# EDGAR Filing Document

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**Filing Date:** 2023-2
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001829126-23-001288.hdr.sgml**: 20230202

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001829126-23-001288

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230202

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230202

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20230202

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** FundVantage Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001388485
- **IRS NUMBER:** 000000000

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497K
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-141120
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23579163

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 3027911906

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 301 BELLEVUE PARKWAY
- **CITY:** WILMINGTON
- **STATE:** DE
- **ZIP:** 19809

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Gotham ESG Large Value Fund (Series ID: S000064777)

| Class ID   | Class Name          | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000209778 | Institutional Class | GESGX           |

**GOTHAM ESG LARGE VALUE FUND**

**A Series of FundVantage Trust**

**Summary Prospectus – February 1, 2023**

Class/Ticker: Institutional Class Shares (GESGX)

**Click here to view the Fund's <u>Statutory Prospectus</u> or <u>Statement of Additional Information</u>.**

*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/performance.aspx. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (877) 974-6852, by sending an email request to info@gothamfunds.com, or from any financial intermediary that offers shares of the Fund. The Fund's prospectus, dated February 1, 2023, and SAI, dated February 1, 2023, as amended from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.*

**Investment Objective**

The Gotham ESG Large Value 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):** | **Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):** |
|  | **Institutional <br> Class** |
| 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):** | **Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):** |
| Management Fees | 0.75% |
| Distribution and/or Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees |  |
| Other Expenses<sup>1</sup> | 0.00% |
| **Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses**<sup>2</sup>** | **0.75%** |

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<sup>1</sup> Effective as of May 1, 2021, FundVantage Trust (the "Trust"), on behalf of the Fund, and Gotham Asset Management, LLC ("Gotham" or the "Adviser") entered into a Support, Service and Fee Assumption Agreement ("Support Agreement") pursuant to which Gotham supports the Fund's non-investment advisory operations. Under the Support Agreement, Gotham supports the Fund's non-investment advisory operations by (a) performing or contracting for certain operational support services of the Fund, and/or (b) 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.

<sup>2</sup> Gotham Asset Management, LLC ("Gotham" or the "Adviser") 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 total operating expenses (exclusive of taxes, "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses," dividend and interest expense on securities sold short, interest, extraordinary items, and brokerage commissions), do not exceed 0.75% (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, 2024, 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:

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|  | **1 Year** | **3 Years** | **5 Years** | **10 Years** |
| Institutional Class | $77 | $240 | $417 | $930 |

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**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 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 253% 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. The Fund seeks a total return greater than that of the S&P 500<sup>®</sup> Index over a full market cycle, which is a period that includes both a bull (rising) market and a bear (falling) market cycle. The Fund primarily invests in U.S. common stocks of companies that meet the Fund's ESG criteria (summarized below) and are within the universe of the largest 500 – 700 U.S. companies based on market capitalization.

In determining which companies meet the Fund's Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") criteria, the Adviser utilizes Sustainalytics' ESG Risk and Controversy ratings. Sustainalytics' ESG Risk Ratings measure the degree to which a company's economic value is at risk driven by ESG factors. The ESG Risk Ratings currently comprise two dimensions, Exposure and Management, to assess how much unmanaged ESG risk a company is exposed to with regard to: (1) corporate governance; (2) material ESG issues, such as carbon, human rights, resource use, and land use and biodiversity; and (3) idiosyncratic or "unpredictable" issues. A company's ESG Risk Rating is a quantitative score that represents units of unmanaged ESG risk, with lower scores representing less unmanaged risk. Based on their quantitative scores, companies are grouped into one of five risk categories: negligible (overall score of 0-9.99), low (10-19.99), medium (20-20.99), high (30-30.99) and severe (40 points and above). Companies are typically assessed annually by Sustainalytics based on annual corporate filings and disclosures and other sources.

With regard to the Controversy Rating, Sustainalytics monitors companies on an ongoing basis for any controversy pertaining to ESG. Controversial events are scored on a scale from one to five, depending on the business risk to the company and potential impact on stakeholders. Each incident is assessed in terms of its level of impact on the environment and society and its related risk to the company itself. A "Category 1" controversy event is expected to have a low impact whereas a "Category 5" controversy event is expected to have the highest, indicating a severe impact on the involved stakeholders and posing high business risks.

The Fund will generally not invest in companies in the severe risk category (an overall score of 40 points and above) or with a Controversy Rating of 5, at the time of investment. Sustainalytics is a third-party provider and may change their rating systems from time to time. The Adviser may also change the ESG Research provider.

