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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Attached for filing are exhibits containing, in interactive data format, risk/return summary information that mirrors the risk/return summary information in the prospectuses dated December 15, 2012, as amended January 25, 2013, for Class A, Class C, Institutional Class, Investor Class, Trust Class, and Class R3 of Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund (formerly known as Neuberger Berman International Institutional Fund), a series of Neuberger Berman Equity Funds, which were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 25, 2013 (0000898432-13-000097).

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 40% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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40.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other mid-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses”.

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index.

Performance Additional Market Index [Text]

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The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 15.80%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -23.55%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.73%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.73%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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15.80%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.55%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Russell Midcap Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.65%)

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5 Years

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2.44%

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10 Years

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5.29%

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Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.55%)

^[1]

5 Years

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1.41%

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10 Years

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6.99%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.93%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.12%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.05%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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107

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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334

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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579

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,283

Annual Return 2002

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(31.23%)

Annual Return 2003

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30.55%

Annual Return 2004

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16.03%

Annual Return 2005

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13.07%

Annual Return 2006

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14.20%

Annual Return 2007

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21.26%

Annual Return 2008

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(41.14%)

Annual Return 2009

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29.08%

Annual Return 2010

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27.79%

Annual Return 2011

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1.38%

1 Year

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1.38%

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5 Years

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3.60%

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10 Years

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4.85%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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1.37%

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5 Years

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3.60%

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10 Years

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4.85%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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0.90%

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5 Years

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3.09%

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10 Years

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4.24%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital;

Objective, Secondary [Text Block]

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current income is a secondary goal.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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26.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goals, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in large-cap stocks prior to December 2002, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 18.18%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.38%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.02%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.02%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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18.18%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.38%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.11%

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5 Years

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(0.25%)

^[1]

10 Years

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2.92%

^[1]

Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.91%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

0.10%

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.08%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.09%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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111

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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347

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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601

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,329

Annual Return 2002

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(25.91%)

Annual Return 2003

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35.01%

Annual Return 2004

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15.93%

Annual Return 2005

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8.26%

Annual Return 2006

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13.32%

Annual Return 2007

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7.38%

Annual Return 2008

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(38.27%)

Annual Return 2009

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29.81%

Annual Return 2010

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19.37%

Annual Return 2011

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(3.05%)

1 Year

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(3.05%)

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5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(0.08%)

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10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

3.54%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(3.17%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(0.89%)

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10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.98%

^[1]

Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(1.82%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(0.18%)

^[1]

10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

2.99%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 40% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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40.00%

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other mid-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index.

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The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 15.96%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -23.49%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.73%

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.73%

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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15.96%

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Worst quarter:

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.49%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Russell Midcap Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.65%)

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5 Years

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2.44%

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10 Years

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5.29%

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Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.55%)

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5 Years

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1.41%

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10 Years

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6.99%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.79%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.22%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.01%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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103

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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322

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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558

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,236

Annual Return 2002

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(31.23%)

Annual Return 2003

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30.57%

Annual Return 2004

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16.22%

Annual Return 2005

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13.38%

Annual Return 2006

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14.59%

Annual Return 2007

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21.59%

Annual Return 2008

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(40.98%)

Annual Return 2009

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29.17%

Annual Return 2010

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27.84%

Annual Return 2011

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1.51%

1 Year

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1.51%

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5 Years

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3.76%

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10 Years

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5.01%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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1.47%

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5 Years

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3.75%

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10 Years

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5.01%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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1.01%

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5 Years

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3.23%

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10 Years

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4.39%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund | Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund

Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Investor Class
Management fees	0.79%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.22%
Total annual operating expenses	1.01%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Investor Class	103	322	558	1,236

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 40% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other mid-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 15.96%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -23.49%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.73%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	1.51%	3.76%	5.01%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	1.47%	3.75%	5.01%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	1.01%	3.23%	4.39%
Russell Midcap Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.65%)	2.44%	5.29%
Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.55%)	1.41%	6.99%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

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Portfolio Turnover

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 118% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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118.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund’s strategy consists of using a bottom-up, fundamental research driven approach to identify stocks of companies that are trading below the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of their intrinsic value and that he believes have the potential for appreciation over time. The Portfolio Manager’s estimate of a company’s intrinsic value represents his view of the company’s true, long-term economic worth, which may be currently distorted by market inefficiencies. The intrinsic value estimate represents what the Portfolio Manager believes a company could be worth if it is acquired, if its profitability normalizes to its long-term average level, or if its valuation moves in line with those of its publicly traded peers.

The Portfolio Manager believes that while markets are often efficient, valuations of certain types of companies are often distorted by market inefficiencies, which can lead to attractive investment opportunities. The Portfolio Manager attempts to exploit recurring market inefficiencies among the following types of companies as the Portfolio Manager believes these types of companies are often misunderstood and mispriced by investors.

■ Complex Companies: These companies typically have multiple lines of business that are in different industries or sectors and/or that have different growth rates and profitability characteristics.

■ Cyclical Companies: These companies typically have ebbs and flows in their business depending on demand patterns for their products, the length of product cycles, or other transient factors.

■ Companies in a Period of Interrupted Growth: Typically, these are companies in attractive, high growth markets that have suffered what the Portfolio Manager believes is a temporary setback and/or are in transition to a more mature, lower growth business model that focuses more on current earnings than on rapid growth.

