01/30/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/30/2026 14:41
GOTHAM ENHANCED S&P 500 INDEX FUND
A Series of FundVantage Trust
Summary Prospectus - February 1, 2026
Class/Ticker: Institutional Class Shares (GSPFX)
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Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's prospectus and other information about the Fund including the Fund's Statement of Additional Information ("SAI") and shareholder reports online at https://www.gothamfunds.com/documents. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (877) 974-6852, by sending an email request to [email protected], or from any financial intermediary that offers shares of the Fund. The Fund's prospectus, dated February 1, 2026, and SAI, dated February 1, 2026, as amended from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
Investment Objective
The Gotham Enhanced S&P 500 Index Fund (the "Fund") seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Expenses and Fees
This 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 example below.
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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment): |
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| Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed within 30 days of purchase) | 1.00 | % | ||
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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):1 |
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| Management Fees1 | 0.50 | % | ||
| Distribution and/or Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees | None | |||
| Other Expenses2 | 0.15 | % | ||
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses1,2,3 | 0.65 | % | ||
| Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements3 | (0.15 | )% | ||
| Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements1,2,3 | 0.50 | % | ||
| 1 | Effective February 1, 2021, (a) the investment advisory agreement between FundVantage Trust (the "Trust"), on behalf of the Fund, and Gotham Asset Management, LLC ("Gotham" or the "Adviser") was amended to reduce the Fund's annual investment advisory fee by the dollar amount of "total annual fund operating expenses after fee waivers" attributable to any Fund assets invested in other investment companies advised or sub-advised by Gotham (each an "underlying fund" and collectively, the "underlying funds"), and (b) the Fund's expense limitation agreement was revised to limit the Fund's "Other Expenses" to 0.00% (see footnote 3 below). With respect to item (a) above the amount of such reduction shall be calculated based on the Fund's average daily assets invested in an underlying fund and the "total annual fund operating expenses after fee waivers" disclosed in an underlying fund's "Annual Fund Operating Expenses" table in the summary section of an underlying fund's currently effective Prospectus. The effect of the reduction is intended to provide that Gotham's aggregate direct and indirect compensation from the Fund and any underlying fund, respectively, does not exceed the 0.50% annual investment advisory fee paid by the Fund prior to February 1, 2021. |
| 2 | Effective as of November 1, 2020, the Trust, on behalf of the Fund, and Gotham entered into a Support, Service and Fee Assumption Agreement ("Support Agreement") pursuant to which Gotham supports the Fund's non-investment advisory operations by (i) performing or contracting for certain operational support services of the Fund, and (ii) assuming certain of the Fund's payment obligations, including such payment obligations specified in contracts between the Fund and its service providers and other Trust expenses incurred by or otherwise allocated to the Fund |
by the Trust. In exchange for the performance of services and the assumption of payment obligations, Gotham receives a fee of the lesser of (a) the annualized rate of 0.15% of the Fund's average daily net assets, or (b) the actual amount of the Gotham's payment obligation under the Support Agreement.
| 3 | Gotham has contractually agreed to reduce its investment advisory fee and/or reimburse certain expenses of the Fund to the extent necessary to ensure that the Fund's "Other Expenses" (exclusive of taxes, dividend and interest expense on securities sold short, interest, extraordinary items, and brokerage commissions) do not exceed 0.00% (on an annual basis) of average daily net assets of the Fund (the "Expense Limitation"). The Expense Limitation will remain in place until January 31, 2027, unless the Board of Trustees of FundVantage Trust (the "Trust") approves its earlier termination. |
Expense Example
This Example is intended 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's Institutional Class shares for the time periods indicated and then redeem 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 (reflecting any contractual fee waivers). 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 | ||||||
| Institutional Class | $51 | $193 | $347 | $796 |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). In addition, the Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in one or more underlying funds on which the Fund does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of such underlying funds; however such underlying funds do pay transaction costs when they trade their portfolio. A higher portfolio turnover rate may 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. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 176% of the average value of its portfolio.
Summary of Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing under normal circumstances in equity securities. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities of issuers included in the S&P 500® Index (the "Index") at the time of purchase, but not necessarily at index weightings. For purposes of this 80% investment policy, the term "assets" means net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes. This 80% policy may be changed by the Board of Trustees upon 60 days' written notice to shareholders.
