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| Invesco PowerShares is an industry leader in valued-added exchange-traded funds, offering over 100 intelligent domestic and international ETFs. Each PowerShares ETF is categorized into one of the following ten fund families: |
| These fund families possess distinct features. The investor guides below provide detailed information designed to assist investors and financial advisors alike. |
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| PowerShares Access ETFs provide targeted exposure to niche markets. These ETFs lessen the impact of company-specific risk by offering exposure to multiple companies within a market segment. |
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| The PowerShares family of Active ETFs combines the benefits of the exchange-traded fund with the value of professional, active investment managers. Invesco PowerShares listed the first ever actively managed equity ETFs and is uniquely positioned in the ETF industry by being a part of Invesco Ltd., a global independent investment management firm. |
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| Strategic asset allocation is an investment strategy that seeks to balance risk and reward in portfolio by spreading investments over several types of asset classes – such as equities, fixed income, real estate, commodities and currencies. The PowerShares Autonomic Global Asset Portfolios are “ETFs of ETFs” that seek to provide efficient access to global, risk-controlled strategic asset allocation strategies. |
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| PowerShares Dynamic Portfolios are based on Dynamic Indexes, which attempt to provide alpha by choosing stocks based on investment merit. This approach is far different from that of traditional benchmark indexes, which select stocks primarily for their industry exposure and not because of their actual investment value. |
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| Invesco PowerShares has a diverse lineup of ETFs that track equity-income-focused indexes, for those investors looking for both income and growth potential. These indexes are constructed using proprietary methods that identify and select stocks with a strong history of paying dividends. |
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| The PowerShares FTSE RAFI Portfolios are designed to track FTSE RAFI Fundamentals Weighted indexes. Each index seeks to track the performance of what the Index defines as the most fundamentally sound equities within its respective target market. |
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| Today, technology, economics and politics are converging to push environmental issues into the center of our global consciousness. The PowerShares family of green ETFs range from funds that focus on companies working toward incremental change, to funds that invest in companies striving for revolutionary transformations. |
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| Invesco PowerShares’ family of fixed-income ETFs includes all types of products, including the industry’s first insured municipal bond ETFs, the first laddered treasury ETF and the first ETF to invest solely in sovereign debt of emerging market countries. PowerShares Income ETFs can help investors develop an intelligent income strategy. |
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| Invesco PowerShares has teamed with some of the industry’s most innovative index providers to provide ETFs that follow quantitative investment strategies. These strategies are grounded in extensive research, market data and proprietary methodologies. |
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| PowerShares DB Commodity and Currency ETFs provide investors cost-effective and convenient access to the global commodity and currency markets. These ETFs are designed to track indexes that are composed of futures contracts covering some of the world’s most liquid commodities and currencies. |
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