In seeking to identify potential investment opportunities, the Portfolio Manager performs an initial screening to identify those companies that have stock prices that are trailing the performance of the overall market and that he believes are attractive relative to current cash flows. Next, the Portfolio Manager establishes an estimate of a company’s intrinsic value. The Portfolio Manager will invest in a company based on its discount to his estimate of intrinsic value and his belief in its potential for appreciation over time. In addition, the Portfolio Manager may invest in anticipation of a catalyst that can be expected to close the value/price gap, such as a merger, restructuring, liquidation, spin-off, major management change, share repurchase, or capital reallocation. The Portfolio Manager will typically visit a company and interview its management team to help understand management’s incentives (such as equity ownership in the company and compensation plans), the merits of its strategic plan, and any other factors that have the potential to increase the value of the company’s stock.

The Portfolio Manager establishes an intrinsic value for each security when it is purchased. Intrinsic values are updated quarterly or when the Portfolio Manager believes that market or company-specific events prompt a reassessment. A position in a particular security will be reduced or eliminated when the gap between its price and the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of its intrinsic value has narrowed or been eliminated or when other opportunities appear more attractive. Changes in management or corporate strategy may also result in the reduction or elimination of a position.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes may benefit from current market or economic trends.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies in anticipation of a catalyst carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses. Certain catalysts, such as companies emerging from, or restructuring as a result of, bankruptcy, carry additional risks and the securities of such companies may be more likely to lose value than the securities of more financially stable companies.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index.

Performance Additional Market Index [Text]

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The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q3 ’09, 25.73%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -28.29%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.75%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.75%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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25.73%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(28.29%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell Midcap Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.38%)

^[1]

5 Years

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0.04%

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10 Years

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7.67%

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Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.55%)

^[1]

5 Years

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1.41%

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10 Years

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6.99%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.81%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.58%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.39%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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142

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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440

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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761

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,669

Annual Return 2002

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(11.69%)

Annual Return 2003

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35.88%

Annual Return 2004

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22.34%

Annual Return 2005

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12.42%

Annual Return 2006

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11.55%

Annual Return 2007

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5.09%

Annual Return 2008

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(47.19%)

Annual Return 2009

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48.02%

Annual Return 2010

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26.36%

Annual Return 2011

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(6.79%)

1 Year

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(6.79%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(0.66%)

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10 Years

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5.94%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(6.86%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(1.21%)

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10 Years

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5.38%

^[1]

Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(4.34%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(0.63%)

^[1]

10 Years

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5.14%

^[1]

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Risk/Return:

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2022-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 118% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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118.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund’s strategy consists of using a bottom-up, fundamental research driven approach to identify stocks of companies that are trading below the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of their intrinsic value and that he believes have the potential for appreciation over time. The Portfolio Manager’s estimate of a company’s intrinsic value represents his view of the company’s true, long-term economic worth, which may be currently distorted by market inefficiencies. The intrinsic value estimate represents what the Portfolio Manager believes a company could be worth if it is acquired, if its profitability normalizes to its long-term average level, or if its valuation moves in line with those of its publicly traded peers.

The Portfolio Manager believes that while markets are often efficient, valuations of certain types of companies are often distorted by market inefficiencies, which can lead to attractive investment opportunities. The Portfolio Manager attempts to exploit recurring market inefficiencies among the following types of companies as the Portfolio Manager believes these types of companies are often misunderstood and mispriced by investors.

■ Complex Companies: These companies typically have multiple lines of business that are in different industries or sectors and/or that have different growth rates and profitability characteristics.

■ Cyclical Companies: These companies typically have ebbs and flows in their business depending on demand patterns for their products, the length of product cycles, or other transient factors.

■ Companies in a Period of Interrupted Growth: Typically, these are companies in attractive, high growth markets that have suffered what the Portfolio Manager believes is a temporary setback and/or are in transition to a more mature, lower growth business model that focuses more on current earnings than on rapid growth.

In seeking to identify potential investment opportunities, the Portfolio Manager performs an initial screening to identify those companies that have stock prices that are trailing the performance of the overall market and that he believes are attractive relative to current cash flows. Next, the Portfolio Manager establishes an estimate of a company’s intrinsic value. The Portfolio Manager will invest in a company based on its discount to his estimate of intrinsic value and his belief in its potential for appreciation over time. In addition, the Portfolio Manager may invest in anticipation of a catalyst that can be expected to close the value/price gap, such as a merger, restructuring, liquidation, spin-off, major management change, share repurchase, or capital reallocation. The Portfolio Manager will typically visit a company and interview its management team to help understand management’s incentives (such as equity ownership in the company and compensation plans), the merits of its strategic plan, and any other factors that have the potential to increase the value of the company’s stock.

The Portfolio Manager establishes an intrinsic value for each security when it is purchased. Intrinsic values are updated quarterly or when the Portfolio Manager believes that market or company-specific events prompt a reassessment. A position in a particular security will be reduced or eliminated when the gap between its price and the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of its intrinsic value has narrowed or been eliminated or when other opportunities appear more attractive. Changes in management or corporate strategy may also result in the reduction or elimination of a position.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes may benefit from current market or economic trends.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies in anticipation of a catalyst carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses. Certain catalysts, such as companies emerging from, or restructuring as a result of, bankruptcy, carry additional risks and the securities of such companies may be more likely to lose value than the securities of more financially stable companies.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index.

