sole responsibility of the AP purchasing the Creation Unit.
Each Fund, through the NSCC, makes available on each Business Day, immediately prior to the opening of business on the applicable Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern time), the list of the names and the required number of shares of each Deposit Security and/or the amount of the applicable Cash Component to be included in the current Portfolio Deposit (based on information at the end of the previous Business Day) for each Fund. Such Portfolio Deposit is applicable, subject to any adjustments as described below, to effect purchases of Creation Units of a Fund until such time as the next-announced Portfolio Deposit is made available.
The identity and number of shares of the Deposit Securities required for a Portfolio Deposit will change as rebalancing adjustments and corporate action events are reflected within the affected Fund from time to time by the Adviser with a view to the investment objective of the Fund. The composition of the Deposit Securities also may change in response to adjustments to the weighting or composition of the securities of the relevant Underlying Index. Such adjustments will reflect changes known to the Adviser by the time of determination of the Deposit Securities in the composition of the relevant Underlying Index or resulting from stock splits and other corporate actions.
The Adviser expects that the Deposit Securities should correspond pro rata, to the extent practicable, to the securities held by the Fund. However, the Trust reserves the right to permit or require an order containing the substitution of an amount of cash—i.e., a “cash in lieu” amount—to be added, at its discretion, to the Cash Component to replace one or more Deposit Securities. For example, a cash substitution may be permitted or required for any Deposit Security that (i) may not be available in sufficient quantity for delivery, (ii) may not be eligible for transfer through the systems of DTC or the Clearing Process (discussed below), (iii) might not be eligible for trading by an AP or the investor on whose behalf the AP is acting, or (iv) in certain other situations at the sole discretion of the Trust. Additionally, the Trust may permit or require the submission of a portfolio of securities or cash that differs from the composition of the published portfolio(s) (a “Custom Order”). A Fund also may permit or require the consideration for Creation Unit Aggregations to consist solely of cash (see “—Cash Creations” below).
Cash Creations. Certain Funds (as set forth in the Prospectus) generally will issue Creation Units partially or principally for cash. If a Fund permits or requires partial or full cash creations, such purchases shall be effected in essentially the same manner as in-kind purchases. In the case of a cash creation, the AP must pay the same Cash Component required to be paid by an in-kind purchaser, plus the Deposit Amount (i.e., the cash equivalent of the Deposit Securities it would otherwise be required to provide through an in-kind purchase, as described in the subsection “—Portfolio Deposit” above).
Trading costs, operational processing costs and brokerage commissions associated with using cash to purchase requisite Deposit Securities will be incurred by a Fund and will affect the value of the Shares; therefore, such Funds may require APs to pay transaction fees to offset brokerage and other costs associated with using cash to purchase the requisite Deposit Securities (see “Creation and Redemption Transaction Fees” below).
Creation Orders
Procedures for Creation of Creation Unit Aggregations. Orders must be transmitted by an AP, in such form and by such transmission method acceptable to the Transfer Agent or Distributor, pursuant to procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement, and such procedures may change from time to time. APs purchasing Creation Units of Funds that invest in domestic equity securities (“Domestic Equity Funds”) may transfer Deposit Securities in one of two ways: (i) through the Clearing Process (see “Placing Creation
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Orders Using the Clearing Process”), or (ii) with a Fund “outside” the Clearing Process through the facilities of DTC (see “Placing Creation Orders Outside the Clearing Process”). The Clearing Process is not currently available for purchases or redemptions of Creation Units of Funds that invest in foreign securities (“International Equity Funds”) or Funds that invest in fixed-income securities (“Fixed Income Funds”). Accordingly, APs submitting creation orders for such Funds must effect those transactions outside the Clearing Process, as described further below.
All orders to purchase Creation Units, whether through or outside the Clearing Process, must be received by the Transfer Agent and/or Distributor no later than the order cut-off time designated in the Participant Agreement (“Order Cut-Off Time”) on the relevant Business Day in order for the creation of Creation Units to be effected based on the NAV of Shares of a Fund as determined on such date. With certain exceptions, the Order Cut-Off Time for a Fund, as set forth in the Participant Agreement, usually is the closing time of the regular trading session on the New York Stock Exchange—i.e., ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern time. In the case of Custom Orders, the Order Cut-Off Time is no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. However, some Funds, as set forth in the Participant Agreement, may have different Order Cut-Off Times (e.g., see “Special Consideration for Fixed Income Funds with T+0 and T+1 Orders”). Additionally, on days when the NYSE, the relevant Exchange or the bond markets close earlier than normal, the Trust may require creation orders to be placed earlier in the day. The Business Day on which an order is placed and deemed received is referred to as the “Transmittal Date.”
Orders must be transmitted by an AP by telephone, online portal or other transmission method acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the Distributor. Economic or market disruptions or changes, or telephone or other communication failure, may impede the ability to reach the Transfer Agent, the Distributor or an AP. APs placing creation orders should afford sufficient time to permit proper submission of the order. Orders effected outside the Clearing Process likely will require transmittal by the DTC Participant earlier on the Transmittal Date than orders effected through the Clearing Process. APs placing orders outside the Clearing Process should ascertain all deadlines applicable to DTC and the Federal Reserve Bank wire system. Additional transaction fees may be imposed with respect to transactions effected outside the Clearing Process (see “Creation and Redemption Transaction Fees” below).
A creation order is considered to be in “proper form” if: (i) a properly completed irrevocable purchase order has been submitted by the AP (either on its own or another investor's behalf) not later than the Fund's specified Order Cut-Off Time on the Transmittal Date, and (ii) arrangements satisfactory to the applicable Fund are in place for payment of the Cash Component and any other cash amounts which may be due, and (iii) all other procedures regarding placement of a creation order set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed. Special procedures are specific to Custom Orders, as set forth in the Participant Agreement.
All questions as to the number of shares of each security in the Deposit Securities to be delivered, and the validity, form, eligibility (including time of receipt) and acceptance for deposit of any securities to be delivered shall be determined by each Fund, and such Fund's determination shall be final and binding.
Placing Creation Orders Using the Clearing Process. The Clearing Process is the process of creating or redeeming Creation Unit Aggregations through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC. Portfolio Deposits made through the Clearing Process must be delivered through a Participating Party that has executed a Participant Agreement. The Participant Agreement authorizes the Transfer Agent to transmit, on behalf of the Participating Party, such trade instructions to the NSCC as are necessary to effect the Participating Party's creation order. Pursuant to such trade instructions, the Participating Party agrees to deliver the Portfolio Deposit to the Transfer Agent, together with such additional information as may be required by the Distributor.
Placing Creation Orders Outside the Clearing Process. Portfolio Deposits made outside the Clearing Process must be delivered through a DTC Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. A DTC Participant who wishes to place a creation order outside the Clearing Process need not be a Participating Party, but such orders must state that the DTC Participant is not using the Clearing Process and that the creation instead will be effected through a transfer of securities and cash directly through DTC.
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APs purchasing Creation Units of Shares of International Equity Funds must have international trading capabilities. Once the Custodian has been notified of an order to purchase Creation Units of an International Equity Fund, it will provide such information to the relevant sub-custodian(s) of each such Fund. The Custodian shall then cause the sub- custodian(s) of each such Fund to maintain an account into which the AP shall deliver, on behalf of itself or the party on whose behalf it is acting, the Portfolio Deposit. Deposit Securities must be maintained by the applicable local sub- custodian(s).
Acceptance of Creation Orders. The Transfer Agent will deliver to the AP a confirmation of acceptance of a creation order within 15 minutes of the receipt of a submission received in proper form. A creation order is deemed to be irrevocable upon the delivery of the confirmation of acceptance, subject to the conditions below.
The Trust reserves the absolute right to reject a creation order transmitted to it by the Distributor in respect of a Fund if: (i) the order is not in proper form; (ii) the investor(s), upon obtaining the Shares ordered, would own 80% or more of the currently outstanding Shares of that Fund; (iii) the Deposit Securities delivered are not as designated for that date by the Custodian; (iv) acceptance of the Deposit Securities would have certain adverse tax consequences to a Fund; (v) acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would, in the opinion of counsel, be unlawful; (vi) acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would otherwise, in the discretion of the Trust and the Adviser have an adverse effect on the Trust or the rights of Beneficial Owners; or (vii) there exist circumstances outside the control of the Trust that make it impossible to process creation orders for all practical purposes. Examples of such circumstances include acts of God; public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather conditions and power outages resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts; systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Trust, the Adviser, the Distributor, DTC, NSCC, the Federal Reserve, the Transfer Agent, a sub-custodian or any other participant in the creation process, and similar extraordinary events. The Transfer Agent shall notify a prospective purchaser of a Creation Unit (and/or the AP acting on its behalf) of the rejection of such creation order. The Trust, the Custodian, any sub-custodian and the Distributor are under no duty, however, to give notification of any defects or irregularities in the delivery of Portfolio Deposits, nor shall any of them incur any liability for the failure to give any such notification.
Issuance of a Creation Unit
Except as provided herein, a Creation Unit will not be issued until the transfer of good title to the Fund of the Deposit Securities and the payment of the Cash Component have been completed.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Fund may issue Creation Units to an AP, notwithstanding the fact that the corresponding Portfolio Deposit has not been delivered in part or in whole, in reliance on the undertaking of the AP to deliver the missing Deposit Securities as soon as possible. To secure such undertaking, the AP must deposit and maintain cash collateral in an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Cash Component, plus (ii) at least 105% of the market value of the undelivered Deposit Securities. In such circumstances, the creation order shall be deemed to be received on the Transmittal Date, provided that (i) such order is placed in proper form prior to the Order Cut-Off Time, and (ii) requisite federal funds in an appropriate amount are delivered by certain deadlines on the contractual settlement date, as set forth in such Participant Agreement (typically, 11:00 a.m., Eastern time on such date for equity Funds and 2:00 p.m., Eastern time on such date for fixed-income Funds). If such order is not placed in proper form prior to the Order Cut-Off Time, and/or all other deadlines and conditions set forth in the Participant Agreement relating to such additional deposits are not met, then the order may be deemed to be canceled, and the AP shall be liable to a Fund for losses, if any, resulting therefrom. The Trust may use such collateral at any time to buy Deposit Securities for the Funds, and the AP agrees to accept liability for any shortfall between the cost to the Trust of purchasing such Deposit Securities and the value of the collateral, which may be sold by the Trust at such time, and in such manner, as the Trust may determine in its sole discretion.
Using the Clearing Process. An AP that is a Participating Party is required to transfer to the Transfer Agent: (i) the requisite Deposit Securities expected to be delivered through NSCC, and (ii) the Cash
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Component, if any, to the Transfer Agent by means of the Trust's Clearing Process. In each case, the delivery must occur by the “regular way” settlement date - i.e., generally, the second Business Day following the Transmittal Date (“T+2”). At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Shares and the Cash Component, if any, through the Clearing Process so as to be received no later than on the “regular way” settlement date (i.e., T+2).
Outside the Clearing Process—Domestic Equity Funds. An AP that is a DTC Participant that orders a creation outside the Clearing Process is required to transfer to the Transfer Agent: (i) the requisite Deposit Securities through DTC, and (ii) the Cash Component, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system. Such Deposit Securities must be received by the Transfer Agent by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time on the “regular way” settlement date (i.e., T+2), while the Cash Component must be received by 2:00 p.m., Eastern time on that same date. Otherwise, the creation order shall be canceled. For creation units issued principally for cash (see “—Cash Creations” above), the DTC Participant shall be required to transfer the Cash Component through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system to be received by 2:00 p.m., Eastern time on the Contractual Settlement Date (as defined below). At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Shares through DTC and the Cash Component, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system so as to be received by the purchaser no later than T+2 (except as otherwise set forth in the Participant Agreement).
Outside the Clearing Process—International Equity Funds. Deposit Securities must be delivered to an account maintained at the applicable local sub-custodian on or before 11 a.m., Eastern time, on the Contractual Settlement Date. The “Contractual Settlement Date” is the earlier of (i) the date upon which all of the required Deposit Securities, the Cash Component and any other cash amounts which may be due are delivered to the Trust and (ii) the latest day for settlement on the customary settlement cycle in the jurisdiction where any of the securities of the Fund are customarily traded. The AP also must make available by the Contractual Settlement Date funds estimated by the Trust to be sufficient to pay the Cash Component, if any. For Creation Units issued principally for cash, the DTC Participant shall be required to transfer the Cash Component through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system to be received by 2:00 p.m., Eastern time on the Contractual Settlement Date. When the sub-custodian confirms to the Custodian that the required securities included in the Portfolio Deposit (or, when permitted in the sole discretion of the Trust, the cash value thereof) have been delivered to the account of the relevant sub-custodian, the Custodian shall notify the Distributor and Transfer Agent, and the Trust will issue and cause the delivery of the Creation Unit of Shares via DTC so as to be received by the purchaser by such time as set forth in the Participant Agreement.
Outside the Clearing Process—Fixed-Income Funds. An AP that is a DTC Participant that orders a creation outside the Clearing Process is required to transfer to the Transfer Agent: (i) the requisite Deposit Securities through Euroclear, DTC and/or Fed Book-Entry, and (ii) the Cash Component, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system. Such Deposit Securities and Cash Component must each be received by the Transfer Agent by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time on the Contractual Settlement Date. Otherwise, the creation order shall be canceled. At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the Creation Unit of Shares through DTC and the Cash Component, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system so as to be received by the purchaser later than T+2.
Creation and Redemption Transaction Fees
Creation and redemption transactions for each Fund are subject to an administrative fee, payable to BNYM, in the amount listed in the table below, irrespective of the size of the order. As shown in the table below, the administrative fee has a base amount for each Fund; however, BNYM may increase the
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administrative fee to a maximum of four times the base amount for administration and settlement of non-standard orders requiring additional administrative processing by BNYM. These fees may be changed by the Trust.
Fund   Base
Administrative Fee
(Payable to BNYM)
  Maximum
Administrative Fee
(Payable To BNYM)
Invesco China Technology ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF   $1,500   $6,000
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   $2,500   $10,000
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF   $4,000   $16,000
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF   $10,000   $40,000
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF   $10,000   $40,000
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF   $4,000   $16,000
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF   $1,500   $6,000
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco Global Water ETF   $1,000   $4,000
Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF   $0   $0
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF   $15,000   $60,000
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF   $20,000   $80,000
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF   $2,000   $8,000
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF   $2,000   $8,000
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF   $500   $2,000
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF   $1,300   $5,200
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF   $2,100   $8,400
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF   $1,800   $7,200
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF   $2,300   $9,200
Additionally, the Adviser may charge an additional, variable fee (sometimes referred to as a “cash-in-lieu” fee) to the extent a Fund permits APs to create or redeem Creation Units for cash, or otherwise substitute cash for any Deposit Security. Such cash-in-lieu fees are payable to a Fund and are charged to defray the transaction cost to a Fund of buying (or selling) Deposit Securities, to cover spreads and slippage costs and to protect existing shareholders. The cash-in-lieu fees will be negotiated between the Adviser and the AP and may be different for any given transaction, Business Day or AP; however in no instance will such cash-in-lieu fees exceed 2% of the value of a Creation Unit. From time to time, the Adviser, in its sole discretion, may adjust a Fund's cash-in-lieu fees or reimburse APs for all or a portion of the creation or redemption transaction fees.
Redemptions
Shares may be redeemed only by APs at their NAV per Share next determined after receipt by the Distributor of a redemption request in proper form. A Fund will not redeem Shares in amounts less than a Creation Unit. Beneficial Owners of Shares may sell their Shares in the secondary market, but they must accumulate enough Shares to constitute a Creation Unit to redeem those Shares with a Fund. There can be no assurance that there will be sufficient liquidity in the public trading market at any time to permit assembly of a Creation Unit. Investors should expect to incur brokerage and other costs in connection with assembling a sufficient number of Shares to constitute a redeemable Creation Unit.
Fund Securities. The redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit generally consist of a portfolio of securities (the “Fund Securities”), plus or minus an amount of cash denominated in U.S. dollars (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), representing an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Shares being redeemed, as next determined after receipt of a request in proper form, and the total aggregate market value of the Fund Securities, less any applicable administrative or other transaction fees, as discussed above. The Cash Redemption Amount is calculated in the same manner as the Balancing
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Amount. To the extent that the Fund Securities have a value greater than the NAV of the Shares being redeemed, a Cash Redemption Amount payment equal to the differential is required to be paid by the redeeming shareholder.
Each Fund, through the NSCC, makes available on each Business Day, immediately prior to the opening of business on the applicable Exchange, the Fund Securities that will be applicable (subject to possible amendment or correction) to redemption requests received in proper form (as defined below) on that day, as well as the Cash Redemption Amount. Such Fund Securities and the corresponding Cash Redemption Amount are applicable to effect redemptions of Creation Units of a Fund until such time as the next-announced composition of the Fund Securities and Cash Redemption Amount is made available.
The Adviser expects that the Fund Securities should correspond pro rata, to the extent practicable, to the securities held by the Fund. However, Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities that are applicable to creations of Creation Units. The Trust also may provide such redeemer a Custom Order, which, as described above, is a portfolio of securities that differs from the exact composition of the published list of Fund Securities, but in no event will the total value of the securities delivered and the cash transmitted differ from the NAV. In addition, the Trust reserves the right to permit or require an amount of cash to be added, at its discretion, to the Cash Redemption Amount to replace one or more Fund Securities (see “— Cash Redemptions” below).
Cash Redemptions. Certain Funds (as set forth in the Prospectus) generally will pay out the proceeds of redemptions of Creation Units partially or principally for cash (or through any combination of cash and Fund Securities). In addition, an investor may request a redemption in cash that a Fund may, in its sole discretion, permit. In either case, the investor will receive a cash payment in an amount equal to the NAV of its Shares next determined after a redemption request is received (less any redemption transaction fees imposed, as specified above).
Redemptions of Shares will be subject to compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and each Fund (whether or not it otherwise permits cash redemptions) reserves the right to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations for cash to the extent that the Trust could not lawfully deliver specific Fund Securities upon redemptions or could not do so without first registering the Fund Securities under such laws. An AP that is not a “qualified institutional buyer,” as such term is defined under Rule 144A of the Securities Act, will not be able to receive Fund Securities that are restricted securities eligible for resale under Rule 144. The AP may request the redeeming beneficial owner of the Shares to complete an order form or to enter into agreements with respect to such matters as compensating cash payment.
Redemption Requests
Procedures for Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations. Orders must be transmitted by an AP, in such form and by such transmission method acceptable to the Transfer Agent or Distributor, pursuant to procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement, and such procedures may change from time to time. APs seeking to redeem Shares of Domestic Equity Funds may transfer Creation Units through the Clearing Process (see “Placing Redemption Requests Using the Clearing Process”) or outside the Clearing Process through the facilities of DTC (see “Placing Redemption Requests Outside the Clearing Process”). As noted above, the Clearing Process is not currently available for redemptions of Creation Units of International Equity Funds or Fixed Income Funds; accordingly, APs seeking to redeem Shares of such Funds must effect such transactions outside the Clearing Process.
All requests to redeem Creation Units, whether through the Clearing Process, or outside the Clearing Process through DTC or otherwise, must be received by the Distributor no later than the Order Cut-Off Time on the relevant Business Day. On days when the applicable Exchange or the bond market closes earlier than normal, the Funds may require orders to redeem Creation Units to be placed earlier in the day. As with creation orders, requests for redemption of Custom Orders must be received by 3:00 p.m., Eastern time, and some Funds, as set forth in the Participant Agreement, may have different Order Cut-Off Times for redemptions.
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A redemption request will be considered to be in “proper form” if (i) a duly completed request form is received by the Distributor from the AP on behalf of itself or another redeeming investor at the specified Order Cut-Off Time, and (ii) arrangements satisfactory to a Fund are in place for the AP to transfer or cause to be transferred to a Fund the Creation Unit of such Fund being redeemed on or before contractual settlement of the redemption request. Special procedures are specific to Custom Orders, as set forth in the Participant Agreement.
As discussed herein, a redeeming investor will pay a transaction fee to offset a Fund's trading costs, operational processing costs, brokerage commissions and other similar costs incurred in transferring the Fund Securities from its account to the account of the redeeming investor. An entity redeeming Shares in Creation Units outside the Clearing Process may be required to pay a higher transaction fee than would have been charged had the redemption been effected through the Clearing Process. A redeeming investor receiving cash in lieu of one or more Fund Securities may also be assessed a higher transaction fee on the cash in lieu portion. This higher transaction fee will be assessed in the same manner as the transaction fee incurred in purchasing Creation Units.
Placing Redemption Requests Using the Clearing Process. Requests to redeem Creation Units through the Clearing Process must be delivered through a Participating Party that has executed a Participant Agreement, in such form and by such transmission method acceptable to the Transfer Agent or Distributor, pursuant to procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement.
Placing Redemption Requests Outside the Clearing Process. Orders to redeem Creation Units outside the Clearing Process must be delivered through a DTC Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. A DTC Participant who wishes to place a redemption order outside the Clearing Process need not be a Participating Party, but such orders must state that the DTC Participant is not using the Clearing Process and that redemption instead will be effected through a transfer of Fund Shares directly through DTC.
In the case of Shares of International Equity Funds, upon redemption of Creation Units and taking delivery of the Fund Securities into the account of the redeeming shareholder or an AP acting on behalf of such investor, such person must maintain appropriate custody arrangements with a broker-dealer, bank or other custody provider in each jurisdiction in which any of such Fund Securities are customarily traded.
Acceptance of Redemption Requests. The Transfer Agent will deliver to the AP a confirmation of acceptance of a request to redeem Shares in Creation Units within 15 minutes of the receipt of a submission received in proper form. A redemption order is deemed to be irrevocable upon the delivery of the confirmation of acceptance.
The right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment postponed (i) for any period during which the NYSE is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings); (ii) for any period during which trading on the NYSE is suspended or restricted; (iii) for any period during which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal of the Shares of a Fund or determination of a Fund's NAV is not reasonably practicable; or (iv) in such other circumstances as is permitted by the SEC.
Issuance of Fund Securities
To the extent contemplated by a Participant Agreement, in the event an AP has submitted a redemption request in proper form but is unable to transfer all or part of the Creation Unit to be redeemed to the Distributor, on behalf of a Fund, by the closing time of the regular trading session on the Exchange on the date such redemption request is submitted, the Distributor will nonetheless accept the redemption request in reliance on the undertaking by the AP to deliver the missing Shares as soon as possible, which undertaking shall be secured by the AP's delivery and maintenance of collateral consisting of cash having a value at least equal to 105% of the value of the missing Shares. The Trust may use such collateral at any time to purchase the missing Shares and will subject the AP to liability for any shortfall between the cost of a Fund acquiring such Shares and the value of the collateral, which may be sold by the Trust at such time, and in such manner, as the Trust may determine in its sole discretion.
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Using the Clearing Process. An AP that is a Participating Party is required to transfer to the Transfer Agent: (i) the requisite Shares, and (ii) the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, to the Transfer Agent by means of the Trust's Clearing Process. In each case, the delivery must occur by the “regular way” settlement date (i.e., T+2). At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, through the Clearing Process so as to be received no later than on the “regular way” settlement date (i.e., T+2).
Outside the Clearing Process—Domestic Equity Funds. An AP that is a DTC Participant making a redemption request outside the Clearing Process is required to transfer to the Transfer Agent: (i) the requisite Shares through DTC, and (ii) the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system. Such Shares and Cash Redemption Amount must be received by the Transfer Agent by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time on the Contractual Settlement Date. At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Fund Securities through DTC and the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system so as to be received no later than T+2 (except as otherwise set forth in the Participant Agreement).
