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Victory RS Science and Technology Fund
  • Targeted towards investors looking for a best ideas portfolio of companies focused on taking market share through innovation and technology across market caps and industries, managed by a team with proven capabilities in growth investing dating back to 1987.
  • The Fund seeks long-term capital growth by investing in science and technology-oriented companies that we believe to be the most innovative across market caps that can take market share in their respective industries, allowing for potentially higher and more sustainable earnings growth than the broader market.
  • The team invests least 80% of assets typically are invested in science and/or technology companies with no limit on market cap utilizing a disciplined, research-intensive selection process.

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

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

Class A Shares at load reflect a maximum sales charge of 5.75%.

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 ratio reflects the contractual waiver and/or reimbursement of management fees through April 30, 2025.

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

Calendar year returns are shown at NAV.

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Fees and Expenses

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

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

Fees and Expenses

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

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

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Investment Approach 

 

The RS Growth Team seeks to deliver long-term capital growth through a disciplined, research-intensive approach that discovers and invests in dynamic small-, mid-, and large-cap companies engaged in a broad range of technology activities, including those that utilize technology to create competitive advantages or benefit from the use or application of scientific or technological developments to sustainably grow earnings over time. 

 

Philosophy and Process 

 

  • Emphasize innovation – Search for pioneering, disruptive businesses that we believe can change an industry to drive sustainable earnings growth over time. 
  • Focus on the long term– Highlight companies that are aligned with the team’s fundamental beliefs and that rank highly on key quantitative metrics. 
  • Manage risk– Seek an attractive risk/reward profile at the time of purchase to construct a high conviction portfolio of the team’s best ideas. 

 

Management Team

Scott Tracy
Scott Tracy

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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.

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

Investments in science and technology companies, including health care companies, may be very volatile. Their values may be adversely affected by rapis technological change, management changes. Many science and technology companies are newly organized small- or mid-cap companies, which typically exhibit higher volatility.

The profitability of companies in the healthcare sector may be affected by government regulations and healthcare programs, fluctuations in the cost of, and demand for, medical products and services and product liability claims.

To the extent the Fund invests in a small number of issuers, its value may be more negatively affected by the decline in market value of a particular security than if the Fund invested in a larger number of issuers.

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

Investments in small- and mid-cap companies typically exhibit higher volatility.

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

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

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

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

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