Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Is Top 1% For The Three Year Period Ending December 31, 2018

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Feb 11, 2019, 16:30 ET

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Institutional Class (ticker: NBPIX) (the "Fund") returns were 13.12% for the three years, 7.17% for five years, and 13.35% for 10 years ended December 31, 2018 placing it in the 1^st (out of 1100 large value funds), 15^th (out of 937 large value funds), and 5^th (out of 686 large value funds) Morningstar, Inc. percentiles respectively. The Fund's Institutional Class is rated 4-stars by Morningstar, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2018 (out of 1100 large value funds) and for the 3-, 5- and 10-year periods ended December 31, 2018 it is rated 5 stars (out of 1100 large value funds), 4 stars (out of 937 large value funds) and 4 stars (out of 686 large value funds), respectively. The Fund's Institutional Class generated a -0.80% return for the 2018 calendar year, ranking in the second percentile of Morningstar, Inc.'s Large Value Category (out of 1244 large value funds), and outperforming the Russell 1000 Value Index return of -8.27% by 747 basis points.

Eli Salzmann, the Fund's Portfolio Manager, utilizes an active value-investing discipline with a patient, conviction-based approach creating a portfolio wherein 10 out of 11 sectors contributed positively to relative performance in 2018; demonstrating the benefits of a disciplined approach. Eli Salzmann's team does research and analysis for Large Cap Value strategies at Neuberger Berman.

Salzmann's team conducts independent, "bottom-up" fundamental and quantitative research to identify nuances of each company that cannot be captured solely by financial characteristics.

"The performance of the Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund reflects the importance of active management and a conviction-based strategy," Mr. Salzmann said. "We believe our approach will be especially relevant as we enter a more volatile equity market. As interest rates are already well into more normal territory, stock performance will once again be differentiated by company fundamentals, creating an environment that may benefit high-conviction, fundamental investors."

December 2018 marked seven years since Mr. Salzmann has managed the fund. Mr. Salzmann has over 30 years of investing experience. The Large Cap Value team seeks to mitigate the downside and avoid "value traps" through their disciplined focus on rational valuations and catalysts.

About Neuberger Berman

Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 22 countries, Neuberger Berman's team is more than 2,000 professionals. For five consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). Tenured, stable and long-term in focus, the firm fosters an investment culture of fundamental research and independent thinking. It manages $304 billion in client assets as of December 31, 2018. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.

An investor should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks and fees and expenses carefully before investing. This and other important information can be found in the Fund's prospectus or summary prospectus, which you can obtain by calling 877.628.2583. Please read the prospectus or summary prospectus carefully before making an investment.

The Morningstar ratings for Neuberger Berman Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund – Institutional Class for the 3-, 5- and 10-year periods ended December 31, 2018 was 5 stars (out of 1100 large value funds), 4 stars (out of 937 large value funds) and 4 stars (out of 686 large value funds), respectively.

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Value stocks may remain undervalued or may decrease in value during a given period or may not ever realize what the portfolio management team believes to be their full value. This may happen, among other reasons, because of a failure to anticipate which stocks or industries would benefit from changing market or economic conditions or investor preferences.

From time to time, based on market or economic conditions, the Funds may have significant positions in one or more sectors of the market. To the extent a Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors.

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Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities.

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A decline in the Fund's average net assets during the current fiscal year due to market volatility or other factors could cause the Fund's expenses for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented.

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The use of options involves investment strategies and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. If a strategy is applied at an inappropriate time or market conditions or trends are judged incorrectly, the use of options may lower the Fund's return. There can be no guarantee that the use of options will increase the Fund's return or income. In addition, there may be an imperfect correlation between the movement in prices of options and the securities underlying them and there may at times not be a liquid secondary market for various options.

The Funds may engage in active and frequent trading and may have a high portfolio turnover rate, which may increase the Funds' transaction costs, may adversely affect the Funds' performance and may generate a greater amount of capital gain distributions to shareholders than if the Funds had a low portfolio turnover rate.

An individual security may be more volatile, and may perform differently, than the market as a whole.

The Russell 1000® Value Index measures the performance of those Russell 1,000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. Please note that indices do not take into account any fees and expenses of investing in the individual securities that they track, and that individuals cannot invest directly in any index. Data about the performance of these indices are prepared or obtained by the Manager and include reinvestment of all dividends and capital gain distributions.

For each retail mutual fund with at least a three-year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund's monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive five stars, the next 22.5% receive four stars, the next 35% receive three stars, the next 22.5% receive two stars and the bottom 10% receive one star. (Each share class is counted as a fraction of one fund within this scale and rated separately, which may cause slight variations in the distribution percentages.) The Overall Morningstar Rating for a retail mutual fund is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five- and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. Ratings are ©2019 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its content providers; (2) may not be copied or distributed; and (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete or timely. Neither Morningstar nor its content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information.

