There is no clean earnings-style consensus for a monthly AUM release, so the key benchmark is July’s $2,447.1 billion and the flow mix. August preliminary AUM rose to $2,562.1 billion, or 4.7% month over month.
| Metric | August 31, 2026 | July 31, 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total AUM | $2,562.1B | $2,447.1B | +$115.0B / +4.7% |
| ETFs & Index Strategies | $783.4B | $750.5B | +$32.9B |
| QQQ | $489.0B | $452.8B | +$36.2B |
| Global Liquidity | $269.3B | $233.0B | +$36.3B |
| Net long-term inflows | $27.6B | — | New disclosure |
| Money-market net inflows | $35.8B | — | New disclosure |
| Market-return contribution | $49.0B | — | New disclosure |
The headline increase was supported by real flows, but not purely by investment demand. Invesco reported $27.6 billion of net long-term inflows and $35.8 billion of money-market inflows. That suggests broad asset gathering, but the unusually large liquidity inflow makes the result less representative of durable demand for higher-fee active strategies.
Market performance did a substantial share of the work. Favorable market returns added $49 billion to AUM, while foreign exchange added another $2.7 billion. The combination of market appreciation and money-market flows explains most of the month’s increase, leaving the underlying organic read solid but not an unambiguous breakout.
Net read: a mixed monthly update rather than a clean beat. The 4.7% AUM increase and long-term inflows are constructive versus the prior month, while QQQ, ETFs and Global Liquidity all expanded. But because the filing provides no published consensus and the gain depended heavily on market returns plus cash-like assets, the appropriate scorecard is a sizable AUM increase with a mixed quality of growth.
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