Outside the Clearing Process—International Equity Funds. A redeeming AP must maintain appropriate securities broker-dealer, bank or other custody arrangements to which account such in-kind redemption proceeds will be delivered. If neither the redeeming beneficial owner nor the AP acting on its behalf has appropriate arrangements to take delivery of the Fund Securities in the applicable jurisdiction and it is not possible to make other such arrangements, or if it is not possible to effect deliveries of the Fund Securities in such jurisdiction, the beneficial owner will be required to receive its redemption proceeds in cash.
Arrangements satisfactory to the Trust must be in place for the AP to transfer Creation Units through DTC on or before the settlement date. At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Fund Securities through DTC and the global sub-custodian network and the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system so as to be received no later than by such time as set forth in the Participation Agreement. However, the schedule of holidays in certain countries may cause the delivery of in-kind redemption proceeds to take longer. In such cases, the local market settlement procedures will not commence until the end of the local holiday periods. (For more information, see “Regular Holidays” in Appendix B to this SAI.)
Outside the Clearing Process—Fixed Income Funds. An AP that is a DTC Participant (or Euroclear participant) making a redemption request outside the Clearing Process is required to transfer to the Transfer Agent: (i) the requisite Shares through DTC or Euroclear, and (ii) the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system. Such Shares and Cash Redemption Amount must be received by the Transfer Agent by 2:00 p.m., Eastern time on the Contractual Settlement Date. At that time, the Transfer Agent shall initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Fund Securities through DTC and the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, through the Federal Reserve Bank wire system so as to be received no later than T+2 (except as otherwise set forth in the Participant Agreement).
Regular Holidays
A Fund may effect deliveries of Creation Units and Fund Securities on a basis other than T+2 in order to accommodate local holiday schedules, to account for different treatment among foreign and U.S. markets of dividend record dates and ex-dividend dates or under certain other circumstances. The ability of the Trust to effect in-kind creations and redemptions on a T+2 basis is subject, among other things, to the condition that, in the time between the order date and the delivery date, there are no days that are holidays in an applicable foreign market. For every occurrence of one or more such intervening holidays that are not holidays observed in the U.S., the redemption settlement cycle will be extended by the number of such intervening holidays. In addition to holidays, other unforeseeable closings in a foreign market due to emergencies also may prevent a Fund from delivering securities within the normal settlement period.
The securities delivery cycles currently practicable for transferring Fund Securities to redeeming investors, coupled with foreign market holiday schedules, will require a delivery process longer than seven calendar days for a Fund in certain circumstances. Such foreign holidays are listed in Appendix B to this
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SAI, as are instances where more than seven days will be needed to deliver redemption proceeds. Although certain holidays may occur on different dates in subsequent years, the number of days required to deliver redemption proceeds in any given year is not expected to exceed the maximum number of days listed in Appendix B for a Fund. The proclamation of new holidays, the treatment by market participants of certain days as “informal holidays” (e.g., days on which no or limited securities transactions occur, as a result of substantially shortened trading hours), the elimination of existing holidays or changes in local securities delivery practices could affect the information set forth in Appendix B at some time in the future. Please see Appendix B for the dates in calendar year 2020 of the regular holidays affecting the securities markets of various countries, as well as the dates of the regular holidays in calendar year 2020 that may cause settlement periods to be greater than seven days, including the potential worst-case settlement dates.
TAXES
The following is a summary of certain additional tax considerations generally affecting a Fund (sometimes referred to as the “Fund”) and its shareholders that are not described in the Prospectus. No attempt is made to present a detailed explanation of the tax treatment of a Fund or its shareholders, and the discussion here and in the Prospectus is not intended as a substitute for careful tax planning.
This section is based on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) and applicable regulations in effect on the date of this SAI. Future legislative, regulatory or administrative changes including provisions of current law that sunset and thereafter no longer apply, or court decisions may significantly change the tax rules applicable to a Fund and its shareholders. Any of these changes or court decisions may have a retroactive effect.
The following is for general information only and is not tax advice. All investors should consult their own tax advisors as to the federal, state, local and foreign tax provisions applicable to them.
Taxation of the Funds
Each Fund has elected and intends to qualify each year as a “regulated investment company” (sometimes referred to as a “RIC”) under Subchapter M of the Code. If a Fund qualifies, the Fund will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (i.e., generally, taxable interest, dividends, net short-term capital gains and other taxable ordinary income net of expenses without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain (i.e., the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that it distributes.
Qualification as a RIC. In order to qualify for treatment as a RIC, a Fund must satisfy the following requirements:
Distribution Requirement—the Fund must distribute an amount equal to the sum of at least 90% of its investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt income, if any, for the tax year (certain distributions made by the Fund after the close of its tax year are considered distributions attributable to the previous tax year for purposes of satisfying this requirement).
Income Requirement—the Fund must derive at least 90% of its gross income from dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income (including, but not limited to, gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived from its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies and net income derived from qualified publicly traded partnerships (“QPTPs”).
Asset Diversification Test—the Fund must satisfy the following asset diversification test at the close of each quarter of the Fund’s tax year: (1) at least 50% of the value of the Fund’s assets must consist of cash and cash items, U.S. Government Securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and securities of other issuers (as to which the Fund has not invested more than 5% of the value of the Fund’s total assets in securities of an issuer and as to which the Fund does not hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of the issuer); and (2) no more
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  than 25% of the value of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. Government Securities or securities of other regulated investment companies) or of two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses, or, collectively, in the securities of QPTPs.
In some circumstances, the character and timing of income realized by a Fund for purposes of the Income Requirement or the identification of the issuer for purposes of the Asset Diversification Test is uncertain under current law with respect to a particular investment, and an adverse determination or future guidance by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) with respect to such type of investment may adversely affect a Fund’s ability to satisfy these requirements. See “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions” below with respect to the application of these requirements to certain types of investments. In other circumstances, a Fund may be required to sell portfolio holdings in order to meet the Income Requirement, Distribution Requirement, or Asset Diversification Test, which may have a negative impact on the Fund’s income and performance. In lieu of potential disqualification, a Fund is permitted to pay a tax for certain failures to satisfy the Asset Diversification Test or Income Requirement, which, in general, are limited to those due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.
Each Fund may use “equalization accounting” (in lieu of making some cash distributions) in determining the portion of its income and gains that has been distributed. If a Fund uses equalization accounting, it will allocate a portion of its undistributed investment company taxable income and net capital gain to redemptions of Shares and will correspondingly reduce the amount of such income and gains that it distributes in cash. However, each Fund intends to make cash distributions for each taxable year in an aggregate amount that is sufficient to satisfy the Distribution Requirement without taking into account its use of equalization accounting. If the IRS determines that a Fund’s allocation is improper and/or that such Fund has under-distributed its income and gain for any taxable year, the Fund may be liable for federal income and/or excise tax.
If for any taxable year a Fund does not qualify as a RIC, all of its taxable income (including its net capital gain) would be subject to tax at the corporate income tax rate without any deduction for dividends paid to shareholders, and the dividends would be taxable to the shareholders as ordinary income (or possibly as qualified dividend income) to the extent of the Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Failure to qualify as a RIC thus would have a negative impact on a Fund’s income and performance. Subject to savings provisions for certain inadvertent failures to satisfy the Income Requirement or Asset Diversification Test which, in general, are limited to those due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect, it is possible that a Fund will not qualify as a RIC in any given tax year. Even if such savings provisions apply, a Fund may be subject to a monetary sanction of $50,000 or more. Moreover, the Board reserves the right not to maintain the qualification of a Fund as a RIC if it determines such a course of action to be beneficial to shareholders.
Portfolio turnover. For investors that hold their Shares in a taxable account, a high portfolio turnover rate may result in higher taxes. This is because a fund with a high turnover rate may accelerate the recognition of capital gains and more of such gains are likely to be taxable as short-term rather than long-term capital gains in contrast to a comparable fund with a low turnover rate. Any such higher taxes would reduce a Fund’s after-tax performance. See “Taxation of Fund Distributions—Capital gain dividends” below. For non-U.S. investors, any such acceleration of the recognition of capital gains that results in more short-term and less long-term capital gains being recognized by a Fund may cause such investors to be subject to increased U.S. withholding taxes. See “Foreign Shareholders—U.S. withholding tax at the source” below. For ETFs for which in-kind redemptions are the primary redemption mechanism and, therefore, a Fund may be less likely to sell securities in order to generate cash for redeeming shareholders, which a mutual fund might do. This provides a greater opportunity for ETFs to defer the recognition of gain on appreciated securities which it may hold thereby reducing the distribution of capital gains to its shareholders.
Capital loss carryovers. The capital losses of a Fund, if any, do not flow through to shareholders. Rather, a Fund may use its capital losses, subject to applicable limitations, to offset its capital gains without being required to pay taxes on or distribute to shareholders such gains that are offset by the losses. If a
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Fund has a “net capital loss” (that is, capital losses in excess of capital gains), the excess (if any) of the Fund’s net short-term capital losses over its net long-term capital gains is treated as a short-term capital loss arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year, and the excess (if any) of the Fund’s net long-term capital losses over its net short-term capital gains is treated as a long-term capital loss arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year. Any net capital losses of the Fund that are not used to offset capital gains may be carried forward indefinitely to reduce any future capital gains realized by the Fund in succeeding taxable years. However, for any net capital losses realized in taxable years of the Fund beginning on or before December 22, 2010, the Fund is permitted to carry forward such capital losses for eight years as a short-term capital loss. Capital losses arising in a taxable year beginning after December 22, 2010 must be used before capital losses realized in a taxable year beginning on or before December 22, 2010. The amount of capital losses that can be carried forward and used in any single year is subject to an annual limitation if there is a more than 50% “change in ownership” of the Fund. An ownership change generally results when shareholders owning 5% or more of the Fund increase their aggregate holdings by more than 50% over a three-year look-back period. An ownership change could result in capital loss carryovers being used at a slower rate (or, in the case of those realized in taxable years of the Fund beginning on or before December 22, 2010, to expire), thereby reducing the Fund’s ability to offset capital gains with those losses. An increase in the amount of taxable gains distributed to a Fund’s shareholders could result from an ownership change. Each Fund undertakes no obligation to avoid or prevent an ownership change, which can occur in the normal course of shareholder purchases and redemptions or as a result of engaging in a tax-free reorganization with another fund. Moreover, because of circumstances beyond the Funds’ control, there can be no assurance that a Fund will not experience, or has not already experienced, an ownership change.
Deferral of late year losses. Each Fund may elect to treat part or all of any “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in determining the Fund’s taxable income, net capital gain, net short-term capital gain, and earnings and profits. The effect of this election is to treat any such “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year, which may change the timing, amount, or characterization of Fund distributions (see “Taxation of Fund Distributions—Capital gain dividends” below). A “qualified late year loss” includes:
(i) any net capital loss incurred after October 31 of the current taxable year, or, if there is no such loss, any net long-term capital loss or any net short-term capital loss incurred after October 31 of the current taxable year (post-October capital losses), and
(ii) the sum of (1) the excess, if any, of (a) specified losses incurred after October 31 of the current taxable year, over (b) specified gains incurred after October 31 of the current taxable year and (2) the excess, if any, of (a) ordinary losses incurred after December 31 of the current taxable year, over (b) the ordinary income incurred after December 31 of the current taxable year.
The terms “specified losses” and “specified gains” mean ordinary losses and gains from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of property (including the termination of a position with respect to such property), foreign currency losses and gains, and losses and gains resulting from holding stock in a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”) for which a mark-to-market election is in effect. The terms “ordinary losses” and “ordinary income” mean other ordinary losses and income that are not described in the preceding sentence.
Undistributed capital gains. A Fund may retain or distribute to shareholders its net capital gain for each taxable year. Each Fund currently intends to distribute net capital gains. If a Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will be taxed thereon (except to the extent of any available capital loss carryovers) at the corporate income tax rate. If a Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, it is expected that the Fund also will elect to have shareholders treated as if each received a distribution of its pro rata share of such gain, with the result that each shareholder will be required to report its pro rata share of such gain on its tax return as long-term capital gain, will receive a refundable tax credit for its pro rata share of tax paid by the Fund on the gain and will increase the tax basis for its Shares by an amount equal to the deemed distribution less the tax credit.
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Asset allocation funds. If the Fund is a fund of funds which invests in one or more underlying funds taxable as regulated investment companies), distributions by the underlying funds, redemptions of shares in the underlying funds and changes in asset allocations may result in taxable distributions to shareholders of ordinary income or capital gains. A fund of funds generally will not be able currently to offset gains realized by one underlying fund in which the fund of funds invests against losses realized by another underlying fund. If shares of an underlying fund are purchased within 30 days before or after redeeming at a loss other shares of that underlying fund (whether pursuant to a rebalancing of the Fund’s portfolio or otherwise), all or a part of the loss will not be deductible by the Fund and instead will increase its basis for the newly purchased shares. Also, except with respect to a qualified fund of funds, a fund of funds (a) is not eligible to pass-through foreign tax credits from an underlying fund that pays foreign income taxes and (b) is not eligible to pass-through exempt-interest dividends from an underlying fund. A qualified fund of funds, i.e., a fund at least 50 percent of the value of the total assets of which (at the close of each quarter of the taxable year) is represented by interests in other RICs, is eligible to pass-through to shareholders (a) foreign tax credits and (b) exempt-interest dividends. Also a fund of funds, whether or not it is a qualified fund of funds, is eligible to pass-through qualified dividends earned by an underlying fund (see “Taxation of Fund Distributions—Qualified dividend income for individuals” and — “Corporate dividends-received deduction” below). However, dividends paid by a fund of funds from interest earned by an underlying fund on U.S. Government obligations are unlikely to be exempt from state and local income tax.
Federal excise tax. To avoid a 4% non-deductible excise tax, a Fund must distribute by December 31 of each year an amount equal to at least: (1) 98% of its ordinary income for the calendar year, (2) 98.2% of capital gain net income (the excess of the gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets over the losses from such sales or exchanges) for the one-year period ended on October 31 of such calendar year, and (3) any prior year undistributed ordinary income and capital gain net income. A Fund may elect to defer to the following year any net ordinary loss incurred for the portion of the calendar year which is after the beginning of the Fund’s taxable year. Also, a Fund will defer any “specified gain” or “specified loss” which would be properly taken into account for the portion of the calendar after October 31. Any net ordinary loss, specified gain, or specified loss deferred shall be treated as arising on January 1 of the following calendar year. Generally, a Fund may make sufficient distributions to avoid liability for federal income and excise tax, but can give no assurances that all or a portion of such liability will be avoided. In addition, under certain circumstances temporary timing or permanent differences in the realization of income and expense for book and tax purposes can result in a Fund having to pay an excise tax.
Purchase of Shares. As a result of tax requirements, the Trust, on behalf of a Fund, has the right to reject an order to purchase Shares if the purchaser (or group of purchasers acting in concert with each other) would, upon obtaining the Shares so ordered, own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares of the Fund and if, pursuant to Sections 351 and 362 of the Code, the Fund would have a basis in the Deposit Securities different from the market value of such securities on the date of deposit. The Trust also has the right to require information necessary to determine beneficial Share ownership for purposes of the 80% determination.
Foreign income tax. Investment income received by a Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign income tax withheld at the source, and the amount of tax withheld generally will be treated as an expense of the Fund. The United States has entered into tax treaties with many foreign countries that entitle the Funds to a reduced rate of, or exemption from, tax on such income. Some countries require the filing of a tax reclaim or other forms to receive the benefit of the reduced tax rate; whether or when a Fund will receive the tax reclaim is within the control of the individual country. Information required on these forms may not be available such as shareholder information; therefore, a Fund may not receive the reduced treaty rates or potential reclaims. Other countries have conflicting and changing instructions and restrictive timing requirements which may cause the Fund not to receive the reduced treaty rates or potential reclaims. Other countries may subject capital gains realized by a Fund on sale or disposition of securities of that country to taxation. It is impossible to determine the effective rate of foreign tax in advance since the amount of a Fund’s assets to be invested in various countries is not known. Under certain circumstances, a Fund may elect to pass-through foreign taxes paid by the Fund to
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shareholders, although it reserves the right not to do so. If a Fund makes such an election and obtains a refund of foreign taxes paid by the Fund in a prior year, the Fund may be eligible to reduce the amount of foreign taxes reported to its shareholders, generally by the amount of the foreign taxes refunded, for the year in which the refund is received.
Taxation of Fund Distributions. Each Fund anticipates distributing substantially all of its investment company taxable income and net capital gain for each taxable year. Distributions by a Fund will be treated in the manner described below regardless of whether such distributions are paid in cash or reinvested in additional Shares of the Fund (or of another Fund). You will receive information annually as to the federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year.
Distributions of ordinary income. Each Fund receives income generally in the form of dividends and/or interest on its investments. Each Fund may also recognize ordinary income from other sources, including, but not limited to, certain gains on foreign currency-related transactions. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of a Fund, constitutes the Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to you. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable as ordinary income to the extent of the Fund’s earnings and profits. In the case of a Fund whose strategy includes investing in stocks of corporations, a portion of the income dividends paid to you may be qualified dividends eligible to be taxed at reduced rates.
Capital gain dividends. Taxes on distributions of capital gains are determined by how long a Fund owned the investments that generated them, rather than how long a shareholder has owned his or her Shares. In general, a Fund will recognize long-term capital gain or loss on the sale or other disposition of assets it has owned for more than one year, and short-term capital gain or loss on investments it has owned for one year or less. Distributions of net capital gain (the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss) that are properly reported to Fund shareholders as capital gain dividends generally will be taxable to a shareholder receiving such distributions as long-term capital gain. Long-term capital gain rates applicable to individuals are 0%, 15%, 20% or 25% depending on the nature of the capital gain and the individual’s taxable income. Distributions of net short-term capital gains for a taxable year in excess of net long-term capital losses for such taxable year generally will be taxable to a shareholder receiving such distributions as ordinary income.
Qualified dividend income for individuals. Ordinary income dividends reported as derived from qualified dividend income will be taxed in the hands of individuals and other noncorporate shareholders at the rates applicable to long-term capital gain. Qualified dividend income means dividends paid to a Fund (a) by domestic corporations, (b) by foreign corporations that are either (i) incorporated in a possession of the United States, or (ii) are eligible for benefits under certain income tax treaties with the United States that include an exchange of information program, or (c) with respect to stock of a foreign corporation that is readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States. Both the Fund and the investor must meet certain holding period requirements to qualify Fund dividends for this treatment. Income derived from investments in derivatives, fixed-income securities, U.S. REITs, PFICs, and income received “in lieu of” dividends in a securities lending transaction generally is not eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. If the qualifying dividend income received by a Fund is equal to 95% (or a greater percentage) of the Fund’s gross income (exclusive of net capital gain) in any taxable year, all of the ordinary income dividends paid by the Fund will be qualifying dividend income.
Qualified REIT dividends. Under 2017 legislation commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., ordinary REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends designated as qualified dividend income) are treated as eligible for a 20% deduction by noncorporate taxpayers. This deduction, if allowed in full, equates to a maximum effective tax rate of 29.6% (37% top rate applied to income after 20% deduction). Proposed regulations issued by the IRS, which can be relied upon currently, enable a Fund to pass through the special character of “qualified REIT dividends”. The amount of a RIC’s dividends eligible for the 20% deduction for a taxable year is limited to the excess of the RIC’s qualified REIT dividends for the taxable year over allocable expenses. A noncorporate shareholder receiving such dividends would treat them as eligible for the 20% deduction, provided the shareholder
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meets certain holding period requirements for its shares in the RIC (i.e., generally, RIC shares must be held by the shareholder for more than 45 days during the 91-day period beginning on the date that is 45 days before the date on which the shares become ex-dividend with respect to such dividend).
Corporate dividends-received deduction. Ordinary income dividends reported to Fund shareholders as derived from qualified dividends from domestic corporations will qualify for the 50% dividends-received deduction generally available to corporations. The availability of the dividends-received deduction is subject to certain holding period and debt financing restrictions imposed under the Code on the corporation claiming the deduction. Income derived by the Fund from investments in derivatives, fixed-income and foreign securities generally is not eligible for this treatment.
Return of capital distributions. Distributions by a Fund that are not paid from earnings and profits will be treated as a return of capital to the extent of (and in reduction of) the shareholder’s tax basis in his Shares; any excess will be treated as gain from the sale of his Shares. Thus, the portion of a distribution that constitutes a return of capital will decrease the shareholder’s tax basis in his Shares (but not below zero), and will result in an increase in the amount of gain (or decrease in the amount of loss) that will be recognized by the shareholder for tax purposes on the later sale of such Shares. Return of capital distributions can occur for a number of reasons including, among others, a Fund overestimates the income to be received from certain investments such as those classified as partnerships or equity REITs. See “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions—Investments in U.S. REITs.”
Impact of realized but undistributed income and gains, and net unrealized appreciation of portfolio securities. At the time of your purchase of Shares, the price of the Shares may reflect undistributed income, undistributed capital gains, or net unrealized appreciation of portfolio securities held by the Fund. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable and would be taxed as either ordinary income (some portion of which may be taxed as qualified dividend income) or capital gain unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. The Fund may be able to reduce the amount of such distributions by utilizing its capital loss carryovers, if any.
Pass-through of foreign tax credits. If more than 50% of the value of a Fund’s total assets at the end of a fiscal year is invested in foreign securities, or if a Fund is a qualified fund of funds (i.e., a fund at least 50 percent of the value of the total assets of which, at the close of each quarter of the taxable year, is represented by interests in other RICs), the Fund may elect to “pass-through” the amount of foreign income tax paid by the Fund (the Foreign Tax Election) in lieu of deducting such amount in determining its investment company taxable income. Pursuant to the Foreign Tax Election, shareholders will be required: (i) to include in gross income, even though not actually received, their respective pro-rata shares of the foreign income tax paid by the Fund that are attributable to any distributions they receive; and (ii) either to deduct their pro-rata share of foreign tax in computing their taxable income or to use it (subject to various Code limitations) as a foreign tax credit against federal income tax (but not both). No deduction for foreign tax may be claimed by a noncorporate shareholder who does not itemize deductions or who is subject to the alternative minimum tax. Shareholders may be unable to claim a credit for the full amount of their proportionate shares of the foreign income tax paid by a Fund due to certain limitations that may apply. Each Fund reserves the right not to pass-through the amount of foreign income taxes paid by the Fund. Additionally, any foreign tax withheld on payments made “in lieu of” dividends or interest will not qualify for the pass-through of foreign tax credits. See “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions—Securities lending” below.
Tax credit bonds. If a Fund holds, directly or indirectly, one or more “tax credit bonds” (including build America bonds, clean renewable energy bonds and qualified tax credit bonds) on one or more applicable dates during a taxable year, the Fund may elect to permit its shareholders to claim a tax credit on their income tax returns equal to each shareholder’s proportionate share of tax credits from the applicable bonds that otherwise would be allowed to the Fund. In such a case, shareholders must include in gross income (as interest) their proportionate share of the income attributable to their proportionate share of those offsetting tax credits. A shareholder’s ability to claim a tax credit associated with one or more tax credit bonds may be
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subject to certain limitations imposed by the Code. (Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the build America bonds, clean renewable energy bonds and certain other qualified bonds may no longer be issued after December 31, 2017.) Even if the Fund is eligible to pass-through tax credits, the Fund may choose not to do so.
