div style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: calibri;"The Fund is a diversified fund because it invests, at any given time, in the securities of a select number of Baron mutual funds and affiliated exchange-traded funds (“ETFs” and collectively, the “Underlying Funds”), representing specific investment strategies. The Fund normally invests in a variety of domestic and international equity funds. The Adviser seeks to invest in businesses it believes have significant opportunities for growth, sustainable competitive advantages, exceptional management, and an attractive valuation./div div style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: calibri;"The Fund can invest in funds holding U.S. and international stocks; small-cap, small- to mid-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, all-cap stocks; and sector specific stocks./div div style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: calibri; font-weight: bold;"The portfolio manager decides how much of the Fund’s assets to allocate to underlying fund investments based on the outlook for, and on the relative valuations of, the Underlying Funds and the various markets in which they invest./div div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: calibri;"span style="color: #0a254e;"Underlying Funds /span/div table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; width: 100%; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px auto; height: 449.417px;" tr style="height: 0px;" td style="width: 36%; height: 0px;"/td td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 1%; height: 0px;"/td td style="width: 61%; height: 0px;"/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 1.98864px;" td colspan="3" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-top: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 1.98864px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt; height: 12.7273px;" td colspan="3" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; height: 12.7273px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Baron WealthBuilder Fund/span/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 1.98864px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 1.98864px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 1.98864px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt; height: 12.7273px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; height: 12.7273px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Strategy/span/span/td td style="border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 12.7273px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; height: 12.7273px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Fund/span/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 7.99716px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 7.99716px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 7.99716px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td rowspan="3" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: middle; height: 49.0908px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Small Cap/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Discovery Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Small Cap Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Growth Fund/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 7.99716px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 7.99716px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 7.99716px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td rowspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: middle; height: 32.7272px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Small-Mid Cap/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Focused Growth Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron SMID Cap ETF/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 7.99716px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 7.99716px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 7.99716px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: top; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Mid Cap/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Asset Fund/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 10px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 10px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 10px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td rowspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: middle; height: 32.7272px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Large Cap/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Durable Advantage Fund/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 10px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 10px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 10px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td rowspan="3" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: middle; height: 49.0908px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"All Cap/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Partners Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Opportunity Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron First Principles ETF/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 7.99716px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 7.99716px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 7.99716px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td rowspan="6" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: middle; height: 98.1816px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"International / Global/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron International Growth Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Emerging Markets Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Global Opportunity Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron India Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Global Durable Advantage ETF/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Emerging Markets Select ETF/span/td /tr tr style="font-size: 1pt; height: 7.99716px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; height: 7.99716px;" /td td colspan="2" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); height: 7.99716px;" /td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td rowspan="5" style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-left: 8pt; vertical-align: middle; height: 81.818px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Sector/span/td td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Real Estate Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Real Estate Income Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Health Care Fund/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Financials ETF/span/td /tr tr style="break-inside: avoid; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; height: 16.3636px;" td style="border-left: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;" /td td style="border-right: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(10, 37, 78); padding-right: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom; height: 16.3636px;"span style="font-family: calibri;"Baron Technology ETF/span/td /tr /table div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: calibri; font-weight: bold;"The Fund may sell shares of the Underlying Funds for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities. The Fund may also modify the list of Underlying Funds at any time, including by adding Underlying Funds that may be created in the future, or change the Fund’s asset allocation at any time, in each case without prior approval from or notice to shareholders. At certain periods, the Fund may hold a portion of its assets in cash, money market securities or other similar liquid investments./div
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