Performance Additional Market Index [Text]

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The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q3 ’09, 25.77%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -28.23%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.66%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.66%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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25.77%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(28.23%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell Midcap Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.38%)

^[1]

5 Years

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0.04%

^[1]

10 Years

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7.67%

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Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.55%)

^[1]

5 Years

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1.41%

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10 Years

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6.99%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.95%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.10%

Other expenses

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0.56%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.61%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.36%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.25%

^[2]

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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127

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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397

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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686

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,562

Annual Return 2002

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(11.69%)

Annual Return 2003

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35.91%

Annual Return 2004

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22.20%

Annual Return 2005

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12.34%

Annual Return 2006

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11.39%

Annual Return 2007

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4.90%

Annual Return 2008

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(47.20%)

Annual Return 2009

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48.24%

Annual Return 2010

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26.20%

Annual Return 2011

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(6.81%)

1 Year

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(6.81%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(0.70%)

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10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

5.89%

^[1]

Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(6.88%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(1.26%)

^[1]

10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

5.33%

^[1]

Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(4.35%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(0.67%)

^[1]

10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

5.09%

^[1]

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Trust Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.25% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Trust Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.25% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund | Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund

Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund Investor Class
Management fees		1.11%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		none
Other expenses		0.47%
Total annual operating expenses		1.58%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.28%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[1]	1.30%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund Investor Class	132	412	713	1,607

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 294% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Index at the time of initial purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other small-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

In an effort to achieve its goal, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in small-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Manager commits a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

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

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 17.39%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -26.43%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 14.01%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(1.40%)	1.32%	1.34%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(1.40%)	1.32%	1.34%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(0.91%)	1.13%	1.15%
Russell 2000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(2.91%)	2.09%	4.48%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(4.18%)	0.15%	5.62%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Investor Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.30% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Investor Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.30% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2022-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 294% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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294.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Index at the time of initial purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other small-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

In an effort to achieve its goal, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in small-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Manager commits a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

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

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index.

Performance Additional Market Index [Text]

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The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 17.43%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -26.48%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.86%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.86%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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17.43%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2002

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.48%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 2000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(2.91%)

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5 Years

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2.09%

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10 Years

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4.48%

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Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(4.18%)

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5 Years

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0.15%

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10 Years

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5.62%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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1.25%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.10%

Other expenses

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0.42%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.77%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.37%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.40%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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143

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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443

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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766

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,731

Annual Return 2002

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(44.50%)

Annual Return 2003

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33.26%

Annual Return 2004

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16.14%

Annual Return 2005

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15.26%

Annual Return 2006

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7.84%

Annual Return 2007

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26.27%

Annual Return 2008

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(42.30%)

Annual Return 2009

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22.90%

Annual Return 2010

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19.93%

Annual Return 2011

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(1.59%)

1 Year

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(1.59%)

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5 Years

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1.11%

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10 Years

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1.21%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.59%)

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5 Years

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1.11%

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10 Years

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1.21%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.03%)

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5 Years

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0.95%

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10 Years

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1.04%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Trust Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.40% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Trust Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.40% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman Focus Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 96% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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96.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests in a concentrated portfolio, consisting mainly of common stocks of companies of any size that are selected using a fundamental, research driven approach.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund typically holds a limited number of stocks. Because of this, the Fund may at times be substantially over- and under-weighted in certain economic sectors.

The Portfolio Managers, with the assistance of Neuberger Berman research analysts, look for what they believe to be undervalued companies. Factors in identifying these firms may include depressed valuations, above-average returns, an established market niche, and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with investing in a smaller number of stocks.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target valuation, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing 90% of its assets in no more than six economic sectors prior to December 17, 2007, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 34.06%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -31.87%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 17.77%

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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17.77%

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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34.06%

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2002

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(31.87%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.11%

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5 Years

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(0.25%)

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10 Years

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2.92%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.79%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.19%

Total annual operating expenses

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0.98%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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100

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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312

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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542

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,201

Annual Return 2002

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(36.41%)

Annual Return 2003

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64.89%

Annual Return 2004

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5.00%

Annual Return 2005

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0.00%

Annual Return 2006

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12.41%

Annual Return 2007

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6.54%

Annual Return 2008

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(40.68%)

Annual Return 2009

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29.27%

Annual Return 2010

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12.07%

Annual Return 2011

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(2.85%)

1 Year

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(2.85%)

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5 Years

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(2.31%)

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10 Years

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0.96%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

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1 Year

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(2.92%)

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5 Years

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(3.37%)

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10 Years

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(0.01%)

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.75%)

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5 Years

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(2.00%)

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10 Years

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0.82%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund | Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Investor Class
Management fees		1.10%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		none
Other expenses	[1]	0.49%
Total annual operating expenses		1.59%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.19%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[2]	1.40%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Investor Class	143	443	809	1,838

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.  The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		1 Year	5 Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Investor Class	[1]	(11.67%)	(4.16%)	2.22%	Jun. 17, 2005
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(11.95%)	(5.27%)	1.15%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(7.47%)	(3.74%)	1.63%
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)	[1]	(11.73%)	(4.26%)	2.52%	Jun. 17, 2005

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Investor Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.40% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2016 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Investor Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.40% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Investor Class, its performance typically would have been better than that of Investor Class. Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold or sell shares of the Fund. You may qualify for initial sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Neuberger Berman funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your investment provider and in “Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers” on page 14 in the Fund’s prospectus and in “Additional Purchase Information – Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers” on page B-1 in Appendix B to the Fund’s SAI.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2016-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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33.00%

Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text]

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You may qualify for initial sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Neuberger Berman funds.

Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount]

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$ 50,000

Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text]

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"Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. For Class A shares, your costs would be the same whether you sold your shares or continued to hold them at the end of each period. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were reflected, returns would be lower than those shown. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Description of Index” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy. Unlike the returns in the bar chart, the returns in the table reflect the maximum applicable sales charges.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text]

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The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were reflected, returns would be lower than those shown.

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

Bar Chart, Returns for Class Not Offered in Prospectus [Text]

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For each class, the above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Class A and Class C, its performance typically would have been better than that of Class A and Class C.

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.87%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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23.76%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.47%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Performance Table Does Reflect Sales Loads

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Unlike the returns in the bar chart, the returns in the table reflect the maximum applicable sales charges.

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text]

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After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only and after-tax returns for Class C shares may vary.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only and after-tax returns for Class C shares may vary. 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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.73%)

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5 Years

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(4.26%)

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Since Inception

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2.52%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Class A

Risk/Return:

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Maximum initial sales charge on purchases (as a % of offering price)

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5.75%

Maximum contingent deferred sales charge (as a % of the lower of original purchase price or current market value)

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none

^[2]

Management fees

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1.10%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.25%

Other expenses

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0.20%

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Total annual operating expenses

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1.55%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.04%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.51%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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720

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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1,025

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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1,360

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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2,304

Expense Example, No Redemption, 1 Year

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720

Expense Example, No Redemption, 3 Years

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1,025

Expense Example, No Redemption, 5 Years

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1,360

Expense Example, No Redemption, 10 Years

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2,304

Annual Return 2006

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23.22%

Annual Return 2007

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3.85%

Annual Return 2008

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(45.74%)

Annual Return 2009

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36.96%

Annual Return 2010

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18.64%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.67%)

1 Year

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(16.75%)

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5 Years

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(5.29%)

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Since Inception

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1.30%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Class A | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(17.02%)

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5 Years

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(6.38%)

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Since Inception

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0.24%

^[1]

Class A | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(10.78%)

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5 Years

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(4.67%)

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Since Inception

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0.84%

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Class C

Risk/Return:

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Maximum initial sales charge on purchases (as a % of offering price)

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none

Maximum contingent deferred sales charge (as a % of the lower of original purchase price or current market value)

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1.00%

^[2]

Management fees

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1.10%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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1.00%

Other expenses

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0.20%

^[3]

Total annual operating expenses

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2.30%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.04%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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2.26%

^[4]

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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329

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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706

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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1,219

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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2,626

Expense Example, No Redemption, 1 Year

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229

Expense Example, No Redemption, 3 Years

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706

Expense Example, No Redemption, 5 Years

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1,219

Expense Example, No Redemption, 10 Years

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$ 2,626

1 Year

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(12.54%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(4.16%)

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Since Inception

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2.22%

^[1]

Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

^[1]

[1] For each class, the above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Class A and Class C, its performance typically would have been better than that of Class A and Class C. Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] For Class A shares, a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) of 1.00% applies on certain redemptions made within 18 months following purchases of $1 million or more made without an initial sales charge. For Class C shares, the CDSC is eliminated one year after purchase.

[3] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[4] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Class A and Class C so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) of each class are limited to 1.51% and 2.26% of average net assets, respectively. Each of these undertakings lasts until 8/31/2016 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that each of Class A and Class C will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for the class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.51% and 2.26% of the class' average net assets, respectively. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Risk/Return:

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Risk/Return [Heading]

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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33.00%

Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text]

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"Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.  The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days' notice.  This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

Bar Chart, Returns for Class Not Offered in Prospectus [Text]

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The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Trust Class, its performance typically would have been better than that of Trust Class.

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.87%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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23.76%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.47%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.73%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(4.26%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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2.52%

^[1]

Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

^[1]

Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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1.24%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.33%

^[2]

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.57%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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160

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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496

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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855

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,867

Annual Return 2006

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23.22%

Annual Return 2007

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3.85%

Annual Return 2008

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(45.74%)

Annual Return 2009

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36.96%

Annual Return 2010

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18.64%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.67%)

1 Year

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(11.67%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(4.16%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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2.22%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.95%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(5.27%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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1.15%

^[1]

Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(7.47%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(3.74%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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1.63%

^[1]

[1] The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Trust Class, its performance typically would have been better than that of Trust Class. Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund | Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund

Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Trust Class
Management fees	0.93%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.12%
Total annual operating expenses	1.05%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund Trust Class	107	334	579	1,283

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 40% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other mid-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses”.

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 15.80%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -23.55%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.73%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	1.38%	3.60%	4.85%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	1.37%	3.60%	4.85%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	0.90%	3.09%	4.24%
Russell Midcap Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.65%)	2.44%	5.29%
Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.55%)	1.41%	6.99%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in securities of companies that meet the Fund’s financial criteria and social policy.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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28.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies that meet the Fund’s social policy.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above-average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market. Among companies that meet these criteria, the Portfolio Managers look for those that show leadership in environmental concerns, and progressive workplace practices including diversity and community relations.