The Fund is not a passive index fund, but instead utilizes an enhanced index or "index plus" strategy. The "enhanced" strategy allows the Adviser to use its own analytical framework to weight its investments in the securities included in the Index in an attempt to outperform the Index.
The Adviser seeks to capitalize on pricing inefficiencies in the market by employing a systematic, bottom-up, valuation approach based on the Adviser's proprietary analytical framework to identify companies that appear to be undervalued or overvalued on both an absolute and relative basis. This approach consists of:
| ● | Researching and analyzing each company in the Adviser's coverage universe according to a methodology that emphasizes fundamentals such as recurring earnings, cash flows, capital efficiency, capital structure, and valuation; |
| ● | Identifying and excluding companies that do not conform to the Adviser's valuation methodology or companies judged by the Adviser to have questionable financial reporting; |
| ● | Updating the analysis for earning releases, annual (Form 10-K) and quarterly (Form 10-Q) reports and other corporate filings; and |
| ● | Recording analysis in a centralized database enabling the Adviser to compare companies and identify longs based on the Adviser's assessment of value. |
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The Fund may obtain exposure to the Index through investment in one or more exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") or mutual funds intended to track or exceed the performance of the Index. Such ETFs and mutual funds may include ETFs or mutual funds advised or sub-advised by the Adviser (each an "underlying fund" and collectively, the "underlying funds").
The Fund will generally take positions in securities that comprise the Index and weight those securities based on the Adviser's assessment of value and the individual security's weight in the Index. The portfolio is rebalanced (generally daily) to manage risk and reposition the portfolio to reflect earnings releases and other new information related to particular companies. Because the Fund generally rebalances its positions daily, the Fund will experience a high portfolio turnover rate.
The S&P 500® Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("SPDJI"), which is independent of the Fund and the Adviser. The Adviser has entered into a license agreement with SPDJI to use the Index. The Adviser sublicenses rights in the Index to the Fund at no charge. Standard & Poor's®, S&P® and S&P 500® are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC ("S&P"); Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC ("Dow Jones"). The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by SPDJI, Dow Jones, S&P, their respective affiliates and none of such parties make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Fund nor do they have any liability for any errors, omissions, or interruptions of the S&P 500® Index.
Summary of Principal Risks
The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below. The order of the below risk factors does not indicate the significance of any particular risk factor and the relative significance of each risk below may change over time. These risks could adversely affect the Fund's net asset value ("NAV"), yield and total return. It is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.
| ● | Equity Risk: The Fund invests primarily in equity securities. Equity securities are subject to greater fluctuations in market value than certain other asset classes. Factors that could impact the market value include a company's business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic conditions. The rights of equity holders are subordinate to all other claims on a company's assets, including debt holders. Equity ownership risks the loss of all or a substantial portion of the investment. |
| ● | Market Risk: The values of, and/or the income generated by, securities held by the Fund may decline due to factors that are specifically related to a particular company, as well as general market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions, inflation rates and/or investor expectations concerning such rates, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment generally. Securities markets are volatile and may decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, regulatory, political, or economic developments. Different sectors of the market and different security types may react differently to such developments. Geopolitical events, including terrorism, tensions or open conflict between nations, or political or economic dysfunction within some nations that are global economic powers, may lead to instability in world economies and markets, may lead to increased market volatility, and may have adverse long-term effects. Events such as environmental and natural disasters, public health crises (such as epidemics and pandemics), social unrest, and cybersecurity incidents, and governments' reactions to such events, could cause uncertainty in the markets and may adversely affect the performance of the global economy. |
| ● | Value Style Risk: The Adviser buys securities, on behalf of the Fund, that it believes are undervalued. Investing in "value" stocks presents the risk that the stocks may never reach what the Adviser believes are their full market values, either because the market fails to recognize what the Adviser considers to be the companies' true business values or because the Adviser misjudges those values. In addition, value stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform other stocks (such as growth stocks) during given periods. |
| ● | Strategy Risk: Because the Fund utilizes an enhanced index or "index plus" strategy and the Adviser actively manages individual securities in addition to the Index Investment, the Fund's investment exposure to individual securities will not match those of the Index and the Fund's performance may not correlate with the performance of an Index. |
| ● | Database Errors: The investment strategy used by the Adviser relies on proprietary databases and third-party data sources. Data entries made by the Adviser's team of financial analysts or third parties may contain errors, as may the database system used to store such data. Any errors in the underlying data sources, data entry or database may result in the Fund acquiring or selling investments based on incorrect information. When data |
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proves to be incorrect, misleading, flawed or incomplete, any decisions made in reliance thereon expose the Fund to potential risks. For example, by relying on such data the Adviser may be induced to buy or sell certain investments it would not have if the data was correct. As a result, the Fund could incur losses or miss out on gains on such investments before the errors are identified and corrected.
