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Victory Core Bond Fund
  • The Fund primarily invests in investment-grade corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations, and asset-and mortgage-backed securities. As much as 20% of assets can be allocated to high-yield securities.
  • The primary objective of the fund is to invest in bonds that provide a high level of current income, while focusing on capital preservation.
  • The team seeks to exploit bond market inefficiencies utilizing a top-down sector rotationary style combined with bottoms-up fundamental security analysis. 

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

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

Class A Shares at load reflect a maximum sales charge of 2.25%. 

Class C Shares are not subject to an initial sales charge, but are subject to a deferred sales charge of 1.00% on shares redeemed within the first year. Class C at load for periods less than 1 year reflect the effect of the 1.00% CDSC.

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

Net expense ratios reflect the contractual waiver and/or reimbursement of management fees through October 31, 2025.

Calendar year returns are shown at NAV.

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Quality Structure

Credit quality ratings on underlying securities of the fund reflect the highest long-term rating from S&P, Moody’s, or Fitch, and are converted to the equivalent S&P major rating category. S&P rates securities in descending order as AAA, AA, A, BBB, BB, B, CCC, CC, C and D. Unrated securities do not necessarily indicate low quality. Below-investment-grade is represented by a rating of BB and below. Quality ratings are subject to change.

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Average Life Structure

Weighted Average Life (WAL) or number of years for which each dollar of unpaid principal on a loan or mortgage remains outstanding. Once calculated, WAL indicates how many years it will take to pay half of the outstanding principal.

Investment Approach 
 
The Victory Core Bond fund seeks to provide a high level of current income and capital appreciation by taking advantage of bond market inefficiencies in three key ways: sector allocation, active interest rate and yield curve positioning, and credit selection. At the core of our fixed income philosophy is the view economic cycles create capital market inefficiencies, valuations are cyclical and revert to the mean over time, and value can be consistently added by exploiting these opportunities. 
 
Philosophy & Process 
 
The team starts the analytical process with a top-down view of the world that is complemented with thorough fundamental credit analysis and a collaborative and institutionalized decision making process. To this end we have separate modeling capabilities for risk exposure (top-down) and security selection (bottom-up) decisions, as well as the Investment Strategy and Credit Committees that meet on a weekly basis to discuss the results thereof. All of these efforts are complemented by extensive risk control measures to assure benchmark-relative tracking error is efficiently controlled. 

Management Team

Co-Chief Investment Officer and Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management

Senior Portfolio Manager

Senior Portfolio Manager

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Carefully consider a fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. To obtain a prospectus or summary prospectus containing this and other important information, visit www.vcm.com/prospectus. Read it carefully before investing.

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

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

In addition to the normal risks associated with investing, fixed income securities are subject to interest rate, inflation, credit and default risk. The bond market is volatile. Bonds and bond funds will decrease in value as interest rates rise and vice versa. Credit risk refers to the possibility that debt issuers may not be able to make principal and interest payments or may have their debt downgraded by ratings agencies.

High yield securities may be more volatile, be subject to greater levels of credit or default risk, and may be less liquid and more difficult to sell at an advantageous time or price than higher-rated securities of similar maturity. 

Mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”) and Asset-backed securities ("ABS") are subject to credit, prepayment and extension risk and may react differently to changes in interest rates than other bonds. Small movements in interest rates may quickly and significantly reduce the value of certain MBS and ABS. Small movements in interest rates may quickly and significantly reduce the value of certain MBS and ABS.

The market value of a security issued on a when-issued, to-be-announced ("TBA") or delayed-delivery basis may change before the delivery date, which may adversely impact the Fund’s net asset value. There is also the risk that a party fails to deliver the security on time or at all.

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

Derivatives may not work as intended and may result in losses.

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

The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (BBg US Aggregate) measures the investment grade, USD-denominated, fixed-rate taxable bond market. The index includes Treasurys, government-related and corporate securities, MBS, ABS and CMBS.

Distributed by Victory Capital Services, Inc., an affiliate of Victory Capital Management Inc., the Fund's investment adviser.

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

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

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