485BPOS
May 1, 2022
Prospectus
Victory RS Growth Fund
 
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
 
RSGRX
RGWCX
RSGKX
RGRYX
Victory RS Mid Cap Growth Fund
 
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
 
RSMOX
RMOCX
RSMKX
RMORX
RMOYX
Victory RS Science and Technology Fund
 
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
 
RSIFX
RINCX
RIFKX
RIFYX
Victory RS Select Growth Fund
 
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
 
RSDGX
RSGFX
RSDKX
RSSRX
RSSYX
Victory RS Small Cap Equity Fund
 
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
 
GPSCX
RSCCX
RSCKX
RSCYX
Victory RS Small Cap Growth Fund
 
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
 
RSEGX
REGWX
RSEKX
RSEJX
RSYEX
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RS Growth Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Victory RS Growth Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The 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 table 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 49 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class Y
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)
5.75%
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lower of purchase or sale price)
None1
1.00%2
None
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.75%
0.75%
0.75%
0.75%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
Other Expenses
0.17%
0.24%
0.46%
0.16%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.17%
1.99%
1.71%
0.91%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement3
(0.07)%
(0.06)%
0.00%
(0.08)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver
and/or Expense Reimbursement3
1.10%
1.93%
1.71%
0.83%
1
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.
2
Applies to shares sold within 12 months of purchase.
3
Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, (“Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 1.10%,1.93%, 1.71% and 0.83% of Class A, Class C, Class R and Class Y shares, respectively, through at least April 30, 2023. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed for up to three years after the date of the waiver or reimbursement, 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:
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
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place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$681
$919
$1,175
$1,908
Class C
$296
$619
$1,067
$2,312
Class R
$174
$539
$928
$2,019
Class Y
$85
$282
$496
$1,112
The following example makes the same assumptions as the example above, except that it assumes you do not sell your Class C shares at the end of the period.
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class C
$196
$619
$1,067
$2,312
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.
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 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. For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 62% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, principally in equity securities of companies considered by the Fund’s investment team (at the time of purchase) to be large-cap companies. The Fund’s investment team currently considers a company to be large-cap if its market capitalization is at least $5 billion. The Fund typically invests in equity securities of U.S. companies but may also invest any portion of its assets in foreign securities, including depositary receipts such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”).
The Adviser employs both fundamental analysis and quantitative screening in seeking to identify companies it believes will produce sustainable earnings growth over a multi-year horizon. Investment candidates typically exhibit some or all of the following key criteria: strong organic revenue growth, expanding margins and profitability, innovative products or services, defensible competitive advantages, growing market share, and experienced management teams. Valuation is an integral part of the investment process and purchase decisions are based on the Adviser’s expectation of the potential reward relative to risk of each security based in part on its proprietary earnings calculations.
The Adviser regularly reviews the Fund’s investments and will sell securities when the Adviser believes the securities are no longer attractive because (1) of a deterioration in rank of the security in accordance with the Adviser’s process, (2) of price appreciation, (3) of a change in the fundamental outlook of the company or (4) other investments available are considered to be more attractive.
As a result of the Adviser’s investment process, the Fund’s investments may be focused in one or more economic sectors from time to time, including the information technology sector.
Principal Risks
The Fund’s investments are subject to the following principal risks:
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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.
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. Depositary receipts may have additional risks, including creditworthiness of the depositary bank and the risk of an illiquid market. 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.
Large-Capitalization Stock Risk — The securities of large-sized companies may underperform the securities of smaller-sized companies or the market as a whole. The growth rate of larger, more established companies may lag those of smaller companies, especially during periods of economic expansion.
Sector Focus Risk — While the Fund reserves the right to dynamically allocate its assets across economic sectors, listed below are some of the risks associated with investments in the sectors in which the Fund has made significant investments as of the date of this Prospectus. Market or economic factors impacting those sectors could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments and could make the Fund’s performance more volatile.
Information Technology Risk — Information Technology companies tend to significantly rely on technological events or advances in their product development, production or operations and are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technological product cycles, government regulation and competition.
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.
Management Risk — The portfolio managers may not execute the Fund's principal investment strategy effectively.
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RS Growth Fund Summary
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.
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 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 and reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown. 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.
Performance information for the Fund’s Class A, C, R and Y shares prior to July 30, 2016 reflects the historical performance of, respectively, the Class A, C, K and Y shares of the RS Growth Fund, a series of RS Investment Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by RS Investment Management Co. LLC) (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.
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RS Growth Fund Summary
Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares
(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)
During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter
28.95%
June 30, 2020
Lowest Quarter
-18.89%
December 31, 2018
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A Before Taxes
13.04%
19.57%
16.67%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions
10.38%
16.83%
14.46%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
8.92%
15.13%
13.33%
CLASS C Before Taxes
17.95%
19.99%
16.38%
CLASS R Before Taxes
19.17%
20.26%
16.66%
CLASS Y Before Taxes
20.22%
21.31%
17.68%
Index
Russell 1000® Growth Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
27.60%
25.32%
19.79%
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.
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RS Growth Fund Summary
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Victory Capital Management Inc. (“Adviser”) serves as the Fund’s investment adviser. The portfolio managers jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are members of the Adviser's RS Investments investment franchise.
Investment Team
 