In addition, the Portfolio Managers typically look at a company’s record in public health and the nature of its products. The Portfolio Managers judge firms on their corporate citizenship overall, considering their accomplishments as well as their goals. While these judgments are inevitably subjective, the Fund endeavors to avoid companies that derive revenue from gambling or the production of alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or nuclear power. The Fund also does not invest in any company that derives its total revenue primarily from non-consumer sales to the military.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. As a socially responsive fund, the Fund is required by the federal securities laws to have a policy, which it cannot change without providing investors at least 60 days’ written notice, of investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities selected in accordance with its social policy. In practice, the Portfolio Managers’ current intention is to hold only equity securities selected in accordance with the Fund’s social investing policies. The 80% test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Social Investing Risk. The Fund’s social policy could cause the Fund to sell or avoid stocks that subsequently perform well. In addition, undervalued stocks that do not meet the social criteria could outperform those that do.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 15.32%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.61%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 9.02%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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9.02%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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15.32%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.61%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares

S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.11%

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5 Years

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(0.25%)

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10 Years

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2.92%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.74%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.15%

Total annual operating expenses

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0.89%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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91

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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284

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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493

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,096

Annual Return 2002

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(14.45%)

Annual Return 2003

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34.48%

Annual Return 2004

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13.57%

Annual Return 2005

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7.58%

Annual Return 2006

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14.44%

Annual Return 2007

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7.48%

Annual Return 2008

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(38.77%)

Annual Return 2009

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30.61%

Annual Return 2010

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22.79%

Annual Return 2011

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(2.90%)

1 Year

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(2.90%)

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5 Years

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0.49%

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10 Years

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5.13%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(2.97%)

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5 Years

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0.29%

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10 Years

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4.80%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.79%)

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5 Years

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0.40%

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10 Years

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4.41%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment )

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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15.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market value of no more than $2 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has grown beyond $2 billion.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries.

The Portfolio Managers generally look for what they believe to be undervalued companies whose current market shares and balance sheets are strong. In addition, the Portfolio Managers tend to focus on companies whose financial strength is largely based on existing business lines rather than on projected growth. Factors in identifying these firms may include: above-average returns; an established market niche; circumstances that would make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market; the ability to finance their own growth; and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with small-cap stocks.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Managers commit a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 16.30%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.55%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 7.50%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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7.50%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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16.30%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.55%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(4.18%)

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5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

0.15%

^[1]

10 Years

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5.62%

^[1]

Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.92%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.11%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.03%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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105

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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328

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

569

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,259

Annual Return 2002

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(2.96%)

Annual Return 2003

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31.70%

Annual Return 2004

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18.76%

Annual Return 2005

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16.37%

Annual Return 2006

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7.31%

Annual Return 2007

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21.89%

Annual Return 2008

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(32.88%)

Annual Return 2009

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26.32%

Annual Return 2010

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21.42%

Annual Return 2011

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4.70%

1 Year

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4.70%

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

5.61%

^[1]

10 Years

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9.55%

^[1]

Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

3.92%

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

4.76%

^[1]

10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

8.88%

^[1]

Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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4.05%

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

4.71%

^[1]

10 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10

8.40%

^[1]

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2022-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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33.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.87%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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23.76%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.47%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(11.73%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(4.26%)

^[1]

Since Inception

rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception

2.52%

^[1]

Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

^[1]

Institutional Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

rr_ShareholderFeeOther

none

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.99%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

none

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.17%

Total annual operating expenses

rr_ExpensesOverAssets

1.16%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets

(0.31%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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0.85%

^[2]

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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87

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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271

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear05

471

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

rr_ExpenseExampleYear10

1,094

Annual Return 2006

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23.22%

Annual Return 2007

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3.85%

Annual Return 2008

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(45.74%)

Annual Return 2009

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36.96%

Annual Return 2010

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18.64%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.67%)

1 Year

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(11.67%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(4.16%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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2.22%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(11.95%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(5.27%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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1.15%

^[1]

Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01

(7.47%)

^[1]

5 Years

rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05

(3.74%)

^[1]

Since Inception

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1.63%

^[1]

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Institutional Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 0.85% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Institutional Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 0.85% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman Focus Fund | Neuberger Berman Focus Fund

Neuberger Berman Focus Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Focus Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Focus Fund Investor Class
Management fees	0.79%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.19%
Total annual operating expenses	0.98%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Focus Fund Investor Class	100	312	542	1,201

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 96% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests in a concentrated portfolio, consisting mainly of common stocks of companies of any size that are selected using a fundamental, research driven approach.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund typically holds a limited number of stocks. Because of this, the Fund may at times be substantially over- and under-weighted in certain economic sectors.

The Portfolio Managers, with the assistance of Neuberger Berman research analysts, look for what they believe to be undervalued companies. Factors in identifying these firms may include depressed valuations, above-average returns, an established market niche, and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with investing in a smaller number of stocks.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target valuation, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing 90% of its assets in no more than six economic sectors prior to December 17, 2007, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 34.06%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -31.87%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 17.77%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Focus Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(2.85%)	(2.31%)	0.96%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(2.92%)	(3.37%)	(0.01%)
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(1.75%)	(2.00%)	0.82%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.11%	(0.25%)	2.92%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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15.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market value of no more than $2 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has grown beyond $2 billion.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries.