| ● | Systems Risk: The Fund depends on the Adviser to develop and implement appropriate systems for its activities. The Adviser relies extensively on computer programs and systems to implement and monitor the Fund's investment strategy. The development, implementation and maintenance of these systems is complex and involves substantial research and modeling (which is then generally translated into computer code and manual and automated processes) and the retrieval, filtering, processing, translation and analysis of large amounts of financial and other corporate data. As a result, there is a risk of human or technological errors affecting the portfolio construction process and order origination, including errors in programing (e.g., "bugs" and classic coding errors), modeling, design, translational errors and compatibility issues with data sets and among systems. Similarly, with regard to trading and other systems or equipment that the Adviser utilizes, any or all of the following events may occur: (i) failures or interruptions in access to or the operations of such systems or equipment; (ii) loss of functionality; (iii) corruption; (iv) compromises in security; (v) loss of power; and (vi) other situations that adversely affect such systems or equipment. There can be no guarantee that such defects or issues will be identified in time to avoid a material adverse effect on the Fund. For example, such failures could cause the Adviser to be induced to buy or sell certain investments it would not have if the failure had not occurred. |
| ● | High Portfolio Turnover Risk: The Fund may sell its securities, regardless of the length of time that they have been held, if the Adviser determines that it would be in the Fund's best interest to do so. The Fund frequently adjusts the size of its long positions. These transactions increase the Fund's "portfolio turnover" and the Fund will experience a high portfolio turnover rate (over 100%). High turnover rates generally result in higher brokerage costs, may have adverse tax consequences and therefore may reduce the Fund's returns. Frequent purchases and sales of portfolio securities may result in higher Fund expenses and may result in more significant distributions of short-term capital gains to investors, which are taxed as ordinary income. |
| ● | Underlying Fund Risk: The ability of the Fund to meet its investment objective is directly related to the ability of an underlying fund to meet its objective as well as the Fund's allocation to the underlying fund. The value of an underlying fund's investments, and the NAVs of the shares of both the Fund and an underlying fund, will fluctuate in response to various market and economic factors related to the equity markets, as well as the financial condition and prospects of issuers in which an underlying fund invests. There can be no assurance that the underlying fund will achieve its investment objective. The Fund is subject to the risks of an underlying fund to the extent of the Fund's allocation of its assets to an underlying fund. |
| ● | ETF Risk: An investment in an exchange-traded fund is an investment in another investment company and therefore, the Fund's shareholders will indirectly bear its proportionate share of any fees and expenses of the ETFs in which the Fund invests, except with respect to investments in the underlying funds. This is in addition to the Fund's own fees and expenses. As a result, the cost of investing may be higher than the cost of investing directly in the ETFs and may be higher than mutual funds that invest directly in stocks and bonds. ETFs are also subject to the following risks: (i) the market price of an ETF's shares may trade above or below net asset value; (ii) there may be an inactive trading market for an ETF; (iii) trading of an ETF's shares may be halted, delisted, or suspended on the listing exchange; and (iv) the ETF may fail to achieve close correlation with the index that it tracks. |
| ● | Risks Related to Changes in Government Policies and Institutions: The U.S. government has recently made, and may continue to make from time to time, significant changes to established, and in some cases longstanding, policies and institutions of the United States federal government, including the restructuring of the United States' trade relationships, imposition of tariffs on products imported from foreign markets, reducing government investment, and downsizing or dismantling of government agencies. Such changes may have immediate and/or longstanding effects on the economies of the United States, its trade partners, and/or its allies. There could be a wide range of consequences that are difficult or impossible to predict from such actions. Such consequences may include a decrease in regulatory oversight of certain highly regulated industries (banking, financial services, data security, drug and medical device development, and energy), an increase in regulatory backlog leading to significantly slower regulatory approval processes, uncertainty with respect to the authority of certain agencies or their personnel, the inability of the federal government and its agencies to maintain the security of personal data of United States citizens and/or of other digital assets. The business and prospects of companies that do business with the government or which rely on government funding may be materially and adversely affected. |
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Performance Information
The bar chart and performance table shown below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing the Fund's performance for the past nine calendar years and by showing how the Fund's average annual returns for one year, five years and since inception periods compared with those of the S&P 500® Total Return Index, a broad measure of market performance. Performance reflects contractual fee waivers in effect. If fee waivers were not in place, performance would be reduced. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund's website at www.GothamFunds.com or by calling the Fund toll-free at (877) 974-6852.
