Invesco Global Founders & Owners Fund

Control the Capital, Capture the Compounding

1. Fund overview

The Invesco Global Founders & Owners Fund begins with a premise that is deceptively simple, yet profoundly powerful: incentives shape outcomes.

At a structural level, the fund can be summarised as follows:

ISIN: LU1762221155 (varies by share class)
Structure: UCITS (Luxembourg-domiciled investment fund)
Investment Manager: Invesco Asset Management
Asset Class: Global Equity
Investment Style: Founder-led / Owner-aligned investing (bottom-up stock selection)
Currency: EUR (share class dependent)
Fund Inception: 2015

Since its launch in 2015, the fund has evolved into a high conviction global equity strategy, structured as a Luxembourg UCITS and built around a concentrated portfolio of roughly 30 to 35 companies, where decision makers are also meaningful owners. 📈🔍

2. Investment philosophy

The strategy is not defined by style, sector or geography, but by incentive design, which is exactly what the fund’s name reflects. By focusing on Founders and Owners, it targets companies where those making the decisions also have meaningful ownership at stake. 🧠📌

Instead of asking what a company does, the fund starts with who controls the capital and whether their interests are aligned with long term shareholders. In that sense, the name is not descriptive, it is directional. It defines the source of the edge.

This places the strategy between traditional value and growth, but it is better understood as quality-driven GARP, focused on businesses that can reinvest capital at high returns over time through disciplined capital allocation. 📊⚙️

As Charlie Munger put it:

“I think I’ve been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I’ve underestimated it.”

Founder led and owner managed businesses tend to allocate capital more efficiently, think in longer time horizons and avoid value destructive decisions. This does not remove risk, but it tilts outcomes in favour of compounding rather than capital erosion.

This becomes visible in holdings such as 3i Group, which provides exposure to Action. Compared with global retailers like Walmart, Costco or Inditex, the point is not portfolio overlap, but trajectory. The fund targets businesses capable of sustained, above average compounding driven by execution and alignment. 📈🌍

Ultimately, the strategy is built around a simple idea: aligned incentives drive better decisions, and better decisions drive long term compounding. ⏳📊

3. Performance

The fund’s performance profile is a direct reflection of its philosophy. Because the portfolio is concentrated and driven by high conviction positions, short term results can be volatile and may deviate from the benchmark, but as a natural consequence of how returns are generated.📉📈

Source: Invesco – Fund Factsheet / KIID

However, once the time horizon is extended, the picture becomes clearer. Over three and five years, the fund has delivered strong outperformance relative to its benchmark, confirming that the strategy is designed to work across full cycles rather than isolated periods.

Source: Invesco – Official performance report / factsheet

The key insight lies in how returns are generated. Performance is not evenly distributed across the portfolio, instead, it is generated by a subset of companies that compound at significantly higher rates.⚡📈

Source: Invesco – Factsheet / Monthly report

Strong performers leads the majority of returns, while the rest of the portfolio plays a supporting role. As a result, compounding does not appear linear, but step-like and convex over time.

4. Portfolio Construction

The concentration of the portfolio is the natural result of the filtering process. Once the universe is reduced to companies with meaningful insider ownership and strong fundamentals, the opportunity set narrows significantly.🧠🌱

This is also reflected in the fund’s style positioning. Rather than fitting neatly into traditional value or growth categories, the portfolio tends to sit in a blend space with a bias towards quality growth, consistent with a GARP-like approach.

Source: Morningstar (style box)

At the sector level, exposure is built from a bottom-up selection.

Industrials, technology and financials dominate because they are fertile ground for scalable, ownership-driven businesses capable of compounding capital over time.

Source: Invesco – Fund Factsheet

Geographically, the portfolio is anchored in the United States, with selective exposure to Europe and Asia. This is not diversification for its own sake, but capital allocation by opportunity, where alignment and business quality are strongest. 🌍📍

Source: Invesco – Fund Factsheet

In terms of stock level, the structure becomes clearer. The portfolio combines global leaders such as Microsoft or NVIDIA with more idiosyncratic names like 3i Group, yet what links them is not sector or geography, but a shared ability to reinvest capital at attractive rates under aligned ownership. 🧩📈

Source: Invesco – Fund Factsheet

Finally, capital moves in and out in response to short-term performance, but the underlying structure of the portfolio remains consistent.

Source: Morningstar Fund Data

The strategy is not designed to optimise for flows, but to maintain exposure to long-term compounders, regardless of short-term sentiment.

5. Management

The strategy is led by Joe Dowling.

Dowling’s approach is consistent with the broader Invesco philosophy in this space, as said, he combines fundamental analysis with a focus on management alignment and ownership structures, the process is grounded in understanding how businesses are run and how capital is deployed over time. 🔍📘

At its core, the management approach reflects a clear principle: markets are difficult to predict, but behaviour is more observable.

6. Why this fund?

The Invesco Global Founders & Owners Fund is not designed to provide comfort.

It is designed to provide asymmetry, accepting volatility as the cost of accessing superior long term returns.

• Compounding over short-term performance
  The strategy does not aim to outperform every quarter, but to compound capital over time through disciplined decision-making.⏱️🪙

• Behavioural edge as the core driver
  The advantage lies in alignment and behaviour, not in forecasting markets, making it more durable and harder to replicate.🧠🔒

For a deeper understanding of the strategy, its philosophy and how it is implemented in practice, the following presentation from Joe Dowling provides additional context on how the team thinks about incentives, capital allocation and long-term investing.

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May the investment be with you.

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