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Victory RS Partners Fund
  • The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in durable, small-cap companies led by strong management teams and that are considered attractively valued.
  • The team utilizes a Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) lens to invest in companies that are often considered out-of-favor or misunderstood, with the intention of creating solid, risk-adjusted shareholder value.
  • Fund assets typically comprise 50-75 securities in companies with a market cap up to $3 billion or 120% of that of the largest company in the Russell 2000® Index. Any portion of the Fund may be invested in foreign securities. 

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Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance quoted represents past performance and current performance may be lower or higher. The investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost.

Returns include reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. Performance for periods greater than one year is annualized.

Class A Shares at load reflect a maximum sales charge of 5.75%. A contingent deferred sales charge of 0.75% may be imposed on Class A shares with respect to purchases of $1,000,000 or more that are redeemed within 18 months of purchase. For additional information, see the section titled Choosing a Share Class within the Fund’s prospectus.

Management Fees are restated to reflect a reduction in the Management Fees effective June 1, 2023. As a result of this change, the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses in the table may not correlate with the Gross Expenses line in the Financial Highlights for the most recent fiscal year.

Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements were in place for some or all periods shown, without which, fund performance would have been lower.

Net expense ratio reflects the contractual waiver and/or reimbursement of management fees through May 31, 2024.

High, double-digit returns are highly unusual and cannot be sustained. Investors should be aware that these returns were primarily achieved during favorable market conditions.

Calendar year returns are shown at NAV.

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Fees and Expenses

We are committed to being fully transparent about fees and expenses, enabling investors to make informed decisions.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses of the member shares of the Fund are listed below. The Expense Calculator is provided to help you assess the impact of operating expenses on the Fund’s potential returns.  The calculator allows you to assume that you have made a hypothetical investment of any amount for a 10-year period, and that your investment earns a 5% return each year. The example assumes that the Fund’s net operating expenses through Year 1 and 2 are the same as those shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table of the Fund’s Prospectus under “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement” and, for all subsequent periods are the same as those shown under “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses.” The example reflects the impact of sales loads where applicable. Based on these assumptions, the calculator shows, for each year and cumulatively for all 10 years, (1) the fees and the costs (the “Expenses”) associated with your investment and (2) the difference (the “Dollar Impact on Return”) between your return if the Fund had not incurred the Expenses and your return after giving effect to the Expenses. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.

Fees and Expenses

We are committed to being fully transparent about fees and expenses, enabling investors to make informed decisions.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses of the Class A, R, R6, Y, and member shares of the Fund (as applicable) are listed below.  (Use the button at the top of this page to select the share class you wish to view.)  The Expense Calculator allows you to assume that you have made a hypothetical investment of any amount for a 10-year period, and that your investment earns a 5% return each year. The example assumes that the Fund’s net operating expenses through Year 1 and 2 are the same as those shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table of the Fund’s Prospectus under “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement” and, for all subsequent periods are the same as those shown under “Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses.” The example reflects the impact of sales loads where applicable. Based on these assumptions, the calculator shows, for each year and cumulatively for all 10 years, (1) the fees and the costs (the “Expenses”) associated with your investment and (2) the difference (the “Dollar Impact on Return”) between your return if the Fund had not incurred the Expenses and your return after giving effect to the Expenses. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.

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Investment Approach 

 

The Victory RS Partners Fund seeks to produce superior long-term risk adjusted returns by investing in durable small capitalization companies that are led by strong management teams and are attractively valued. 

 

Philosophy & Process 

 

The RS Value Team seeks to invest in good companies, led by strong management teams that are attractively valued. Our decision to invest in any company starts with business analysis and with understanding the company’s unit-level economics. Our work on unit-level economics helps us determine the quality of the business and the headwinds it may face in the future. We are Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) focused investors and seek to invest in companies that can create shareholder value, due to an improvement in the returns of the existing assets, or attractive reinvestment opportunities. We are long-term investors who use our investment time horizon as a competitive advantage and are attracted to out-of-favor and/or misunderstood companies in the market. 