During the periods shown in the chart:
| Best Quarter | Worst Quarter | |
| 19.32% | (19.63)% | |
| (June 30, 2020) | (March 31, 2020) |
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Gotham Enhanced S&P 500 Index Fund Class I Shares Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended December 31, 2025 |
1 Year | 5 Years |
Since Inception (December 30, 2016) |
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| Class I Shares Return Before Taxes | 16.88% | 14.51% | 15.05% | ||||
| Return After Taxes on Distributions1 | 14.39% | 12.46% | 13.05% | ||||
| Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares1 | 11.72% | 11.22% | 11.87% | ||||
| S&P 500® Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)2 | 17.88% | 14.42% | 15.14% |
| 1 | After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown and are not relevant if you hold your shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. |
| 2 | The S&P 500® Total Return Index is a widely recognized unmanaged index of 500 common stocks, which are generally representative of the U.S. stock market as a whole. The returns provided for the S&P 500® Total Return Index include the reinvestment of dividends. |
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Management of the Fund
Investment Adviser
Gotham Asset Management, LLC serves as the Fund's investment adviser.
Portfolio Managers
| ● | Joel Greenblatt is a Managing Principal and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Gotham and has been a Portfolio Manager to the Fund since its inception in 2016. |
| ● | Robert Goldstein is a Managing Principal and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Gotham and has been a Portfolio Manager to the Fund since its inception in 2016. |
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Shares of the Fund may be purchased and sold (redeemed) on any business day when the New York Stock Exchange (the "Exchange") is open for regular trading. Such purchases and redemptions can be made through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, or directly with the Fund by sending a completed application to the addresses below. For applications and more information call Shareholder Services toll-free at (877) 974-6852.
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Regular Mail: Gotham Funds FundVantage Trust c/o BNY Mellon Investment Servicing P.O. Box 534445 Pittsburgh, PA 15253-4445 |
Overnight Mail: 500 Ross Street, 154-0520 Pittsburgh, PA 15262 (877) 974-6852 |
Purchase by Wire for Accounts Held Directly with the Fund
Please contact Shareholder Services toll-free at (877) 974-6852 for current wire instructions.
Purchases and Redemptions for Accounts Held through a Financial Intermediary
Contact your financial intermediary.
Minimum Investment Requirements
The minimum initial investment for shares is $5,000 and the minimum for each subsequent investment is $100.
Redemption by Telephone for Accounts Held Directly with the Fund
Call Shareholder Services toll-free at (877) 974-6852.
Tax Information
The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains. Such distributions are not currently taxable when shares are held through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. However, subsequent withdrawals from any tax-deferred account in which the shares are held may be subject to federal income tax. All prospective investors and shareholders are urged and advised to consult their own tax adviser regarding the effects of an investment in a Fund on their particular tax situation.
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Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), 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 broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. In addition, if you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer, you may be required to pay a commission to your broker depending on your arrangements with them. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information or visit www.GothamFunds.com.
Click here to view the Fund's Statutory Prospectus or Statement of Additional Information.
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