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VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF
VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF
Investment Objective

The VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that track the performance of the Veterans Select Index before fees and expenses.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF
VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers 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 Top Veteran Employers ETF
VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF
Management Fees 0.55%
Other Expenses 0.10% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.65%
Fee Waivers/Expense Reimbursements (0.05%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements 0.60% [1],[2]
[1] Estimated for the current fiscal year.
[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 November 2, 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 0.60%. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed by it 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 and then sell or continue to hold all of your shares at the end of the period, (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:

Expense Example
1 Year
3 Years
VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF | VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF | USD ($) 61 203
Expense Example No Redemption
1 Year
3 Years
VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF | VictoryShares Top Veteran Employers ETF | USD ($) 61 203
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. Because the Fund has not yet commenced investment operations, no portfolio turnover information is available at this time.

Principal Investment Strategy

Under normal circumstances, the Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its assets in securities in the Veterans Select Index (the "Index"). The Index is designed to identify companies that have demonstrated support of U.S. military veterans, service members and their families through employment opportunities and related policies. The Index is maintained exclusively by VETS Indexes LLC (the “Index Provider”).

 

The Index is composed of issuers from the universe of companies identified by various periodic rankings, survey and recognition programs published by the U.S. government and non-government publishers that the Index Provider has selected for being supportive of U.S. military veterans, service members and their families through the creation of employment opportunities and the adoption of associated employment policies. To be included in the Index, eligible companies in the universe must be publicly traded with a market capitalization of at least $1 billion and its common stock must have liquidity greater than $40 million in average daily traded dollar volume.  The Index is reconstituted semi-annually, and constituent companies are equally weighted.

 

The number of companies in the Index can change and may at times have fewer than 50 companies. As of September 30, 2020, the Index had 49 constituents and a market capitalization range from $2.9 billion to $1.5 trillion.

 

The Fund generally seeks to track the returns of the Index before fees and expenses by employing a replication strategy that seeks to hold all the stocks in the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index.

 

Although all of the companies in the Index have their stock listed on a U.S. exchange, such companies may have significant business operations outside of the United States.

 

From time to time, the Fund’s investments will be concentrated in an industry or group of industries to the extent the Index is so concentrated. As of the date of this Prospectus, the Index is not concentrated in any industry or group of industries.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

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

 

  Equity Securities Risk — The value of the equity securities in which the Fund invests may decline in response to developments affecting individual companies and/or general economic conditions in the United States or abroad. A company’s earnings or dividends may not increase as expected (or may decline) because of poor management, competitive pressures, reliance on particular suppliers or geographical regions, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures, man-made or natural disasters, military confrontations or wars, terrorism, public health crises, or other events, conditions and factors. Price changes may be temporary or last for extended periods.

 

  Stock Market Risk — Overall stock market risks may affect the value of the Fund. Domestic and international factors such as political events, war, trade disputes, interest rate levels and other fiscal and monetary policy changes, pandemics and other public health crises and related geopolitical events, as well as environmental disasters such as earthquakes, fires and floods, may add to instability in world economies and markets generally. The impact of these and other factors may be short-term or may last for extended periods.

 

  Index Risk — The Fund attempts to track the performance of the Index. The Fund’s performance 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 will 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.

 

  Limited Portfolio Risk  — To the extent the Fund invests its assets in a fewer number of issuers than more diverse funds, a decline in the market value of a particular security may affect the Fund’s value more than if the Fund invested in a larger number of issuers.

 

  Passive Investment Risk — The Fund is not actively managed, and the Adviser does not take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. Because the Index constituents will be selected based on non-financial factors, the Fund may not perform as well as funds whose investment strategies are based solely on financial criteria.

 

  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.

 

  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 the 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 do not reflect 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 net asset value (“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 means that the Fund’s performance would deviate from the performance of the Index.

 

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

 

  Not Individually Redeemable — The Fund’s shares are not individually redeemable and may be redeemed by the Fund at its 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.

 

  Trading Issues — Trading in shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC (the “Exchange”) 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, authorized participants may be unwilling to participate in the creation/redemption process, particularly if the market for shares becomes 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.

 

  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.

 

  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.

 

  Intraday Indicative Value 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.

 

  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.

 

  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 an industry or group of industries. To the extent that the Index concentrates in the securities of issuers in a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund also can be expected to concentrate its investments to approximately the same extent. By concentrating its investments in an industry or group of industries, the Fund may face more risks than if it were diversified broadly over numerous industries or sectors.

 

  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.

 

  Foreign Investment Risks — Investments in companies with significant business operations outside of the United States may involve greater political, regulatory, and economic risks than domestic investments. Foreign business operations could be affected by factors not present in the U.S., including expropriation, confiscation of property, and difficulties in enforcing contracts. In addition, to the extent investments are made in a limited number of countries, events in those countries will have a more significant impact on the Fund. Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies, currency exchange control regulations, and restrictions or prohibitions on the repatriation of foreign currencies may negatively affect an investment.

 

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 Corporation (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

No performance information is presented since the Fund has not yet had a full calendar year of performance. Performance data for the Fund will be available online at www.VictorySharesLiterature.com or by calling 1-866-376-7890. The Fund’s performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.