-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, SD1VWsYXqypC6rd5NK5G0oRzXUq3+IHsJhiAFAgVmvOMRZqN4jYVCQ8Hja3Xtqff jdhPGVYFi2ZLFTzHwHoDaQ== 0000872730-96-000011.txt : 19960518 0000872730-96-000011.hdr.sgml : 19960518 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000872730-96-000011 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 19960516 SROS: NONE FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INVESCO GROWTH FUND INC /CO/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000110042 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 [0000] IRS NUMBER: 840202353 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-11236 FILM NUMBER: 96568535 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7800 E UNION AVE STREET 2: STE 800 CITY: DENVER STATE: CO ZIP: 80237 BUSINESS PHONE: 303-930-6300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P.O. BOX 173706 CITY: DENVER STATE: CO ZIP: 80217-3706 497 1 INVESCO GROWTH FUND, INC. Supplement to Prospectus dated December 29, 1995 The third paragraph in the section of the Fund's Prospectus entitled "Additional Information" is hereby amended to read as follows: Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent. INVESCO Funds Group, Inc., 7800 E. Union Ave., Denver, Colorado 80237, acts as registrar, transfer agent, and dividend disbursing agent for the Fund pursuant to a Transfer Agency Agreement which provides that the Fund will pay an annual fee of $20.00 per sha reholder account or omnibus account participant. The transfer agency fee is not charged to each shareholder's or participant's account, but is an expense of the Fund to be paid from the Fund's assets. Registered broker-dealers, third party administrators of tax-qualified retirement plans and other entities, including affiliates of INVESCO, may provide sub-transfer agency or record-keeping services to the Fund which reduce or eliminate the need for identical services to be provided on behalf of the Fund by INVESCO. In such cases, INVESCO may pay the third party an annual sub-transfer agency o r record-keeping fee out of the transfer agency fee which is paid to INVESCO by the Fund. The date of this Supplement is May 1, 1996. INVESCO GROWTH FUND, INC. Supplement to Statement of Additional Information Dated December 29, 1995 The second paragraph in the section of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information entitled "The Fund and Its Management -- Transfer Agency Agreement" is hereby amended to read as follows: The Transfer Agency Agreement provides that the Fund shall pay to INVESCO an annual fee of $20.00 per shareholder account or omnibus account participant. This fee is paid monthly at 1/12 of the annual fee and is based upon the actual number of shareholder accounts and omnibus account participants in existence during each month. For the fiscal years ended August 31, 1995, 1994 and 1993, the Fund paid INVESCO transfer agency fees of $681,911, $556,206 and $505,634, respectively. The section of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information entitled "The Fund and Its Management -- Officers and Directors of the Fund" is hereby amended to (1) delete the second through the nineteenth paragraphs and (2) substitute the following new paragraphs in their place: All of the officers and directors of the Fund hold comparable positions with INVESCO Diversified Funds, Inc., INVESCO Dynamics Fund, Inc., INVESCO Emerging Opportunity Funds, Inc., INVESCO Income Funds, Inc., INVESCO Industrial Income Fund, Inc., INVESCO International Funds, Inc., INVESCO Money Market Funds, Inc., INVESCO Multiple Asset Funds, Inc., INVESCO Specialty Funds, Inc., INVESCO Strategic Portfolios, Inc., INVESCO Tax-Free Income Funds, Inc., and INVESCO Variable Investment Funds, Inc. All of the directors of the Fund also serve as trustees of INVESCO Value Trust. In addition, all of the directors of the Fund also are directors of INVESCO Advisor Funds, Inc. (formerly known as The EBI Funds, Inc.); and, with the exception of Mr. Hesser, trustees of INVESCO Treasurer's Series Trust. All of the officers of the Fund also hold comparable positions with INVESCO Value Trust. Set forth below is information with respect to each of the Fund's officers and directors. Unless otherwise indicated, the address of the directors and officers is Post Office Box 173706, Denver, Colorado 80217-3706. Their affiliations represent their principal occupations during the past five years. CHARLES W. BRADY,*+ Chairman of the Board. Chief Executive Officer and Director of INVESCO PLC, London, England, and of various subsidiaries thereof. Chairman of the Board of INVESCO Advisor Funds, Inc., INVESCO Treasurer's Series Trust and The Global Health Sciences Fund. Address: 1315 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia. Born: May 11, 1935. FRED A. DEERING,+# Vice Chairman of the Board. Vice Chairman of INVESCO Advisor Funds, Inc., and INVESCO Treasurer's Series Trust. Trustee of The Global Health Sciences Fund. Formerly, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Board of Security Life of Denver Insurance Company, Denver, Colorado; Director of ING America Life Insurance Company, Urbaine Life Insurance Company and Midwestern United Life Insurance Company. Address: Security Life Center, 1290 Broadway, Denver, Colorado. Born: January 12, 1928. DAN J. HESSER,+* President and Director. Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc.; Director of INVESCO Trust Company. Trustee of The Global Health Sciences Fund. Born: December 27, 1939. VICTOR L. ANDREWS,** Director. Professor Emeritus, Chairman Emeritus and Chairman of the CFO Roundtable of the Department of Finance of Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; President, Andrews Financial Associates, Inc. (consulting firm); formerly, member of the faculties of the Harvard Business School and the Sloan School of Management of MIT. Dr. Andrews is also a Director of The Southeastern Thrift and Bank Fund, Inc. and The Sheffield Funds, Inc. Address: 4625 Jettridge Drive, Atlanta, Georgia. Born: June 23, 1930. BOB R. BAKER,+** Director. President and Chief Executive Officer of AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, Colorado, since January 1989; until mid-December 1988, Vice Chairman of the Board of First Columbia Financial Corporation (a financial institution), Englewood, Colorado. Formerly, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of First Columbia Financial Corporation. Address: 1775 Sherman Street, #1000, Denver, Colorado. Born: August 7, 1936. LAWRENCE H. BUDNER,# Director. Trust Consultant; prior to June 30, 1987, Senior Vice President and Senior Trust Officer of InterFirst Bank, Dallas, Texas. Address: 7608 Glen Albens Circle, Dallas, Texas. Born: July 25, 1930. DANIEL D. CHABRIS,+# Director. Financial Consultant; Assistant Treasurer of Colt Industries Inc., New York, New York, from 1966 to 1988. Address: 15 Sterling Road, Armonk, New York. Born: August 1, 1923. A.D. FRAZIER, JR.*,** Director. Chief Operating Officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. From 1982 to 1991, Mr. Frazier was employed in various capacities by First Chicago Bank, most recently as Executive Vice President of the North American Banking Group. Trustee of The Global Health Sciences Fund. Director of Magellan Health Services, Inc. and of Charter Medical Corp. Address: 250 Williams Street, Suite 6000, Atlanta, Georgia. Born: June 23, 1944. HUBERT L. HARRIS, JR.*, Director. President of INVESCO Services, Inc. (since January 1990). Director of INVESCO PLC and Chief Financial Officer of INVESCO Individual Services Group. Member of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Board of Trustees of Georgia Institute of Technology. Address: 1315 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Born: July 15, 1943. KENNETH T. KING,** Director. Formerly, Chairman of the Board of The Capitol Life Insurance Company, Providence Washington Insurance Company, and Director of numerous subsidiaries thereof in the U.S. Formerly, Chairman of the Board of The Providence Capitol Companies in the United Kingdom and Guernsey. Chairman of the Board of the Symbion Corporation (a high technology company) until 1987. Address: 4080 North Circulo Manzanillo, Tucson, Arizona. Born: November 16, 1925. JOHN W. McINTYRE,# Director. Retired. Formerly, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Citizens and Southern Corporation and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Citizens and Southern Georgia Corp. and Citizens and Southern National Bank. Director of Golden Poultry Co., Inc. Trustee of The Global Health Sciences Fund and Gables Residential Trust. Address: 7 Piedmont Center, Suite 100, Atlanta, Georgia. Born: September 14, 1930. GLEN A. PAYNE, Secretary. Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc. and INVESCO Trust Company. Formerly, employee of a U.S. regulatory agency, Washington, D.C., (June 1973 through May 1989.) Born: September 25, 1947. RONALD L. GROOMS, Treasurer. Senior Vice President and Treasurer of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc. and INVESCO Trust Company since January 1988. Born: October 1, 1946. WILLIAM J. GALVIN, JR., Assistant Secretary. Senior Vice President of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc. and Trust Officer of INVESCO Trust Company. Formerly, Vice President of 440 Financial Group from June 1990 to August 1992; Assistant Vice President of Putnam Companies from November 1986 to June 1990. Born: August 21, 1956. ALAN I. WATSON, Assistant Secretary. Vice President of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc. and Trust Officer of INVESCO Trust Company. Born: September 14, 1941. JUDY P. WIESE, Assistant Treasurer. Vice President of INVESCO Funds Group, Inc. and Trust Officer of INVESCO Trust Company. Born: February 3, 1948. The ninth paragraph of the section of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information entitled "The Fund and Its Management - Director Compensation" (the paragraph immediately following footnote 6) is hereby amended to read as follows: Messrs. Brady, Harris and Hesser , as "interested persons" of the Fund and other funds in the INVESCO Complex, receive compensation as officers or employees of INVESCO or its affiliated companies, and do not receive any director's fees or other compensation from the Fund or other funds in the INVESCO Complex for their services as directors. Because of the possibility that A.D. Frazier, Jr. may become employed by a company affiliated with INVESCO at some point in the future, he was deemed to be an "interested person" of the Fund and of the other funds in the INVESCO Complex effective May 1, 1996. Until such time as Mr. Frazier actually becomes employed by an INVESCO-affiliated company, however, he will continue to receive the same director's fees and other compensation as the Fund's independent directors. The date of this Supplement is May 1, 1996. -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----