U.S. Government interest. Income earned on certain U.S. Government obligations is exempt from state and local personal income taxes if earned directly by you. States also grant tax-free status to dividends paid to you from interest earned on direct obligations of the U.S. Government, subject in some states to minimum investment or reporting requirements that must be met by the Fund. Income on investments by a Fund in certain other obligations, such as repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. Government obligations, commercial paper and federal agency-backed obligations (e.g., GNMA or FNMA obligations), generally does not qualify for tax-free treatment. The rules on exclusion of this income are different for corporations. If the Fund is a fund of funds, see “Taxation of the Fund—Fund of funds.”
Dividends declared in December and paid in January. Ordinarily, shareholders are required to take distributions by a Fund into account in the year in which the distributions are made. However, dividends declared in October, November or December of any year and payable to shareholders of record on a specified date in such a month will be deemed to have been received by the shareholders (and made by a Fund) on December 31 of such calendar year if such dividends are actually paid in January of the following year. Shareholders will be advised annually as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year in accordance with the guidance that has been provided by the IRS.
Medicare tax. Medicare tax. A 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on net investment income earned by certain individuals, estates and trusts. “Net investment income,” for these purposes, means investment income, including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from taxable dispositions of Fund Shares, reduced by the deductions properly allocable to such income. In the case of an individual, the tax will be imposed on the lesser of (1) the shareholder’s net investment income or (2) the amount by which the shareholder’s modified adjusted gross income exceeds $250,000 (if the shareholder is married and filing jointly or a surviving spouse), $125,000 (if the shareholder is married and filing separately) or $200,000 (in any other case). This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return. Net investment income does not include exempt-interest dividends.
Sale of Fund Shares. A sale of Shares is a taxable transaction for federal and state income tax purposes. If you sell your Shares, the IRS requires you to report any gain or loss on your sale. If you held your Shares as a capital asset, the gain or loss that you realize will be a capital gain or loss and will be long-term or short-term, generally depending on how long you have held your Shares. Capital losses in any year are deductible only to the extent of capital gains plus, in the case of a noncorporate taxpayer, $3,000 of ordinary income.
Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units. An AP who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of purchase (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the issue) and the AP’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered (plus any cash paid by the AP as part of the issue). An AP that exchanges Creation Units for equity securities generally will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the AP’s basis in the Creation Units (plus any cash paid by the AP as part of the redemption) and the aggregate market value of the securities received (plus any cash received by the AP as part of the redemption). The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.
Under current federal tax laws, any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and
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as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less, assuming that such Creation Units are held as a capital asset.
If a Fund redeems Creation Units in cash, it may recognize more capital gains than it will if it redeems Creation Units in-kind.
Tax Basis Information. A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the sale of any of the shareholder’s Shares, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.
Wash Sales. All or a portion of any loss that you realize on a sale of your Shares in a Fund will be disallowed to the extent that you buy other Shares in such Fund (through reinvestment of dividends or otherwise) within 30 days before or after your Share sale. Any loss disallowed under these rules will be added to your tax basis in the new Shares.
Sales at a Loss Within Six Months of Purchase. Any loss incurred on a sale of Shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gain distributed to you by the Fund on those Shares.
Reportable transactions. Under Treasury regulations, if a shareholder recognizes a loss with respect to Shares of $2 million or more for an individual shareholder or $10 million or more for a corporate shareholder (or certain greater amounts over a combination of years), the shareholder must file with the IRS a disclosure statement on Form 8886. The fact that a loss is reportable under these regulations does not affect the legal determination of whether the taxpayer’s treatment of the loss is proper. Shareholders should consult their tax advisors to determine the applicability of these regulations in light of their individual circumstances.
Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions. Set forth below is a general description of the tax treatment of certain types of securities, investment techniques and transactions that may apply to a Fund. This section should be read in conjunction with the discussion above under “Investment Strategies and Restrictions” and “Investment Policies and Risks” for a detailed description of the various types of securities and investment techniques that apply to the Funds.
In general. In general, gain or loss recognized by a Fund on the sale or other disposition of portfolio investments will be a capital gain or loss. Such capital gain and loss may be long-term or short-term depending, in general, upon the length of time a particular investment position is maintained and, in some cases, upon the nature of the transaction. Property held for more than one year generally will be eligible for long-term capital gain or loss treatment. The application of certain rules described below may serve to alter the manner in which the holding period for a security is determined or may otherwise affect the characterization as long-term or short-term, and also the timing of the realization and/or character, of certain gains or losses.
Certain fixed-income investments. Gain recognized on the disposition of a debt obligation purchased by a Fund at a market discount (generally, at a price less than its principal amount) will be treated as ordinary income to the extent of the portion of the market discount that accrued during the period of time the fund held the debt obligation unless the Fund made a current inclusion election to accrue market discount into income as it accrues. If a Fund purchases a debt obligation (such as a zero coupon security or pay-in-kind security) that was originally issued at a discount, the Fund generally is required to include in gross income each year the portion of the original issue discount that accrues during such year. Therefore, a Fund’s investment in such securities may cause the Fund to recognize income and make distributions to shareholders before it receives any cash payments on the securities. To generate cash to satisfy those distribution requirements, a Fund may have to sell portfolio securities that it otherwise might have continued to hold or to use cash flows from other sources such as the sale of Shares.
Investments in debt obligations that are at risk of or in default present tax issues for a Fund. Tax rules are not entirely clear about issues such as whether and to what extent a Fund should recognize market discount on a debt obligation, when a Fund may cease to accrue interest, original issue discount or market
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discount, when and to what extent a Fund may take deductions for bad debts or worthless securities and how a Fund should allocate payments received on obligations in default between principal and income. These and other related issues will be addressed by a Fund in order to ensure that it distributes sufficient income to preserve its status as a RIC.
Options, futures, forward contracts, swap agreements and hedging transactions. In general, option premiums received by a Fund are not immediately included in the income of the Fund. Instead, the premiums are recognized when the option contract expires, the option is exercised by the holder, or the Fund transfers or otherwise terminates the option (e.g., through a closing transaction). If an option written by a Fund is exercised and the Fund sells or delivers the underlying stock, the Fund generally will recognize capital gain or loss equal to (a) the sum of the strike price and the option premium received by the Fund minus (b) the Fund’s basis in the stock. Such gain or loss generally will be short-term or long-term depending upon the holding period of the underlying stock. If securities are purchased by a Fund pursuant to the exercise of a put option written by it, the Fund generally will subtract the premium received from its cost basis in the securities purchased. The gain or loss with respect to any termination of a Fund’s obligation under an option other than through the exercise of the option and related sale or delivery of the underlying stock generally will be short-term gain or loss depending on whether the premium income received by the Fund is greater or less than the amount paid by the Fund (if any) in terminating the transaction. Thus, for example, if an option written by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund generally will recognize short-term gain equal to the premium received.
The tax treatment of certain futures contracts entered into by a Fund, as well as listed non-equity options written or purchased by the Fund on U.S. exchanges (including options on futures contracts, broad-based equity indices and debt securities), may be governed by section 1256 of the Code (section 1256 contracts). Gains or losses on section 1256 contracts generally are considered 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gains or losses (60/40), although certain foreign currency gains and losses from such contracts may be treated as ordinary in character. Also, any section 1256 contracts held by a Fund at the end of each taxable year (and, for purposes of the 4% excise tax, on certain other dates as prescribed under the Code) are “marked-to-market” with the result that unrealized gains or losses are treated as though they were realized and the resulting gain or loss is treated as ordinary or 60/40 gain or loss, as applicable. Section 1256 contracts do not include any interest rate swap, currency swap, basis swap, interest rate cap, interest rate floor, commodity swap, equity swap, equity index swap, credit default swap, or similar agreement.
In addition to the special rules described above in respect of options and futures transactions, a Fund’s transactions in other derivative instruments (including options, forward contracts and swap agreements) as well as its other hedging, short sale, or similar transactions, may be subject to one or more special tax rules (including the constructive sale, notional principal contract, straddle, wash sale and short sale rules). These rules may affect whether gains and losses recognized by a Fund are treated as ordinary or capital or as short-term or long-term, accelerate the recognition of income or gains to the Fund, defer losses to the Fund, and cause adjustments in the holding periods of the Fund’s securities. These rules, therefore, could affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. Moreover, because the tax rules applicable to derivative financial instruments are in some cases uncertain under current law, an adverse determination or future guidance by the IRS with respect to these rules (which determination or guidance could be retroactive) may affect whether a Fund has made sufficient distributions and otherwise satisfied the relevant requirements to maintain its qualification as a RIC and avoid a fund-level tax.
Certain of a Fund’s investments in derivatives and foreign currency-denominated instruments, and the Fund’s transactions in foreign currencies and hedging activities, may produce a difference between its book income and its taxable income. If a Fund’s book income is less than the sum of its taxable income and net tax-exempt income (if any), the Fund could be required to make distributions exceeding book income to qualify as a RIC. If a Fund’s book income exceeds the sum of its taxable income and net tax-exempt income (if any), the distribution of any such excess will be treated as (i) a dividend to the extent of the Fund’s remaining earnings and profits (including current earnings and profits arising from tax-exempt
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income, reduced by related deductions), (ii) thereafter, as a return of capital to the extent of the recipient’s basis in the shares, and (iii) thereafter, as gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset.
Foreign currency transactions. A Fund’s transactions in foreign currencies, foreign currency-denominated debt obligations and certain foreign currency options, futures contracts and forward contracts (and similar instruments) may give rise to ordinary income or loss to the extent such income or loss results from fluctuations in the value of the foreign currency concerned. This treatment could increase or decrease a Fund’s ordinary income distributions to you, and may cause some or all of the Fund’s previously distributed income to be classified as a return of capital. In certain cases, a fund may make an election to treat such gain or loss as capital.
PFIC investments. A Fund may invest in securities of foreign companies that may be classified under the Code as PFICs. In general, a foreign company is classified as a PFIC if at least one-half of its assets constitute investment-type assets or 75% or more of its gross income is investment-type income. When investing in PFIC securities, a Fund intends to mark-to-market these securities under certain provisions of the Code and recognize any unrealized gains as ordinary income at the end of the Fund’s fiscal and excise tax years. Deductions for losses are allowable only to the extent of any current or previously recognized gains. These gains (reduced by allowable losses) are treated as ordinary income that a Fund is required to distribute, even though it has not sold or received dividends from these securities. You should also be aware that the designation of a foreign security as a PFIC security will cause its income dividends to fall outside of the definition of qualified foreign corporation dividends. These dividends generally will not qualify for the reduced rate of taxation on qualified dividends when distributed to you by a Fund. Foreign companies are not required to identify themselves as PFICs. Due to various complexities in identifying PFICs, a Fund can give no assurances that it will be able to identify portfolio securities in foreign corporations that are PFICs in time for the Fund to make a mark-to-market election. If a Fund is unable to identify an investment as a PFIC and thus does not make a mark-to-market election, the Fund may be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a portion of any “excess distribution” or gain from the disposition of such shares even if such income is distributed as a taxable dividend by the Fund to its shareholders. Additional charges in the nature of interest may be imposed on a Fund in respect of deferred taxes arising from such distributions or gains.
Investments in non-U.S. REITs. While non-U.S. REITs often use complex acquisition structures that seek to minimize taxation in the source country, an investment by a Fund in a non-U.S. REIT may subject the Fund, directly or indirectly, to corporate taxes, withholding taxes, transfer taxes and other indirect taxes in the country in which the real estate acquired by the non-U.S. REIT is located. The fund’s pro rata share of any such taxes will reduce the Fund’s return on its investment. A fund’s investment in a non-U.S. REIT may be considered an investment in a PFIC, as discussed above in “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions—PFIC investments.” Additionally, foreign withholding taxes on distributions from the non-U.S. REIT may be reduced or eliminated under certain tax treaties, as discussed above in “Taxation of the Funds—Foreign income tax.” Also, a Fund in certain limited circumstances may be required to file an income tax return in the source country and pay tax on any gain realized from its investment in the non-U.S. REIT under rules similar to those in the United States which tax foreign persons on gain realized from dispositions of interests in U.S. real estate.
Investments in U.S. REITs. A U.S. REIT is not subject to federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to shareholders. Dividends paid by a U.S. REIT, other than capital gain distributions, will be taxable as ordinary income up to the amount of the U.S. REIT’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Capital gain dividends paid by a U.S. REIT to a Fund will be treated as long-term capital gains by the Fund and, in turn, may be distributed by the Fund to its shareholders as a capital gain distribution. Because of certain noncash expenses, such as property depreciation, an equity U.S. REIT’s cash flow may exceed its taxable income. The equity U.S. REIT, and in turn a Fund, may distribute this excess cash to shareholders in the form of a return of capital distribution. However, if a U.S. REIT is operated in a manner that fails to qualify as a REIT, an investment in the U.S. REIT would become subject to double taxation, meaning the taxable income of the U.S. REIT would be subject to federal income tax at the corporate income tax rate without any deduction for dividends paid to shareholders and the dividends would be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income (or possibly as qualified dividend income) to the extent of the
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U.S. REIT’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Also, see “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions—Investment in taxable mortgage pools (excess inclusion income)” and “Foreign Shareholders—U.S. withholding tax at the source” with respect to certain other tax aspects of investing in U.S. REITs.
Investment in taxable mortgage pools (excess inclusion income). Under a Notice issued by the IRS, the Code and Treasury regulations to be issued, a portion of a Fund’s income from a U.S. REIT that is attributable to the REIT’s residual interest in a real estate mortgage investment conduit (“REMIC”) or equity interests in a “taxable mortgage pool” (referred to in the Code as an excess inclusion) will be subject to federal income tax in all events. The excess inclusion income of a RIC will be allocated to shareholders of the RIC in proportion to the dividends received by such shareholders, with the same consequences as if the shareholders held the related REMIC residual interest or, if applicable, taxable mortgage pool directly. In general, excess inclusion income allocated to shareholders (i) cannot be offset by net operating losses (subject to a limited exception for certain thrift institutions), (ii) will constitute unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) to entities (including qualified pension plans, individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans, Keogh plans or other tax-exempt entities) subject to tax on UBTI, thereby potentially requiring such an entity that is allocated excess inclusion income, and otherwise might not be required to file a tax return, to file a tax return and pay tax on such income, and (iii) in the case of a foreign stockholder, will not qualify for any reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax. In addition, if at any time during any taxable year a “disqualified organization” (which generally includes certain cooperatives, governmental entities, and tax-exempt organizations not subject to UBTI) is a record holder of a share in a RIC, then the RIC will be subject to a tax equal to that portion of its excess inclusion income for the taxable year that is allocable to the disqualified organization, multiplied by the corporate income tax rate. The Notice imposes certain reporting requirements upon regulated investment companies that have excess inclusion income. There can be no assurance that a Fund will not allocate to shareholders excess inclusion income.
These rules are potentially applicable to each Fund with respect to any income it receives from the equity interests of certain mortgage pooling vehicles, either directly or, as is more likely, through an investment in a U.S. REIT. It is unlikely that these rules will apply to a Fund that has a non-REIT strategy.
Investments in partnerships and QPTPs. For purposes of the Income Requirement, income derived by a Fund from a partnership that is not a QPTP will be treated as qualifying income only to the extent such income is attributable to items of income of the partnership that would be qualifying income if realized directly by the Fund. While the rules are not entirely clear with respect to a fund investing in a partnership outside a master-feeder structure, for purposes of testing whether a Fund satisfies the Asset Diversification Test, the Fund generally is treated as owning a pro rata share of the underlying assets of a partnership. See “Taxation of the Fund—Qualification as a RIC.” In contrast, different rules apply to a partnership that is a QPTP. A QPTP is a partnership (a) the interests in which are traded on an established securities market, (b) that is treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, and (c) that derives less than 90% of its income from sources that satisfy the Income Requirement (e.g., because it invests in commodities). All of the net income derived by a Fund from an interest in a QPTP will be treated as qualifying income, but the Fund may not invest more than 25% of its total assets in one or more QPTPs. However, there can be no assurance that a partnership classified as a QPTP in one year will qualify as a QPTP in the next year. Any such failure to annually qualify as a QPTP might, in turn, cause a Fund to fail to qualify as a RIC. Although, in general, the passive loss rules of the Code do not apply to RICs, such rules do apply to a Fund with respect to items attributable to an interest in a QPTP. Fund investments in partnerships, including in QPTPs, may result in the Fund being subject to state, local or foreign income, franchise or withholding tax liabilities.
If an MLP is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes (whether or not a QPTP), all or portion of the dividends received by a fund from the MLP likely will be treated as a return of capital for U.S. federal income tax purposes because of accelerated deductions available with respect to the activities of such MLPs. Further, because of these accelerated deductions, on the disposition of interests in such an MLP, a fund likely will realize taxable income in excess of economic gain with respect to those MLP interests (or if the fund does not dispose of the MLP, the fund could realize taxable income in excess of cash flow with respect to the MLP in a later period), and the fund must take such income into account in
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determining whether the fund has satisfied its Distribution Requirement. A fund may have to borrow or liquidate securities to satisfy its Distribution Requirement and to meet its redemption requests, even though investment considerations might otherwise make it undesirable for the fund to sell securities or borrow money at such time. In addition, any gain recognized, either upon the sale of a fund’s MLP interest or sale by the MLP of property held by it, including in excess of economic gain thereon, treated as so-called “recapture income,” will be treated as ordinary income. Therefore, to the extent a fund invests in MLPs, fund shareholders might receive greater amounts of distributions from the fund taxable as ordinary income than they otherwise would in the absence of such MLP investments.
Although MLPs are generally expected to be treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes, some MLPs may be treated as PFICs or “regular” corporations for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The treatment of particular MLPs for U.S. federal income tax purposes will affect the extent to which a fund can invest in MLPs and will impact the amount, character, and timing of income recognized by the Fund.
Investments in convertible securities. Convertible debt is ordinarily treated as a “single property” consisting of a pure debt interest until conversion, after which the investment becomes an equity interest. If the security is issued at a premium (i.e., for cash in excess of the face amount payable on retirement), the creditor-holder may amortize the premium over the life of the bond. If the security is issued for cash at a price below its face amount, the creditor-holder must accrue original issue discount in income over the life of the debt. The creditor-holder’s exercise of the conversion privilege is treated as a nontaxable event. Mandatorily convertible debt (e.g., an exchange-traded note or ETN issued in the form of an unsecured obligation that pays a return based on the performance of a specified market index, exchange currency, or commodity) is often, but not always, treated as a contract to buy or sell the reference property rather than debt. Similarly, convertible preferred stock with a mandatory conversion feature is ordinarily, but not always, treated as equity rather than debt. Dividends received generally are qualified dividend income and eligible for the corporate dividends-received deduction. In general, conversion of preferred stock for common stock of the same corporation is tax-free. Conversion of preferred stock for cash is a taxable redemption. Any redemption premium for preferred stock that is redeemable by the issuing company might be required to be amortized under original issue discount principles. A change in the conversion ratio or conversion price of a convertible security on account of a dividend paid to the issuer’s other shareholders may result in a deemed distribution of stock to the holders of the convertible security equal to the value of their increased interest in the equity of the issuer. Thus, an increase in the conversion ratio of a convertible security can be treated as a taxable distribution of stock to a holder of the convertible security (without a corresponding receipt of cash by the holder) before the holder has converted the security.
Securities Lending. While securities are loaned out by a Fund, the Fund generally will receive from the borrower amounts equal to any dividends or interest paid on the borrowed securities. For federal income tax purposes, payments made “in lieu of” dividends are not considered dividend income. These distributions will neither qualify for the reduced rate of federal income taxation for individuals on qualified dividends income, if otherwise available, nor the 50% dividends received deduction for corporations. Also, any foreign tax withheld on payments made “in lieu of” dividends or interest may not qualify for the pass-through of foreign tax credits to shareholders.
Tax Certification and Backup Withholding. Tax certification and backup withholding tax laws may require that you certify your tax information when you become an investor in a Fund. For U.S. citizens and resident aliens, this certification is made on IRS Form W-9. Under these laws, a Fund must withhold a portion of your taxable distributions and sales proceeds unless you:
provide your correct Social Security or taxpayer identification number;
certify that this number is correct;
certify that you are not subject to backup withholding; and
certify that you are a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien).
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Withholding also is imposed if the IRS requires it. When withholding is required, the amount will be 24% of any distributions or proceeds paid. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld may be credited against the shareholder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the appropriate information is furnished to the IRS. Certain payees and payments are exempt from backup withholding and information reporting.
Non-U.S. investors have special U.S. tax certification requirements. See “Foreign Shareholders—Tax certification and backup withholding.”
Foreign Shareholders. Shareholders who, as to the United States, are nonresident alien individuals, foreign trusts or estates, foreign corporations, or foreign partnerships (foreign shareholder), may be subject to U.S. withholding and estate tax and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements.
Taxation of a foreign shareholder depends on whether the income from a Fund is “effectively connected” with a U.S. trade or business carried on by such shareholder.
U.S. withholding tax at the source. If the income from a Fund is not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business carried on by a foreign shareholder, distributions to such shareholder will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30% (or lower treaty rate) upon the gross amount of the distribution, subject to certain exemptions including those for dividends reported as:
exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund from its net interest income earned on municipal securities;
capital gain dividends paid by the Fund from its net long-term capital gains (other than those from disposition of a U.S. real property interest), unless you are a nonresident alien present in the United States for a period or periods aggregating 183 days or more during the calendar year; and
interest-related dividends paid by the Fund from its qualified net interest income from U.S. sources and short-term capital gain dividends.
A Fund may report interest-related dividends or short-term capital gain dividends, but reserves the right not to do so. Additionally, a Fund’s reporting of interest-related dividends or short-term capital gain dividends may not be passed through to shareholders by intermediaries who have assumed tax reporting responsibilities for this income in managed or omnibus accounts due to systems limitations or operational constraints. Moreover, notwithstanding such exemptions from U.S. withholding at the source, any dividends and distributions of income and capital gains, including the proceeds from the sale of your Shares, will be subject to backup withholding at a rate of 24% if you fail to properly certify that you are not a U.S. person.
Foreign shareholders may be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% on the income resulting from an election to pass-through foreign tax credits to shareholders, but may not be able to claim a credit or deduction with respect to the withholding tax for the foreign tax treated as having been paid by them.
Amounts reported as capital gain dividends (a) that are attributable to certain capital gain dividends received from a qualified investment entity (“QIE”) (generally defined as either (i) a U.S. REIT or (ii) a RIC classified as a “U.S. real property holding corporation” or which would be if the exceptions for holding 5% or less of a class of publicly traded shares or an interest in a domestically controlled QIE did not apply), or (b) that are realized by a Fund on the sale of a “U.S. real property interest” (including gain realized on the sale of shares in a QIE other than one that is domestically controlled), will not be exempt from U.S. federal income tax and may be subject to U.S. withholding tax at the rate of 30% (or lower treaty rate) if the Fund by reason of having a REIT strategy is classified as a QIE. If a Fund is so classified, foreign shareholders owning more than 5% of the Fund’s shares may be treated as realizing gain from the disposition of a U.S. real property interest, causing Fund distributions to be subject to U.S. withholding tax at the corporate income tax rate, and requiring the filing of a nonresident U.S. income tax return. In addition, if a Fund is classified as a QIE, anti-avoidance rules apply to certain wash sale transactions. Namely, if a Fund is a domestically-controlled QIE and a foreign shareholder disposes of the Fund’s shares prior to the Fund paying a distribution attributable to the disposition of a U.S. real property interest and the foreign shareholder later acquires an identical stock interest in a wash sale transaction, the foreign shareholder may