Title
Tenure with the Fund
D. Scott Tracy, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Since 2009
Stephen J. Bishop
Portfolio Manager
Since 2009
Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Portfolio Manager
Since 2009
Christopher W. Clark, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2014
Paul Leung, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2018
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Investment Minimums
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class Y
Minimum Initial Investment
$2,500
$2,500
None
$1,000,000
Minimum Subsequent Investments
$50
$50
None
None
For Class A  and Class C shares a $1,000 minimum initial purchase amount and a $50 minimum subsequent purchase amount apply for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), gift/transfer to minor accounts, and purchases through automatic investment plans.
Certain broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries (such as a bank) may establish higher or lower minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts to which you may be subject if you invest through them.
You may redeem your shares on any day the Fund is open for business. Redemption requests may be made by telephone (with prior appropriate approval) or by mail.
When you buy and redeem shares, the Fund will price your transaction at the next-determined net asset value (“NAV”) after the Fund receives your request in good order, which means that your request contains all the required documentation, and that all documents contain required signatures or signature guarantees from a financial institution.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable whether you receive them in cash, additional shares of the Fund or you reinvest them in shares of another Victory Fund, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Taxes may be imposed on withdrawals from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and its financial advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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RS Mid Cap Growth Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Victory RS Mid Cap Growth Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The 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 table 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 49 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on
Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)
5.75%
None
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lower of purchase or
sale price)
None1
1.00%2
None
None
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.85%
0.85%
0.85%
0.85%
0.85%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
0.00%
Other Expenses
0.23%
0.19%
0.58%
0.13%
0.24%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.33%
2.04%
1.93%
0.98%
1.09%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement3
(0.13)%
0.00%
(0.13)%
(0.04)%
(0.14)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement3
1.20%
2.04%
1.80%
0.94%
0.95%
1
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.
2
Applies to shares sold within 12 months of purchase.
3
Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, (“Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 1.20%, 2.11%, 1.80%, 0.94% and 0.95% of Class A, Class C, Class R, Class R6 and Class Y shares, respectively, through at least April 30, 2023. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed for up to three years after the date of the waiver or reimbursement, 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:
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
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RS Mid Cap Growth Fund Summary
place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$690
$960
$1,250
$2,074
Class C
$307
$640
$1,098
$2,369
Class R
$183
$594
$1,030
$2,243
Class R6
$96
$308
$538
$1,198
Class Y
$97
$333
$587
$1,316
The following example makes the same assumptions as the example above, except that it assumes you do not sell your Class C shares at the end of the period.
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class C
$207
$640
$1,098
$2,369
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.
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 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. For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 90% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its assets in securities of companies considered by the Adviser to be (at the time of purchase) mid-capitalization companies. The Fund principally invests in equity securities. The Fund typically invests in equity securities of U.S. companies but will also invest any portion of its assets in foreign securities, including depositary receipts such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”).
A company is considered to be a mid-capitalization company if it has a market capitalization of between $1 billion and 120% of the market capitalization of the largest company included in the Russell Midcap® Index (“Index”) (currently, approximately $73.7 billion, based on the size of the largest company in the Index on March 31, 2022). The size of companies in the Index changes with market conditions and the composition of the Index.
The Adviser employs both fundamental analysis and quantitative screening in seeking to identify companies that it believes will produce sustainable earnings growth over a multi-year horizon. Investment candidates typically exhibit some or all of the following key criteria: strong organic revenue growth, expanding margins and profitability, innovative products or services, defensible competitive advantages, growing market share, and experienced management teams. Valuation is an integral part of the investment process and purchase decisions are based on the Adviser’s expectation of the potential reward relative to risk of each security based in part on its proprietary earnings calculations.
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The Adviser regularly reviews the Fund’s investments and will sell securities when the Adviser believes the securities are no longer attractive because (1) of a deterioration in rank of the security in accordance with the Adviser’s process, (2) of price appreciation, (3) of a change in the fundamental outlook of the company or (4) other investments available are considered to be more attractive.
As a result of the Adviser’s investment process, the Fund’s investments may be focused in one or more economic sectors from time to time, including the information technology sector.
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.
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. Depositary receipts may have additional risks, including creditworthiness of the depositary bank and the risk of an illiquid market. 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.
Sector Focus Risk — While the Fund reserves the right to dynamically allocate its assets across economic sectors, listed below are some of the risks associated with investments in the sectors in which the Fund has made significant investments as of the date of this Prospectus. Market or economic factors impacting those sectors could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments and could make the Fund’s performance more volatile.
Information Technology Risk — Information Technology companies tend to significantly rely on technological events or advances in their product development, production or operations and are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technological product cycles, government regulation and competition.
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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.
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.
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 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 and reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown. 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.
Performance information for the Fund’s Class A, C, R and Y shares prior to July 30, 2016 reflects the historical performance of, respectively, the Class A, C, K and Y shares of the RS Mid Cap Growth Fund, a series of RS Investment Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by RS Investment Management Co. LLC) (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.
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RS Mid Cap Growth Fund Summary
Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares
(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)
During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter
30.84%
June 30, 2020
Lowest Quarter
-19.84%
March 31, 2020
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
(or Life
of Class)
CLASS A Before Taxes
-1.33%
13.73%
13.56%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions
-9.26%
10.12%
11.74%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
2.75%
9.76%
10.76%
CLASS C Before Taxes
3.06%
14.05%
13.21%
CLASS R Before Taxes
4.09%
14.41%
13.60%
CLASS R6 Before Taxes
4.95%
15.39%
15.60%1
CLASS Y Before Taxes
4.96%
15.37%
14.52%
Index
Russell Midcap® Growth Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
12.73%
19.83%
16.63%
1
Inception date of Class R6 is November 15, 2016.
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.
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Victory Capital Management Inc. (“Adviser”) serves as the Fund’s investment adviser. The portfolio managers jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are members of the Adviser's RS Investments investment franchise.
Investment Team
 
Title
Tenure with the Fund
D. Scott Tracy, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Since 2008
Stephen J. Bishop
Portfolio Manager
Since 2008
Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Portfolio Manager
Since 2008
Christopher W. Clark, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2014
Paul Leung, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2018
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Investment Minimums
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
Minimum Initial Investment
$2,500
$2,500
None
None
$1,000,000
Minimum Subsequent Investments
$50
$50
None
None
None
For Class A  and Class C shares a $1,000 minimum initial purchase amount and a $50 minimum subsequent purchase amount apply for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), gift/transfer to minor accounts, and purchases through automatic investment plans.
Certain broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries (such as a bank) may establish higher or lower minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts to which you may be subject if you invest through them.
You may redeem your shares on any day the Fund is open for business. Redemption requests may be made by telephone (with prior appropriate approval) or by mail.
When you buy and redeem shares, the Fund will price your transaction at the next-determined net asset value (“NAV”) after the Fund receives your request in good order, which means that your request contains all the required documentation, and that all documents contain required signatures or signature guarantees from a financial institution.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable whether you receive them in cash, additional shares of the Fund or you reinvest them in shares of another Victory Fund, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Taxes may be imposed on withdrawals from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services for investments in all classes except Class R6. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and its financial advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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RS Science and Technology Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Victory RS Science and Technology Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The 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 table 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 49 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class Y
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)
5.75%
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lower of purchase or sale price)
None1
1.00%2
None
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
1.00%
1.00%
1.00%
1.00%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
Other Expenses
0.22%
0.28%
0.43%
0.21%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses3
1.47%
2.28%
1.93%
1.21%
1
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.
2
Applies to shares sold within 12 months of purchase.
3
Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, (“Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 1.49%, 2.28%, 1.93% and 1.24% of Class A, Class C, Class R and Class Y shares, respectively, through at least April 30, 2023. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed for up to three years after the date of the waiver or reimbursement, 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:
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
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place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$716
$1,013
$1,332
$2,231
Class C
$331
$712
$1,220
$2,615
Class R
$196
$606
$1,042
$2,254
Class Y
$123
$384
$665
$1,466
The following example makes the same assumptions as the example above, except that it assumes you do not sell your Class C shares at the end of the period.
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class C
$231
$712
$1,220
$2,615
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.
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 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. For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 46% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its assets in science and/or technology companies. The Fund principally invests in equity securities and may invest in companies of any size. The Fund typically invests in equity securities of U.S. companies but may also invest any portion of its assets in foreign securities, including depositary receipts such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”).
The Adviser performs in-depth analysis in search of what it believes are innovative companies that drive market share gains in technology, leading to sustainable earnings growth and long-term stock price appreciation. The Adviser employs both fundamental analysis and quantitative screening to identify potential investment candidates with greater earnings potential than expected by the market. Investment candidates typically exhibit some or all of the following key criteria: strong organic revenue growth, expanding margins and profitability, defensible competitive advantages, growing market share, and experienced management teams. Valuation is an integral part of the investment process and purchase decisions are based on the potential reward relative to risk of each security based in part on the Adviser’s proprietary earnings calculations.
A particular company will be considered to be a science or technology company if the Adviser determines that it applies scientific or technological developments or discoveries to grow its business or increase its competitive advantage. Science and technology companies also include companies whose products, processes or services, in the opinion of the Adviser, are being, or are expected to be, significantly benefited by the use or commercial application of scientific or technological developments or discoveries. The Fund also invests in companies that utilize science and/or technology as an agent of change to significantly enhance their business opportunities.
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The Adviser regularly reviews the Fund’s investments and will sell securities when the Adviser believes the securities are no longer attractive because (1) of a deterioration in rank of the security in accordance with the Adviser’s process, (2) of price appreciation, (3) of a change in the fundamental outlook of the company or (4) other investments available are considered to be more attractive.
Principal Risks
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.
Science and Technology Investment Risk – Investments in science and technology companies may be highly volatile. Their values may be adversely affected by such factors as, for example, rapid technological change, changes in management personnel, changes in the competitive environment, and changes in investor sentiment. Many science and technology companies are small or mid-sized companies and may be newly organized.
Concentration Risk – Concentrating investments in the science and technology related sectors increases the risk of loss because the stocks of many or all of the companies in the sectors may decline in value due to developments adversely affecting the sectors. In addition, investors may buy or sell substantial amounts of the Fund’s shares in response to factors affecting or expected to affect the sectors, resulting in extreme inflows and outflows of cash into and out of the Fund. Such inflows or outflows might affect management of the Fund adversely to the extent they cause the Fund’s cash position or cash requirements to exceed normal levels.
Smaller-Capitalization Stock Risk — Small- and mid-sized companies are 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. Smaller companies may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies.
Large-Capitalization Stock Risk — The securities of large-sized companies may underperform the securities of smaller-sized companies or the market as a whole. The growth rate of larger, more established companies may lag those of smaller companies, especially during periods of economic expansion.
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. Depositary receipts may have additional risks, including creditworthiness of the depositary bank and the risk of an illiquid market. In addition, to the extent investments are made
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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.
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.
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 an investment that is large relative to the typical trading volume for that investment, 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 investments 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.
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 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 and reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown. 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.
Performance information for the Fund’s Class A, C, R and Y shares prior to July 30, 2016 reflects the historical performance of, respectively, the Class A, C, K and Y shares of the RS Technology Fund, a series of RS Investment Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by RS Investment Management Co. LLC) (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.
Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares
(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)
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During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter
42.53%
June 30, 2020
Lowest Quarter
-21.54%
December 31, 2018
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A Before Taxes
-14.47%
23.09%
18.91%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions
-17.34%
19.32%
15.12%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
-6.68%
17.71%
14.29%
CLASS C Before Taxes
-10.75%
23.56%
18.66%
CLASS R Before Taxes
-9.66%
23.99%
19.07%
CLASS Y Before Taxes
-9.04%
24.85%
19.93%
Indices
S&P North American Technology Sector Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
26.40%
29.99%
23.54%
S&P 500® Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
28.71%
18.47%
16.55%
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.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Victory Capital Management Inc. (“Adviser”) serves as the Fund’s investment adviser. The portfolio managers jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are members of the Adviser's RS Investments investment franchise.
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Investment Team
 