The Portfolio Managers generally look for what they believe to be undervalued companies whose current market shares and balance sheets are strong. In addition, the Portfolio Managers tend to focus on companies whose financial strength is largely based on existing business lines rather than on projected growth. Factors in identifying these firms may include: above-average returns; an established market niche; circumstances that would make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market; the ability to finance their own growth; and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with small-cap stocks.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Managers commit a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 16.30%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.55%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 7.41%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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7.41%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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16.30%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.55%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(4.18%)

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5 Years

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0.15%

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10 Years

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5.62%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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1.06%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.05%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.11%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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113

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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353

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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612

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,352

Annual Return 2002

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(2.99%)

Annual Return 2003

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31.65%

Annual Return 2004

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18.68%

Annual Return 2005

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16.30%

Annual Return 2006

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7.26%

Annual Return 2007

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21.80%

Annual Return 2008

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(32.85%)

Annual Return 2009

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26.25%

Annual Return 2010

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21.38%

Annual Return 2011

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4.60%

1 Year

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4.60%

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5 Years

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5.56%

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10 Years

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9.50%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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4.09%

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5 Years

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4.78%

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10 Years

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8.86%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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3.66%

^[1]

5 Years

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4.68%

^[1]

10 Years

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8.35%

^[1]

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Risk/Return:

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Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 171% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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171.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed companies whose stock prices are undervalued. The Portfolio Manager seeks to identify companies with catalysts that he believes have the potential to improve the companies’ earnings from depressed levels. Such catalysts may include: management changes, restructurings, new products, new services, or new markets. The Portfolio Manager may also look for other characteristics in a company, such as a strong market position relative to competitors, a high level of stock ownership among management, and a recent sharp decline in stock price that appears to be the result of a short-term market overreaction to negative news.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes are undervalued relative to their historical valuations.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies with potential catalysts carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses”.

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Prior to April 2, 2012, the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies. Its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 28.23%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -32.80%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.61%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.61%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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28.23%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(32.80%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 1000 Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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0.39%

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5 Years

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(2.64%)

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10 Years

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3.89%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets

0.74%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets

none

Other expenses

rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets

0.14%

Total annual operating expenses

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0.88%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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90

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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281

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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488

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,084

Annual Return 2002

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(24.82%)

Annual Return 2003

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35.87%

Annual Return 2004

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19.21%

Annual Return 2005

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17.99%

Annual Return 2006

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13.19%

Annual Return 2007

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10.10%

Annual Return 2008

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(51.98%)

Annual Return 2009

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56.10%

Annual Return 2010

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15.40%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.27%)

1 Year

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(11.27%)

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5 Years

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(3.31%)

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10 Years

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3.23%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.33%)

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5 Years

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(3.53%)

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10 Years

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2.98%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(7.24%)

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5 Years

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(2.79%)

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10 Years

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2.80%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund | Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold or sell shares of the Fund. You may qualify for initial sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Neuberger Berman funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your investment provider and in “Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers” on page 14 in the Fund’s prospectus and in “Additional Purchase Information – Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers” on page B-1 in Appendix B to the Fund’s SAI.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		Class A	Class C
Maximum initial sales charge on purchases (as a % of offering price)		5.75%	none
Maximum contingent deferred sales charge (as a % of the lower of original purchase price or current market value)	[1]	none	1.00%

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		Class A	Class C
Management fees		1.10%	1.10%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		0.25%	1.00%
Other expenses	[1]	0.20%	0.20%
Total annual operating expenses		1.55%	2.30%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.04%	0.04%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[2]	1.51%	2.26%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. For Class A shares, your costs would be the same whether you sold your shares or continued to hold them at the end of each period. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	720	1,025	1,360	2,304
Class C	329	706	1,219	2,626

Expense Example No Redemption Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	720	1,025	1,360	2,304
Class C	229	706	1,219	2,626

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were reflected, returns would be lower than those shown. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Description of Index” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy. Unlike the returns in the bar chart, the returns in the table reflect the maximum applicable sales charges.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		1 Year	5 Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Class A	[1]	(16.75%)	(5.29%)	1.30%	Jun. 17, 2005
Class C	[1]	(12.54%)	(4.16%)	2.22%	Jun. 17, 2005
After Taxes on Distributions Class A	[1]	(17.02%)	(6.38%)	0.24%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Class A	[1]	(10.78%)	(4.67%)	0.84%
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)	[1]	(11.73%)	(4.26%)	2.52%	Jun. 17, 2005

After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only and after-tax returns for Class C shares may vary. 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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] For Class A shares, a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) of 1.00% applies on certain redemptions made within 18 months following purchases of $1 million or more made without an initial sales charge. For Class C shares, the CDSC is eliminated one year after purchase.