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still be required to pay U.S. tax on the Fund’s distribution. Also, the sale of shares of a Fund, if classified as a “U.S. real property holding corporation,” could also be considered a sale of a U.S. real property interest with any resulting gain from such sale being subject to U.S. tax as income “effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business.”
Income effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business. If the income from a Fund is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business carried on by a foreign shareholder, then ordinary income dividends, capital gain dividends and any gains realized upon the sale of Shares of the Fund will be subject to U.S. federal income tax at the rates applicable to U.S. citizens or domestic corporations and require the filing of a nonresident U.S. income tax return.
Tax certification and backup withholding. Foreign shareholders may have special U.S. tax certification requirements to avoid backup withholding (at a rate of 24%) and, if applicable, to obtain the benefit of any income tax treaty between the foreign shareholder’s country of residence and the United States. To claim these tax benefits, the foreign shareholder must provide a properly completed Form W-8BEN (or other Form W-8, where applicable, or their substitute forms) to establish his or her status as a non-U.S. investor, to claim beneficial ownership over the assets in the account, and to claim, if applicable, a reduced rate of or exemption from withholding tax under the applicable treaty. A Form W-8BEN provided without a U.S. taxpayer identification number remains in effect for a period of three years beginning on the date that it is signed and ending on the last day of the third succeeding calendar year unless an earlier change of circumstances makes the information given on the form incorrect, and the shareholder must then provide a new W-8BEN to avoid the prospective application of backup withholding. Forms W-8BEN with U.S. taxpayer identification numbers remain valid indefinitely, or until the investor has a change of circumstances that renders the form incorrect and necessitates a new form and tax certification. Certain payees and payments are exempt from backup withholding.
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Under FATCA, a 30% withholding tax is imposed on income dividends made by a Fund to certain foreign entities, referred to as foreign financial institutions (“FFI”) or non-financial foreign entities (“NFFE ”). After December 31, 2018, FATCA withholding also would have applied to certain capital gain distributions, return of capital distributions and the proceeds arising from the sale of Shares; however, based on proposed regulations issued by the IRS, which can be relied upon currently, such withholding is no longer required unless final regulations provide otherwise (which is not expected). The FATCA withholding tax generally can be avoided: (a) by an FFI, if it reports certain direct and indirect ownership of foreign financial accounts held by U.S. persons with the FFI and (b) by an NFFE, if it: (i) certifies that it has no substantial U.S. persons as owners or (ii) if it does have such owners, reporting information relating to them. The U.S. Treasury has negotiated intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) with certain countries and is in various stages of negotiations with a number of other foreign countries with respect to one or more alternative approaches to implement FATCA.
An FFI can avoid FATCA withholding if it is deemed compliant or by becoming a “participating FFI,” which requires the FFI to enter into a U.S. tax compliance agreement with the IRS under section 1471(b) of the Code (FFI agreement) under which it agrees to verify, report and disclose certain of its U.S. accountholders and meet certain other specified requirements.
The FFI will either report the specified information about the U.S. accounts to the IRS, or, to the government of the FFI’s country of residence (pursuant to the terms and conditions of applicable law and an applicable IGA entered into between the U.S. and the FFI’s country of residence), which will, in turn, report the specified information to the IRS. An FFI that is resident in a country that has entered into an IGA with the U.S. to implement FATCA will be exempt from FATCA withholding provided that the FFI shareholder and the applicable foreign government comply with the terms of such agreement.
An NFFE that is the beneficial owner of a payment from the Fund can avoid the FATCA withholding tax generally by certifying that it does not have any substantial U.S. owners or by providing the name, address and taxpayer identification number of each substantial U.S. owner. The NFFE will report the information to the applicable withholding agent, which will, in turn, report the information to the IRS.
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Such foreign shareholders also may fall into certain exempt, excepted or deemed compliant categories as established by U.S. Treasury regulations, IGAs, and other guidance regarding FATCA. An FFI or NFFE that invests in the Fund will need to provide documentation properly certifying the entity’s status under FATCA in order to avoid FATCA withholding. Non-U.S. investors should consult their own tax advisors regarding the impact of these requirements on their investment in the Fund. The requirements imposed by FATCA are different from, and in addition to, the U.S. tax certification rules to avoid backup withholding described above. Shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of these requirements to their own situation.
U.S. estate tax. Transfers by gift of Shares of a Fund by a foreign shareholder who is a nonresident alien individual will not be subject to U.S. federal gift tax. An individual who, at the time of death, is a foreign shareholder will nevertheless be subject to U.S. federal estate tax with respect to Shares at the graduated rates applicable to U.S. citizens and residents, unless a treaty exemption applies. If a treaty exemption is available, a decedent’s estate may nonetheless need to file a U.S. estate tax return to claim the exemption in order to obtain a U.S. federal transfer certificate. The transfer certificate will identify the property (i.e., Shares) as to which the U.S. federal estate tax lien has been released. In the absence of a treaty, there is a $13,000 statutory estate tax credit (equivalent to an estate with assets of $60,000).
Local Tax Considerations. Rules of state and local taxation of ordinary income, qualified dividend income and capital gain dividends may differ from the rules for U.S. federal income taxation described above. Distributions may also be subject to additional state, local and foreign taxes depending on each shareholder’s particular situation.
FEDERAL TAX TREATMENT OF FUTURES AND OPTIONS CONTRACTS
Some futures contracts, foreign currency contracts traded in the interbank market, and “nonequity” options (i.e., certain listed options, such as those on a “broad-based” securities index)—except any “securities futures contract” that is not a “dealer securities futures contract” (both as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) and any interest rate swap, currency swap, basis swap, interest rate cap, interest rate floor, commodity swap, equity swap, equity index swap, credit default swap, or similar agreement—in which a Fund invests may be subject to Internal Revenue Code section 1256 (collectively, “Section 1256 contracts”). Any Section 1256 contracts that a Fund holds at the end of its taxable year (and generally for purposes of the Excise Tax, on October 31 of each year) must be “marked to market” (that is, treated as having been sold at that time for their fair market value) for federal tax purposes, with the result that unrealized gains or losses will be treated as though they were realized. Sixty percent of any net gain or loss recognized on these deemed sales, and 60% of any net realized gain or loss from any actual sales of Section 1256 contracts, will be treated as long-term capital gain or loss, and the balance will be treated as short-term capital gain or loss; however, certain foreign currency gains or losses arising from Section 1256 contracts will be treated as ordinary income or loss. These rules may operate to increase the amount that a Fund must distribute to satisfy the Distribution Requirement (i.e., with respect to the portion treated as short-term capital gain, which will be includible in its investment company taxable income and thus taxable to its shareholders as ordinary income when distributed to them), and to increase the net capital gain that the Fund recognizes, even though the Fund may not have closed the transactions and received cash to pay the distributions. A Fund may elect not to have the foregoing rules apply to any “mixed straddle” (that is, a straddle, which the Fund clearly identifies in accordance with applicable regulations, at least one (but not all) of the positions of which are Section 1256 contracts), although doing so may have the effect of increasing the relative proportion of short-term capital gain (distributions of which are taxable to its shareholders as ordinary income) and thus increasing the amount of dividends it must distribute.
Offsetting positions that a Fund enters into or holds in any actively traded security, option, futures, or forward contract may constitute a “straddle” for federal income tax purposes. Straddles are subject to certain rules that may affect the amount, character, and timing of recognition of a Fund’s gains and losses with respect to positions of the straddle by requiring, among other things, that (1) loss realized on disposition of one position of a straddle be deferred to the extent of any unrealized gain in an offsetting position until the latter position is disposed of, (2) the Fund’s holding period for certain straddle positions not begin until the
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straddle is terminated (possibly resulting in gain being treated as short-term rather than long-term capital gain), and (3) losses recognized with respect to certain straddle positions, that otherwise would constitute short-term capital losses, be treated as long-term capital losses. Applicable regulations also provide certain “wash sale” rules, which apply to transactions where a position is sold at a loss and a new offsetting position is acquired within a prescribed period, and “short sale” rules applicable to straddles. Different elections are available to the Fund, which may mitigate the effects of the straddle rules, particularly with respect to mixed straddles.
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The foregoing discussion is a summary only and is not intended as a substitute for careful tax planning. Purchasers of Shares should consult their own tax advisors as to the tax consequences of investing in Shares, including under federal, state, local and other tax laws. Finally, the foregoing discussion is based on applicable provisions of the Code, regulations, judicial authority, and administrative interpretations in effect on the date hereof, all of which are subject to change, which change may be retroactive. Changes in any applicable authority could materially affect the conclusions discussed above, possibly retroactively, and such changes often occur.
DETERMINATION OF NAV
The following information should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Net Asset Value.” Additional information regarding the current NAV per share of each Fund can be found at www.invesco.com/ETFs.
The Custodian calculates and determines the NAV per Share as of the close of the regular trading session of the NYSE (normally 4:00 p.m., Eastern time), on each day that such exchange is open. NAV is calculated by deducting all of a Fund's liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. All valuations are subject to review by the Board or its delegate.
In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily, and securities and other assets for which market quotations are available are valued at market value. Securities listed or traded on an exchange (except convertible securities) generally are valued at the last sales price or official closing price of the exchange where the security primarily is traded. Investment companies are valued using such company’s NAV per share, unless the shares are exchange-traded, in which case they will be valued at the last sale or official closing price on the exchanges on which they primarily trade. Debt obligations (including convertible securities) and securities not listed on an exchange normally are valued on the basis of prices provided by independent pricing services. Pricing services generally value debt securities assuming orderly transactions of institutional round lot size, but a Fund may hold or transact in the same securities in smaller, odd lot sizes. Odd lots often trade at lower prices than institutional round lots. The Adviser may use various pricing services or discontinue the use of any pricing service at any time. If a security’s market price is not readily available, the security will be valued in accordance with the Trust’s valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board.
Even when market quotations are available for portfolio securities, they may be stale or unreliable because the security is not traded frequently, trading on the security ceased before the close of the trading market or issuer specific events occurred after the security ceased trading or because of the passage of time between the close of the market on which the security trades and the close of the NYSE and when a Fund calculates its NAV. Events that may cause the last market quotation to be unreliable include a merger or insolvency, events which affect a geographical area or an industry segment, such as political events or natural disasters, or market events, such as a significant movement in the U.S. market. Where market quotations are not readily available, including where the Adviser determines that the closing price of the security is unreliable, the security will be valued at fair value as determined in good faith following procedures approved by the Board. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments, and it is possible that a fair value determination for a security is materially different than the value that could be realized upon the
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sale of that security. With respect to securities that primarily are listed on foreign exchanges, the value of a Fund's portfolio securities may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or sell your Shares.
Intraday Indicative Value. The trading prices of the Shares in the secondary market generally differ from a Fund's daily NAV and are affected by market forces such as the supply of and demand for Shares and underlying securities held by the Fund, economic conditions and other factors.
Information regarding the IIV of the Shares is disseminated every 15 seconds throughout each trading day by the Exchange or by market data vendors or other information providers. However, the IIV should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of a Fund's NAV. The IIV is based on the current market value of the published basket of portfolio securities and/or cash required to be deposited in exchange for a Creation Unit and does not necessarily reflect the precise composition of a Fund's actual portfolio at a particular point in time. Moreover, the IIV is generally determined by using current market quotations and/or price quotations obtained from broker-dealers and other market intermediaries and valuations based on current market rates. The IIV may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which (i) is computed only once a day, (ii) unlike the calculation of the IIV, takes into account Funds' expenses, and (iii) may be subject, in accordance with the requirements of the 1940 Act, to fair valuation at different prices than those used in the calculations of the IIV. Therefore, the IIV may not reflect the best possible valuation of a Fund's current portfolio. Additionally, the quotations and/or valuations of certain of the Funds' holdings may not be updated during U.S. trading hours if such holdings do not trade in the United States, which could affect premiums and discounts between the IIV and the market price of the Shares. The Funds, the Adviser and their affiliates are not involved in, or responsible for, any aspect of the calculation or dissemination of the IIV, and the Funds, the Adviser and their affiliates do not make any warranty as to the accuracy of these calculations.
DIVIDENDS AND OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS
The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Dividends, Distributions and Taxes.”
General Policies. Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid quarterly by Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF, Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF, Invesco Global Water ETF, Invesco International BuyBack Achievers™ ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF, Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Low Volatility ETF, Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF and Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF..
Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid annually by Invesco China Technology ETF, Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF and Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF.
Generally, dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid monthly by Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF, Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF and Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF.
Distributions of net realized securities gains, if any, generally are declared and paid once a year, but the Trust may make distributions on a more frequent basis. The Trust reserves the right to declare special distributions if, in its reasonable discretion, such action is necessary or advisable to preserve the status of each Fund as a RIC or to avoid imposition of income or excise taxes on undistributed income.
Dividends and other distributions on Shares are distributed, as described below, on a pro rata basis to Beneficial Owners of the Shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants to Beneficial Owners then of record with proceeds received from each Fund.
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Dividend Reinvestment Service. No reinvestment service is provided by the Trust. Broker-dealers may make available the DTC book-entry Dividend Reinvestment Service for use by Beneficial Owners of a Fund for reinvestment of their dividend distributions. Beneficial Owners should contact their broker to determine the availability and costs of the service and the details of participation therein. Brokers may require Beneficial Owners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
Counsel. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1601, Chicago, Illinois 60606, and 2000 K Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), located at One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as the Funds' independent registered public accounting firm. PwC audits the Funds’ annual financial statements and assists in the preparation and/or review of each Fund’s federal and state income tax returns. In connection with the audit of the 2019 financial statements, the Funds entered into an engagement letter with PwC. The terms of the engagement letter required by PwC, and agreed to by the Audit Committee of the Board of the Trust, include a provision mandating the use of mediation and arbitration to resolve any controversy or claim between the parties arising out of or relating to the engagement letter or the services provided thereunder.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The audited financial statements, including the financial highlights appearing in the Trust's Annual Report to shareholders with respect to the Funds for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019 and filed electronically with the SEC, are incorporated by reference and made part of this SAI. You may request a copy of the Trust's current Annual Report at no charge by calling 800.983.0903 during normal business hours.
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APPENDIX A
PROXY VOTING GUIDELINES
Applicable to: All funds advised by Invesco Capital Management LLC (“ICM” or the “Adviser”) for which it has been delegated proxy voting authority.
Risk Addressed by Policy: Breach of fiduciary duty to clients under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 by placing Invesco’s interests ahead of clients’ best interests in voting proxies
Relevant Law and Other Sources: Investment Advisers Act of 1940
Effective Date: June 24, 2014
Last Amended Date: December 12, 2019
I. GENERAL POLICY
ICM has adopted proxy voting policies with respect to securities owned by series for which it serves as investment adviser and has been delegated the authority to vote proxies. ICM’s proxy voting policies are designed to provide that proxies are voted in the best interests of shareholders.
Invesco Ltd. (“Invesco”), the parent to the Adviser, has adopted a global policy statement on corporate governance and proxy voting (the “Global Invesco Policy”) (see Exhibit A), which details Invesco’s views on governance matters and describes the proxy administration and governance approach. The Adviser will approach proxy constraints according to the Invesco global statement on corporate governance and proxy voting. The Adviser will approach conflicts of interest in accordance with Invesco’s global policy statement on corporate governance and proxy voting. The Adviser votes proxies by utilizing the procedures and mechanisms outlined in the Global Invesco Policy, while maintaining specific guidelines for products advised by the Adviser or an affiliate of the Adviser (“Affiliated Funds”), as set forth below:
Overlapping Securities
In instances where both an Affiliated Fund advised by the Adviser and an Affiliated Fund advised by an Invesco Ltd. entity hold an equity security (“Overlapping Securities”), the Adviser will vote proxies in accordance with the recommendation of an Invesco Ltd. adviser based on the comprehensive proxy review and under the Global Invesco Policy. The Global Invesco Policy is overseen by the Invesco Proxy Advisory Committee (“IPAC”), which also orchestrates the review and analysis of the top twenty-five proxy voting matters, measured by overall size of holdings by funds within the Invesco family. The Adviser consults with the IPAC on specific proxy votes and general proxy voting matters as it deems necessary. In addition, as part of the Global Invesco Proxy Voting Process, the IPAC oversees instances when possible conflicts of interest arise among funds. (Please see the Global Invesco Policy for the detailed conflicts of interest approach.)
In instances where the global proxy administration team does not receive a recommendation in a timely manner, the proxy administration team will automatically vote such ballots in accordance with Invesco’s custom guidelines established in Invesco’s global proxy voting policy and US guidelines.
Non-Overlapping Securities
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In instances where securities are held only by an Affiliated Fund advised by the Adviser and not also by an Invesco Ltd. active equity entity fund, the Adviser will instruct the proxy administration team to vote proxies in accordance with said Invesco custom guidelines implemented by ISS, Invesco’s vote execution agent.
Under this Policy, the Adviser retains the power to vote contrary to the recommendation of the Invesco Voting Process (for Overlapping Securities) or Invesco’s custom guidelines (for Non-Overlapping Securities) at its discretion, so long as the reasons for doing so are well documented.
II. SPECIAL POLICY
Certain Affiliated Funds pursue their investment objectives by investing in other registered investment companies pursuant to an exemptive order granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The relief granted by that order is conditioned upon complying with a number of undertakings, some of which require such Affiliated Fund to vote its shares in an acquired investment company in the same proportion as other holders of the acquired fund’s shares. In instances in which an Affiliated Fund is required to vote in this manner to rely on the exemptive order, the Adviser will vote shares of these acquired investment companies in compliance with the voting mechanism required by the order.
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Exhibit A to Appendix A
Invesco's Policy Statement on Global Corporate Governance and Proxy Voting
December, 2019
I. Guiding Principles and Philosophy
Public companies hold shareholder meetings, attended by the company’s executives, directors, and shareholders, during which important issues, such as appointments to the company’s board of directors, executive compensation, and auditors, are addressed and where applicable, voted on. Proxy voting gives shareholders the opportunity to vote on issues that impact the company’s operations and policies without being present at the meetings.
Invesco views proxy voting as an integral part of its investment management responsibilities and believes that the right to vote proxies should be managed with the same high standards of care and fiduciary duty to its clients as all other elements of the investment process. Invesco’s proxy voting philosophy, governance structure and process are designed to ensure that proxy votes are cast in accordance with clients’ best interests, which Invesco interprets to mean clients’ best economic interests, this Policy and the operating guidelines and procedures of Invesco’s regional investment centers.
Invesco investment teams vote proxies on behalf of Invesco-sponsored funds and both fund and non-fund advisory clients that have explicitly granted Invesco authority in writing to vote proxies on their behalf.
The proxy voting process at Invesco, which is driven by investment professionals, focuses on maximizing long-term value for our clients, protecting clients’ rights and promoting governance structures and practices that reinforce the accountability of corporate management and boards of directors to shareholders. Invesco takes a nuanced approach to voting and, therefore, many matters to be voted upon are reviewed on a case by case basis.
Votes in favor of board or management proposals should not be interpreted as an indication of insufficient consideration by Invesco fund managers. Such votes may reflect the outcome of past or ongoing engagement and active ownership by Invesco with representatives of the companies in which we invest.
II. Applicability of this Policy
This Policy sets forth the framework of Invesco’s corporate governance approach, broad philosophy and guiding principles that inform the proxy voting practices of Invesco’s investment teams around the world. Given the different nature of these teams and their respective investment processes, as well as the significant differences in regulatory regimes and market practices across jurisdictions, not all aspects of this Policy may apply to all Invesco investment teams at all times. In the case of a conflict between this Policy and the operating guidelines and procedures of a regional investment center the latter will control.
III. Proxy Voting for Certain Fixed Income, Money Market, Index and Legacy OppenheimerFunds Accounts
For proxies held by certain client accounts managed in accordance with fixed income, money market and index strategies (including exchange traded funds), and by accounts managed by legacy OppenheimerFunds investment teams (“legacy accounts”), Invesco will typically vote in line with the majority holder of the active-equity shares held by Invesco outside of those strategies and legacy accounts (“Majority Voting”). In this manner Invesco seeks to leverage the active-equity expertise and comprehensive proxy voting reviews conducted by teams employing active-equity strategies (other than legacy OppenheimerFunds investment teams), which typically incorporate analysis of proxy issues as a core component of the investment process. Portfolio managers for accounts employing Majority Voting still retain full discretion to override Majority Voting and to vote the shares as they determine to be in the best interest of those accounts, absent certain types of conflicts of interest, which are discussed elsewhere in this Policy. When there are no corresponding active-equity shares held by Invesco, the proxies for those strategies and legacy accounts will be voted in the following manner: (i) for U.S. issuers, in line with Invesco custom voting
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guidelines derived from the guidelines set forth below; and (ii) for non-U.S. issuers, in line with the recommendations of a third-party proxy advisory service.
IV. Conflicts of Interest
There may be occasions where voting proxies may present a real or perceived conflict of interest between Invesco, as investment manager, and one or more of Invesco’s clients or vendors. Under Invesco’s Code of Conduct, Invesco entities and individuals are strictly prohibited from putting personal benefit, whether tangible or intangible, before the interests of clients. “Personal benefit” includes any intended benefit for Invesco, oneself or any other individual, company, group or organization of any kind whatsoever, except a benefit for the relevant Invesco client.
Firm-level Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest may exist if Invesco has a material business relationship with, or is actively soliciting business from, either the company soliciting a proxy or a third party that has a material interest in the outcome of a proxy vote or that is actively lobbying for a particular outcome of a proxy vote (e.g., issuers that are distributors of Invesco’s products, or issuers that employ Invesco to manage portions of their retirement plans or treasury accounts). Invesco’s proxy governance team maintains a list of all such issuers for which a conflict of interest exists.
If the proposal that gives rise to the potential conflict is specifically addressed by this Policy or the operating guidelines and procedures of the relevant regional investment center, Invesco generally will vote the proxy in accordance therewith. Otherwise, based on a majority vote of its members, the Global IPAC (as described below) will vote the proxy.
Because this Policy and the operating guidelines and procedures of each regional investment center are pre-determined and crafted to be in the best interest of clients, applying them to vote client proxies should, in most instances, resolve any potential conflict of interest. As an additional safeguard, persons from Invesco’s marketing, distribution and other customer-facing functions may not serve on the Global IPAC. For the avoidance of doubt, Invesco may not consider Invesco Ltd.’s pecuniary interest when voting proxies on behalf of clients.
Personal Conflicts of Interest
A conflict also may exist where an Invesco employee has a known personal relationship with other proponents of proxy proposals, participants in proxy contests, corporate directors, or candidates for directorships.
All Invesco personnel with proxy voting responsibilities are required to report any known personal conflicts of interest regarding proxy issues with which they are involved. In such instances, the individual(s) with the conflict will be excluded from the decision-making process relating to such issues.
Other Conflicts of Interest
To avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, Invesco will not vote proxies issued by, or related to matters involving, Invesco Ltd. that may be held in client accounts from time to time.1 Shares of an Invesco-sponsored fund held by other Invesco funds will be voted in the same proportion as the votes of external shareholders of the underlying fund. Shares of an unaffiliated registered fund held by one or more Invesco funds will be voted in the same proportion as the votes of external shareholders of the underlying fund as required by federal securities law or any exemption therefrom. Additionally, Invesco or its Funds may vote proportionally in other cases where required by law.
V. Use of Third-Party Proxy Advisory Services