Morningstar rankings are based on Morningstar total returns, which include both income and capital gains or losses and are not adjusted for sales charges or redemption fees, to all funds that have the same Morningstar category. The highest percentile rank is 1 and the lowest is 100. As of December 31, 2018 the Fund's Institutional Class shares rank in the top 5^th percentile for ten years (out of 686 funds). As of December 31, 2018, the Fund's Class A shares rank in the top 3^rd percentile for one year (of 1,244 funds), top 1st percentile over three years (of 1,100 funds), top 19^th percentile for five years (of 937 funds) and top 10^th percentile for ten years (of 686 funds). Rankings are ©2019 Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved. The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its content providers, (2) may not be copied or distributed and (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete or timely.

Morningstar Large Value category
Large-value portfolios invest primarily in big U.S. companies that are less expensive or growing more slowly than other large-cap stocks. Stocks in the top 70% of the capitalization of the U.S. equity market are defined as large cap. Value is defined based on low valuations (low price ratios and high dividend yields) and slow growth (low growth rates for earnings, sales, book value, and cash flow).

NEUBERGER BERMAN LARGE CAP VALUE FUND RETURNS (%)

					Annualized as of 12/31/2018
	4Q	YTD	1 Year	3 Year		5 Year	10 Year	Since Inception
Institutional Class (NBPIX)	-5.81	-0.80	-0.80	13.12		7.17	13.35	12.35
Class A at NAV (NPNAX)	-5.88	-1.15	-1.15	12.69		6.77	12.95	12.25
Class C at NAV (NPNCX)	-6.09	-1.91	-1.91	11.86		5.97	12.23	12.08
Class R3 at NAV (NPNRX)	-5.95	-1.42	-1.42	12.37		6.47	12.69	12.19
Investor Class at NAV (NPRTX)	-5.85	-0.93	-0.93	12.94		7.00	13.17	12.30
Trust Class at NAV (NBPTX)	-5.90	-1.15	-1.15	12.75		6.81	12.96	12.21
Advisor Class at NAV (NBPBX)	-5.95	-1.30	-1.30	12.55		6.63	12.78	12.07
Class A with Sales Charge	-11.28	-6.84	-6.84	10.49		5.51	12.28	12.10
Class C with Sales Charge	-6.92	-2.78	-2.78	11.86		5.97	12.23	12.08
Russell 1000 Value Index	-11.72	-8.27	-8.27	6.95		5.95	11.18	N/A
Morningstar US Fund Large Value Average	-12.49	-8.53	-8.53	6.85		5.37	10.91	N/A

Performance data quoted represent past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Results are shown on a "total return" basis and include reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains distributions. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance given. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, please visit www.nb.com/performance.

Average annual total returns with sales charge reflect deduction of current maximum initial sales charge of 5.75% for Class A shares and applicable contingent deferred sales charges (CDSC) for Class C shares. The maximum CDSC for Class C shares is 1%, which is reduced to 0% after 1 year.

Expense Ratios (%)
NB Large Cap Value Fund	Gross Expense	Total (net) Expense
Institutional Class	0.71	N/A
Class A	1.09	N/A
Class C	1.83	N/A
Class R3	1.37	1.36
Investor Class	0.88	N/A
Trust Class	1.06	N/A
Advisor Class	1.21	N/A
For Class R3 total (net) expense represents, and for Class A, Class C, Institutional Class, Advisor, and Trust Class gross expense represents, the total annual operating expenses that shareholders pay (after the effect of fee waivers and/or expense reimbursement). The Manager contractually caps certain expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any; consequently, total (net) expenses may exceed the contractual cap) through 08/31/2022 for Institutional Class at 0.70%, 1.11% for Class A, 1.86% for Class C, 1.36% for Class R3, 1.50% for Trust Class and Advisor Class at 1.50% (each as a % of average net assets). As of the Fund's most recent prospectuses, the Manager was not required to waive or reimburse any expenses pursuant to this arrangement. Absent such arrangements, which cannot be changed without Board approval, the returns may have been lower. Information as of the most recent prospectuses dated December 6, 2018.

All information is as of December 31, 2018, unless otherwise indicated and is subject to change without notice. Firm data, including employee and assets under management figures, reflects collective data for the various affiliated investment advisers that are subsidiaries of Neuberger Berman Group LLC. Firm history dates back to the 1939 founding of Neuberger & Berman (the predecessor to Neuberger Berman LLC).

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