Title
Tenure with the Fund
Stephen J. Bishop
Portfolio Manager
Since 2001
Christopher W. Clark, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2016
Paul Leung, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2016
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Investment Minimums
Class A
Class C
Class R6
Class Y
Minimum Initial Investment
$2,500
$2,500
None
$1,000,000
Minimum Subsequent Investments
$50
$50
None
None
For Class A  and Class C shares a $1,000 minimum initial purchase amount and a $50 minimum subsequent purchase amount apply for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), gift/transfer to minor accounts, and purchases through automatic investment plans.
Certain broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries (such as a bank) may establish higher or lower minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts to which you may be subject if you invest through them.
You may redeem your shares on any day the Fund is open for business. Redemption requests may be made by telephone (with prior appropriate approval) or by mail.
When you buy and redeem shares, the Fund will price your transaction at the next-determined net asset value (“NAV”) after the Fund receives your request in good order, which means that your request contains all the required documentation, and that all documents contain required signatures or signature guarantees from a financial institution.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable whether you receive them in cash, additional shares of the Fund or you reinvest them in shares of another Victory Fund, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Taxes may be imposed on withdrawals from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and its financial advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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RS Select Growth Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Victory RS Select Growth Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The 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 table 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 49 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on
Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)
5.75%
None
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lower of purchase or
sale price)
None1
1.00%2
None
None
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
1.00%
1.00%
1.00%
1.00%
1.00%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
0.00%
Other Expenses
0.23%
0.24%
0.68%
0.83%
0.21%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.48%
2.24%
2.18%
1.83%
1.21%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement3
(0.08)%
(0.06)%
(0.27)%
(0.77)%
(0.07)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement3
1.40%
2.18%
1.91%
1.06%
1.14%
1
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.
2
Applies to shares sold within 12 months of purchase.
3
Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, (“Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 1.40%, 2.18%, 1.91%, 1.06% and 1.14% of Class A, Class C, Class R, Class R6 and Class Y shares, respectively, through at least April 30, 2023. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed for up to three years after the date of the waiver or reimbursement, 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:
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
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place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$709
$1,009
$1,329
$2,235
Class C
$321
$695
$1,194
$2,570
Class R
$194
$656
$1,145
$2,492
Class R6
$108
$501
$919
$2,085
Class Y
$116
$377
$658
$1,460
The following example makes the same assumptions as the example above, except that it assumes you do not sell your Class C shares at the end of the period.
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class C
$221
$695
$1,194
$2,570
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.
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 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. For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 75% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, in a portfolio of small- and mid-capitalization growth-oriented companies. The Fund typically invests in equity securities of U.S. companies but may also invest any portion of its assets in foreign securities, including depositary receipts such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”).
The Fund principally invests in equity securities of companies with market capitalizations (at the time of purchase) less than $8 billion or 120% of the market capitalization of the largest company included in the Russell 2500® Index (“Index”) (currently, approximately $48.0 billion, based on the size of the largest company in the Index on March 31, 2022), whichever is greater. The size of companies in the Index changes with market conditions and the composition of the Index. The Fund may hold investments in companies whose market capitalizations fall outside these parameters due to changes in market values of those companies after the Fund’s investment in those companies.
The Adviser employs both fundamental analysis and quantitative screening in seeking to identify companies that it believes will produce sustainable earnings growth over a multi-year horizon. Investment candidates typically exhibit some or all of the following key criteria: strong organic revenue growth, expanding margins and profitability, innovative products or services, defensible competitive advantages, growing market share, and experienced management teams. Valuation is an integral part of the investment process and purchase decisions are based on the Adviser’s expectation of the potential reward relative to risk of each security based in part on the investment team’s proprietary earnings calculations.
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The Adviser regularly reviews the Fund’s investments and will sell securities when the Adviser believes the securities are no longer attractive because (1) of a deterioration in rank of the security in accordance with the Adviser’s process, (2) of price appreciation, (3) of a change in the fundamental outlook of the company or (4) other investments available are considered to be more attractive.
As a result of the Adviser’s investment process, the Fund’s investments may be focused in one or more economic sectors from time to time, including the information technology sector.
Principal Risks
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.
Smaller-Capitalization Stock Risk — Small- and mid-sized companies are 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. Smaller companies may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies.
Limited Portfolio Risk — To the extent the Fund invests its assets in a more limited number of issuers than many other 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.
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. Depositary receipts may have additional risks, including creditworthiness of the depositary bank and the risk of an illiquid market. 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.
Sector Focus Risk — While the Fund reserves the right to dynamically allocate its assets across economic sectors, listed below are some of the risks associated with investments in the sectors in which the Fund has made significant investments as of the date of this Prospectus. Market or economic factors impacting those sectors could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments and could make the Fund’s performance more volatile.
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Information Technology Risk — Information Technology companies tend to significantly rely on technological events or advances in their product development, production or operations and are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technological product cycles, government regulation and competition.
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 an investment that is large relative to the typical trading volume for that investment, 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 investments at an unfavorable time and/or under unfavorable conditions, which may adversely affect the Fund.
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.
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.
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 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 and reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown. 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.
Performance information for the Fund’s Class A, C, R and Y shares prior to July 30, 2016 reflects the historical performance of, respectively, the Class A, C, K and Y shares of the RS Select Growth Fund, a series of RS Investment Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by RS Investment Management Co. LLC) (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.
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Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares
(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)
During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter
32.54%
June 30, 2020
Lowest Quarter
-21.84%
December 31, 2018
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
(or Life
of Class)
CLASS A Before Taxes
0.75%
14.04%
13.00%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions
-4.85%
8.85%
9.90%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
4.07%
10.10%
10.06%
CLASS C Before Taxes
5.30%
14.49%
12.78%
CLASS R Before Taxes
6.31%
14.81%
13.05%
CLASS R6 Before Taxes
7.23%
15.78%
15.84%1
CLASS Y Before Taxes
7.15%
15.69%
13.97%
Indices
Russell 2500™ Growth Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
5.04%
17.65%
15.75%
Russell 2000® Growth Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
2.83%
14.53%
14.14%
1
Inception date of Class R6 is November 15, 2016.
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.
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Victory Capital Management Inc. (“Adviser”) serves as the Fund’s investment adviser. The portfolio managers jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are members of the Adviser's RS Investments investment franchise.
Investment Team
 
