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VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
Investment Objective

The VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the MSCI World ex USA Select Value Momentum Blend Index (the "Index").

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares ("Shares") of the Fund. You may incur usual or customary brokerage commissions and other charges on purchases and sales of Shares of the Fund in the secondary market, which are not reflected in the table or the example below.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
USD ($)
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
Management Fees 0.25%
Other Expenses 0.26%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.51% [1]
Fee Waivers/Expense Reimbursements (0.16%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements 0.35% [1],[2]
[1] The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses have been restated to reflect current expenses.
[2] Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund's investment adviser, ("Adviser") has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses through at least June 30, 2021 so that the total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and expense reimbursement (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 0.35%. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed by it or by the Fund's predecessor adviser for up to three years after the fiscal year in which the waiver or reimbursement took place, subject to the lesser of any operating expense limits in effect at the time of (a) the original waiver or expense reimbursement; or (b) the recoupment, after giving effect to the recoupment amount. This agreement may only be terminated by the Fund's Board of Trustees.
Example:

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that (1) you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, (2) your investment has a 5% return each year, and (3) the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The amounts shown reflect any fee waiver/expense reimbursement in place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based upon these assumptions your costs would be:

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VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF | VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF | USD ($) 36 147 269 625
Portfolio Turnover:

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover generally will indicate higher transaction costs resulting in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 87% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal circumstances, the Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its assets in securities in the Index, depositary receipts on securities in the Index, and securities underlying depositary receipts in the Index. MSCI, Inc. (the "Index Provider") constructs the Index in accordance with a rules-based methodology.


The Index is designed to deliver exposure to equity market performance in non-U.S. developed markets and provide higher exposure to value and momentum factors within the MSCI World ex USA Index (the "Parent Index") while also maintaining moderate Index turnover and lower realized volatility than traditional capitalization weighted indexes. The value factor indicates how attractively a stock is priced relative to its fundamentals, such as book value and free cash flow. A value score is derived from a company's valuation ratios, e.g. forward price to earnings, share price to book value, and enterprise value to operating cash flow. The momentum factor indicates whether changes in a company's share price are trending up or down. A momentum score is calculated using a security's price trends over the last six months and last 12 months (except the previous month), adjusted for volatility. A security is only evaluated within a single industry or sector.


The Index Provider ranks each component of the Parent Index based on its value and momentum scores, relative to their sector classification, and creates a composite score for each stock by equally weighting the stock's value and momentum score. The Index Provider then selects the top 25% of the ranked stocks of the Parent Index based on their composite scores for inclusion in the Index. The constituents are weighted such that securities with lower realized volatility are given higher Index weights. The Index rebalances quarterly. In order to limit over weighting, the Index has a defined a threshold of 5% relative to the Parent Index in geographic regions, as defined by the Index Provider. As of October 31, 2019, the Index provided exposure to the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.


The Index is comprised of equity securities, including American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") and Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs").


The Fund seeks to track the returns of the Index before fees and expenses by employing, under normal circumstances, a "sampling" process to invest in a representative sample of stocks included in the Index. The Fund's portfolio managers select these stocks using a statistical optimization process designed to produce investment characteristics that closely approximate those of the Index.


The Fund also may invest up to 20% of its assets in instruments other than the securities in the Index, which the Adviser believes will help the Fund track the Index. Such instruments may include derivatives, including index futures, which the Fund may use for cash management (attempting to remain fully invested while maintaining liquidity) or to gain exposure to an investment in a manner other than investing in the asset directly.


The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold more than 25% of its assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Index is concentrated. The degree to which certain sectors, industries, or asset classes are represented in the Index may change over time.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The Fund's investments are subject to the following principal risks:


n  Market Risk — Any investment involves risk, and there is no assurance that the Fund's investment objective will be achieved. Losing money is a risk of investing in the Fund. The value of the securities in which the Fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies, particular sectors or governments, and/or general economic conditions throughout the world due to increasingly interconnected global economies and financial markets, or general investor sentiment. Individual stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically than those of certain other types of investments, such as bonds. During a general downturn in the financial markets, multiple asset classes may decline in value. When markets perform well, there can be no assurance that specific investments held by the Fund will rise in value.