The Fund does not use the ESG Risk Ratings and Controversy ratings simply as negative screening filters. After screening the Fund's investment universe based on ESG criteria, portfolio construction incorporates both fundamental valuations and ESG criteria. 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 those companies meeting the ESG criteria that appear to be undervalued 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.

Generally, the portfolio is weighted most heavily towards those stocks that are priced at the largest discount to the Adviser's assessment of value and possess strong ESG metrics based on Sustainalytics' research and ratings. The portfolio is also subject to the Adviser's risk controls, which include liquidity and diversification considerations. The Fund 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 Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in the securities of large capitalization companies that meet the Fund's environmental, socially responsible and governance ("ESG") criteria at the time of investment. Large capitalization companies are companies with market capitalizations similar to companies in the Russell 1000<sup>®</sup> Index or the S&P 500<sup>®</sup> Index. In order to manage capital flows, the Fund may purchase ETFs that do not conform to ESG criteria.

**Summary of Principal Risks**

The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below. 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 and equity-related securities. Equity and equity-related 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.

● **ESG Strategy Risk:** The Fund's ESG strategies could cause it to perform differently compared to funds that do not have such a policy. The criteria related to this ESG policy may result in the Fund's forgoing opportunities to buy certain securities when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so, or selling securities for ESG reasons when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to do so. In addition, there is a risk that the companies identified by the ESG policy do not operate as expected when addressing ESG issues. There are significant differences in interpretations of what it means for a company to have positive ESG characteristics. While the Adviser believes its definitions are reasonable, the portfolio decisions it makes may differ with other investors' or Advisers' views.

● **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 growth stocks during given periods.

● **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 of incorrect information. When data 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 Risks:** 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 programming (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 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.

**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 four calendar years and by showing how the Fund's average annual returns for one year and since inception periods compared with those of the S&P 500<sup>®</sup> Total Return Index. 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.

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During the periods shown in the chart:

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| **Best Quarter** | **Worst Quarter** |
| 18.02% | (26.43)% |
| (June 30, 2020) | (March 31, 2020) |

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| **Gotham ESG Large Value Fund Class I Shares Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended December 31, 2022**  | **1 Year** | **Since <br> Inception <br> (December 28, 2018)** |
| Class I Shares Return Before Taxes | (7.82)% | 13.28% |
| Return After Taxes on Distributions<sup>1</sup> | (10.28)% | 10.12% |
| Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Shares<sup>1</sup> | (2.82)%<sup>2</sup> | 10.00% |
| S&P 500<sup>®</sup> Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees or expenses or taxes)<sup>3</sup> | (18.11)% | 13.39% |

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<sup>1</sup> 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.

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| <sup>3</sup> The S&P 500<sup>®</sup> 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<sup>®</sup> 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 2018.

● **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 2018.

**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 ("Shareholder Services").**

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| **Regular Mail (until March 9, 2023):**<br> Gotham Funds<br> FundVantage Trust<br> c/o BNY Mellon Investment Servicing<br> P.O. Box 9829<br> Providence, RI 02940-8029 | **Overnight Mail (until March 9, 2023):**<br> Gotham Funds<br> FundVantage Trust<br> c/o BNY Mellon Investment Servicing<br> 4400 Computer Drive<br> Westborough, MA 01581-1722<br> (877) 974-6852 |

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| **Regular Mail (after March 9, 2023):**<br> Gotham Funds<br> FundVantage Trust<br> c/o BNY Mellon Investment Servicing<br> P.O. Box 534445<br> Pittsburgh, PA 15253-4445 | **Overnight Mail (after March 9, 2023):**<br> Gotham Funds<br> FundVantage Trust<br> c/o BNY Mellon Investment Servicing<br> Attention: P.O. Box 534445<br> 500 Ross Street, 154-0520<br> Pittsburgh, PA 15262<br> (877) 974-6852 |

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**Purchase by Wire for Accounts Held Directly with the Fund**

Please contact Fund Shareholder Services toll-free at (877) 974-6852 for current wire instructions.

**Minimum Investment Requirements**

The minimum initial investment in shares of the Fund is $100,000 and the minimum for each subsequent investment in shares of the Fund is $250.

**Redemption by Telephone for Accounts Held Directly with the Fund**

Call Shareholder Services toll-free at (877) 974-6852

**Purchases and Redemptions for Accounts Held through a Financial Intermediary**

Contact your financial intermediary.

**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.

**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 <u>Statutory Prospectus</u> or <u>Statement of Additional Information</u>.**

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