1 Generally speaking, Invesco does not invest for its clients in the shares of Invesco Ltd., however, limited exceptions apply in the case of funds or accounts designed to track an index that includes Invesco Ltd. as a component.
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Invesco may supplement its internal research with information from third-parties, such as proxy advisory firms. However, Invesco generally retains full and independent discretion with respect to proxy voting decisions.
As part of its fiduciary obligation to clients, Invesco performs extensive initial and ongoing due diligence on the proxy advisory firms it engages. This includes reviews of information regarding the capabilities of their research staffs, methodologies for formulating voting recommendations, the adequacy and quality of staffing, personnel and technology, as applicable, and internal controls, policies and procedures, including those relating to possible conflicts of interest. In addition, Invesco regularly monitors and communicates with these firms and monitors their compliance with Invesco’s performance and policy standards.
VI. Global Proxy Voting Platform and Administration
Guided by its philosophy that investment teams should manage proxy voting, Invesco has created the Global Invesco Proxy Advisory Committee (“Global IPAC”). The Global IPAC is a global investments-driven committee comprised of representatives from various investment management teams and Invesco’s Global Head of ESG. The Global IPAC provides a forum for investment teams to monitor, understand and discuss key proxy issues and voting trends within the Invesco complex. Absent a conflict of interest, the Global IPAC representatives, in consultation with the respective investment team, are responsible for voting proxies for the securities the team manages (unless such responsibility is explicitly delegated to the portfolio managers of the securities in question). In addition to the Global IPAC, for some clients, third parties (e.g., U.S. fund boards) provide oversight of the proxy process. The Global IPAC and Invesco’s proxy administration and governance team, compliance and legal teams annually communicate and review this Policy and the operating guidelines and procedures of each regional investment center to ensure that they remain consistent with clients’ best interests, regulatory requirements, governance trends and industry best practices.
Invesco maintains a proprietary global proxy administration platform, known as the “fund manager portal” and supported by the Global Head of ESG and a dedicated team of internal proxy specialists. The platform streamlines the proxy voting and ballot reconciliation processes, as well as related functions, such as share blocking and managing conflicts of interest issuers. Managing these processes internally, as opposed to relying on third parties, gives Invesco greater quality control, oversight and independence in the proxy administration process.
The platform also includes advanced global reporting and record-keeping capabilities regarding proxy matters that enable Invesco to satisfy client, regulatory and management requirements. Historical proxy voting information, including commentary by investment professionals regarding the votes they cast, where applicable, is stored to build institutional knowledge across the Invesco complex with respect to individual companies and proxy issues. Certain investment teams also use the platform to access third-party proxy research.
VII. Non-Votes
In the great majority of instances, Invesco will vote proxies. However, in certain circumstances, Invesco may refrain from voting where the economic or other opportunity costs of voting exceeds any benefit to clients. Such circumstances could include, for example:
If the security in question is on loan as part of a securities lending program, Invesco may determine that the benefit to the client of voting a particular proxy is outweighed by the revenue that would be lost by terminating the loan and recalling the securities;
In some countries the exercise of voting rights imposes temporary transfer restrictions on the related securities (“share blocking”). Invesco generally refrains from voting proxies in share-blocking countries unless Invesco determines that the benefit to the client(s) of voting a specific proxy outweighs the client’s temporary inability to sell the security; or
Some companies require a representative to attend meetings in person to vote a proxy. Invesco
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  may determine that the costs of sending a representative or signing a power-of-attorney outweigh the benefit of voting a particular proxy.
In addition, there may be instances in which Invesco is unable to vote all of its clients’ proxies despite using commercially reasonable efforts to do so. For example, Invesco may not receive proxy materials from the relevant fund or client custodian with sufficient time and information to make an informed independent voting decision. In other cases, voting may not be practicable due to operational limitations. In such cases, Invesco may choose not to vote, to abstain from voting, to vote in line with management or to vote in accordance with proxy advisor recommendations. These matters are left to the discretion of the relevant portfolio manager.
VIII. Proxy Voting Guidelines
The following guidelines describe Invesco’s general positions on various proxy voting issues. The guidelines are not intended to be exhaustive or prescriptive. As noted above, Invesco’s proxy process is investor-driven, and each portfolio manager retains ultimate discretion to vote proxies in the manner he or she deems most appropriate, consistent with Invesco’s proxy voting principles and philosophy discussed in Sections I. through IV. Individual proxy votes therefore will differ from these guidelines from time to time.
Invesco generally affords management discretion with respect to the operation of a company’s business and will generally support a board’s discretion on proposals relating to ordinary business practices and routine matters, unless there is insufficient information to decide about the nature of the proposal.
Invesco generally abstains from voting on or opposes proposals that are “bundled” or made contingent on each other (e.g., proposals to elect directors and approve compensation plans) where there is insufficient information to decide about the nature of the proposals.
A. Shareholder Access and Treatment of Shareholder Proposals – General
Invesco reviews on a case by case basis but generally 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, provided that such proposals would not require a disproportionate amount of management attention or corporate resources or otherwise that may inappropriately disrupt the company’s business and main purpose, usually set out in their reporting disclosures and business model. Likewise, Invesco reviews on a case by case basis but generally votes for shareholder proposals that are designed to protect shareholder rights if a company’s corporate governance standards indicate that such additional protections are warranted (for example, where minority shareholders’ rights are not adequately protected).
B. Environmental, Social and Corporate Responsibility Issues
Invesco believes that a company’s long-term response to environmental, social and corporate responsibility issues can significantly affect long-term shareholder value. We recognize that to manage a corporation effectively, directors and management may consider not only the interests of shareholders, but also the interests of employees, customers, suppliers, creditors and the local community, among others. While Invesco generally affords management discretion with respect to the operation of a company’s business, Invesco generally will evaluate proposals relating to environmental, social and corporate responsibility issues on a case by case basis and will vote on those proposals in a manner intended to maximize long-term shareholder value. Invesco may choose, however, to abstain on voting on proposals relating to environmental, social and corporate responsibility issues.
Invesco reviews on a case by case basis but generally supports the following proposals relating to these issues:
Gender pay gap proposals
Political contributions disclosure/political lobbying disclosure/political activities and action
Data security, privacy, and internet issues
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Report on climate change/climate change action
Gender diversity on boards
C. Capitalization Structure Issues
i. Stock Issuances
Invesco generally supports a board’s proposal to issue additional capital stock to meet ongoing corporate needs, except where the request could adversely affect Invesco clients’ ownership stakes or voting rights. Some capitalization proposals, such as those to authorize common or preferred stock with special voting rights or to issue additional stock in connection with an acquisition, may require additional analysis. Invesco generally opposes proposals to issue additional stock without preemptive rights, as those issuances do not permit shareholders to share proportionately in any new issues of stock of the same class. Invesco generally opposes proposals to authorize classes of preferred stock with unspecified voting, conversion, dividend or other rights (“blank check” stock) when they appear to be intended as an anti-takeover mechanism; such issuances may be supported when used for general financing purposes.
ii. Stock Splits
Invesco generally supports a board’s proposal to increase common share authorization for a stock split, provided that the increase in authorized shares would not result in excessive dilution given the company’s industry and performance in terms of shareholder returns.
iii. Share Repurchases
Invesco generally supports a board’s proposal to institute open-market share repurchase plans only if all shareholders participate on an equal basis.
D. Corporate Governance Issues
i. General
Invesco reviews on a case by case basis but generally supports the following proposals related to governance matters:
Adopt proxy access right
Require independent board chairperson
Provide right to shareholders to call special meetings
Provide right to act by written consent
Submit shareholder rights plan (poison pill) to shareholder vote
Reduce supermajority vote requirement
Remove antitakeover provisions
Declassify the board of directors
Require a majority vote for election of directors
Require majority of independent directors on the board
Approve executive appointment
Adopt exclusive forum provision
Invesco generally supports a board’s discretion to amend a company’s articles concerning routine matters, such as formalities relating to shareholder meetings. Invesco generally opposes non-routine amendments to a company’s articles if any of the proposed amendments would limit shareholders’ rights or there is insufficient information to decide about the nature of the proposal.
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ii. Board of Directors
1. Director Nominees in Uncontested Elections
Subject to the other considerations described below, in an uncontested director election for a company without a controlling shareholder, Invesco generally votes in favor of the director slate if it is comprised of at least a majority of independent directors and if the board’s key committees are fully independent, effective and balanced. Key committees include the audit, compensation/remuneration and governance/nominating committees. Invesco’s standard of independence excludes directors who, in addition to the directorship, have any material business or family relationships with the companies they serve.
2. Director Nominees in Contested Elections
Invesco recognizes that short-term investment sentiments influence the corporate governance landscape and may influence companies in Invesco clients’ portfolios and more broadly across the market. Invesco recognizes that short-term investment sentiment may conflict with long-term value creation and as such looks at each proxy contest matter on a case by case basis, considering factors such as:
Long-term financial performance of the company relative to its industry
Management’s track record
Background to the proxy contest
Qualifications of director nominees (both slates)
Evaluation of what each side is offering shareholders as well as the likelihood that the proposed objectives and goals can be met
Stock ownership positions in the company
3. Director Accountability
Invesco generally withholds votes from directors who exhibit a lack of accountability to shareholders. Examples include, without limitation, poor attendance (less than 75%, absent extenuating circumstances) at meetings, director “overboarding” (as described below), failing to implement shareholder proposals that have received a majority of votes and/or by adopting or approving 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 company’s directors. Invesco generally supports shareholder proposals relating to the competence of directors that are in the best interest of the company’s performance and the interest of its shareholders. In situations where directors’ performance is a concern, Invesco may also support shareholder proposals to take corrective actions such as so-called “clawback” provisions.
Invesco generally withholds votes from directors who serve on an excessive number of boards of directors (“overboarding”). Examples of overboarding may include when (i) a non-executive director is sitting on more than six public company boards, and (ii) a CEO is sitting on the board of more than two public companies besides the CEO’s own company, excluding the boards of majority-owned subsidiaries of the parent company.
4. Director Independence
Invesco generally supports proposals to require a majority of directors to be independent unless particular circumstances make this not feasible or in the best interests of shareholders. We generally vote for proposals that would require the board’s audit, compensation/remuneration, and/or governance/nominating committees to be composed exclusively of independent directors because this minimizes the potential for conflicts of interest.
5. Director Indemnification
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Invesco recognizes that individuals may be reluctant to serve as corporate directors if they are personally liable for all related lawsuits and legal costs. As a result, reasonable limitations on directors’ liability can benefit a company and its shareholders by helping to attract and retain qualified directors while preserving recourse for shareholders in the event of misconduct by directors. Accordingly, unless there is insufficient information to make a decision about the nature of the proposal, Invesco will generally support a board’s discretion regarding proposals to limit directors’ liability and provide indemnification and/or exculpation, provided that the arrangements are limited to the director acting honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the company and, in criminal matters, are limited to the director having reasonable grounds for believing the conduct was lawful.
6. Separate Chairperson and CEO
Invesco evaluates these proposals on a case by case basis, recognizing that good governance requires either an independent chair or a qualified, proactive, and lead independent director.
Voting decisions may consider, among other factors, the presence or absence of:
a designated lead director, appointed from the ranks of the independent board members, with an established term of office and clearly delineated powers and duties
a majority of independent directors
completely independent key committees
committee chairpersons nominated by the independent directors
CEO performance reviewed annually by a committee of independent directors
established governance guidelines
7. Majority/Supermajority/Cumulative Voting for Directors
The right to elect directors is the single most important mechanism shareholders have to promote accountability. Invesco generally votes in favor of proposals to elect directors by a majority vote. Except in cases where required by law in the jurisdiction of incorporation or when a company has adopted formal governance principles that present a meaningful alternative to the majority voting standard, Invesco generally votes against actions that would impose any supermajority voting requirement, and generally supports actions to dismantle existing supermajority requirements.
The practice of cumulative voting can enable minority shareholders to have representation on a company’s board. Invesco generally opposes such proposals as unnecessary where the company has adopted a majority voting standard. However, Invesco generally 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.
8. Staggered Boards/Annual Election of Directors
Invesco generally supports proposals to elect each director annually rather than electing directors to staggered multi-year terms because annual elections increase a board’s level of accountability to its shareholders.
9. Board Size
Invesco believes that the number of directors is an important factor to consider when evaluating the board’s ability to maximize long-term shareholder value. Invesco approaches proxies relating to board size on a case by case basis but generally will defer to the board with respect to determining the optimal number of board members, provided that the proposed board size is sufficiently large to represent shareholder interests and sufficiently limited to remain effective.
10. Director Term Limits and Retirement Age
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Invesco believes it is important for a board of directors to examine its membership regularly with a view to ensuring that the company continues to benefit from a diversity of director viewpoints and experience. We generally believe that an individual board’s nominating committee is best positioned to determine whether director term limits would be an appropriate measure to help achieve these goals and, if so, the nature of such limits. Invesco generally opposes proposals to limit the tenure of outside directors through mandatory retirement ages.
iii. Audit Committees and Auditors
1. Qualifications of Audit Committee and Auditors
Invesco believes a company’s Audit Committee has a high degree of responsibility to shareholders in matters of financial disclosure, integrity of the financial statements and effectiveness of a company’s internal controls. Independence, experience and financial expertise are critical elements of a well-functioning Audit Committee. When electing directors who are members of a company’s Audit Committee, or when ratifying a company’s auditors, Invesco considers the past performance of the Audit Committee and holds its members accountable for the quality of the company’s financial statements and reports.
2. Auditor Indemnifications
A company’s independent auditors play a critical role in ensuring and attesting to the integrity of the company’s financial statements. It is therefore essential that they perform their work in accordance with the highest standards. Invesco generally opposes proposals that would limit the liability of or indemnify auditors because doing so could serve to undermine this obligation.
3. Adequate Disclosure of Auditor Fees
Understanding the fees earned by the auditors is important for assessing auditor independence. Invesco’s support for the re-appointment of the auditors will take into consideration the availability of adequate disclosure concerning the amount and nature of audit versus non-audit fees. Invesco generally will support proposals that call for this disclosure if it is not already being made.
E. Remuneration and Incentives
Invesco believes properly constructed compensation plans that include equity ownership are effective in creating incentives that induce management and employees of portfolio companies to create greater shareholder wealth. Invesco generally supports equity compensation plans that promote the proper alignment of incentives with shareholders’ long-term interests, and generally 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 the client’s investment.
i. Independent Compensation/Remuneration Committee
Invesco believes that an independent, experienced and well-informed compensation/remuneration committee is critical to ensuring that a company’s remuneration practices align with shareholders’ interests and, therefore, generally supports proposals calling for a compensation/remuneration committee to be comprised solely of independent directors.
ii. Advisory Votes on Executive Compensation
Invesco believes that an independent compensation/remuneration committee of the board, with input from management, is generally best positioned to determine the appropriate components and levels of executive compensation, as well as the appropriate frequency of related shareholder advisory votes. This is particularly the case where shareholders can express their views on remuneration matters through annual votes for or against the election of the individual directors who comprise the compensation/remuneration committee. Invesco, therefore, generally will support management’s recommendations regarding the components and levels of executive compensation and the frequency of shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation. However, Invesco will vote against such recommendations where Invesco
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determines that a company’s executive remuneration policies are not properly aligned with shareholder interests or may create inappropriate incentives for management.
iii. Equity Based Compensation Plans
Invesco generally votes against plans that contain structural features that would impair the alignment of incentives between shareholders and management. Such features include, without limitation, the ability to reprice or reload options without shareholder approval, the ability to issue options below the stock’s current market price, or the ability to replenish shares automatically without shareholder approval.
iv. Severance Arrangements
Invesco considers proposed severance arrangements (sometimes known as “golden parachute” arrangements) on a case by case basis due to the wide variety among their terms. Invesco acknowledges that in some cases such arrangements, if reasonable, may be in shareholders’ best interests as a method of attracting and retaining high quality executive talent. Invesco generally votes in favor of proposals requiring advisory shareholder ratification of senior executives’ severance agreements while generally opposing proposals that require such agreements to be ratified by shareholders in advance of their adoption.
v. “Claw Back” Provisions
Invesco generally supports so called “claw back” policies intended to recoup remuneration paid to senior executives based upon materially inaccurate financial reporting (as evidenced by later restatements) or fraudulent accounting or business practices.
vi. Employee Stock Purchase Plans
Invesco generally 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 represents a reasonable discount from the market price.
F. Anti-Takeover Defenses
Measures designed to protect a company from unsolicited bids can adversely affect shareholder value and voting rights, and they have the potential to create conflicts of interests among directors, management and shareholders. Such measures include adopting or renewing shareholder rights plans (“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. In determining whether to support a proposal to add, eliminate or restrict anti-takeover measures, Invesco will examine the elements of the proposal to assess the degree to which it would adversely affect shareholder rights of adopted. Invesco generally supports shareholder proposals directing companies to subject their anti-takeover provisions to a shareholder vote, as well as the following proposals:
Provide right to act by written consent
Provide right to call special meetings
Adopt fair price provision
Approve control share acquisition
Invesco generally opposes payments by companies to minority shareholders intended to dissuade such shareholders from pursuing a takeover or another change (sometimes known as “greenmail”) because these payments result in preferential treatment of some shareholders over others.
Companies occasionally require shareholder approval to engage in certain corporate actions or transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, name changes, dissolutions, reorganizations, divestitures and reincorporations. Invesco generally determines its votes for these types of corporate actions after a careful evaluation of the proposal. Generally, Invesco will support proposals to approve different types of restructurings that provide the necessary financing to save the company from involuntary bankruptcy.
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However, Invesco will generally oppose proposals to change a company’s corporate form or to “go dark” (i.e., going private transactions) without shareholder approval.
Reincorporation involves re-establishing the company in a different legal jurisdiction. Invesco generally will vote for proposals to reincorporate a company if the board and management have demonstrated sound financial or business reasons for the move. Invesco generally will oppose proposals to reincorporate if they are solely part of an anti-takeover defense or intended to limit directors’ liability.
Invesco will generally support proposals that ask the board to consider non‐shareholder constituencies or other non‐financial effects when evaluating a merger or business combination.
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APPENDIX B    
Regular Holidays for Various Securities Markets and Settlement Periods Greater than Seven Days for Calendar Year 2020
The dates in the calendar year 2020 (the only dates which are available as of the date of this SAI) of the regular holidays affecting the securities markets of various countries (including those days where markets close early or open late), as well as the dates of the regular holidays in calendar year 2020 that may cause settlement periods to be greater than seven days including the potential worst-case settlement dates, are as follows. Holidays are subject to change without further notice.
Country   JAN   FEB   MAR   APR   MAY   JUN   JUL   AUG   SEP   OCT   NOV   DEC
Albania   1,2       14,24   13,20   1       31*       7       30   8,25
Argentina   1   24,25   23,24   2,9,10   1,25   15   9,10   17       12   6,23   7,8,25
Australia   1,27       2,9   10-13,27   4   1,8       3,12   28   5   3   24-28,31
Austria   1           10,13   1   1               26       24,25,31
Bahrain**   1               24*-26*           2*,20*       29*       16,17
Bangladesh**           17,26   9*,14   6*,21*-25*       1   2*,11,30*       26       16,31
Belgium   1,10           10,13   1,21,22   1   21               11   24,25,31
Benin   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Bermuda   1           10   29   15   30,31       7       11   25,28
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fed. of   1,2,7,9           13,17,20   1,25       31               21,25   25
Botswana   1,2           10,13   1,21       1,20,21       30   1       25
Brazil   1   24-26       10,21   1   11   9       7   12   2,20   24,25,31
Bulgaria   1       3   10,13,17,20   1,6,25               7,22           24,25,28
Burkina Faso   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Canada   1,2   17       10   18   24   1   3   7   12   11   24,25,28
Chile   1           10   1,21   29   16       18   12       8,25,31
China   1,24-30           6   1,4,5   25,26               1-8        
China Connect – Bond Connect   1,27-28           10-13,30   1   25   1           1-2,26       25
China Connect – Stock Connect   1,24-30           6,9-13,29-30   1-5   25-26,30   1           1-8,23-26       24-25
Colombia   1,6       23   9,10   1,25   15,22,29   20   7,17       12   2,16   8,24*,25,31*
Costa Rica   1           9-10   1               15   12       25
Croatia   1,6           10,13   1   11,22       5           18   24,25,31
Cyprus   1,6       2,25   1,10,13,17,20,21   1   8               1,28       24-25
Czech Republic   1           10,13   1,8       6       28   28   17   24,25,31
Denmark   1           9,10,13   8,21,22   1,5                       24,25,31
Egypt**   1,7           19,20   24*-25*       23,30*   20*       6,29*        
Estonia   1   24       10,13   1,21   23,24       20               24,25,31
Eswatini   1           10,13,20   1,21       22*       7           25,28*
Euroclear   1                                           25
Finland   1,6           10,13   1,21   19                       24,25,31
France   1           10,13   1                           24,25,31
Georgia, Republic of   1-2,7       3   9,17-20   12,26           28       14   23    
Germany   1           10,13   1   1                       24,25,31
Ghana   1,7       6   10,13   1,25*       30*,31*   4   21           4,25,28
Greece   1,6       2,25   10,13,17,20   1   8               28       24,25
Guinea-Bissau   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Hong Kong   1,27-28           10,13,30   1   25   1           1,2,26       25
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Country   JAN   FEB   MAR   APR   MAY   JUN   JUL   AUG   SEP   OCT   NOV   DEC
Hungary   1           10,13   1   1       20,21       23   1   24,25
Iceland   1           9,10,13,23   1,21   1,17       3               24,25,31
India       19,21   10,25   1,2,6,10,14   1,7,25                   2,30   16,30   25
Indonesia   1       25   10   1,7,21,22,
25-27
  1   31   17,20       29       24,25,31
Ireland   1       17   10,13   1,4   1       3       26       24-29,31
Israel**           10   8,9,12,13,
14,15,28,29
  28,29   30           20,27,28   4-8        
Italy   1           10,13   1                           24,25,31
Ivory Coast   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Japan   1-3,13   11,24   20   29   4-6       23,24   10   21,22       3,23   31
Jordan**   1               24*-26*       30*   2*,3*,20*       29*        
Kazakhstan   1,2,7       9,23-25       1,7-8       6,31   31               1,16-18
Kenya   1           10,13   1,25*   1   31           20       25
Korea, Republic of   1,24-27           15,30   1,5               30   1-2,9       25,31
Kuwait**   1*   25*,26*   22*       24*-26*       30*   2*,3*,20*           1*    
Latvia   1           10,13   1,4,21   22-24                   18   24,25,31
Lithuania   1       11   10,13   1,21   24   6               1   24,25,31
Luxembourg   1           10,13   1                           24,25,31
Malawi   1,15       3   10,13   1,14,25*       6           15       25
Malaysia   1,24,27               1,7,11,25*-26*       31*   20,31   16   29       25
Mali   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Mauritius   1,2   21   12,25       1                       2   25
Mexico   1   3*   16*   9*,10*   1*               16*       2*,16*   25
Morocco   1               1,25*26*       30,31*   14,20,21       30*   6,18    
Namibia   1           10,13   1,4,21,25           26               10,25
Netherlands   1           10,13   1                           24,25,31
New Zealand   1,2   6       10,13,27       1               26       25,28
Niger   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Nigeria   1           10,13   1,25*   12   31*           1,29       25
Norway   1           8,9,10,13   1,21   1                       24,25,31
Oman**   1       22*       24*       23*   20*       29*   18*    
Pakistan   1   5   23   23   1,22*-27*       1,30*-31*   14,27*-28*       29*-30*       25
Panama   1,13   24-26       9,10   1                       3-5,10   8,25,31
Peru   1           9,10   1   29   28           8       25
Philippines   1   25       9-10   1   12       21,31           2,30   8
Poland   1,6           10,13   1   11                   11   24,25,31
Portugal   1           10,13   1                           24,25,31
Qatar**   1   11   1       24*-26*       30*,31*   1*               18
Romania   1,2           17,20   1   1,8                   30   1,25
Russia   1,2,7   24   9       1,4,5,11   12                   4    
Saudi Arabia**                   24*-28*       30*   2*-5*   23*            
Senegal   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Serbia   1-3,6,7   17       17,20   1                       11    
Singapore   1,27           10   1,7,25       31   10               25
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Country   JAN   FEB   MAR   APR   MAY   JUN   JUL   AUG   SEP   OCT   NOV   DEC
Slovak Republic   1,6           10,13   1,8               1,15       17   24,25
Slovenia   1,2           10,13,27   1   25                       24,25,31
South Africa   1           10,13,27   1   16       10   24           16,25
Spain   1           10,13   1                           24,25,31
Sri Lanka   1,10,15   4,21   9   7,10,13,14   1,7,8,25   5       3   1   1,30       25,29
Srpska, Republic of   7,9           13,17,20                           21    
Sweden   1,6           9,10,13,30   1,20,21   19               30       24,25,31
Switzerland   1,2           10,13,20   1,21   1           14           24,25,31
Taiwan   1,23-29   28       2,3   1   25,26               1,2,9        
Tanzania   1           7,10,13   1       7,31           14,29       9,25
Thailand   1   10       6,13-15   1,4,6   3   6,28   12       13,23       7,10,31
Togo   1           13   1,21   1   7*   7   11           25
Tunisia   1,14       20   9   1,25       30-31   13,20       15,28        
Turkey   1           23   1,19,25,26       15,30,31   3       28,29        
Uganda   1           10,13   1   3,9   31           9       25
Ukraine   1,2,6,7               1           24       14       25
United Arab Emirates – ADX, DFM and DIFC**   1               24*-26*       31*   20*               1*-3*
United Kingdom   1           10,13   8,25           31               25,28
United States   1,20   17       10   25       3       7   12   11,26,27   24,25
Uruguay   1,6   24,25       9,10   1,18   19       25       12   2   25
Vietnam   1,23-29           2,30   1               2            
Zambia   1       9,12   10,13   1,25       6,7   3       19       25
Zimbabwe   1   21       10,13   1,25           10,11               22,25
* Date is approximate
** Market is closed every Friday
The longest redemption cycle for the Funds is a function of the longest redemption cycles among the countries whose stocks comprise the Funds. In the calendar year 2020, the dates of the regular holidays affecting the following securities markets present the worst-case redemption cycle for the Fund are as follows:
SETTLEMENT PERIODS GREATER THAN SEVEN DAYS FOR YEAR 2020*
Country   Trade Date   Settlement Date   Number of Days
to Settle
Botswana