 

The next step in our process is to assess the management team. Our evaluation of a company’s management team is critical to our investment decision. We regularly meet with management to gauge how they think about their business—Are they focused (and compensated) on growing earnings at any cost or do they understand return on invested capital and how value is created? Additionally, we perform detailed operational and strategic historical analyses of management’s decisions—looking at acquisitions and asset sales, repositioning of and changes to strategy, and measures of capital stewardship. This analysis provides us with the conviction to invest with strong management teams that are able to navigate through short-term market volatility and deliver long-term shareholder value. 

 

The final step in our analysis is valuation. To the RS Value Team, value investing is buying a business at a discount to what we believe it is actually worth. We determine what a company is worth by assessing a company’s current share price versus its future cash flow streams or long-term net asset value based upon the management team’s plan for value creation. Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is the lens by which we analyze that value creation.  Our research has shown that, over time, stock price performance has a higher correlation to improving ROIC as opposed to traditional valuation measurements like price to earnings (P/E). We seek to invest in companies that can create shareholder value, due to an improvement in the returns of the existing assets, or attractive reinvestment opportunities. We pay close attention to a company’s financial strength, scrutinizing financial statements, and we run various financial models to understand our downside. This quantitative analysis gives us confidence in our investment thesis, and helps us determine at what stock price we are comfortable investing. 

 

Management Team

Robert J. Harris
Robert J. Harris

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Carefully consider a fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the fund's prospectus or, if available, the summary prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting the Mutual Fund and ETF prospectus pages at vcm.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

All investing involves risk, including the potential loss of principal.

Other share classes are available. Not all share classes are available to all investors.

International investments may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuation in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability in other nations.

Investments in smaller companies typically exhibit higher volatility.

Investments concentrated in an industry or group of industries may face more risks and exhibit higher volatility than investments that are more broadly diversified over industries or sectors.

The financial services industry is subject to extensive government regulation that affects the scope of their activities, the prices they can charge and capital maintenance. The industry is subject to severe competition and can be significantly affected by market conditions and activity.

The value of your investment is also subject to geopolitical risks such as wars, terrorism, environmental disasters, and public health crises; the risk of technology malfunctions or disruptions; and the responses to such events by governments and/or individual companies.

The Russell 2000® Value Index is a market-capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of those companies in the Russell 2000® Index with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

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The Morningstar RatingTM for funds, or “star rating,” is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed- end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product’s monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The Morningstar Rating does not include any adjustment for sales loads. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods.

Fund performance used for the rankings reflects certain fee waivers, without which, Morningstar rankings would have been lower and Morningstar ratings may have been lower.

Not FDIC Insured • May Lose Value • No Bank Guarantee

Carefully consider a fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the fund's prospectus or, if available, the summary prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting the Mutual Fund and ETF prospectus pages at vcm.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

All investing involves risk, including the potential loss of principal.

Other share classes are available. Not all share classes are available to all investors.

International investments may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuation in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability in other nations.

Investments in smaller companies typically exhibit higher volatility.

Investments concentrated in an industry or group of industries may face more risks and exhibit higher volatility than investments that are more broadly diversified over industries or sectors.

The financial services industry is subject to extensive government regulation that affects the scope of their activities, the prices they can charge and capital maintenance. The industry is subject to severe competition and can be significantly affected by market conditions and activity.

The value of your investment is also subject to geopolitical risks such as wars, terrorism, environmental disasters, and public health crises; the risk of technology malfunctions or disruptions; and the responses to such events by governments and/or individual companies.

The Russell 2000® Value Index is a market-capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of those companies in the Russell 2000® Index with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

Distributed by Victory Capital Services, Inc.

©2023 Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved. The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its content providers; (2) may not be copied or distributed; and (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete, or timely. Neither Morningstar nor its content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The Morningstar RatingTM for funds, or “star rating,” is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed- end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product’s monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The Morningstar Rating does not include any adjustment for sales loads. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods.

Fund performance used for the rankings reflects certain fee waivers, without which, Morningstar rankings would have been lower and Morningstar ratings may have been lower.

Investors should obtain relevant and specific professional advice before making any investment decision. Your use of this site is subject to the Victory Capital Online Agreement.

Not FDIC Insured • May Lose Value • No Bank Guarantee

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