Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
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Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
In the normal course of its business, the company is primarily exposed to market risk in the form of AUM market price risk, securities market risk, interest rate risk and foreign exchange rate risk.
AUM Market Price Risk
The company's investment management revenues are comprised of fees based on the value of AUM. Declines in the market prices of equity and fixed income securities, commodities and derivatives, or other similar financial instruments held in client portfolios could cause revenues to decline because of lower investment management fees by:
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Causing the value of AUM to decrease.
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Causing the returns realized on AUM to decrease (impacting performance fees).
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Causing clients to withdraw funds in favor of investments in markets that they perceive to offer greater opportunity and that the company does not serve.
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Causing clients to rebalance assets away from investments that the company manages into investments that the company does not manage.
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Causing clients to reallocate assets away from products that earn higher revenues into products that earn lower revenues.
Underperformance of client accounts relative to competing products could exacerbate these factors.
Assuming the revenue yield on AUM for the year remains unchanged, a decline in the average AUM for the year would result in a corresponding decline in revenue. Certain expenses, including distribution and compensation expenses, may not vary in proportion with the changes in the market value of AUM. As such, the impact on operating margin or net income of a decline in the market values of AUM may be greater than the percentage decline in the market value of AUM.
Securities Market Risk
The company's exposure to market risk from financial instruments measured at fair value arises primarily from its investments. The following table summarizes the impact of a 10% increase or decrease in the fair values of these financial instruments:
| December 31, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Fair Value | Fair Value assuming 10% increase | Fair Value assuming 10% decrease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity investments (1) | $ | 414.4 | $ | 455.8 | $ | 373.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total assets measured at fair value exposed to market risk | $ | 414.4 | $ | 455.8 | $ | 373.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net investments in CIP (2) | $ | 397.1 | $ | 436.8 | $ | 357.4 |
(1)If such a 10% increase or decrease in fair values were to occur, the change attributable to $414.4 million of these equity investments would result in a corresponding increase or decrease in our pre-tax earnings. At December 31, 2025, $128.2 million of these equity investments are held to hedge economically certain deferred compensation plans in which the company's employees participate. In addition to holding equity investments, the company has a total return swap (TRS) to economically hedge certain deferred compensation plan liabilities. The notional value of the TRS at December 31, 2025 was $553.0 million. The company recognizes as compensation expense the appreciation or depreciation of the compensation liability over the award's vesting period in proportion to the vested amount of the award. The company immediately recognizes the appreciation or depreciation of these investments, which is included in other gains and losses. This creates a timing difference between the recognition of the compensation expense and the investment gain or loss impacting net income, which will reverse and will offset to zero over the life of the award at the end of the multi-year vesting period.
(2)Upon consolidation, the company's net investments in CIP are eliminated, and the assets and liabilities of the CIP are consolidated in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, which are offset by a noncontrolling interest balance representing the portion of the CIP owned by third parties. The assets of CIP include investments which are measured at fair value. If a 10% increase or decrease in the fair values of Invesco’s net investments in CIP were to occur, it would result in a corresponding increase or decrease in our Net income attributable to Invesco Ltd.
Cash balances invested in money market funds of $477.9 million have been excluded from the table above. These are valued under the market approach at the NAV of the underlying funds, which is maintained at $1.
Interest Rate Risk
Interest rate risk relates to the risk that the fair value of future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. The company is exposed to interest rate risk primarily through its Debt and Cash and cash equivalent investments. On December 31, 2025, the interest rates on 48.8% of the company's borrowings were fixed for a weighted average period of 7.9 years, and the company had a balance of $437.7 million on its Revolving Credit Agreement.
The interest rate profile of the financial liabilities of the company on December 31 was:
| (in millions) | December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Debt | |||||||||||
| Fixed rate | $ | 891.5 | $ | 890.6 | |||||||
| Floating rate | 933.6 | — | |||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,825.1 | $ | 890.6 | |||||||
| Weighted average interest rate percentage | 4.8 | % | 4.6 | % | |||||||
| Weighted average period for which rate is fixed in years | 7.9 | 8.9 |
See Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, Note 8, “Debt,” for additional disclosures relating to the U.S. Dollar floating and fixed rate obligations.
The sensitivity of our financial assets to interest rate risk is immaterial.
Foreign Exchange Rate Risk
The company has transactional currency exposures that occur when any of the company’s subsidiaries receive or pay cash in a currency different from its functional currency. Such exposure arises from sales or purchases by operating subsidiaries in currencies other than the subsidiaries’ functional currencies. These exposures are not actively managed.
In addition, the net assets and financial results of the company's foreign operations are exposed to foreign currency translation risk when translated into U.S. Dollars upon consolidation into Invesco. A strengthening U.S. Dollar has a negative impact on the company's foreign currency denominated earnings when presented in U.S. Dollars. The company's most significant foreign exchange rate risk exposure relates to the translation of Pound Sterling-denominated and Euro-denominated transactions into the U.S. Dollar reporting currency. Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, Note 16, "Segment and Geographic Information," contains disclosure of revenue by geography.
The company is also exposed to foreign currency translation risk on monetary assets and liabilities that are held by subsidiaries in different functional currencies than the subsidiaries' functional currencies. The impact of the revaluation is recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Net foreign exchange revaluation losses were $8.3 million in 2025 (2024: zero revaluation gains and losses) and are included in General and administrative expenses and Other gains and losses, net on the Consolidated Statements of Income.
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