  7/17/2020   7/27/2020   9
             
China

  1/22/2020   2/3/2020   12
    1/23/2020   2/3/2020   12
    1/24/2020   2/5/2020   12
    1/27/2020   2/5/2020   9
    1/28/2020   2/5/2020   8
    9/28/20   10/8/20   10
    9/29/20   10/9/20   10
    9/30/20   10/12/20   12
             
Egypt

  5/19/2020   6/2/2020   13
    5/20/2020   6/2/2020   12
    5/21/2020   6/2/2020   11
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Country   Trade Date   Settlement Date   Number of Days
to Settle
             
Hong Kong

  1/22/2020   2/3/2020   12
    1/23/2020   2/4/2020   12
    1/24/2020   2/5/2020   12
    1/27/2020   2/5/2020   9
    1/28/2020   2/5/2020   8
             
Japan

  1/10/2020   1/20/2020   9
    4/28/2020   5/7/2020   8
    4/29/2020   5/8/2020   8
    4/30/2020   5/11/2020   10
    5/1/2020   5/12/2020   11
             
Kenya

  4/3/2020   4/14/2020   9
    4/6/2020   4/15/2020   8
    4/7/2020   4/16/2020   8
    4/8/2020   4/17/2020   8
    4/9/2020   4/20/2020   10
             
Mexico

  1/31/2020   2/11/2020   10
             
Peru

  7/24/2020   8/3/2020   9
             
Russia

  1/2/2020   1/14/2020   12
    1/3/2020   1/14/2020   11
    1/6/2020   1/14/2020   8
             
Spain

  1/2/2020   1/14/2020   13
    1/3/2020   1/15/2020   12
    1/3/2020   1/16/2020   12
    4/22/2020   5/4/2020   11
    4/23/2020   5/5/2020   11
    4/24/2020   5/6/2020   11
    4/27/2020   5/7/2020   9
    4/28/2020   5/8/2020   9
    4/29/2020   5/11/2020   11
    4/30/2020   5/12/2020   11
    10/1/2020   10/13/2020   11
    10/2/2020   10/14/2020   11
    10/5/2020   10/15/2020   9
    10/6/2020   10/16/2020   9
    10/7/2020   10/19/2020   11
    10/8/2020   10/20/2020   11
    10/9/2020   10/21/2020   11
    11/27/2020   12/9/2020   11
    11/30/2020   12/10/2020   9
    12/1/2020   12/11/2020   9
    12/2/2020   12/14/2020   9
    12/3/2020   12/15/2020   9
    12/4/2020   12/16/2020   9
    12/7/2020   12/17/2020   9
    12/16/2020   12/28/2020   11
    12/17/2020   12/29/2020   11
    12/18/2020   12/30/2020   11
    12/21/2020   12/31/2020   10
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Country   Trade Date   Settlement Date   Number of Days
to Settle
    12/22/2020   1/4/2021   12
    12/23/2020   1/5/2021   12
    12/24/2020   1/6/2021   12
Taiwan

  1/23/2020   2/3/2020   10
             
Vietnam

  1/31/2020   1/31/2020   8
    2/3/2020   2/3/2020   10
* These worst-case redemption cycles are based on information regarding regular holidays, which may be out of date. The proclamation of new holidays, the treatment by market participants of certain days as “informal holidays” (e.g., days on which no or limited securities transactions occur, as a result of substantially shortened trading hours), the elimination of existing holidays or changes in local securities delivery practices could affect the information set forth herein at some time in the future. Based on changes in holidays, longer (worse) redemption cycles are possible.
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Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
PART C. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 28.    Exhibits.
Exhibit
Number
  Description
(a) (1) (a)   Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Registrant. (1)
    (b)   Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust. (2)
(b)       Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant as of June 4, 2018. (3)
(c)       Not applicable.
(d) (1) (a)   Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC, for unitary fee funds. (4)
    (b)   Schedule A (as of April 20, 2019) to Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC, for unitary fee funds. (5)
  (2) (a)   Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC, for non-unitary fee funds. (6)
    (b)   Schedule A (as of April 30, 2019) to Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC, for non-unitary fee funds. (5)
  (3) (a)   Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement by and among Invesco Capital Management LLC and the Sub-Advisers. (7)
    (b)   Schedule A (as of April 20, 2019) for Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement by and among Investment Capital Management LLC and the Sub-Advisers. (5)
    (c)   Acknowledgement and Waiver of Notice of Termination of Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement between Invesco Capital Management LLC and Invesco Australia Limited dated January 14, 2015. (8)
  (4) (a)   Amended and Restated Excess Expense Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC. (9)
    (b)   Schedule A dated April 11, 2019, to Amended and Restated Excess Expense Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC. (10)
  (5)     Management Services Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC. (11)
  (6) (a)   Memorandum of Agreement between Adviser and Registrant (as of April 11, 2019). (10)
    (b)   Memorandum of Agreement Exhibit A for Schedule of Funds (as of December 12, 2019). (*)
  (7) (a)   Management Fee Waiver Agreement (as of April 30, 2013). (12)
    (b)   Schedule A to Management Fee Waiver Agreement (as of April 20, 2019). (3)
  (8) (a)   Management Fee Waiver Agreement (as of December 19, 2017). (9)
    (b)   Schedule A to Management Fee Waiver Agreement (as of December 12, 2018). (10)
(e) (1) (a)   Amended and Restated Master Distribution Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Distributors, Inc. (4)
    (b)   Schedule A dated April 20, 2019 for Amended and Restated Master Distribution Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Distributors, Inc. (5)
(f)       Not applicable.
(g) (1) (a)   Custody Agreement with Schedule I (as of September 17, 2018) between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (13)
    (b)   Schedule I (as of December 12, 2019) for Custody Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (*)

 

Exhibit
Number
  Description
  (2)     Foreign Custody Manager Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (14)
(h) (1) (a)   Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement (as of September 17, 2018) between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (15)
    (b)   Amendment A to Exhibit A (as of December 12, 2019) for Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (*)
  (2) (a)   Amended and Restated Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (4)
    (b)   Exhibit D (as of December 12, 2019) to the Amended and Restated Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon. (*)
  (3)     Form of Participant Agreement between Invesco Distributors, Inc., the Bank of New York Mellon, and the Participant. (16)
  (4)     Form of Sublicense Agreement between the Registrant and Invesco Capital Management LLC. (17)
(i)       Consent of Counsel – None.
(j)       Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. (*)
(k)       Not applicable.
(l)       Not applicable.
(m)       Not applicable.
(n)       Not applicable.
(o)       Not applicable.
(p) (1)     Code of Ethics adopted by the Invesco Family of ETFs. (18)
  (2)     Code of Ethics adopted by Invesco investment advisers and distributor. (19)
(q) (1)     Powers of Attorney for Messrs. Bagge, Barre, Carome, Kole, Lim, Wicker and Wilson. (2)
  (2)     Powers of Attorney for Mses. Herget and Pace and Admiral Giambastiani. (5)
(1) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 7, filed on September 18, 2007.
(2) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 707, filed on December 28, 2018.
(3) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 731, filed on October 25, 2019.
(4) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 612, filed on July 3, 2017.
(5) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 724, filed on June 20, 2019.
(6) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 683, filed on May 11, 2018.
(7) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 579, filed on January 6, 2017.
(8) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 475, filed on February 26, 2015.
(9) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 382 to the Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust’s Registration Statement filed on December 27, 2018.
(10) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 41 to the Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, filed on May 16, 2019.
(11) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 425, filed on October 25, 2013.
(12) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 415, filed on June 7, 2013.
(13) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 26 to the Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, filed on November 21, 2018.
(14) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 390, filed on February 27, 2013.
(15) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 272 to the Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, filed on October 24, 2018.
(16) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 8 to the Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, filed on July 5, 2018.
(17) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 611, filed on June 16, 2017.
(18) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 19 to the Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, filed on September 27, 2018.

 

(19) Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 734, filed on December 19, 2019.
* Filed herewith.
Item 29.    Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Fund.
None.
Item 30.    Indemnification.
Reference is made to Article IX of the Registrant’s Declaration of Trust:
The Registrant (also, the “Trust”) is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is operated pursuant to a Declaration of Trust, dated October 10, 2006 and Amended and Restated as of September 17, 2007 (the “Declaration of Trust”), which permits the Registrant to indemnify every person who is, or has been, a Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust, including persons who serve at the request of the Trust as directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents of another organization in which the Trust has an interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise (hereinafter referred to as a “Covered Person”), to the fullest extent permitted by law against liability and against all expenses reasonably incurred or paid by him in connection with any claim, action, suit or proceeding in which he becomes involved as a party or otherwise by virtue of his being or having been such a Trustee, director, officer, employee or agent and against amounts paid or incurred by him in settlement thereof.
No indemnification shall be provided hereunder to a Covered Person to the extent such indemnification is prohibited by applicable federal law.
The rights of indemnification herein provided may be insured against by policies maintained by the Trust, shall be severable, shall not affect any other rights to which any Covered Person may now or hereafter be entitled, shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be such a Covered Person and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
Subject to applicable federal law, expenses of preparation and presentation of a defense to any claim, action, suit or proceeding subject to a claim for indemnification under this Section 9.5 shall be advanced by the Trust prior to final disposition thereof upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the recipient to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification under this Section 9.5.
To the extent that any determination is required to be made as to whether a Covered Person engaged in conduct for which indemnification is not provided as described herein, or as to whether there is reason to believe that a Covered Person ultimately will be found entitled to indemnification, the Person or Persons making the determination shall afford the Covered Person a rebuttable presumption that the Covered Person has not engaged in such conduct and that there is reason to believe that the Covered Person ultimately will be found entitled to indemnification.
As used in this Section 9.5, the words “claim,” “action,” “suit” or “proceeding” shall apply to all claims, demands, actions, suits, investigations, regulatory inquiries, proceedings or any other occurrence of a similar nature, whether actual or threatened and whether civil, criminal, administrative or other, including appeals, and the words “liability” and “expenses” shall include without limitation, attorneys’ fees, costs, judgments, amounts paid in settlement, fines, penalties and other liabilities.
Further Indemnification. Nothing contained herein shall affect any rights to indemnification to which any Covered Person or other Person may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law or prevent the Trust from entering into any contract to provide indemnification to any Covered Person or other Person. Without limiting the foregoing, the Trust may, in connection with the acquisition of assets subject to liabilities pursuant to Section 4.2 hereof or a reorganization or consolidation pursuant to Section 10.2 hereof, assume the obligation to indemnify any Person including a Covered Person or otherwise contract to provide such indemnification, and such indemnification shall not be subject to the terms of this Article IX.
Amendments and Modifications. Without limiting the provisions of Section 11.1(b) hereof, in no event will any amendment, modification or change to the provisions of this Declaration or the By-laws adversely affect in any manner the rights of any Covered Person to (a) indemnification under Section 9.5 hereof in connection with any proceeding in which such Covered Person becomes involved as a party or otherwise by virtue of being or having been a Trustee, officer or employee of the Trust or (b) any insurance payments under policies maintained by the Trust, in either case with respect to any act or omission of such Covered Person that occurred or is alleged to have occurred prior to the time such amendment, modification or change to this Declaration or the By-laws.
Item 31.    Business and Other Connections of the Investment Adviser.
Reference is made to the caption “Management of the Fund” in each Prospectus constituting Part A, which is included in this Registration Statement, and “Management” in each Statement of Additional Information constituting Part B, which is included in this Registration Statement.

