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VictoryShares Developed Enhanced Volatility Wtd ETF
Victory Portfolios II
ETFIndex fund
Expense ratio1
0.51%
Net assets2
$29.88M
Holdings2
506
Category
International Equity
2023 return3
2.28%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Oct. 26, 2023 · prospectus

Objective. The VictoryShares Developed Enhanced Volatility Wtd ETF (the Fund) seeks to provide investment results that track the performance of the Nasdaq Victory International 500 Long/Cash Volatility Weighted Index (the Index) before fees and expenses.

Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets directly or indirectly in the securities included in the Nasdaq Victory International 500 Long/Cash Volatility Weighted Index (the Index), an unmanaged, volatility weighted index maintained exclusively by Nasdaq, Inc. (the Index Provider). The Index Provider is not affiliated with the Fund or the Adviser. The Index combines fundamental criteria with individual security risk control achieved through volatility weighting of individual securities. In accordance with a rules-based mathematical formula, the Index tactically reduces its exposure to the equity markets during periods of significant market decline and reallocates to stocks when market prices have further declined or rebounded. The term Enhanced in … The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets directly or indirectly in the securities included in the Nasdaq Victory International 500 Long/Cash Volatility Weighted Index (the Index), an unmanaged, volatility weighted index maintained exclusively by Nasdaq, Inc. (the Index Provider). The Index Provider is not affiliated with the Fund or the Adviser. The Index combines fundamental criteria with individual security risk control achieved through volatility weighting of individual securities. In accordance with a rules-based mathematical formula, the Index tactically reduces its exposure to the equity markets during periods of significant market decline and reallocates to stocks when market prices have further declined or rebounded. The term Enhanced in the Funds name refers to a feature of the Index that is designed to enhance risk-adjusted returns while attempting to minimize downside market risk through defensive positioning, as described below. The Index follows a rules-based methodology to construct its constituent securities: ? The Index universe begins with all publicly traded foreign companies and then screens for all companies with positive earnings across the last 12 months. ? The Index identifies the 500 largest foreign companies by market capitalization measured at the time the Indexs constituent securities are determined. ? The 500 stocks are weighted based on their daily standard deviation (volatility) of daily price changes over the last 180 trading days. Stocks with lower volatility receive a higher weighting and stocks with higher volatility receive a lower weighting. The Index considers foreign companies to be those that are organized or domiciled in a developed country (excluding the U.S. and emerging markets) and whose stock principally trades on a foreign exchange. Representative developed markets include Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. The Index is reconstituted every March and September (based on information as of the prior month-end) and is adjusted to limit exposure to any particular country to 20% and any particular sector to 25%. The Index may include more than or fewer than 500 stocks depending on the number of companies meeting the Indexs criteria. The Index follows a mathematical index construction process designed to limit risk during periods of significant (non-normal) market decline by reducing its exposure to the equity market by allocating a portion of the Index to cash or cash equivalents. Market decline is measured at month-end by reference to the Nasdaq Victory International 500 Volatility Weighted Index (Reference Index), which is composed of the same securities as in the Index but without any allocation to cash. A significant market decline means a decline of 12% or more from the Reference Indexs all-time daily high closing value compared to its most recent month-end closing value, during which the Indexs exposure to the market may be as low as 25% depending on the magnitude and duration of such decline. During a period of significant market decline that is 12% or more but less than 24% (the initial trigger point), the Index will allocate 75% of the stocks included in the Index to cash or cash equivalents, with the remaining 25% consisting of stocks included in the Reference Index. The Index will reallocate all or a portion of its cash or cash equivalents to stocks when the Reference Index reaches certain additional trigger points, measured at a subsequent month end, as follows: ? The Index will return to being 100% allocated to stocks if the subsequent month end closing value of the stocks in the Reference Index returns to a level that is less than the initial trigger point. ? If the Reference Index declines by 24% or more but less than 36% from its all-time daily high closing value as measured at a subsequent month end, the Index will reallocate an additional 25% to the stocks in the Reference Index at their current securities weightings and the Index will then be 50% allocated to stocks included in the Reference Index. ? If the Reference Index declines by 36% or more but less than 48% from its all-time daily high closing value as measured at a subsequent month end, the Index will reallocate another 25% to the stocks of the Reference Index at their current securities weighting and the Index will then be 75% allocated to stocks included in the Reference Index. ? If the Reference Index declines by 48% or more from its all-time daily high closing value as measured at a subsequent month end, the Index will reallocate the remaining 25% to the stocks in the Reference Index at their current securities weighting. At this point, the Index will be 100% allocated to stocks included in the Reference Index. The Index will make any prescribed allocations to cash in accordance with the mathematical formula only at month end. In the event that it does, the Fund may experience higher portfolio turnover and incur additional transaction costs. During any periods of significant market decline, when the Indexs exposure to the market is less than 100%, the cash portion of the Index will be invested in 30-day U.S. Treasury bills or in money market mutual funds that primarily invest in short-term U.S. Treasury obligations. The Fund seeks to track the returns of the Index before fees and expenses by employing, under normal circumstances, a sampling process to invest in a representative sample of stocks included in the Index. The Funds portfolio managers select these stocks using a statistical optimization process designed to produce investment characteristics that closely approximate those of the Index. At times the Fund may pursue its investment objective by investing in the Index securities indirectly by investing all or a portion of its assets in another investment company advised by the Adviser, including an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to track the Index or the Reference Index. The Funds investments are subject to the following principal risks:

Top holdings

As of Sept. 30, 2024 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
MONEY MARKET FUND TOIXX $230.60K 0.77%
PEMBINA PIPELINE $120.67K 0.40%
HYDRO ONE LTD $116.97K 0.39%
KPN (KONIN) NV $114.90K 0.38%
DANONE SA $114.03K 0.38%
FORTIS INC $111.38K 0.37%
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GRP PLC $108.06K 0.36%
ENBRIDGE INC $107.05K 0.36%
UNITED OVERSEAS $104.95K 0.35%
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM $104.36K 0.35%
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Allocation by sector

As of September 30, 2024 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Jun 30, 2024 → Sep 30, 2024
Opened
37
Exited
38
Increased
114
Decreased
338
Unchanged
19

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of June 30, 2024 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Victory Capital Management Inc. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of October 26, 2023, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of September 30, 2024, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2023, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2023 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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