Title
Tenure with the Fund
D. Scott Tracy, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Since 2007
Stephen J. Bishop
Portfolio Manager
Since 2007
Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Portfolio Manager
Since 2007
Christopher W. Clark, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2014
Paul Leung, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2018
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Investment Minimums
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
Minimum Initial Investment
$2,500
$2,500
None
None
$1,000,000
Minimum Subsequent Investments
$50
$50
None
None
None
For Class A  and Class C shares a $1,000 minimum initial purchase amount and a $50 minimum subsequent purchase amount apply for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), gift/transfer to minor accounts, and purchases through automatic investment plans.
Certain broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries (such as a bank) may establish higher or lower minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts to which you may be subject if you invest through them.
You may redeem your shares on any day the Fund is open for business. Redemption requests may be made by telephone (with prior appropriate approval) or by mail.
When you buy and redeem shares, the Fund will price your transaction at the next-determined net asset value (“NAV”) after the Fund receives your request in good order, which means that your request contains all the required documentation, and that all documents contain required signatures or signature guarantees from a financial institution.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable whether you receive them in cash, additional shares of the Fund or you reinvest them in shares of another Victory Fund, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Taxes may be imposed on withdrawals from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services for investments in all classes except Class R6. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and its financial advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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RS Small Cap Equity Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Victory RS Small Cap Equity Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The 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 table 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 49 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class Y
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)
5.75%
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lower of purchase or sale price)
None1
1.00%2
None
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.75%
0.75%
0.75%
0.75%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
Other Expenses
0.25%
2.57%
0.64%
0.35%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.25%
4.32%
1.89%
1.10%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement3
0.00%
(2.22)%
(0.14)%
0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver
and/or Expense Reimbursement3
1.25%
2.10%
1.75%
1.10%
1
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.
2
Applies to shares sold within 12 months of purchase.
3
Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, (“Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 1.35%, 2.10%, 1.75% and 1.10% of Class A, Class C, Class R and Class Y shares, respectively, through at least April 30, 2023. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed for up to three years after the date of the waiver or reimbursement, 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:
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
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place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$695
$949
$1,222
$1,999
Class C
$313
$1,108
$2,015
$4,338
Class R
$178
$580
$1,008
$2,200
Class Y
$112
$350
$606
$1,340
The following example makes the same assumptions as the example above, except that it assumes you do not sell your Class C shares at the end of the period.
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class C
$213
$1,108
$2,015
$4,338
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.
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 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. For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 113% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of small-capitalization companies, which may include common stocks, preferred stocks, or other securities convertible into common stock. The Fund typically invests in equity securities of U.S. companies but may also invest any portion of its assets in foreign securities, including depositary receipts such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”).
The Adviser currently considers a company to be a small-capitalization company if its market capitalization (at the time of purchase) is less than $3 billion or 120% of the market capitalization of the largest company included in the Russell 2000® Index (“Index”) (currently, approximately $17.8 billion, based on the size of the largest company in the Index on March 31, 2022), whichever is greater. The size of companies in the Index changes with market conditions and the composition of the Index.
The Adviser employs both fundamental analysis and quantitative screening in seeking to identify companies that the Adviser believes will produce sustainable earnings growth over a multi-year horizon. The Fund typically invests in 30 to 40 companies. Investment candidates typically exhibit some or all of the following key criteria: strong organic revenue growth, expanding margins and profitability, innovative products or services, defensible competitive advantages, growing market share, and experienced management teams. The Adviser seeks to categorize each potential investment based on its view of a company’s stage of development on a spectrum that identifies companies as promising, developing, or proven. Valuation is an integral part of the growth investment process. Purchase decisions are based on the Adviser’s expectation of the potential reward relative to risk of each security based in part on the Adviser’s proprietary earnings calculations. The Adviser regularly reviews the Fund’s investments and will sell securities when the Adviser believes the securities are no
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longer attractive because (1) of a deterioration in rank of the security in accordance with the Adviser’s process, (2) of price appreciation, (3) of a change in the fundamental outlook of the company or (4) other investments available are considered to be more attractive.
As a result of the Adviser’s investment process, the Fund’s investments may be focused in one or more economic sectors from time to time, including the information technology sector.
The Adviser may from time to time generate portfolio turnover in excess of 100%.
Principal Risks
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.
Small-Capitalization Stock Risk — Small- sized companies are 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. Smaller companies may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies.
Limited Portfolio Risk — To the extent the Fund invests its assets in a more limited number of issuers than many other 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.
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. Depositary receipts may have additional risks, including creditworthiness of the depositary bank and the risk of an illiquid market. 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.
Sector Focus Risk — While the Fund reserves the right to dynamically allocate its assets across economic sectors, listed below are some of the risks associated with investments in the sectors in which the Fund has made significant investments as of the date of this Prospectus. Market or economic factors impacting those sectors could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments and could make the Fund’s performance more volatile.
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Information Technology Risk — Information Technology companies tend to significantly rely on technological events or advances in their product development, production or operations and are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technological product cycles, government regulation and competition.
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 an investment that is large relative to the typical trading volume for that investment, 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 investments at an unfavorable time and/or under unfavorable conditions, which may adversely affect the Fund.
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.
Portfolio Turnover Risk — Higher portfolio turnover ratios resulting from additional purchases and sales of portfolio securities will generally result in higher transaction costs and Fund expenses and can lead to distribution of additional short-term capital gains to investors, which are taxed as ordinary income.
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.
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 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 and reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown. 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.
Performance information for the Fund’s Class A, C, R and Y shares prior to July 30, 2016 reflects the historical performance of, respectively, the Class A, C, K and Y shares of the RS Small Cap Equity Fund, a series of RS Investment Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by RS Investment Management Co. LLC) (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.
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Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares
(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)
During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter
35.53%
June 30, 2020
Lowest Quarter
-24.24%
March 31, 2020
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A Before Taxes
-12.69%
16.03%
14.98%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions
-17.72%
11.40%
10.83%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
-5.59%
12.04%
11.28%
CLASS C Before Taxes
-8.88%
16.37%
14.68%
CLASS R Before Taxes
-7.87%
16.81%
15.18%
CLASS Y Before Taxes
-7.25%
17.59%
15.85%
Index
Russell 2000® Growth Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
2.83%
14.53%
14.14%
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.
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Victory Capital Management Inc. (“Adviser”) serves as the Fund’s investment adviser. The portfolio managers jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are members of the Adviser's RS Investments investment franchise.
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Investment Team
 