[1] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Class A and Class C so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) of each class are limited to 1.51% and 2.26% of average net assets, respectively. Each of these undertakings lasts until 8/31/2016 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that each of Class A and Class C will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for the class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.51% and 2.26% of the class' average net assets, respectively. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] For each class, the above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Class A and Class C, its performance typically would have been better than that of Class A and Class C. Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital;

current income is a secondary goal.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund Investor Class
Management fees	0.77%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.15%
Total annual operating expenses	0.92%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund Investor Class	94	293	509	1,131

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goals, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in large-cap stocks prior to December 2002, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 18.36%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.36%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.25%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(2.94%)	0.09%	3.71%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(3.04%)	(0.71%)	3.13%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(1.77%)	(0.04%)	3.13%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.11%	(0.25%)	2.92%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 171% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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171.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed companies whose stock prices are undervalued. The Portfolio Manager seeks to identify companies with catalysts that he believes have the potential to improve the companies’ earnings from depressed levels. Such catalysts may include: management changes, restructurings, new products, new services, or new markets. The Portfolio Manager may also look for other characteristics in a company, such as a strong market position relative to competitors, a high level of stock ownership among management, and a recent sharp decline in stock price that appears to be the result of a short-term market overreaction to negative news.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes are undervalued relative to their historical valuations.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies with potential catalysts carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses”.

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Prior to April 2, 2012, the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies. Its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 28.25%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -32.84%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.52%

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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12.52%

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Best quarter:

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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28.25%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(32.84%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 1000 Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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0.39%

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5 Years

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(2.64%)

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10 Years

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3.89%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.88%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.10%

Other expenses

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0.08%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.06%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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108

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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337

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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585

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,294

Annual Return 2002

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(24.91%)

Annual Return 2003

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35.66%

Annual Return 2004

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19.02%

Annual Return 2005

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17.81%

Annual Return 2006

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13.04%

Annual Return 2007

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9.84%

Annual Return 2008

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(52.06%)

Annual Return 2009

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55.85%

Annual Return 2010

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15.20%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.46%)

1 Year

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(11.46%)

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5 Years

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(3.50%)

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10 Years

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3.06%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.49%)

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5 Years

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(3.71%)

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10 Years

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2.83%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(7.41%)

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5 Years

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(2.94%)

^[1]

10 Years

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2.65%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund | Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund

Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in securities of companies that meet the Fund’s financial criteria and social policy.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund Investor Class
Management fees	0.74%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.15%
Total annual operating expenses	0.89%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund Investor Class	91	284	493	1,096

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies that meet the Fund’s social policy.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above-average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market. Among companies that meet these criteria, the Portfolio Managers look for those that show leadership in environmental concerns, and progressive workplace practices including diversity and community relations.

In addition, the Portfolio Managers typically look at a company’s record in public health and the nature of its products. The Portfolio Managers judge firms on their corporate citizenship overall, considering their accomplishments as well as their goals. While these judgments are inevitably subjective, the Fund endeavors to avoid companies that derive revenue from gambling or the production of alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or nuclear power. The Fund also does not invest in any company that derives its total revenue primarily from non-consumer sales to the military.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. As a socially responsive fund, the Fund is required by the federal securities laws to have a policy, which it cannot change without providing investors at least 60 days’ written notice, of investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities selected in accordance with its social policy. In practice, the Portfolio Managers’ current intention is to hold only equity securities selected in accordance with the Fund’s social investing policies. The 80% test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Social Investing Risk. The Fund’s social policy could cause the Fund to sell or avoid stocks that subsequently perform well. In addition, undervalued stocks that do not meet the social criteria could outperform those that do.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 15.32%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.61%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 9.02%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(2.90%)	0.49%	5.13%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(2.97%)	0.29%	4.80%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(1.79%)	0.40%	4.41%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.11%	(0.25%)	2.92%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund | Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund

Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund Investor Class
Management fees		0.79%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		none
Other expenses	[1]	0.32%
Total annual operating expenses		1.11%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund Investor Class	113	353	612	1,352

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 116% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in stocks of large-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a market capitalization greater than $3 billion at the time of purchase. The Fund seeks to generate a return that is greater than the average return for stocks in the Russell 1000 Growth Index.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and a catalyst-driven approach, the Portfolio Managers seek to purchase what they believe to be high-quality, dynamic companies that exhibit acceleration in key growth metrics, such as earnings per share, driven by an identifiable catalyst and that are selling at valuations that the Portfolio Managers believe offer the potential for protection from a drop in price.

The catalyst-driven approach involves examining companies for the presence of potential catalysts for growth which may include: new product development; management changes; demographic shifts; regulatory changes; and mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. The Portfolio Managers then look to analyze the significance of the catalyst to determine whether the company demonstrates the necessary qualities for inclusion in the Fund’s portfolio.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when an expected catalyst does not materialize, when a catalyst’s impact is below expectations, when the fundamental picture for the company or industry deteriorates, when more attractive alternatives are available at better valuation levels, when they believe the stock has become fully valued, or when the stock grows too large relative to the rest of the portfolio. As part of the Portfolio Managers’ sell discipline, they identify stocks that are down from cost or down from a 52-week high and re-evaluate those stocks to determine whether or not they still demonstrate the necessary qualities for inclusion in the Fund’s portfolio.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in stocks of large-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q3 ’10, 13.20%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -20.51%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.93%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(4.82%)	0.73%	0.48%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(5.48%)	0.59%	0.40%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(2.28%)	0.62%	0.41%
Russell 1000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.64%	2.50%	2.60%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] The Fund has agreed that Investor Class will repay Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) to exceed 1.11% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense. "Other expenses" shown above include the following repayment: Investor Class - 0.08%.