n  Foreign Securities Risk — Foreign securities may be subject to risk of loss because of more or less foreign government regulation, less public information, and less economic, political, and social stability in the countries in which the Fund invests. The imposition of exchange controls, sanctions, confiscations, trade restrictions (including tariffs), and other government restrictions by the United States or other governments; or problems in share registration, settlement, or custody also may result in losses. Foreign risk also involves the risk of negative foreign currency rate fluctuations, which may cause the value of securities denominated in such foreign currency (or other instruments through which the Fund has exposure to foreign currencies) to decline in value. Currency exchange rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time.


n  Geographic Risk — To the extent the Index focuses its investments in issuers located in a particular country or region, the Fund is subject to greater risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions and developments that may be particular to that country or region. For example, the Fund may be subject to greater risk of adverse securities markets, exchange rates, social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other developments, or natural disasters.


n  Currency Risk — Investments in foreign currencies and in securities that trade in, or receive revenues in, or in derivatives that provide exposure to foreign currencies are subject to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar. Any such decline may erode or reverse any potential gains from an investment in securities denominated in foreign currency or may widen existing loss. Currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time for a number of reasons, including changes in interest rates; intervention (or the failure to intervene) by governments, central banks or supranational entities; the imposition of currency controls; or other political developments in the United States or abroad.


n  Depositary Receipts Risk — Foreign securities may trade in the form of depositary receipts, which include ADRs and GDRs (collectively "Depositary Receipts"). To the extent the Fund acquires Depositary Receipts through banks which do not have a contractual relationship with the foreign issuer of the security underlying the Depositary Receipts to issue and service such unsponsored Depositary Receipts, the Fund may not be aware of and be able to respond to corporate actions such as stock splits or rights offerings involving the foreign issuer in a timely manner. In addition, the lack of information may result in inefficiencies in the valuation of such instruments. Investment in Depositary Receipts does not eliminate all the risks inherent in investing in securities of non-U.S. issuers. The market value of Depositary Receipts depends on the market value of the underlying securities and fluctuations in the relative value of the currencies in which the Depositary Receipts and the underlying securities are quoted.


n  Investments in Depositary Receipts may be less liquid and more volatile than the underlying securities in their primary trading market.


n  If a Depositary Receipt is denominated in a different currency than its underlying securities, the Fund will be subject to the currency risk of both the investment in the Depositary Receipt and the underlying security.


n  Holders of Depositary Receipts may have limited or no rights to take action with respect to the underlying securities or to compel the issuer of the receipts to take action.


n  The prices of Depositary Receipts may differ from the prices of securities upon which they are based.


n  To the extent the Fund invests in Depositary Receipts based on securities included in the Index, such differences in prices may increase index tracking risk.


n  Mid-Capitalization and Small-Capitalization Company Risk — Investments in mid-capitalization and small-capitalization companies involve greater risks than those associated with larger, more established companies. These securities may be subject to more abrupt or erratic price movements and may lack sufficient market liquidity, and these issuers often face greater business risks.


n  Large-Capitalization Company Risk — Investments in large-capitalization companies may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions and may underperform other market segments. Some large-capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges and attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion. As such, returns on investments in stocks of large-capitalization companies could trail the returns on investments in stocks of small- and mid-capitalization companies.


n  Value Risk — Value investing entails investing in securities that are inexpensive relative to other securities based on ratios such as price to earnings or price to book. There may be periods when value investing is out of favor, and during which the investment performance of a fund using a value strategy may suffer. In addition, value stocks are subject to the risk that their intrinsic value may never be realized in the market.


n  Index Risk — The Fund attempts to track the performance of a specific index. The Fund will be negatively affected by general declines in the securities and asset classes represented in the Index. In addition, because the Fund is not "actively" managed, unless a specific security is removed from the Index, the Fund generally would not sell a security because the security's issuer was in financial trouble. The Fund also does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. Therefore, the Fund's performance could be lower than funds that may actively shift their portfolio assets to take advantage of market opportunities or to lessen the impact of a market decline or a decline in the value of one or more issuers.