 

The information as to the directors and executive officers of Invesco Capital Management LLC is set forth in Invesco Capital Management LLC’s Form ADV filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 26, 2019 (and as amended through the date hereof) is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 32.    Principal Underwriters.
(a) Invesco Distributors, Inc. serves as the principal underwriter for the following investment companies, including the Registrant, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended:
AIM Counselor Series Trust (Invesco Counselor Series Trust)
AIM Equity Funds (Invesco Equity Funds)
AIM Funds Group (Invesco Funds Group)
AIM Growth Series (Invesco Growth Series)
AIM International Mutual Funds (Invesco International Mutual Funds)
AIM Investment Funds (Invesco Investment Funds)
AIM Investment Securities Funds (Invesco Investment Securities Funds)
AIM Sector Funds (Invesco Sector Funds)
AIM Tax-Exempt Funds (Invesco Tax-Exempt Funds)
AIM Treasurer’s Series Trust (Invesco Treasurer’s Series Trust)
AIM Variable Insurance Funds (Invesco Variable Insurance Funds)
Invesco Senior Loan Fund
Invesco Management Trust
Short-Term Investments Trust
Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust
Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust
Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust
(b) The following are the Officers and Managers of Invesco Distributors, Inc., the Registrant’s underwriter.
NAME AND PRINCIPAL
BUSINESS ADDRESS*
  POSITIONS AND OFFICES
WITH REGISTRANT
  POSITIONS AND OFFICES
WITH UNDERWRITER
Rocco Benedetto   None   Senior Vice President
Paul Blease   None   Senior Vice President
David Borrelli   None   Senior Vice President
Ken Brodsky   None   Senior Vice President
Daniel E. Draper   President & Principal Executive Officer   Senior Vice President
George Fahey   None   Senior Vice President
Jay Fortuna   None   Senior Vice President
Mark W. Gregson   None   Chief Financial Officer
Trisha B. Hancock   None   Senior Vice President
Clint Harris   None   President

 

NAME AND PRINCIPAL
BUSINESS ADDRESS*
  POSITIONS AND OFFICES
WITH REGISTRANT
  POSITIONS AND OFFICES
WITH UNDERWRITER
John Hoffman   None   Senior Vice President
Eliot Honaker   None   Senior Vice President
Brian Kiley   None   Senior Vice President
Jeffrey H. Kupor   Chief Legal Officer   Secretary
Annette Janecka Lege   None   Treasurer
Brian Levitt   None   Senior Vice President
John McDonough   None   Director & Chief Executive Officer
Peter Mintzberg   None   Senior Vice President
Clint Modler   None   Senior Vice President
Kevin Neznek   None   Senior Vice President
Tony Oh   None   Senior Vice President
Adam Rochlin   None   Senior Vice President
Benjamin Stewart   None   Senior Vice President
Paul E. Temple   None   Senior Vice President
Ben Utt   None   Executive Vice President
Rohit Vohra   None   Senior Vice President
Gary K. Wendler   None   Senior Vice President, Director, Marketing Research & Analysis
Donna White   None   Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer
Crissie Wisdom   Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer   Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer
John M. Zerr   None   Senior Vice President
* The principal business address for all directors and executive officers is Invesco Distributors, Inc., 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77046-1173.
  (c) Not applicable.
Item 33.    Location of Accounts and Records.
All accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules promulgated thereunder, are held in physical possession at the offices, as applicable, of: (1) the Registrant, (2) the Registrant’s investment adviser and (3) the Registrant’s custodian and administrator.
1. Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
2. Invesco Capital Management LLC
3500 Lacey Road, Suite 700
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
3. The Bank of New York Mellon
240 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10286
Item 34.    Management Services.
Not applicable.

 

Item 35.    Undertakings.
None

 

SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Downers Grove and State of Illinois, on the 28th day of February, 2020.
Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II
By: /s/ Daniel E. Draper
  Daniel E. Draper
Title: President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the dates indicated.
SIGNATURE   TITLE   DATE
/s/ Daniel E. Draper   President   February 28, 2020
Daniel E. Draper        
/s/ Kelli Gallegos   Treasurer   February 28, 2020
Kelli Gallegos        
/s/ Anna Paglia   Secretary   February 28, 2020
Anna Paglia        
*/s/ Ronn R. Bagge   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Ronn R. Bagge        
*/s/ Todd J. Barre   Vice Chairman and Trustee   February 28, 2020
Todd J. Barre        
*/s/ Kevin M. Carome   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Kevin M. Carome        
**/s/ Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.        
**/s/ Victoria J. Herget   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Victoria J. Herget        
*/s/ Marc M. Kole   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Marc M. Kole        
*/s/ Yung Bong Lim   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Yung Bong Lim        
**/s/ Joanne Pace   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Joanne Pace        
*/s/ Gary R. Wicker   Trustee   February 28, 2020
Gary R. Wicker        
*/s/ Donald H. Wilson   Chairman and Trustee   February 28, 2020
Donald H. Wilson        
*By: /s/ Anna Paglia       February 28, 2020
Anna Paglia        
Attorney-In-Fact        
* Anna Paglia signs pursuant to powers of attorney filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 707 to the Trust’s Registration Statement and incorporated by reference herein.
** Anna Paglia signs pursuant to powers of attorney filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 724 to the Trust’s Registration Statement and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Exhibit Index
(d) (6) (b) Memorandum of Agreement Exhibit A for Schedule of Funds (as of December 12, 2019)
(g) (1) (b) Schedule I (as of December 12, 2019) for Custody Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon
(h) (1) (b) Amendment A to Exhibit A (as of December 12, 2019) for Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon
(h) (2) (b) Exhibit D (as of December 12, 2019) to the Amended and Restated Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon
(j) Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
   

EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF FUNDS

(as of December 12, 2019)

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST

 

PORTFOLIO

  

EFFECTIVE DATE

  

EXPIRATION DATE

Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco BRIC ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Cleantech ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dividend Achievers ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Basic Materials Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Biotechnology & Genome ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Consumer Staples Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Energy Exploration & Production ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Energy Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Financial Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Food & Beverage ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Healthcare Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Industrials Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Growth ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Value ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Market ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Media ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Networking ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Oil & Gas Services ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA NASDAQ Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Pharmaceuticals ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Retail ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Semiconductors ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Dynamic Software ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Technology Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Utilities Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Financial Preferred ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco FTSE RAFI U.S. 1000 ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco FTSE RAFI U.S. 1500 Small-Mid ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell Top 200 Equal Weight ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Growth ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Value ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell Midcap Equal Weight ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Growth ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Value ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Growth ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Value ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Global Listed Private Equity ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Golden Dragon China ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Insider Sentiment ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco International Dividend Achievers ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Zacks Mid-Cap ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Zacks Multi-Asset Income ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021

 

1


Invesco Raymond James SB-1 Equity ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Equal Weight ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Value ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite Portfolio    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Communication Services ETF    September 21, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Energy ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Financials ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Health Care ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Industrials ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Materials ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Real Estate ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Technology ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Utilities ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Pure Growth ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Pure Value ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Top 50 ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Quality ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Equal Weight ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Growth ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Value ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Spin-Off ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Water Resources ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST II

 

PORTFOLIO

  

EFFECTIVE DATE

  

EXPIRATION DATE

Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco California AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco China Real Estate ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco China Small Cap ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco China Technology ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Small Cap Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Tactical Multi-Asset Income ETF    March 1, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco DWA Tactical Sector Rotation ETF    September 24, 2015    August 31, 2021
Invesco Emerging Markets Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Emerging Markets Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Frontier Markets ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF    September 24, 2015    August 31, 2021
Invesco Fundamental High Yield® Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Global ESG Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Global Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF    April 18, 2013    August 31, 2021
Invesco Global Water ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers ETF    December 17, 2013    August 31, 2021

 

2


Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco International Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco International Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco KBW Bank ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco KBW Property & Casualty Insurance ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco LadderRite 0-5 Year Corporate Bond ETF    April 18, 2013    August 31, 2021
Invesco MSCI Emerging Markets Equal Country Weight ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco New York AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Preferred ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco PureBeta FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco PureBeta FTSE Emerging Markets ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA Small Cap ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco PureBeta US Aggregate Bond ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco PureBeta 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500 ex-Rate Sensitive Low Volatility ETF    March 12, 2015    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000 Enhanced Equal Weight ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF    December 18, 2014    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000 Low Beta Equal Weight ETF    September 24, 2015    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Shipping ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Solar ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® High Beta ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® High Dividend Low Volatility ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Low Volatility ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500 Minimum Variance ETF    June 27, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF    June 23, 2015    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500 Enhanced Value ETF    June 23, 2015    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500 Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Financials Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Global Dividend Opportunities Index ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P High Income Infrastructure ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF    September 29, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap High Dividend Low Volatility ETF    September 29, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021

 

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Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF    March 7, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P SmallCap Utilities & Communication Services ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Senior Loan ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Treasury Collateral ETF    September 29, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF    March 4, 2014    August 31, 2021
Invesco VRDO Tax-Free Weekly ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST

 

PORTFOLIO

  

EFFECTIVE DATE

  

EXPIRATION DATE

Invesco Active U.S. Real Estate Fund    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Balanced Multi-Asset Allocation ETF    December 15, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF    December 15, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco Corporate Bond Factor ETF    December 12, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco Growth Multi-Asset Allocation ETF    December 15, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco High Yield Bond Factor ETF    December 12, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco Intermediate Bond Factor ETF    December 12, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco Moderately Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF    December 15, 2016    August 31, 2021
Invesco Multi-Sector Bond Income Factor ETF    December 12, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco S&P 500® Downside Hedged ETF    December 19, 2012    August 31, 2021
Invesco Short-Term Bond Factor ETF    December 12, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco Total Return Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Ultra Short Duration ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF    December 17, 2015    August 31, 2021

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED COMMODITY FUND TRUST

 

PORTFOLIO

  

EFFECTIVE DATE

  

EXPIRATION DATE

Invesco Agriculture Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF    March 7, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Base Metals Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF    March 7, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Bloomberg Commodity Strategy ETF    September 25, 2014    August 31, 2021
Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF    September 25, 2014    August 31, 2021
Invesco Energy Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF    March 7, 2017    August 31, 2021

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED SELF-INDEXED FUND TRUST

 

PORTFOLIO

  

EFFECTIVE DATE

  

EXPIRATION DATE

Invesco BulletShares 2019 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2019 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2020 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2021 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2021 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2022 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2022 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2023 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2023 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2024 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2025 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2026 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2027 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF    June 20, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2026 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021

 

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Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF    June 20, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2021 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2022 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2023 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2024 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2025 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF    June 20, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2020 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2021 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2022 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2023 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2024 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2025 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2026 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2027 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2028 Municipal Bond ETF    December 13, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2029 Municipal Bond ETF    June 20, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco BulletShares 2030 Municipal Bond ETF    June 20, 2019    August 31, 2021
Invesco Defensive Equity ETF    December 19, 2017    August 31, 2021
Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Defensive ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Value ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco ESG Revenue ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Corporate Income Defensive ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Corporate Income Value ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Investment Grade Defensive ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Investment Grade Value ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Multi-Factor Core Fixed Income ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Multi-Factor Core Plus Fixed Income ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Multi-Factor Defensive Core Fixed Income ETF    September 21, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Multi-Factor Income ETF    September 21, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF    December 12, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco RAFITM Strategic US ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco RAFITM Strategic US Small Company ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US Small Company ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021
Invesco RAFITM Strategic Emerging Markets ETF    June 14, 2018    August 31, 2021

INVESCO INDIA EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST

 

PORTFOLIO

  

EFFECTIVE DATE

  

EXPIRATION DATE

Invesco India ETF    April 11, 2019    August 31, 2021

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INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST II

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED COMMODITY FUND TRUST

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED SELF-INDEXED FUND TRUST

INVESCO INDIA EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST

 

By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

Name:

 

Daniel E. Draper

Title:

 

Principal Executive Officer & President

INVESCO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

 

By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

Name:   Daniel E. Draper
Title:   Managing Director - Global Invesco ETFs

 

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SCHEDULE I

AMENDED AND RESTATED SCHEDULE OF SERIES

The undersigned hereby certifies that he is an authorized signer of each Invesco trust listed herein, and that the following funds are included under the Custody Agreement dated September 17, 2018, by and between such trusts and the Bank of New York Mellon.

December 12, 2019

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF
2.    Invesco BRIC ETF
3.    Invesco BuyBack AchieversTM ETF
4.    Invesco Cleantech ETF
5.    Invesco Dividend AchieversTM ETF
6.    Invesco Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF
7.    Invesco DWA Momentum ETF
8.    Invesco DWA Basic Materials Momentum ETF
9.    Invesco Dynamic Biotechnology & Genome ETF
10.    Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction ETF
11.    Invesco DWA Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF
12.    Invesco DWA Consumer Staples Momentum ETF
13.    Invesco Dynamic Energy Exploration & Production ETF
14.    Invesco DWA Energy Momentum ETF
15.    Invesco DWA Financial Momentum ETF
16.    Invesco Dynamic Food & Beverage ETF
17.    Invesco DWA Healthcare Momentum ETF
18.    Invesco DWA Industrials Momentum ETF
19.    Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Growth ETF
20.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Equal Weight ETF
21.    Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Value ETF
22.    Invesco Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF
23.    Invesco Dynamic Market ETF
24.    Invesco Dynamic Media ETF
25.    Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Growth ETF
26.    Invesco Russell Midcap Equal Weight ETF
27.    Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Value ETF
28.    Invesco Dynamic Networking ETF
29.    Invesco Dynamic Oil & Gas Services ETF
30.    Invesco DWA NASDAQ Momentum ETF
31.    Invesco Dynamic Pharmaceuticals ETF
32.    Invesco Dynamic Retail ETF
33.    Invesco Dynamic Semiconductors ETF
34.    Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Growth ETF
35.    Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Value ETF
36.    Invesco Dynamic Software ETF
37.    Invesco DWA Technology Momentum ETF
38.    Invesco DWA Utilities Momentum ETF
39.    Invesco Financial Preferred ETF
40.    Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF
41.    Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid ETF
42.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Growth ETF
43.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Value ETF
44.    Invesco Global Listed Private Equity ETF
45.    Invesco Golden Dragon China ETF
46.    Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF


47.    Invesco Insider Sentiment ETF
48.    Invesco International Dividend Achievers ETF
49.    Invesco Zacks Mid-Cap ETF
50.    Invesco Zacks Multi-Asset Income ETF
51.    Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF
52.    Invesco Raymond James SB-1 Equity ETF
53.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Equal Weight ETF
54.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF
55.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Value ETF
56.    Invesco S&P 500® BuyWrite ETF
57.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Communication Services ETF
58.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF
59.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF
60.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Energy ETF
61.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF
62.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Financials ETF
63.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Health Care ETF
64.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Industrials ETF
65.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Materials ETF
66.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Real Estate ETF
67.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Technology ETF
68.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Utilities ETF
69.    Invesco S&P 500® Pure Growth ETF
70.    Invesco S&P 500® Pure Value ETF
71.    Invesco S&P 500® Top 50 ETF
72.    Invesco S&P 500® Quality ETF
73.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Equal Weight ETF
74.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Growth ETF
75.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Value ETF
76.    Invesco S&P Spin-Off ETF
77.    Invesco Water Resources ETF
78.    Invesco Wilderhill Clean Energy ETF

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II

1.    Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury ETF
2.    Invesco California AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
3.    Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF
4.    Invesco Contrarian Opportunities ETF
5.    Invesco China Real Estate ETF
6.    Invesco China Small Cap ETF
7.    Invesco China Technology ETF
8.    Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF
9.    Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
10.    Invesco DWA SmallCap Momentum ETF
11.    Invesco DWA Tactical Multi-Asset Income ETF
12.    Invesco DWA Tactical Sector Rotation ETF
13.    Invesco Emerging Markets Revenue ETF
14.    Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF
15.    Invesco Emerging Markets Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
16.    Invesco Frontier Markets ETF
17.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF
18.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF
19.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF
20.    Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
21.    Invesco Fundamental High Yield® Corporate Bond ETF


22.    Invesco Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
23.    Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF
24.    Invesco Global ESG Revenue ETF
25.    Invesco Global Revenue ETF
26.    Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
27.    Invesco Global Water ETF
28.    Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF
29.    Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF
30.    Invesco International Revenue ETF
31.    Invesco International Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
32.    Invesco Japan Currency Hedged Low Volatility ETF
33.    Invesco LadderRite 0-5 Year Corporate Bond ETF
34.    Invesco KBW Bank ETF
35.    Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF
36.    Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF
37.    Invesco KBW Property & Casualty Insurance ETF
38.    Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF
39.    Invesco MSCI Emerging Markets Equal Country Weight ETF
40.    Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF
41.    Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
42.    Invesco New York AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
43.    Invesco Preferred ETF
44.    Invesco PureBeta FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF
45.    Invesco PureBeta FTSE Emerging Markets ETF
46.    Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA ETF
47.    Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA Small Cap ETF
48.    Invesco PureBeta US Aggregate Bond ETF
49.    Invesco PureBeta 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF
50.    Invesco Russell 1000 Enhanced Equal Weight ETF
51.    Invesco Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF
52.    Invesco Russell 1000 Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
53.    Invesco Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF
54.    Invesco Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF
55.    Invesco Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF
56.    Invesco Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF
57.    Invesco Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF
58.    Invesco Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF
59.    Invesco Shipping ETF
60.    Invesco Solar ETF
61.    Invesco S&P 500 ex-Rate Sensitive Low Volatility ETF
62.    Invesco S&P 500® High Beta ETF
63.    Invesco S&P 500® High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
64.    Invesco S&P 500® Low Volatility ETF
65.    Invesco S&P 500 Enhanced Value ETF
66.    Invesco S&P 500 Minimum Variance ETF
67.    Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF
68.    Invesco S&P 500 Revenue ETF
69.    Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
70.    Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF
71.    Invesco S&P Financials Revenue ETF
72.    Invesco S&P Global Dividend Opportunities Index ETF
73.    Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF
74.    Invesco S&P High Income Infrastructure ETF
75.    Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
76.    Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF
77.    Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF


78.    Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF
79.    Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF
80.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Revenue ETF
81.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Revenue ETF
82.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF
83.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF
84.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF
85.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF
86.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF
87.    Invesco S&P SmallCap High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
88.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF
89.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF
90.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF
91.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF
92.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF
93.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Utilities & Communication Services ETF
94.    Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
95.    Invesco Senior Loan ETF
96.    Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF
97.    Invesco Treasury Collateral ETF
98.    Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF
99.    Invesco VRDO Tax-Free Weekly ETF

Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Active U.S. Real Estate Fund
2.    Invesco Balanced Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
3.    Invesco Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
4.    Invesco Corporate Bond Factor ETF
5.    Invesco Growth Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
6.    Invesco High Yield Bond Factor ETF
7.    Invesco Intermediate Bond Factor ETF
8.    Invesco Moderately Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
9.    Invesco Multi-Sector Bond Income Factor ETF
10.    Invesco S&P 500® Downside Hedged ETF
11.    Invesco Short-Term Bond Factor ETF
12.    Invesco Total Return Bond ETF
13.    Invesco Ultra Short Duration ETF
14.    Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF

Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Agriculture Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
2.    Invesco Base Metals Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
3.    Invesco Bloomberg Commodity Strategy ETF
4.    Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1ETF
5.    Invesco Energy Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF

Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco India ETF

Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust

1.    Invesco BulletShares 2019 Corporate Bond ETF
2.    Invesco BulletShares 2019 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
3.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond ETF
4.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
5.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 Corporate Bond ETF
6.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF


7.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 Corporate Bond ETF
8.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
9.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 Corporate Bond ETF
10.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
11.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF
12.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
13.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF
14.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
15.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
16.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
17.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 Corporate Bond ETF
18.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF
19.    Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF
20.    Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF
21.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
22.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
23.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
24.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
25.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
26.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 Municipal Bond ETF
27.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 Municipal Bond ETF
28.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 Municipal Bond ETF
29.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 Municipal Bond ETF
30.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 Municipal Bond ETF
31.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 Municipal Bond ETF
32.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 Municipal Bond ETF
33.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 Municipal Bond ETF
34.    Invesco BulletShares 2028 Municipal Bond ETF
35.    Invesco BulletShares 2029 Municipal Bond ETF
36.    Invesco BulletShares 2030 Municipal Bond ETF
37.    Invesco Defensive Equity ETF
38.    Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Defensive ETF
39.    Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Value ETF
40.    Invesco ESG Revenue ETF
41.    Invesco Corporate Income Defensive ETF
42.    Invesco Corporate Income Value ETF
43.    Invesco Investment Grade Defensive ETF
44.    Invesco Investment Grade Value ETF
45.    Invesco Multi-Factor Core Fixed Income ETF
46.    Invesco Multi-Factor Core Plus Fixed Income ETF
47.    Invesco Multi-Factor Defensive Core Fixed Income ETF
48.    Invesco Multi-Factor Income ETF
49.    Invesco Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
50.    Invesco Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
51.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic US ETF
52.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic US Small Company ETF
53.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US ETF
54.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US Small Company ETF
55.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Emerging Markets ETF

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Hoyler

(signature)

Jonathan Hoyler

(name)

Vice Preident

(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST     INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED COMMODITY FUND TRUST
By:  

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

    By:  

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)      

(signature)

Daniel E. Draper

    Daniel E. Draper      
(name)     (name)
    Principal Executive Officer & President         Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)     (title)
INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST II     INVESCO INDIA EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:  

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

    By:  

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)     (signature)
    Daniel E. Draper         Daniel E. Draper
(name)     (name)
    Principal Executive Officer & President         Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)     (title)
INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE- TRADED FUND TRUST     INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED SELF-INDEXED FUND TRUST
By:  

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

    By:  

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)     (signature)
    Daniel E. Draper         Daniel E. Draper
(name)     (name)
    Principal Executive Officer & President         Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)     (title)

AMENDMENT TO EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF SERIES

The undersigned hereby certifies that he is an authorized signer of each Invesco trust listed herein, and that the following funds are included under the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement dated September 17, 2018, and as subsequently amended, by and between the Trust and the Bank of New York Mellon.

