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Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund
USAA Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund Summary
Investment Objective

The USAA Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund (the "Fund") seeks to provide high current income consistent with preservation of principal.

Fees and Expenses

The tables below describe the fees and expenses that you may pay, directly and indirectly, to invest in the Fund. 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 one or more USAA Mutual Funds or Victory Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available in Purchases on page 25 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A – Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries, and from your investment professional.

Shareholder Fees(fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees - Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund
Fund Shares
Inst. Shares
Class A
R6 Shares
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) none none none none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund
Fund Shares
Inst. Shares
Class A
R6 Shares
Management Fee [1] 0.24% 0.24% 0.24% 0.24%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees none none 0.25% none
Other Expenses 0.35% 0.39% 0.36% 0.55%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.59% 0.63% 0.85% [2] 0.79%
Fee Waiver/Reimbursement from Adviser none (0.08%) none (0.40%)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses after Reimbursement [3] 0.59% 0.55% 0.85% 0.39%
[1] Victory Capital Management Inc. (the "Adviser") has agreed that no performance adjustment (positive or negative) will be made to the amount payable to the Adviser from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020. Thereafter, the management fee may fluctuate (increase or decrease by up to +/- 0.06% of the average nets assets of the Fund) based on the Fund's performance relative to a securities market index measured over a rolling 36-month period. See <b>Fund Management</b> section for a description of the performance adjustment.
[2] The expense information in the table for the Institutional Shares, Class A shares, and Class C shares is estimated for the current fiscal year.
[3] The Adviser has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, capitalized expenses, and other extraordinary expenses) do not exceed an annual rate of 0.60% of the Fund Shares, 0.55% of the Institutional Shares, 0.85% of the Class A shares and 0.39% of the R6 Shares, through at least June 30, 2021. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed 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. The amount of any waivers or reimbursements and the amount of any recoupment is calculated without regard to the impact of any performance adjustment to the Fund's management fee. The amount of any waivers or reimbursements and the amount of any recoupment is calculated without regard to the impact of any performance adjustment to the Fund's management fee. 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 mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, the Fund's operating expenses remain the same, and the expense limitation agreement for each class of shares is not continued beyond its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

Expense Example - Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Fund Shares 60 189 329 738
Inst. Shares 56 192 342 777
Class A 87 271 471 1,049
R6 Shares 40 205 392 934
Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, including commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when shares of the Fund are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance.

For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 59% of the average value of its whole portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategy

The Fund's principal investment strategy is normally to invest at least 80% of the Fund's assets in investment-grade debt securities that have a dollar-weighted average portfolio maturity of 18 months (one and a half years) or less. The Fund invests primarily in U.S. dollar-denominated debt securities that may include, but are not limited to, obligations of U.S., state, and local governments, their agencies and instrumentalities; mortgage- and asset-backed securities; corporate debt securities; repurchase agreements; Yankee obligations; and other securities believed to have debt-like characteristics. This 80% policy may be changed upon at least 60 days' written notice to shareholders.

Principal Risks

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

Credit Risk – The fixed-income securities in the Fund's portfolio are subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that an issuer of a fixed-income security will fail to make timely interest and/or principal payments on its securities or that negative market perceptions of the issuer's ability to make such payments will cause the price of that security to decline. The Fund accepts some credit risk as a recognized means to enhance an investor's return. All fixed-income securities, varying from the highest quality to the very speculative, have some degree of credit risk.

Debt Securities Risk – The value of a debt security or other income-producing security changes in response to various factors, including, for example, market-related factors (such as changes in interest rates or changes in the risk appetite of investors generally) and changes in the actual or perceived ability of the issuer (or of issuers generally) to meet its (or their) obligations.

Other factors that may affect the value of debt securities, include, among others, public health crises and responses by governments and companies to such crises. These and other events may affect the creditworthiness of the issuer of a debt security and may impair an issuers ability to timely meet its debt obligations as they come due.

Management Risk – The Fund is actively managed, and the investment techniques and risk analyses used by the Fund's portfolio managers may not produce the desired results.

High-Yield/Junk Bond Risk – Fixed-income securities rated below investment grade, also known as "junk" or high-yield bonds, generally entail greater economic, credit, and liquidity risk than investment-grade securities. Their prices may be more volatile, especially during economic downturns, financial setbacks, or liquidity events. High-yield securities also can involve a substantially greater risk of default than higher quality debt securities, and their values can decline significantly over short and longer periods of time.

Interest Rate Risk – The Fund is subject to the risk that the market value of the bonds in its portfolio will fluctuate because of changes in interest rates, changes in the supply of and demand for debt securities, and other market factors. Bond prices generally are linked to the prevailing market interest rates. In general, when interest rates rise, bond prices fall; conversely, when interest rates fall, bond prices rise. The price volatility of a bond also depends on its duration. Generally, the longer the duration of a bond, the greater is its sensitivity to interest rates. To compensate investors for this higher interest rate risk, bonds with longer durations generally offer higher yields than bonds with shorter durations. The ability of an issuer of a debt security to repay principal prior to a security's maturity can increase the security's sensitivity to interest rate changes.

Decisions by the U.S. Federal Reserve (also known as the "Fed") regarding interest rate and monetary policy, which can be difficult to predict and sometimes change direction suddenly in response to economic and market events, can have a significant effect on the value of fixed income securities as well as the overall strength of the U.S. economy. Precise interest rate predictions are difficult to make, and interest rates may change unexpectedly and dramatically in response to extreme changes in market or economic conditions. As a result, the value of fixed income securities may vary widely under certain market conditions.