n  Passive Investment Risk — The Fund is designed to track the Index and is not actively managed. The Fund will not buy or sell shares of an equity security due to current or projected performance of a security, industry or sector, unless that security is added to or removed, respectively, from the Index. The Fund does not, therefore, seek returns in excess of the Index, and does not attempt to take defensive positions or hedge against potential risks unless such defensive positions are also taken by the applicable Index.


n  Calculation Methodology Risk — The Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Index, including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund, the Index Provider, nor the Adviser can offer assurances that the Index's calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers or correct valuation of securities, nor can they guarantee the availability or timeliness of the production of an Index.


n  Tracking Error Risk — Tracking error is the divergence of the Fund's performance from that of the Index. The performance of the Fund may diverge from that of its Index for a number of reasons, such as the use of representative sampling (if applicable), transaction costs, the Fund's holding of cash, differences in accrual of dividends, changes to the Index, tax considerations, rebalancing, or new or existing regulatory requirements. Unlike the Fund, the returns of the Index are not reduced by investment and other operating expenses, including the trading costs associated with implementing changes to its portfolio of investments. Tracking error risk may be heightened during times of market volatility or other unusual market conditions. To the extent that the Fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices and the value of the Index is based on securities' closing prices (i.e., the value of the Index is not based on fair value prices), the Fund's ability to track the Index may be adversely affected. For tax efficiency purposes, the Fund may sell certain securities to realize losses, which will result in a deviation from the Index.


n  Exchange-Traded Fund ("ETF") Structure Risk — The Fund is structured as an ETF and as a result is subject to special risks, including:


n  Not Individually Redeemable — The Fund's Shares are not individually redeemable and may be redeemed by the Fund at its net asset value per share ("NAV") only in large blocks known as "Creation Units." You may incur brokerage costs purchasing enough Shares to constitute a Creation Unit. Alternatively, you may redeem your Shares by selling them on the secondary market at prevailing market prices.


n  Trading Issues — Trading in Shares on the Exchange (as defined below) may be halted due to market conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make trading in Shares inadvisable, such as extraordinary market volatility. There can be no assurance that Shares will continue to meet the listing requirements of the Exchange. There is no guarantee that an active secondary market will develop for the Shares. In stressed market conditions, the market for Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the Fund's underlying portfolio holdings, which may lead to differences between the market price of the Shares and the underlying value of those Shares.


n  Market Price Variance Risk — The market prices of Shares will fluctuate in response to changes in NAV and supply and demand for Shares and will include a "bid-ask spread" charged by the exchange specialists, market makers or other participants that trade the particular security. There may be times when the market price and the NAV vary significantly, particularly in times of market stress. This means that Shares may trade at a premium or discount to NAV.


n  Authorized Participants Concentration Risk — A limited number of financial institutions may be responsible for all or a significant portion of the creation and redemption activity for the Fund. If these firms exit the business or are unable or unwilling to process creation and/or redemption orders, Shares may trade at a premium or discount to NAV.


n  Intraday Indicative Value ("IIV") Risk — The Exchange intends to disseminate the approximate per share value of the Fund's published basket of securities ("Deposit Securities") every 15 seconds (the "intraday indicative value" or IIV). The IIV is not a "real-time" update of the NAV per Share of the Fund because the IIV may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV. For example, the calculation of the NAV may be subject to fair valuation at different prices than those used in the calculations of the IIV and, unlike the calculation of NAV, the IIV does not take into account Fund expenses. In addition, the IIV is based on the published Deposit Securities and not on the Fund's actual holdings.


n  Sampling Risk — The Fund's use of a representative sampling approach, if used, could result in its holding a smaller number of securities than are in the Index. As a result, an adverse development with an issuer or a small number of issuers of securities held by the Fund could result in a greater decline in NAV than would be the case if the Fund held all of the securities in the Index. To the extent the assets in the Fund are smaller, these risks will be greater.


n  Momentum Risk — Momentum investing entails investing more in securities that exhibit persistence in relative performance evidenced by better recent price performance compared to other securities. These securities may be more volatile than a broad cross-section of securities, and momentum may be an indicator that a security's price is peaking. Momentum can turn quickly and cause significant variation from other types of investments. The Fund may experience significant losses if momentum stops, turns or otherwise behaves differently than predicted.