December 12, 2019

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF
2.    Invesco BRIC ETF
3.    Invesco BuyBack AchieversTM ETF
4.    Invesco Cleantech ETF
5.    Invesco Dividend AchieversTM ETF
6.    Invesco Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF
7.    Invesco DWA Momentum ETF
8.    Invesco DWA Basic Materials Momentum ETF
9.    Invesco Dynamic Biotechnology & Genome ETF
10.    Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction ETF
11.    Invesco DWA Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF
12.    Invesco DWA Consumer Staples Momentum ETF
13.    Invesco Dynamic Energy Exploration & Production ETF
14.    Invesco DWA Energy Momentum ETF
15.    Invesco DWA Financial Momentum ETF
16.    Invesco Dynamic Food & Beverage ETF
17.    Invesco DWA Healthcare Momentum ETF
18.    Invesco DWA Industrials Momentum ETF
19.    Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Growth ETF
20.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Equal Weight ETF
21.    Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Value ETF
22.    Invesco Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF
23.    Invesco Dynamic Market ETF
24.    Invesco Dynamic Media ETF
25.    Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Growth ETF
26.    Invesco Russell Midcap Equal Weight ETF
27.    Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Value ETF
28.    Invesco Dynamic Networking ETF
29.    Invesco Dynamic Oil & Gas Services ETF
30.    Invesco DWA NASDAQ Momentum ETF
31.    Invesco Dynamic Pharmaceuticals ETF
32.    Invesco Dynamic Retail ETF
33.    Invesco Dynamic Semiconductors ETF
34.    Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Growth ETF
35.    Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Value ETF
36.    Invesco Dynamic Software ETF
37.    Invesco DWA Technology Momentum ETF
38.    Invesco DWA Utilities Momentum ETF
39.    Invesco Financial Preferred ETF
40.    Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF
41.    Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid ETF
42.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Growth ETF
43.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Value ETF
44.    Invesco Global Listed Private Equity ETF
45.    Invesco Golden Dragon China ETF
46.    Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF
47.    Invesco Insider Sentiment ETF
48.    Invesco International Dividend Achievers ETF
49.    Invesco Zacks Mid-Cap ETF
50.    Invesco Zacks Multi-Asset Income ETF


51.    Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF
52.    Invesco Raymond James SB-1 Equity ETF
53.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Equal Weight ETF
54.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF
55.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Value ETF
56    Invesco S&P 500® BuyWrite ETF
57.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF
58.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Communication Services ETF
59.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF
60.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Energy ETF
61.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF
62.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Financials ETF
63.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Health Care ETF
64.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Industrials ETF
65.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Materials ETF
66.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Real Estate ETF
67.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Technology ETF
68.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Utilities ETF
69.    Invesco S&P 500® Pure Growth ETF
70.    Invesco S&P 500® Pure Value ETF
71.    Invesco S&P 500® Top 50 ETF
72.    Invesco S&P 500® Quality ETF
73.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Equal Weight ETF
74.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Growth ETF
75.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Value ETF
76.    Invesco S&P Spin-Off ETF
77.    Invesco Water Resources ETF
78.    Invesco Wilderhill Clean Energy ETF

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II

1.    Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury ETF
2.    Invesco California AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
3.    Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF
4.    Invesco Contrarian Opportunities ETF
5.    Invesco China Real Estate ETF
6.    Invesco China Small Cap ETF
7.    Invesco China Technology ETF
8.    Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF
9.    Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
10.    Invesco DWA SmallCap Momentum ETF
11.    Invesco DWA Tactical Multi-Asset Income ETF
12.    Invesco DWA Tactical Sector Rotation ETF
13.    Invesco Emerging Markets Revenue ETF
14.    Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF
15.    Invesco Emerging Markets Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
16.    Invesco Frontier Markets ETF
17.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF
18.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF
19.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF
20.    Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
21.    Invesco Fundamental High Yield® Corporate Bond ETF
22.    Invesco Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
23.    Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF
24.    Invesco Global ESG Revenue ETF
25.    Invesco Global Revenue ETF
26.    Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
27.    Invesco Global Water ETF
28.    Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM ETF
29.    Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF
30.    Invesco International Revenue ETF


31.    Invesco International Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
32.    Invesco Japan Currency Hedged Low Volatility ETF
33.    Invesco LadderRite 0-5 Year Corporate Bond ETF
34.    Invesco KBW Bank ETF
35.    Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF
36.    Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF
37.    Invesco KBW Property & Casualty Insurance ETF
38.    Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF
39.    Invesco MSCI Emerging Markets Equal Country Weight ETF
40.    Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF
41.    Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
42.    Invesco New York AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
43.    Invesco Preferred ETF
44.    Invesco PureBeta FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF
45.    Invesco PureBeta FTSE Emerging Markets ETF
46.    Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA ETF
47.    Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA Small Cap ETF
48.    Invesco PureBeta US Aggregate Bond ETF
49.    Invesco PureBeta 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF
50.    Invesco Russell 1000 Enhanced Equal Weight ETF
51.    Invesco Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF
52.    Invesco Russell 1000 Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
53.    Invesco Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF
54.    Invesco Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF
55.    Invesco Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF
56.    Invesco Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF
57.    Invesco Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF
58.    Invesco Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF
59.    Invesco Shipping ETF
60.    Invesco Solar ETF
61.    Invesco S&P 500 ex-Rate Sensitive Low Volatility ETF
62.    Invesco S&P 500® High Beta ETF
63.    Invesco S&P 500® High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
64.    Invesco S&P 500® Low Volatility ETF
65.    Invesco S&P 500 Minimum Variance ETF
66.    Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF
67.    Invesco S&P 500 Enhanced Value ETF
68.    Invesco S&P 500 Revenue ETF
69.    Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
70.    Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF
71.    Invesco S&P Financials Revenue ETF
72.    Invesco S&P Global Dividend Opportunities Index ETF
73.    Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF
74.    Invesco S&P High Income Infrastructure ETF
75.    Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
76.    Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF
77.    Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF
78.    Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF
79.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Revenue ETF
80.    Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF
81.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Revenue ETF
82.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF
83.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF
84.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF
85.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF
86.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF
87.    Invesco S&P SmallCap High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
88.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF
89.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF
90.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF


91.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF
92.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF
93.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Utilities & Communication Services ETF
94.    Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
95.    Invesco Senior Loan ETF
96.    Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF
97.    Invesco Treasury Collateral ETF
98.    Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF
99.    Invesco VRDO Tax-Free Weekly ETF

Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Active U.S. Real Estate Fund
2.    Invesco Balanced Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
3.    Invesco Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
4.    Invesco Corporate Bond Factor ETF
5.    Invesco Growth Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
6.    Invesco High Yield Bond Factor ETF
7.    Invesco Intermediate Bond Factor ETF
8.    Invesco Moderately Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
9.    Invesco Multi-Sector Bond Income Factor ETF
10.    Invesco S&P 500® Downside Hedged ETF
11.    Invesco Short-Term Bond Factor ETF
12.    Invesco Total Return Bond ETF
13.    Invesco Ultra Short Duration ETF
14.    Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF

Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Agriculture Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
2.    Invesco Base Metals Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
3.    Invesco Bloomberg Commodity Strategy ETF
4.    Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1ETF
5.    Invesco Energy Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF

Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco India ETF

Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust

1.    Invesco BulletShares 2019 Corporate Bond ETF
2.    Invesco BulletShares 2019 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
3.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond ETF
4.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
5.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 Corporate Bond ETF
6.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
7.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 Corporate Bond ETF
8.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
9.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 Corporate Bond ETF
10.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
11.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF
12.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
13.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF
14.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
15.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
16.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
17.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 Corporate Bond ETF
18.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF
19.    Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF
20.    Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF
21.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
22.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
23.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF


24.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
25.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
26.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 Municipal Bond ETF
27.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 Municipal Bond ETF
28.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 Municipal Bond ETF
29.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 Municipal Bond ETF
30.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 Municipal Bond ETF
31.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 Municipal Bond ETF
32.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 Municipal Bond ETF
33.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 Municipal Bond ETF
34.    Invesco BulletShares 2028 Municipal Bond ETF
35.    Invesco BulletShares 2029 Municipal Bond ETF
36.    Invesco BulletShares 2030 Municipal Bond ETF
37.    Invesco Defensive Equity ETF
38.    Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Defensive ETF
39.    Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Value ETF
40.    Invesco ESG Revenue ETF
41.    Invesco Corporate Income Defensive ETF
42.    Invesco Corporate Income Value ETF
43.    Invesco Investment Grade Defensive ETF
44.    Invesco Investment Grade Value ETF
45.    Invesco Multi-Factor Core Fixed Income ETF
46.    Invesco Multi-Factor Core Plus Fixed Income ETF
47.    Invesco Multi-Factor Defensive Core Fixed Income ETF
48.    Invesco Multi-Factor Income ETF
49.    Invesco Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
50.    Invesco Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
51.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic US ETF
52.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic US Small Company ETF
53.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US ETF
54.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US Small Company ETF
55.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Emerging Markets ETF

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Hoyler

(signature)

Jonathan Hoyler

(name)

Vice President

(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST II
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)
INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED COMMODITY FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO INDIA EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED SELF-INDEXED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)
 

EXHIBIT D

AMENDED AND RESTATED SCHEDULE OF SERIES

The undersigned hereby certifies that he is an authorized signer of each Invesco trust listed herein, and that the following funds are included under the Amended and Restated Transfer Agency and Service Agreement dated June 17, 2013, by and between such trusts and the Bank of New York Mellon.

December 12, 2019

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF
2.    Invesco BRIC ETF
3.    Invesco BuyBack AchieversTM ETF
4.    Invesco Cleantech ETF
5.    Invesco Dividend AchieversTM ETF
6.    Invesco Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF
7.    Invesco DWA Momentum ETF
8.    Invesco DWA Basic Materials Momentum ETF
9.    Invesco Dynamic Biotechnology & Genome ETF
10.    Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction ETF
11.    Invesco DWA Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF
12.    Invesco DWA Consumer Staples Momentum ETF
13.    Invesco Dynamic Energy Exploration & Production ETF
14.    Invesco DWA Energy Momentum ETF
15.    Invesco DWA Financial Momentum ETF
16.    Invesco Dynamic Food & Beverage ETF
17.    Invesco DWA Healthcare Momentum ETF
18.    Invesco DWA Industrials Momentum ETF
19.    Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Growth ETF
20.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Equal Weight ETF
21.    Invesco Dynamic Large Cap Value ETF
22.    Invesco Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF
23.    Invesco Dynamic Market ETF
24.    Invesco Dynamic Media ETF
25.    Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Growth ETF
26.    Invesco Russell Midcap Equal Weight ETF
27.    Invesco Russell Midcap Pure Value ETF
28.    Invesco Dynamic Networking ETF
29.    Invesco Dynamic Oil & Gas Services ETF
30.    Invesco DWA NASDAQ Momentum ETF
31.    Invesco Dynamic Pharmaceuticals ETF
32.    Invesco Dynamic Retail ETF
33.    Invesco Dynamic Semiconductors ETF
34.    Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Growth ETF
35.    Invesco Russell 2000 Pure Value ETF
36.    Invesco Dynamic Software ETF
37.    Invesco DWA Technology Momentum ETF
38.    Invesco DWA Utilities Momentum ETF
39.    Invesco Financial Preferred ETF
40.    Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF
41.    Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid ETF
42.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Growth ETF
43.    Invesco Russell Top 200 Pure Value ETF
44.    Invesco Global Listed Private Equity ETF
45.    Invesco Golden Dragon China ETF
46.    Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF


47.    Invesco Insider Sentiment ETF
48.    Invesco International Dividend Achievers ETF
49.    Invesco Zacks Mid-Cap ETF
50.    Invesco Zacks Multi-Asset Income ETF
51.    Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF
52.    Invesco Raymond James SB-1 Equity ETF
53.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Equal Weight ETF
54.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF
55.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Value ETF
56.    Invesco S&P 500® BuyWrite ETF
57.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Communication Services ETF
58.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF
59.    Invesco S& P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF
60.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Energy ETF
61.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF
62.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Financials ETF
63.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Health Care ETF
64.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Industrials ETF
65.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Materials ETF
66.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Real Estate ETF
67.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Technology ETF
68.    Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Utilities ETF
69.    Invesco S&P 500® Pure Growth ETF
70.    Invesco S&P 500® Pure Value ETF
71.    Invesco S&P 500® Top 50 ETF
72.    Invesco S&P 500® Quality ETF
73.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Equal Weight ETF
74.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Growth ETF
75.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600® Pure Value ETF
76.    Invesco S&P Spin-Off ETF
77.    Invesco Water Resources ETF
78.    Invesco Wilderhill Clean Energy ETF

Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II

1.    Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury ETF
2.    Invesco California AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
3.    Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF
4.    Invesco Contrarian Opportunities ETF
5.    Invesco China Real Estate ETF
6.    Invesco China Small Cap ETF
7.    Invesco China Technology ETF
8.    Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF
9.    Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
10.    Invesco DWA SmallCap Momentum ETF
11.    Invesco DWA Tactical Multi-Asset Income ETF
12.    Invesco DWA Tactical Sector Rotation ETF
13.    Invesco Emerging Markets Revenue ETF
14.    Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF
15.    Invesco Emerging Markets Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
16.    Invesco Frontier Markets ETF
17.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF
18.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF
19.    Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF
20.    Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
21.    Invesco Fundamental High Yield® Corporate Bond ETF
22.    Invesco Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio


23.    Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF
24.    Invesco Global ESG Revenue ETF
25.    Invesco Global Revenue ETF
26.    Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
27.    Invesco Global Water ETF
28.    Invesco International BuyBack AchieversTM Portfolio
29.    Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF
30.    Invesco International Revenue ETF
31.    Invesco International Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
32.    Invesco Japan Currency Hedged Low Volatility ETF
33.    Invesco KBW Bank ETF
34.    Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF
35.    Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF
36.    Invesco KBW Property & Casualty Insurance ETF
37.    Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF
38.    Invesco LadderRite 0-5 Year Corporate Bond ETF
39.    Invesco MSCI Emerging Markets Equal Country Weight ETF
40.    Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF
41.    Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
42.    Invesco New York AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF
43.    Invesco Preferred ETF
44.    Invesco PureBeta FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF
45.    Invesco PureBeta FTSE Emerging Markets ETF
46.    Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA ETF
47.    Invesco PureBeta MSCI USA Small Cap ETF
48.    Invesco PureBeta US Aggregate Bond ETF
49.    Invesco PureBeta 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF
50.    Invesco Russell 1000 Enhanced Equal Weight ETF
51.    Invesco Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF
52.    Invesco Russell 1000 Low Beta Equal Weight ETF
53.    Invesco Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF
54.    Invesco Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF
55.    Invesco Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF
56.    Invesco Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF
57.    Invesco Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF
58.    Invesco Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF
59.    Invesco Shipping ETF
60.    Invesco Solar ETF
61.    Invesco S&P 500 ex-Rate Sensitive Low Volatility ETF
62.    Invesco S&P 500® High Beta ETF
63.    Invesco S&P 500® High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
64.    Invesco S&P 500® Low Volatility Portfolio
65.    Invesco S&P 500 Minimum Variance ETF
66.    Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF
67.    Invesco S&P 500 Enhanced Value Portfolio
68.    Invesco S&P 500 Revenue ETF
69.    Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF
70.    Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF
71.    Invesco S&P Financials Revenue ETF
72.    Invesco S&P Global Dividend Opportunities Index ETF
73.    Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF
74.    Invesco S&P High Income Infrastructure ETF
75.    Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
76.    Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF
77.    Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF
78.    Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF


79.    Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Revenue ETF
80.    Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF
81.    Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Revenue ETF
82.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF
83.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF
84.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF
85.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF
86.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF
87.    Invesco S&P SmallCap High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
88.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF
89.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF
90.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF
91.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF
92.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF
93.    Invesco S&P SmallCap Utilities & Communication Services ETF
94.    Invesco Senior Loan ETF
95.    Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF
96.    Invesco Treasury Collateral ETF
97.    Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
98.    Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF
99.    Invesco VRDO Tax-Free Weekly ETF

Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Active U.S. Real Estate Fund
2.    Invesco Balanced Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
3.    Invesco Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
4.    Invesco Corporate Bond Factor ETF
5.    Invesco Growth Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
6.    Invesco High Yield Bond Factor ETF
7.    Invesco Intermediate Bond Factor ETF
8.    Invesco Moderately Conservative Multi-Asset Allocation ETF
9.    Invesco Multi-Sector Bond Income Factor ETF
10.    Invesco S&P 500® Downside Hedged ETF
11.    Invesco Short-Term Bond Factor ETF
12.    Invesco Total Return Bond ETF
13.    Invesco Ultra Short Duration ETF
14.    Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF

Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Commodity Fund Trust

1.    Invesco Agriculture Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
2.    Invesco Base Metals Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
3.    Invesco Bloomberg Commodity Strategy ETF
4.    Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF
5.    Invesco Energy Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF

Invesco India Exchange-Traded Fund Trust

1.    Invesco India ETF

Invesco Exchange-Traded Self-Indexed Fund Trust

1.    Invesco BulletShares 2019 Corporate Bond ETF
2.    Invesco BulletShares 2019 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
3.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond ETF
4.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
5.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 Corporate Bond ETF
6.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
7.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 Corporate Bond ETF


8.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
9.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 Corporate Bond ETF
10.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
11.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF
12.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
13.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 Corporate Bond ETF
14.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
15.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
16.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
17.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 Corporate Bond ETF
18.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF
19.    Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF
20.    Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF
21.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
22.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
23.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
24.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
25.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 USD Emerging Markets Debt ETF
26.    Invesco BulletShares 2020 Municipal Bond ETF
27.    Invesco BulletShares 2021 Municipal Bond ETF
28.    Invesco BulletShares 2022 Municipal Bond ETF
29.    Invesco BulletShares 2023 Municipal Bond ETF
30.    Invesco BulletShares 2024 Municipal Bond ETF
31.    Invesco BulletShares 2025 Municipal Bond ETF
32.    Invesco BulletShares 2026 Municipal Bond ETF
33.    Invesco BulletShares 2027 Municipal Bond ETF
34.    Invesco BulletShares 2028 Municipal Bond ETF
35.    Invesco BulletShares 2029 Municipal Bond ETF
36.    Invesco BulletShares 2030 Municipal Bond ETF
37.    Invesco Defensive Equity ETF
38.    Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Defensive ETF
39.    Invesco Emerging Markets Debt Value ETF
40.    Invesco ESG Revenue ETF
41.    Invesco Corporate Income Defensive ETF
42.    Invesco Corporate Income Value ETF
43.    Invesco Investment Grade Defensive ETF
44.    Invesco Investment Grade Value ETF
45.    Invesco Multi-Factor Core Fixed Income ETF
46.    Invesco Multi-Factor Core Plus Fixed Income ETF
47.    Invesco Multi-Factor Defensive Core Fixed Income ETF
48.    Invesco Multi-Factor Income ETF
49.    Invesco Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
50.    Invesco Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
51.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic US ETF
52.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic US Small Company ETF
53.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US ETF
54.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Developed ex-US Small Company ETF
55.    Invesco RAFITM Strategic Emerging Markets ETF

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Hoyler

(signature)

Jonathan Hoyler

(name)

Vice President

(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST II
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO ACTIVELY MANAGED EXCHANGE-TRADED COMMODITY FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO INDIA EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)

 

INVESCO EXCHANGE-TRADED SELF-INDEXED FUND TRUST
By:   

/s/ Daniel E. Draper

(signature)
     Daniel E. Draper
(name)
     Principal Executive Officer & President
(title)
 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form N-1A of Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II of our reports dated December 23, 2019, relating to the financial statements and financial highlights, which appear in each Fund’s (as listed in Appendix A) Annual Report on Form N-CSR for the year ended October 31, 2019. We also consent to the references to us under the headings “Fund Service Providers”, “Financial Highlights”, “Statement of Additional Information” and “Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” in such Registration Statement.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Chicago, Illinois

February 26, 2020


Appendix A

 

Fund Name

   
Invesco China Technology ETF  
Invesco DWA Developed Markets Momentum ETF  
Invesco DWA Emerging Markets Momentum ETF  
Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF  
Invesco FTSE International Low Beta Equal Weight ETF  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF  
Invesco FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid ETF       
Invesco FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets ETF  
Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF  
Invesco Global Short Term High Yield Bond ETF  
Invesco Global Water ETF  
Invesco International BuyBack Achievers ETF  
Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF  
Invesco MSCI Global Timber ETF  
Invesco PureBetaSM 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF  
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Developed ex-North America ETF  
Invesco PureBetaSM FTSE Emerging Markets ETF  
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF  
Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Momentum ETF  
Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF  
Invesco S&P International Developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF  
Invesco S&P International Developed Low Volatility ETF  
Invesco S&P International Developed Momentum ETF  
Invesco S&P International Developed Quality ETF