Rising Equity Markets and Continued Inflows Have Lifted Invesco's AUM to Record Levels

Invesco was once a top pick among the traditional US-based asset managers we cover, generating solid organic assets under management growth with its long-term managed assets (1.7% annually on average during 2008-17) and operating with a diversified platform. We held this opinion even though the firm generated below-average operating profitability, primarily because this was the cost of business in its more retail-centric distribution platform.