n  Seed Investor or Large Shareholder Risk — Certain large shareholders, including other funds advised by the Adviser, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund's Shares. In addition, seed investors, such as the Adviser, an affiliate of the Adviser, an Authorized Participant, a lead market maker, or other entity, may contribute all or a majority of the assets in the Fund to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund's achieving a specified size or scale. There is a risk that such large shareholders or seed investors may redeem their investments in the Fund, which could have a significant negative impact on the Fund's NAV, market price and brokerage costs.


n  Concentration Risk — In following its methodology, the Index from time to time may be concentrated to a significant degree in securities of issuers located in a single industry or sector. To the extent that the Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or sector, the Fund also can be expected to concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or sector, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or sectors. If the Index is not concentrated in a particular industry or sector, the Fund will not concentrate in a particular industry or sector.


n  Liquidity Risk — The Fund is subject to liquidity risk, which is the risk that the Fund's investment may be difficult to purchase or sell and that an investment may not be sold or disposed of at an advantageous price or time.


n  Valuation Risk — The sale price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund's valuation of the security and may differ from the value used by the Index, particularly for securities that trade in low volume or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. The Fund relies on various sources to calculate its NAV. The information may be provided by third parties that are believed to be reliable, but the information may not be accurate due to errors by such pricing sources, technological issues, or otherwise.


n  Derivatives Risk — Derivatives, including futures contracts, may involve risks different from, or greater than, those associated with more traditional investments. In addition to risks relating to the underlying assets, the use of derivatives may include other, possibly greater, risks, including counterparty, leverage, and liquidity risks. Derivatives may create leverage and expose the Fund to additional levels of risk, including greater losses from investments and increased volatility, than would otherwise have been the case had the Fund not engaged in the activities that created the leverage. As a result of investing in derivatives, the Fund could lose more than the amount it invests. Derivatives may be highly illiquid, and the Fund may not be able to close out or sell a derivative position at a particular time or at an anticipated price. Derivatives also may be subject to counterparty risk, which includes the risk that the Fund may sustain a loss as a result of the insolvency or bankruptcy of, or other non-compliance by, the other party to the transaction.


You may lose money by investing in the Fund. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company ("FDIC") or any other government agency.


By itself, the Fund does not constitute a complete investment plan and should be considered a long-term investment for investors who can afford to weather changes in the value of their investment.

Performance

The bar chart and table that follow are intended to help you understand some of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows you how the Fund's calendar year performance has varied over the past 10 years (or the life of the Fund if shorter). The table compares the Fund's average annual total returns over the same period to a broad measure of market performance. We assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.


Performance information for the Fund prior to July 1, 2019 reflects the historical performance of the USAA MSCI International Value Momentum Blend Index ETF, a series of USAA ETF Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by USAA Asset Management Company) (the "Predecessor Fund"). The Fund's performance has not been restated to reflect any differences in expenses paid by the Predecessor Fund and those paid by the Fund.


Updated performance information is available on the Fund's website at VictorySharesLiterature.com.

Calendar Year Returns
Bar Chart

The year-to-date total return of the Fund through September 30, 2019 was 8.92%.

Highest Quarter  1.06% (quarter ended September 30, 2018)

Lowest Quarter  -14.12% (quarter ended December 31, 2018)

Average Annual Total Returns (For the Periods Ended December 31, 2018)
Average Annual Returns - VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF
Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, Since Inception
[1]
Average Annual Returns, Inception Date
VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF (17.44%) (12.87%) Oct. 24, 2017
After Taxes on Distributions | VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF (17.85%) (13.26%)  
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | VictoryShares USAA MSCI International Value Momentum ETF (9.84%) (9.64%)  
MSCI World ex USA (Net) Index Index returns reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes (except foreign withholding taxes). (14.09%) (9.70%)  
MSCI World ex USA Select Value Momentum Blend Index Index returns reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes. (17.18%) (12.58%) Oct. 24, 2017
[1] Inception date is October 24, 2017.

After-tax returns use the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the effect of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant if you own your Fund Shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.