Invesco Pan European Hi Inc E EUR Acc

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|05/06/2023

by Thomas De Fauw
Over the past two years, Invesco Pan European High Income’s management team has changed completely. After the announced retirement of longtime managers Paul Causer and Paul Read in 2021, equity manager Stephanie Butcher has transitioned out of this strategy following her promotion to global co-head of investments at Invesco in April 2023. Lead manager Thomas Moore has been responsible for the fixed-income and allocation calls only since the start of 2022 and we still want to see how he performs under different market conditions. The strategy’s Morningstar Medalist Rating remains Neutral for all share classes.

The fund is comanaged by Moore, Alexandra Ivanova, and Oliver Collin. Moore was a credit analyst and leader at a sell-side fixed-income team before joining Invesco in 2016 to manage a high-yield fund. He was named as comanager behind Causer and Read in August 2020 and has no previous track record of managing multi-asset funds. Ivanova, the lead manager on Invesco Global Income, was named comanager on this strategy in August 2021 while Collin was appointed in April 2023 to steer the fund’s equity sleeve after Butcher stepped off.

Causer and Read’s departure did not change the investment approach. The team continues to invest across the fixed-income spectrum and is willing to back its convictions aggressively. This has been illustrated by material exposure to riskier areas like subordinated financials and corporate high yield. The fund can include up to 30% in equities, but the weight has not been higher than 22% subsequent to a strategy revamp in 2007-08, and since 2019 equity weight has mostly remained below 20%. The equity sleeve is run separately by Collin, who’s the lead manager on Invesco's European equity income strategies.

Although the fund sits in the EUR cautious allocation Morningstar Category, it can look like a higher-risk fund at times, as measured by volatility, downside-capture ratio, and other risk measures. While this aggressiveness has ultimately paid off, it can hurt at times, such as in the first quarter of 2020 when the fund's C EUR Acc share class lost 13.4% and underperformed the category average by 5.1 percentage points. Over Causer and Read’s tenure, the fund was among the strongest performers in its category and compensated investors for the risks taken.
 
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