Title
Tenure with the Fund
D. Scott Tracy, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Since 2009
Stephen J. Bishop
Portfolio Manager
Since 2009
Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Portfolio Manager
Since 2009
Christopher W. Clark, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2014
Paul Leung, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2018
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The RS Small Cap Equity Fund is currently offered (by purchase or exchange) only to existing shareholders, employees of the Adviser and its affiliates and their family members, and to current and former Trustees of the Trust and their family members. The Victory Funds may impose additional limitations on the purchase of shares at any time in its discretion, and may waive or eliminate any limitation at any time without notice. Contact the Victory Funds for more information.
Investment Minimums
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class Y
Minimum Initial Investment
$2,500
$2,500
None
$1,000,000
Minimum Subsequent Investments
$50
$50
None
None
For Class A  and Class C shares a $1,000 minimum initial purchase amount and a $50 minimum subsequent purchase amount apply for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), gift/transfer to minor accounts, and purchases through automatic investment plans.
Certain broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries (such as a bank) may establish higher or lower minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts to which you may be subject if you invest through them.
You may redeem your shares on any day the Fund is open for business. Redemption requests may be made by telephone (with prior appropriate approval) or by mail.
When you buy and redeem shares, the Fund will price your transaction at the next-determined net asset value (“NAV”) after the Fund receives your request in good order, which means that your request contains all the required documentation, and that all documents contain required signatures or signature guarantees from a financial institution.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable whether you receive them in cash, additional shares of the Fund or you reinvest them in shares of another Victory Fund, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Taxes may be imposed on withdrawals from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and its financial advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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RS Small Cap Growth Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Victory RS Small Cap Growth Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
Fund Fees and Expenses
The 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 table 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 49 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on
Purchases
(as a percentage of offering price)
5.75%
None
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load)
(as a percentage of the lower of purchase or
sale price)
None1
1.00%2
None
None
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.95%
0.95%
0.95%
0.95%
0.95%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
0.00%
Other Expenses
0.22%
0.21%
0.28%
0.09%
0.19%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.42%
2.16%
1.73%
1.04%
1.14%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement3
(0.02)%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
(0.01)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement3
1.40%
2.16%
1.73%
1.04%
1.13%
1
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.
2
Applies to shares sold within 12 months of purchase.
3
Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser, (“Adviser”) has contractually agreed to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding certain items such as interest, taxes and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 1.40%, 2.16%, 1.86%, 1.06% and 1.13% of Class A, Class C, Class R, Class R6 and Class Y shares, respectively, through at least April 30, 2023. The Adviser is permitted to recoup advisory fees waived and expenses reimbursed for up to three years after the date of the waiver or reimbursement, 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:
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
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place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$709
$997
$1,305
$2,177
Class C
$319
$676
$1,159
$2,493
Class R
$176
$545
$939
$2,041
Class R6
$106
$331
$574
$1,271
Class Y
$115
$361
$627
$1,385
The following example makes the same assumptions as the example above, except that it assumes you do not sell your Class C shares at the end of the period.
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class C
$219
$676
$1,159
$2,493
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.
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 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. For the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 92% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategy
The Adviser pursues the Fund’s investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its assets in small-capitalization companies. The Fund typically invests in equity securities of U.S. companies but may also invest any portion of its assets in foreign securities, including depositary receipts such as American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”).
The Adviser currently considers a company to be a small-capitalization company if its market capitalization (at the time of purchase) is less than $3 billion or 120% of the market capitalization of the largest company included in the Russell 2000® Index (currently, approximately $17.8 billion, based on the size of the largest company in the Index on March 31, 2022), whichever is greater. The size of companies in the index changes with market conditions and the composition of the index.
The Adviser employs both fundamental analysis and quantitative screening in seeking to identify companies that the investment team believes will produce sustainable earnings growth over a multi-year horizon. Investment candidates typically exhibit some or all of the following key criteria: strong organic revenue growth, expanding margins and profitability, innovative products or services, defensible competitive advantages, growing market share, and experienced management teams. The Adviser seeks to categorize each potential investment based on its view of a company’s stage of development on a spectrum that identifies companies as promising, developing, or proven. Valuation is an integral part of the growth investment process. Purchase decisions are based on the Adviser’s expectation of the potential reward relative to risk of each security based in part on the Adviser’s proprietary earnings calculations.
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The Adviser regularly reviews the Fund’s investments and will sell securities when the Adviser believes the securities are no longer attractive because (1) of a deterioration in rank of the security in accordance with the Adviser’s process, (2) of price appreciation, (3) of a change in the fundamental outlook of the company or (4) other investments available are considered to be more attractive.
As a result of the Adviser’s investment process, the Fund’s investments may be focused in one or more economic sectors from time to time, including the information technology sector.
Principal Risks
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.
Small-Capitalization Stock Risk — Small- sized companies are 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. Smaller companies may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies.
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. Depositary receipts may have additional risks, including creditworthiness of the depositary bank and the risk of an illiquid market. 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.
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.
Sector Focus Risk — While the Fund reserves the right to dynamically allocate its assets across economic sectors, listed below are some of the risks associated with investments in the sectors in which the Fund has made significant investments as of the date of this Prospectus. Market or economic factors impacting those sectors could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments and could make the Fund’s performance more volatile.
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RS Small Cap Growth Fund Summary
Information Technology Risk — Information Technology companies tend to significantly rely on technological events or advances in their product development, production or operations and are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technological product cycles, government regulation and competition.
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 an investment that is large relative to the typical trading volume for that investment, 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 investments at an unfavorable time and/or under unfavorable conditions, which may adversely affect the Fund.
Portfolio Turnover Risk — Higher portfolio turnover ratios resulting from additional purchases and sales of portfolio securities will generally result in higher transaction costs and Fund expenses and can lead to distribution of additional short-term capital gains to investors, which are taxed as ordinary income.
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.
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 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 and reflects any expense limitations in effect during the periods shown. 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.
Performance information for the Fund’s Class A, C, R and Y shares prior to July 30, 2016 reflects the historical performance of, respectively, the Class A, C, K and Y shares of the RS Small Cap Growth Fund, a series of RS Investment Trust (the predecessor to the Fund managed by RS Investment Management Co. LLC) (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.
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RS Small Cap Growth Fund Summary
Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares
(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)
During the periods shown in the chart:
Returns
Quarter ended
Highest Quarter
35.54%
June 30, 2020
Lowest Quarter
-24.10%
March 31, 2020
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)
1 Year
5 Years
(or Life
of Class)
10 Years
CLASS A Before Taxes
-16.18%
14.70%
14.14%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions
-19.16%
11.51%
12.06%
CLASS A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
-7.62%
11.27%
11.39%
CLASS C Before Taxes
-12.45%
15.19%
13.95%
CLASS R Before Taxes
-11.53%
15.52%
14.30%
CLASS R6 Before Taxes
-10.74%
14.24%1
N/A
CLASS Y Before Taxes
-10.82%
16.38%
15.14%
Index
Russell 2000® Growth Index
reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes
2.83%
14.53%
14.14%
1
The inception date of Class R6 is July 12, 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. After-tax returns are shown for only one share class. The after-tax returns for other classes will vary.
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RS Small Cap Growth Fund Summary
Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Victory Capital Management Inc. (“Adviser”) serves as the Fund’s investment adviser. The portfolio managers jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are members of the Adviser's RS Investments investment franchise.
Investment Team
 
