Baron International Growth Fund Institutional Shares NMFQS:BINIX

The fund is a diversified fund that invests for the long term primarily in equity securities in the form of common stock of non-U.S. growth companies. It seeks to diversify its investments among several developed countries and developing countries throughout the world, although the fund may only invest up to 35% of its net assets in developing countries. Developing countries include countries in the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index, countries in the MSCI Frontier Markets (FM) Index and other countries determined by the Adviser to be developing countries based on classifications.