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    <oef:SupplementToProspectusTextBlock contextRef="c-3" id="f-7">&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;Pacer International Export Leaders ETF (PIEL)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;(the &#x201c;Fund&#x201d;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;July 23, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;Supplement dated July 23, 2026 to the Summary Prospectus, Prospectus, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;and Statement of Additional Information, each dated August 31, 2025, as previously supplemented&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;Effective August 1, 2026, the management fee for the Fund has been reduced to an annual rate of 0.49% of the Fund&#x2019;s average daily net assets. All references to the Fund&#x2019;s management fee in the Fund&#x2019;s Summary Prospectus, Prospectus, and Statement of Additional Information are revised to reflect the reduced amount.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;The following information replaces the sections of the Summary Prospectus and Prospectus entitled &#x201c;Fees and Expenses of the Fund&#x201d; and &#x201c;Example&#x201d;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;Fees and Expenses of the Fund&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;The following 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Prior to August 1, 2026, the Fund&#x2019;s management fee was 0.60%.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"&gt;Example &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"&gt;The following example is intended to help retail investors compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. It illustrates the hypothetical expenses that such investors would incur over various periods if they were to invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. 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