IIPEAK2 Invesco Peak II Index

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About Invesco Peak II Index

Stock market exposure built from high quality companies. Bond exposure that responds to changes in market conditions. Daily, dynamic allocation that seeks to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns over time.

How it works

Exposure to high quality companies

Exposure to high quality companies has been shown by academics and practitioners alike to deliver compelling results over time.2 The Invesco Peak II Index focuses on three key components to gauge company quality.

  1. Management Quality: Companies with a strong track record of returning excess cash to shareholders through stock buybacks rather than diluting existing ownership through new equity issuance.
  2. Operating quality: Companies that generate higher levels of profit from their available assets by demonstrating a superior ability to manage their resources efficiently.
  3. Earnings quality: Companies marked by high earnings quality are those that can generate higher-than-average cash flows from their businesses relative to their accounting earnings.

Responsive bond exposure

The index provides exposure to bonds as an additional and complementary source of returns. An attractive feature of bonds — in particular, US Treasury bonds — is that they often experience less dramatic swings in returns relative to stocks.3

However, a price drop combined with higher volatility in 10-year Treasuries often signals a rise in interest rates. When this happens, the index allocates a portion of the bond exposure from 10-year Treasuries into 2-year Treasuries, potentially offering more price stability. The goal is to provide more defensive exposure and help cushion the impact of declining bond prices.

Treasury Bonds Maturity

Dynamic asset allocation

Exposure to equities, bonds, and cash is adjusted daily using Salt Financial’s truVol® technology – that seeks to deliver a smoother performance over time. When the riskiness of stock holdings rises, the index will shift away from stocks into bonds and/or cash. When the riskiness of stock holdings decreases, the index will shift away from bonds and/or cash into stocks.

As the riskiness of a combined allocation of stocks and bonds rises or falls, the index allocates more or less, respectively, to cash.

In periods of high volatility, the index may be comprised heavily or fully of bonds and/or cash, which may persist as volatility is elevated. Due to excess return index construction, cash allocations in the index are non-remunerated.4

Dynamic asset allocation

  • 1

    The Solactive Invesco US Quality Index has returned 13.28% and the Solactive GBS United States Large & Mid Cap Index has returned 10.50% annualized since June 8, 2006 (the earliest data available), as of March 31, 2026. The Solactive GBS United States Large & Mid Cap Index was launched on 05/28/2018 and the Solactive Invesco US Quality Index launched on 08/03/2020. All data prior to launch dates is back-tested (i.e. calculations of how the index might have performed over that time period had the index existed). Back-tested performance is subject to inherent limitations because it reflects retroactive application of an Index methodology and selection of index constituents with the benefit of hindsight. Past performance, actual or back-tested, is no guarantee of future performance.

  • 2

    Sloan, R. 1996. Do stock prices fully reflect information in accruals and cash flows about future earnings? The Accounting Review 71 (July): 289-315. Ikenberry, D., J. Lakonishok, and T. Vermaelen. Market underreaction to open market share repurchases. Journal of Financial Economics 39 (1995): 181-208. Novy-Marx, R. The other side of value: the gross profitability premium. Journal of Financial Economics 108 (2013): 1-28.

  • 3

    For the 10-year period from December 31, 2015, to December 31, 2025, the annualized volatility of the S&P 500 Index and Bloomberg U.S. Trsy Bellwether 10-Year TR Index were 18.13% and 7.27%, respectively. Volatility is the standard deviation of returns. Standard deviation is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean.

  • 4

    The cash position is non-remunerated means that the amount of readily available cash does not directly generate income or provide any financial return; it simply represents the current level of liquid funds on hand, not a source of earnings itself.