Title
Tenure with the Fund
D. Scott Tracy, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Since 2007
Stephen J. Bishop
Portfolio Manager
Since 2007
Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Portfolio Manager
Since 2007
Christopher W. Clark, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2014
Paul Leung, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Since 2018
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Investment Minimums
Class A
Class C
Class R
Class R6
Class Y
Minimum Initial Investment
$2,500
$2,500
None
None
$1,000,000
Minimum Subsequent Investments
$50
$50
None
None
None
For Class A  and Class C shares a $1,000 minimum initial purchase amount and a $50 minimum subsequent purchase amount apply for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), gift/transfer to minor accounts, and purchases through automatic investment plans.
Certain broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries (such as a bank) may establish higher or lower minimum initial and subsequent investment amounts to which you may be subject if you invest through them.
You may redeem your shares on any day the Fund is open for business. Redemption requests may be made by telephone (with prior appropriate approval) or by mail.
When you buy and redeem shares, the Fund will price your transaction at the next-determined net asset value (“NAV”) after the Fund receives your request in good order, which means that your request contains all the required documentation, and that all documents contain required signatures or signature guarantees from a financial institution.
Tax Information
The Fund’s distributions are taxable whether you receive them in cash, additional shares of the Fund or you reinvest them in shares of another Victory Fund, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Taxes may be imposed on withdrawals from tax-deferred arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services for investments in all classes except Class R6. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and its financial advisor to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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Additional Fund Information
Victory Capital Management Inc., which we refer to as the “Adviser”
throughout the Prospectus, manages each Fund.
Each Fund is managed by the Adviser, who also manages other funds, each having distinct investment management objectives, strategies, risks, and policies. Together, these funds are referred to in this Prospectus as the “Victory Funds” or, more simply, the “Funds.”
The following section describes additional information about the principal investment strategy the Funds will use under normal market conditions to pursue their investment objective, as well as any secondary strategies the Funds may use, and the related risks. This Prospectus does not attempt to describe all of the various investment techniques and types of investments that the Adviser may use in managing the Funds. The Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) includes more information about the Funds, their investments, and the related risks. Under adverse, unstable or abnormal market conditions, a Fund may be unable to pursue or achieve its investment objective and, for temporary purposes, may invest some or all of its assets in a variety of instruments or assets, including high-quality fixed-income securities, cash and cash equivalents. For cash management purposes, each Fund may hold all or a portion of its assets in cash, short-term money market instruments or shares of other investment companies. These positions may reduce the benefit from any upswing in the market, cause a Fund to fail to meet its investment objective and increase a Fund's expenses.
Each Fund’s investment objective and, if applicable, policy to invest at least 80% of its assets in the type of securities suggested by the Fund's name are non-fundamental and may be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval upon at least 60 days’ written notice to shareholders. For purposes of a Fund’s 80% investment policy, “assets” means the Fund’s net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, but exclusive of any collateral held from securities lending.
If you would like to receive additional copies of any materials, please call the Victory Funds
at 800-539-FUND (800-539-3863) or please visit VictoryFunds.com.
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Investments
The following describes the types of securities each Fund may purchase under normal market conditions to achieve its principal investment strategy. The Funds will not necessarily buy all of the securities listed below.
U.S. Equity Securities
Can include common stock, preferred stock, and securities that are convertible or exchangeable into common stock of U.S. corporations.
Foreign Securities
Can include common stock and convertible preferred stock of non-U.S. corporations. Also may include American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”), which are receipts issued by a bank or trust company and evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by foreign corporations, and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) that invest in foreign corporations.
Additional Fund Strategies. The Adviser may use other types of investment strategies in pursuing each Fund's overall investment objective. The following describes the types of securities that the Adviser may purchase or investment techniques the Adviser may employ that are not considered to be a part of the Funds' principal investment strategies. Additional securities and techniques are described in the Funds' SAI.
Initial Public Offerings (“IPOs”)
The Funds may at times have the opportunity to invest in securities offered in IPOs. If a Fund’s portfolio manager believes that a particular IPO is very likely to increase in value immediately after the initial offering, it is possible (although it will not necessarily be the case) that the Fund will invest in the IPO, even if the security is one in which the Fund might not typically otherwise invest. It is possible, however, that a Fund will lose money on an investment in an IPO, even in such a case.
Investment Companies
A Fund may invest in securities of other investment companies, including ETFs, if those companies invest in securities consistent with the Fund's investment objective and policies. ETFs are investment companies the shares of which are bought and sold on a securities exchange.
Securities Lending
To enhance the return on its portfolio, a Fund may lend portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and financial institutions to realize additional income under guidelines adopted by the Board of Trustees. Each loan will be secured continuously by collateral in the form of cash, securities issued by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities.
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Risk Factors
The following provides additional information about the Funds' principal risks and supplements those risks discussed in each Fund's Fund Summary section of this Prospectus.
By matching your investment objective with an acceptable level of risk,
you can create your own customized investment plan.
 
