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Invesco Announces Changes to Portfolio Management for Invesco Van Kampen Dynamic Credit Opportunities Fund and Invesco Van Kamp

^{Published on 2010-06-14 14:00:36 - Market Wire}
 

HOUSTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Investment management decisions for Invesco Van Kampen Dynamic Credit Opportunities Fund (NYSE: VTA) (the Fund) are made by the investment management teams at Invesco Advisers, Inc. (the Adviser) and Avenue Europe International Management, L.P., the Funda™s investment subadviser (the Subadviser).

The following individuals are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funda™s portfolio:

• Mr. Gerard Fogarty has been managing the Fund since 2008 and has been associated with the Adviser or its affiliates since 2010. From 2007-2010 and prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Fogarty was employed by Van Kampen Asset Management in an investment management capacity and from 2003-2007 he was employed by JPMorgan and held a number of positions including Director in the financial institutions group, and, as a Credit Executive in the commercial real estate group.
• Mr. Philip Yarrow has been managing the Fund since 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser or its affiliates since 2010. From 2005-2010 and prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Yarrow was an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley. Previously, he was a credit analyst and a portfolio manager at Bank One/JP Morgan. He has more than 15 years of investment experience.
• Mr. Richard Furst has been associated with the Subadviser in an investment management capacity since 2004. Prior to joining the Subadviser, he was a portfolio manager with Moore Capital Group, managing approximately $1 billion of U.S. and European distressed and high yield securities. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of U.S. Special Situations Trading group for Bank of America. Previously, Mr. Furst was a Vice President in the High Yield and Distressed Trading and Research department of Salomon Brothers, Inc., after serving as an Analyst in their Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring group.
• Mr. RaulRamirez has been associated with the Subadviser in an investment management capacity since 2006. Prior to joining the Subadviser, Mr. Ramirez was a portfolio manager based in London at Goldentree Asset Management UK, focused on European investments. Previously, Mr. Ramirez was Executive Director of the Special Situations Group at Morgan Stanley, focused on the European energy sector. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Ramirez was also the Head of European Distressed Research.

The following individuals are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of Invesco Van Kampen Senior Income Trust (VVR) (the aTrusta):

• Mr. Gerard Fogarty has been managing the Trust since 2008 and has been associated with the Adviser or its affiliates since 2010. From 2007-2010 and prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Fogarty was employed by Van Kampen Asset Management in an investment management capacity and from 2003-2007 he was employed by JPMorgan and held a number of positions including Director in the financial institutions group, and, as a Credit Executive in the commercial real estate group.
• Mr. Philip Yarrow has been managing the Trust since 2007 and has been associated with the Adviser or its affiliates since 2010. From 2005-2010 and prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Yarrow was an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley. Previously, he was a credit analyst and a portfolio manager at Bank One/JP Morgan. He has more than 15 years of investment experience.

Investing involves risk and it is possible to lose money on any investment in the funds.

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Invesco Advisers, Inc. is an investment adviser; it provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients and does not sell securities. Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the U.S. distributor for Invesco Ltd.a™s retail mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and institutional money market funds and the subdistributor for its STIC Global Funds. Both are wholly owned, indirect subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd.

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