Yankee Bonds Risk – Yankee obligations are dollar-denominated instruments that have been issued by foreign issuers in the U.S. capital markets and are subject to the same risks that pertain to domestic issues, notably credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk. Yankee obligations are also subject to the imposition of foreign withholding taxes, the risks of expropriation or nationalization of foreign issuers, and certain sovereign risks.

Liquidity Risk – Market developments and other factors, including a general rise in interest rates, have the potential to cause investors to move out of fixed-income securities on a large scale, which may increase redemptions from mutual funds that hold large amounts of fixed-income securities. Such a move, coupled with a reduction in the ability or willingness of dealers and other institutional investors to buy or hold fixed-income securities, may result in decreased liquidity and increased volatility in the fixed-income markets. Heavy redemptions of fixed-income mutual funds and decreased liquidity from fixed-income securities could hurt the Fund's performance.

In addition, significant securities market disruptions related to outbreaks of the coronavirus disease ("COVID-19") have led to dislocation in the market for a variety of fixed-income securities (including municipal obligations), which has decreased liquidity and sharply reduced returns.

Legislative Risk – Changes in government policies may affect the value of the investments held by the Fund in ways we cannot anticipate, and such policies could have an adverse impact on the value of the Fund's investments and the Fund's net asset value.

Prepayment and Extension Risk – Mortgage-backed securities make regularly scheduled payments of principal along with interest payments. In addition, mortgagors generally have the option of paying off their mortgages without penalty at any time. For example, when a mortgaged property is sold, the old mortgage is usually prepaid. Also, when interest rates fall, the mortgagor may refinance the mortgage and prepay the old mortgage. A homeowner's default on the mortgage also may cause a prepayment of the mortgage. This unpredictability of the mortgage's cash flow is called prepayment risk. For the investor, prepayment risk usually means that principal is received at the least opportune time. For example, when interest rates fall, homeowners may find it advantageous to refinance their mortgages and prepay principal. In this case, the investor is forced to reinvest the principal at the current lower rate. On the other hand, when interest rates rise, homeowners generally will not refinance their mortgages and prepayments will fall. This causes the average life of the mortgage to extend and be more sensitive to interest rates, which is called extension risk. In addition, the amount of principal the investor has to invest in these higher interest rates is reduced.

Large Shareholders Risk – The actions by one shareholder or multiple shareholders may have an impact on the Fund and, therefore, indirectly on other shareholders. Shareholder purchase and redemption activity may affect the per share amount of the Fund's distributions of its net investment income and net realized capital gains, if any, thereby affecting the tax burden on the Fund's shareholders subject to federal income tax. To the extent a larger shareholder (including, for example, an Affiliated Fund that operates as a fund-of-funds or 529 college savings plan) is permitted to invest in the Fund, the Fund may experience large inflows or outflows of cash from time to time. This activity could magnify these adverse effects on the Fund.

Any investment involves risk, and there is no assurance that the Fund's objective will be achieved. By itself, the Fund does not constitute a complete investment plan. As you consider an investment in the Fund, you also should take into account your tolerance for the daily fluctuations of the financial markets and whether you can afford to leave your money in the Fund for long periods of time to ride out down periods. As with other mutual funds, losing money is a risk of investing in the Fund.

An investment in the Fund is not a deposit in a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Performance

The following bar chart and table are intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The Fund has four classes of shares: Fund Shares, Institutional Shares, Class A shares, and R6 Shares. The bar chart provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund and illustrates the Fund Shares class' volatility by showing how performance has varied from year to year for each full calendar year since the Fund's inception. The table shows how the average annual total returns of the share classes for the periods indicated compared to those of the Fund's benchmark index and an additional index of funds with similar investment objectives. Performance reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown.

Performance data for the classes varies based on differences in their fee and expense structures. Remember, historical performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate what will happen in the future. The Fund's most current performance information is available on the Fund's website at usaa.com (effective on or about September 8, 2020, performance information may be found at vcm.com) or by calling (800) 235-8396. The Class A shares commenced operations on June 29, 2020, and will not present performance information until they have one full calendar year of operation.

RISK/RETURN BAR CHART Annual Returns for Periods Ended December 31
Bar Chart

The year-to-date return of the Fund Shares as of March 31, 2020, was -5.36%.

During the periods shown in the chart: Returns Quarter ended
Highest Quarter Return 1.57% March 31, 2019
Lowest Quarter Return -0.38% September 30, 2015

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. In certain situations, the return after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares may be higher than the other return amounts. A higher after-tax return may result when a capital loss occurs upon redemption and translates into an assumed tax deduction that benefits the shareholder. The actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. If you hold your shares through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as an individual retirement account ("IRA") or 401(k) plan, the after-tax returns shown in the table are not relevant to you. Please note that after-tax returns are only shown for the Fund Shares and may differ for each share class.

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS For Periods Ended December 31, 2019
Average Annual Total Returns - Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund
1 Year
5 Years (or Life of Class)
10 Years (or Life of Class)
Fund Shares 4.37% 1.80% 1.72% [1]
Fund Shares | Return After Taxes on Distributions 3.24% 1.02% 1.04% [1]
Fund Shares | Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares 2.57% 1.03% 1.03% [1]
Inst. Shares 4.43% 1.80% 1.69% [1]
R6 Shares 4.70% 2.69% [1]
Citigroup 3-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) 2.25% 1.05% 0.58%
Lipper Ultra Short Obligations Funds Index (reflects no deduction for taxes) 3.05% 1.59% 1.17%
[1] The inception dates of the Fund Shares, Institutional Shares, and the R6 Shares are October 18, 2010, July 12, 2013, and March 1, 2017, respectively.