Growth
Mid Cap
Growth
Science and
Technology
Select
Growth
Small Cap
Equity
Small Cap
Growth
Concentration Risk
 
 
X
 
 
 
Equity Risk
X
X
X
X
X
X
Foreign Securities Risk
X
X
X
X
X
X
Investment Style Risk
X
X
X
X
X
X
Large Capitalization Stock Risk
X
 
X
 
 
 
Limited Portfolio Risk
 
 
 
 
X
 
Liquidity Risk
 
 
X
X
X
X
Management Risk
X
X
X
X
X
X
Portfolio Turnover Risk
 
 
 
 
X
X
Science and Technology Investment Risk
 
 
X
 
 
 
Sector Focus Risk
X
X
 
X
X
X
Smaller-Company Stock Risk
X
X
X
X
X
X
Stock Market Risk
X
X
X
X
X
X
Concentration Risk — When a Fund concentrates its investments in a particular sector or in a particular group of industries, financial, economic, business, and other developments affecting issuers in that sector or group of industries will have a greater effect on the Fund than if it had not concentrated its assets in that sector or group of industries. In addition, investors may buy or sell substantial amounts of the Fund's shares in response to factors affecting or expected to affect a sector or group of industries in which the Fund concentrates its investments, resulting in extreme inflows or outflows of cash into and out of the Fund. Such inflows or outflows might affect management of the Fund adversely, to the extent that they were to cause the Fund's cash position or cash requirements to exceed normal levels.
Equity Risk — The market prices of equity securities, which may include common stocks and other stock-related securities such as preferred stocks may fluctuate, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The value of a security may decline for reasons that directly relate to the issuer, such as management performance, financial leverage, and reduced demand for the issuer’s goods or services or due to general market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic conditions, changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, or adverse investor sentiment generally. Unlike debt securities, which have preference to a company’s assets in case of liquidation, equity securities are entitled to the residual value after the company meets its other obligations. A Fund may continue to accept new subscriptions and to make additional investments in equity securities even under general market conditions that a Fund’s investment team views as unfavorable for equity securities.
Foreign Securities Risk
Foreign Investments Risk — Foreign investments involve certain special risks. For example, 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 stock exchanges, brokers, and listed companies. Foreign issuers may not be subject to the uniform accounting, auditing, and financial reporting standards and practices prevalent in the U.S. Investments in foreign countries could be affected by factors not present in the U.S., including expropriation, confiscation of property, and difficulties in enforcing contracts. These factors can make foreign investments more volatile than U.S. investments. Certain of these risks may also apply to some extent to U.S. investments that are denominated in foreign
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Risk Factors
currencies and to investments in U.S. companies that have significant foreign operations. Investments in depositary receipts (such as ADRs and GDRs) may also involve additional risks associated with the non-uniform terms that apply to depositary receipt programs, credit exposure to the depository bank and to the sponsors and other parties with whom the depository bank establishes the programs, currency risk and the risk of an illiquid market for depositary receipts.
Political Risk — Foreign securities markets may be more volatile than their counterparts in the U.S. Investments in foreign countries could be affected by factors not present in the U.S., including expropriation, confiscation of property, and difficulties in enforcing contracts. Foreign settlement procedures may also involve additional risks, and foreign issuers can be impacted by changes to trade policies and trade disputes. These factors can make foreign investments more volatile than U.S. investments.
Liquidity Risk — Securities that trade less frequently or with lower trade volume can be more difficult or more costly to buy or sell than more liquid or active investments. Liquidity risk is a factor of the trading volume of a particular investment, as well as the size and liquidity of the entire local market. On the whole, foreign exchanges are smaller and less liquid than U.S. exchanges.
Currency Risk — Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies may negatively affect an investment. Adverse changes in exchange rates, currency exchange control regulations, and restrictions or prohibitions on the repatriation of foreign currencies may erode or reverse any gains produced by investments denominated in foreign currencies and may widen any losses.
Legal Risk — Legal remedies for investors in foreign countries may be more limited than the legal remedies available in the U.S.
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. “Growth” investments, as a category, or entire industries or sectors associated with such investments, may lose favor with investors as compared to those that are more “value” oriented. As a result, a 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.
Large Capitalization Stock Risk — Large-sized companies tend to compete in mature product markets and do not typically experience the level of sustained growth of smaller companies and companies competing in less mature product markets. Large capitalization companies may be unable to respond as quickly as smaller companies to competitive challenges or changes in business, product, financial, or other market conditions. For these and other reasons, a Fund that invests in large capitalization companies may underperform other stock funds (such as funds that focus on the stocks of small and medium capitalization companies) when stocks of large capitalization companies are out of favor.
Limited Portfolio Risk — A Fund may hold a smaller number of portfolio securities than many other mutual funds. To the extent a Fund invests in a relatively small number of issuers, a decline in the market value of a particular security held by the Fund may affect its value more than if it invested in a larger number of issuers.
Liquidity Risk — Liquidity risk exists when particular investments cannot be disposed of quickly in the normal course of business. Market values for illiquid securities may not be readily available, and there can be no assurance that any fair value assigned to an illiquid investment at any time will accurately reflect the price a Fund might receive upon the sale of that investment. The ability of a Fund to dispose of illiquid securities or other instruments at advantageous prices may be greatly limited, and the Fund may have to continue to hold such securities or instruments during periods when the Adviser would otherwise have sold them (in order, for example, to meet redemption requests or to take
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Risk Factors
advantage of other investment opportunities). Adverse market or economic conditions independent of any specific adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer, including rising interest rates, may adversely affect the liquidity of a Fund’s investments. Some securities held by the Fund may be restricted as to resale, and there is often no ready market for such securities. In addition, a Fund, by itself or together with other accounts managed by the Adviser, may hold a position in an investment that is large relative to the typical trading volume for that holding, which can make it difficult for the Fund to dispose of the position at an advantageous time or price. It may also be the case that other market participants may be attempting to liquidate a position at the same time as a Fund is attempting to liquidate the same investment, causing increased supply in the market and contributing to liquidity risk and downward pricing pressure. In such cases the sale proceeds received by the Fund may be substantially less than if the Fund had been able to sell the securities in more-orderly transactions, and the sale price may be substantially lower than the price previously used by the Fund to value the securities for purposes of determining the Fund’s net asset value.
Management Risk — The investment process used by the investment team may produce incorrect judgments about the value of a particular asset or the team may implement its investment strategy in a way that may not produce the desired results.
Portfolio Turnover Risk — Portfolio turnover generally involves a number of direct and indirect costs and expenses to a Fund, including, for example, dealer mark-ups and bid/asked spreads and transaction costs on the sale of securities and reinvestment in other securities. Such costs are not reflected in the Funds' Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses set forth under “Fund Fees and Expenses” but do have the effect of reducing a Fund's investment return. Such sales may result in the realization of taxable capital gains, including short-term capital gains, which are generally taxed to shareholders at ordinary income tax rates.
Science and Technology Investment Risk — Investments in science technology companies, including companies in the Internet and biotechnology sectors, may be highly volatile. Science and technology companies operate in markets that are characterized by: rapid change; evolving industry standards; frequent new service and product announcements, introductions, and enhancements; and changing customer demands. The failure of a company to adapt to such changes could have a material adverse effect on the company's business, results of operations, and financial condition. In addition, the widespread adoption of new technologies or other technological changes could require substantial expenditures by a company to modify or adapt its services or infrastructure, which could have a material adverse effect on its business, results of operations, and financial condition. Changes in prices may reflect, for example, changes in investor evaluation of a particular product or group of products, of the prospects of a company to develop and market a particular technology successfully, or of technology investments generally. Science and technology companies may be dependent on a limited management group, and turnover in management may have an adverse effect on a company's profits or viability Science and technology company values may be significantly affected by intense competition, changes in consumer preferences, challenges in achieving product compatibility, and government regulation. Securities of science and technology companies may experience significant price movements caused by disproportionate investor optimism or pessimism with little or no basis in fundamental economic conditions.
