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Mar. 01, 2021
Victory Sycamore Established Value Fund
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:20.50pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Sycamore Established Value Fund </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:20.50pt;font-weight:bold;">Summary</span>
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Investment Objective</span>
The Victory Sycamore Established Value Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth by investing primarily in common stocks.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Fund Fees and Expenses</span>
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 to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your immediate family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Victory Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available in Investing with the Victory Funds on page 21 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;">Shareholder Fees</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;">(paid directly from your investment)</span>
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;">Annual Fund Operating Expenses</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;">(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)</span>
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Example:</span>
The following example is designed to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods shown and then sell or continue to hold all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that 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 on these assumptions your costs would be:
The example does not reflect sales charges (loads) on reinvested dividends and other distributions. If these sales charges (loads) were included, your costs would be higher.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Portfolio Turnover:</span>
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will generally indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund 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 period, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 44% of the average value of its portfolio.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Principal Investment Strategy</span>
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing primarily in the equity securities of companies that the Adviser believes to be undervalued relative to the underlying earnings potential of the company. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s assets will be invested in equity securities of companies with market capitalizations, at the time of purchase, within the range of companies comprising the Russell MidCap® Value Index. The Fund may invest a portion of its assets in equity securities of foreign companies traded in the U.S., including American Depositary Receipts and Global Depositary Receipts (ADRs and GDRs).As of December 31, 2020, the Russell MidCap® Value Index included companies with approximate market capitalizations between $831.2 million and $51.3 billion. The size of companies in the index changes with market conditions and the composition of the index.The Adviser invests in companies that it believes to be of high quality based on criteria such as market share position, profitability, balance sheet strength, competitive advantages, management competence and the ability to generate excess cash flow. The Adviser uses a bottom-up investment process in conducting fundamental analysis to identify companies that have sustainable returns trading below the Adviser’s assessment of intrinsic value and prospects for an inflection in business fundamentals that will enable the stock price to be revalued higher. The Adviser may sell a security if it believes the stock has reached its fair value estimate, if a more attractive opportunity is identified, or if the fundamentals of the company deteriorate.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Principal Risks</span>
The Fund’s investments are subject to the following principal risks:Equity 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.Mid-Capitalization Stock Risk — Mid-sized companies may be subject to a number of risks not associated with larger, more established companies, potentially making their stock prices more volatile and increasing the risk of loss.Investment Style Risk — Different types of investment styles, for example growth or value, tend to perform differently and shift into and out of favor with investors depending on changes in market and economic sentiment and conditions. As a result, the Fund’s performance may at times be worse than the performance of other mutual funds that invest more broadly or that have different investment styles.Foreign Securities Risk — Foreign securities (including depositary receipts) are subject to political, regulatory, and economic risks not present in domestic investments. Foreign securities could be affected by factors not present in the U.S., including expropriation, confiscation of property, and difficulties in enforcing contracts. Compared to U.S. companies, there generally is less publicly available information about foreign companies and there may be less governmental regulation and supervision of foreign companies. Foreign securities generally experience more volatility than their domestic counterparts. 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.Liquidity Risk — Lack of a ready market or restrictions on resale may limit the ability of the Fund to dispose of certain holdings quickly or at prices that represent true market value in the judgment of the Adviser. In addition, the Fund, by itself or together with other accounts managed by the Adviser, may hold a position in a security that is large relative to the typical trading volume for that security, which can make it difficult for the Fund to dispose of the position at an advantageous time or price. Illiquid investments and relatively less liquid investments may also be difficult to value. Liquidity risk may also refer to the risk that the Fund may not be able to pay redemption proceeds within the allowable time period because of unusual market conditions, unusually high volume of redemptions, or other reasons. To meet redemption requests or to raise cash to pursue other investment opportunities, the Fund may be forced to sell securities at an unfavorable time and/or under unfavorable conditions, which may adversely affect the Fund.Management Risk — The portfolio managers may not execute the Fund's principal investment strategy effectively.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.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Investment Performance</span>
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 of the Fund's share classes, including applicable maximum sales charges, over the same period to one or more broad measures of market performance, which have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy. We assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.Performance data for the classes varies based on differences in their fee and expense structures. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at VictoryFunds.com.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Calendar Year Returns for Class R Shares</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;margin-left:0%;">(The annual return in the bar chart is for the Fund’s oldest class of shares, Class R shares.)</span>
During the periods shown in the chart:ReturnsQuarter endedHighest Quarter20.43%December 31, 2020Lowest Quarter-29.45%March 31, 2020
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. After-tax returns are shown for only one share class. The after-tax returns for other classes will vary.