Sector Focus Risk — While the Fund reserves the right to dynamically allocate its assets across economic sectors, the Fund may make significant investments in one or more sectors, each of which entails associated risks. Additionally, the Fund’s performance may be more volatile when the Fund’s investments are focused in a particular sector. Since benchmark sector weights influence the Fund’s sector exposure, the Fund may tend to be more heavily weighted in companies in those sectors included in the benchmark.
Information Technology Risk — Information technology companies tend to significantly rely on technological events or advances in their product development, production or operations
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Risk Factors
and are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in technological product cycles, government regulation and competition. Information technology companies may be smaller and less experienced companies, with limited product lines, markets or financial resources and fewer experienced management or marketing personnel. Information technology company stocks, especially those which are internet-related, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that are often unrelated to their operating performance.
Smaller-Company Stock Risk — Small- or mid-sized companies often have more limited managerial and financial resources than larger, more established companies and, therefore, may be more susceptible to market downturns or changing economic conditions. In addition, such companies may have been recently organized and have little or no track record of success. Also, the Adviser may not have had an opportunity to evaluate such newer companies’ performance in adverse or fluctuating market conditions. The securities of smaller-sized companies may trade less frequently and in smaller volume than more widely held securities. Prices of small- or mid-sized companies tend to be more volatile than those of larger companies and small- or mid-sized issuers may be subject to greater degrees of changes in their earnings and prospects. Since smaller company stocks typically have narrower markets and are traded in lower volumes than larger company stocks, they may be often more difficult to purchase and sell.
Stock Market Risk — Stock market risk refers to the fact that the prices of equity securities and other exchange traded investments typically fluctuate more than the values of debt and other types of securities, typically in response to changes in the particular company’s financial condition and factors affecting the market in general. Over time, the stock market tends to move in cycles, with periods when stock prices rise, and periods when stock prices decline. A slower-growth or recessionary economic environment could have an adverse effect on stock prices. Consequently, a broad-based market drop may also cause a stock’s price to fall. Portfolio securities may also decline in value due to factors affecting securities markets generally, such as real or perceived adverse economic, political or regulatory conditions, inflation, changes in interest or currency rates or adverse investor sentiment, or due to factors affecting particular industries represented in the securities markets, such as competitive conditions. Changes in the financial condition of a single issuer can impact a market as a whole, and adverse market conditions may be prolonged and may not have the same impact on all types of securities. In addition, the markets may not favor a particular kind of security, including equity securities. Values of securities may fall due to factors affecting a particular issuer, industry or the securities market as a whole.
Market turmoil may be reflected in perceptions of economic uncertainty, price volatility in the equity and debt markets, and fluctuating trading liquidity. In response, governments may adopt a variety of fiscal and monetary policy changes, including but not limited to, direct capital infusions into companies, new monetary programs, and lower interest rates. These policies may not be successful and any unexpected or quick reversal of these policies could increase volatility in the equity and debt markets. Market conditions and economic risks could have a significant effect on domestic and international economies and could add significantly to the risks of increased volatility and decreased liquidity for a Fund's portfolio.
Geopolitical/Natural Disaster Risk — Global economies and financial markets are increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely affect issuers in another country or region. Geopolitical and other risks, including war, economic sanctions, currency controls or other actions by countries or international bodies, terrorism, trade disputes, embargoes and other types of economic sanctions, political or economic dysfunction within some nations, 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. Changes in trade policies and international trade agreements could affect the economies of many countries in unpredictable
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Risk Factors
ways. Epidemics and/or pandemics, such as COVID-19, may result in, among other things, closing borders, disruptions to healthcare service preparation and delivery, quarantines, cancellations, disruptions to supply chains and consumer activity, as well as general concern and uncertainty. The impact may last for extended periods.
Information Technology and Operational Risk — Markets and market participants are increasingly reliant upon both publicly available and proprietary information data systems. Data imprecision, software or other technology malfunctions, programming inaccuracies, unauthorized use or access, and similar circumstances may impair the performance of these systems and may have an adverse impact upon a single issuer, a group of issuers, or the market at large. The information technology and other operational systems upon which a Fund’s service providers rely may be subject to cyber attack or other technological disruptions, and could otherwise disrupt the ability of these service providers to perform essential tasks for a Fund. In certain cases, an exchange or market may close or issue trading halts on either specific securities or even the entire market, which may result in a Fund being, among other things, unable to buy or sell certain securities or financial instruments or accurately price its
investments.
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Risk Factors
Additional Risk Factors. The Adviser may use several types of investment strategies in pursuing the Fund's overall investment objective. The following risks are those that the Adviser does not consider to be principal risks of the Funds. Additional risks are included in the Funds' SAI.
IPO Risk — Investments in IPOs may result in increased transaction costs and expenses and the realization of short-term capital gains and distributions. In addition, in the period immediately following an IPO, investments may be subject to more extreme price volatility than that of other equity investments. A Fund may lose all or part of its investment if the companies making their IPOs fail and their product lines fail to achieve an adequate level of market recognition or acceptance. IPOs may not be available to a Fund at all times, and a Fund may not always invest in IPOs offered to it. Investments in IPOs may have a substantial beneficial effect on a Fund’s investment performance. A Fund's investment return earned during a period of substantial investment in IPOs may not be sustained during other periods when the Fund makes more limited, or no, investments in IPOs.
Investment Company Risk— The Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective may be directly related to the ability of other investment companies (including ETFs) held by the Fund to meet their investment objectives. In addition, shareholders of the Fund will indirectly bear the fees and expenses of the underlying investment companies. Lack of liquidity in an ETF could result in an ETF being more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities.
Securities Lending Risk — The risk in lending portfolio securities, as with other extensions of credit, consists of the possibility of loss to a Fund due to (1) the inability of the borrower to return the securities, (2) a delay in receiving additional collateral to adequately cover any fluctuations in the value of securities on loan, (3) a delay in recovery of the securities, or (4) the loss of rights in the collateral should the borrower fail financially. These events could trigger adverse tax consequences for a Fund. In addition, a Fund is responsible for any loss that might result from its investment of the borrower’s collateral. In determining whether to lend securities, the Adviser or a Fund’s securities lending agent will consider relevant facts and circumstances, including the creditworthiness of the borrower.
An investment in the
Fund is not a complete
investment program.
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Impact on Returns Example
The following example is intended to help you assess the impact of the operating expenses of the Funds listed below on each Fund’s potential returns. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in a Fund for a 10-year period, and that your investment earns a 5% return each year. The example reflects the impact of sales loads and the impact of any fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement in place for a Fund through its expiration date, as detailed in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table of each Fund. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.
Based on these assumptions, the following table 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 “Impact on Return”) between your return if the Fund had not incurred the Expenses and your return after giving effect to the Expenses.
Example of the Impact of Annual Fund Operating Expenses on Fund Returns
(based on a $10,000 investment and a 5% annual return)
 
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Cumulative
10-Year
Victory RS Growth Fund
Class A Shares
Expenses
$681
$117
$121
$126
$130
$136
$141
$146
$152
$158
$1,908
Impact on Return
$707