[1] Returns would have been lower/higher if NBM had not reimbursed/recouped certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Large Cap Disciplined Growth Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 116% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in stocks of large-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a market capitalization greater than $3 billion at the time of purchase. The Fund seeks to generate a return that is greater than the average return for stocks in the Russell 1000 Growth Index.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and a catalyst-driven approach, the Portfolio Managers seek to purchase what they believe to be high-quality, dynamic companies that exhibit acceleration in key growth metrics, such as earnings per share, driven by an identifiable catalyst and that are selling at valuations that the Portfolio Managers believe offer the potential for protection from a drop in price.

The catalyst-driven approach involves examining companies for the presence of potential catalysts for growth which may include: new product development; management changes; demographic shifts; regulatory changes; and mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. The Portfolio Managers then look to analyze the significance of the catalyst to determine whether the company demonstrates the necessary qualities for inclusion in the Fund’s portfolio.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when an expected catalyst does not materialize, when a catalyst’s impact is below expectations, when the fundamental picture for the company or industry deteriorates, when more attractive alternatives are available at better valuation levels, when they believe the stock has become fully valued, or when the stock grows too large relative to the rest of the portfolio. As part of the Portfolio Managers’ sell discipline, they identify stocks that are down from cost or down from a 52-week high and re-evaluate those stocks to determine whether or not they still demonstrate the necessary qualities for inclusion in the Fund’s portfolio.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in stocks of large-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q3 ’10, 13.20%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -20.51%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.93%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.93%

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Best quarter:

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Sep. 30, 2010

Highest Quarterly Return

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13.20%

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Worst quarter:

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(20.51%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 1000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.64%

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5 Years

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2.50%

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10 Years

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2.60%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.79%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.32%

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Total annual operating expenses

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1.11%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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113

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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353

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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612

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,352

Annual Return 2002

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(32.03%)

Annual Return 2003

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25.80%

Annual Return 2004

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1.53%

Annual Return 2005

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6.95%

Annual Return 2006

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8.91%

Annual Return 2007

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17.07%

Annual Return 2008

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(34.93%)

Annual Return 2009

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27.19%

Annual Return 2010

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12.47%

Annual Return 2011

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(4.82%)

1 Year

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(4.82%)

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5 Years

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0.73%

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10 Years

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0.48%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(5.48%)

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5 Years

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0.59%

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10 Years

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0.40%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(2.28%)

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5 Years

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0.62%

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10 Years

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0.41%

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[1] Returns would have been lower/higher if NBM had not reimbursed/recouped certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] The Fund has agreed that Investor Class will repay Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) to exceed 1.11% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense. "Other expenses" shown above include the following repayment: Investor Class - 0.08%.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund | Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Institutional Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Institutional Class
Management fees		0.99%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		none
Other expenses		0.17%
Total annual operating expenses		1.16%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.31%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[1]	0.85%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Institutional Class	87	271	471	1,094

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		1 Year	5 Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Institutional Class	[1]	(11.67%)	(4.16%)	2.22%	Jun. 17, 2005
After Taxes on Distributions Institutional Class	[1]	(11.95%)	(5.27%)	1.15%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Institutional Class	[1]	(7.47%)	(3.74%)	1.63%
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)	[1]	(11.73%)	(4.26%)	2.52%	Jun. 17, 2005

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Institutional Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 0.85% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Institutional Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 0.85% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund | Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Trust Class
Management fees	1.06%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.05%
Total annual operating expenses	1.11%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Trust Class	113	353	612	1,352

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market value of no more than $2 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has grown beyond $2 billion.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries.

The Portfolio Managers generally look for what they believe to be undervalued companies whose current market shares and balance sheets are strong. In addition, the Portfolio Managers tend to focus on companies whose financial strength is largely based on existing business lines rather than on projected growth. Factors in identifying these firms may include: above-average returns; an established market niche; circumstances that would make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market; the ability to finance their own growth; and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with small-cap stocks.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Managers commit a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 16.30%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.55%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 7.41%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	4.60%	5.56%	9.50%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	4.09%	4.78%	8.86%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	3.66%	4.68%	8.35%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(4.18%)	0.15%	5.62%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund | Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Institutional Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Institutional Class
Management fees		0.81%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		none
Other expenses		0.05%
Total annual operating expenses		0.86%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.01%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[1]	0.85%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Institutional Class	87	271	471	1,050

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market value of no more than $2 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has grown beyond $2 billion.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries.

The Portfolio Managers generally look for what they believe to be undervalued companies whose current market shares and balance sheets are strong. In addition, the Portfolio Managers tend to focus on companies whose financial strength is largely based on existing business lines rather than on projected growth. Factors in identifying these firms may include: above-average returns; an established market niche; circumstances that would make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market; the ability to finance their own growth; and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with small-cap stocks.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Managers commit a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 16.37%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.48%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 7.62%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Institutional Class	[1]	4.88%	5.84%	9.78%
After Taxes on Distributions Institutional Class	[1]	4.30%	5.03%	9.13%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Institutional Class	[1]	3.92%	4.91%	8.61%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(4.18%)	0.15%	5.62%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Institutional Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 0.85% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Institutional Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 0.85% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2022-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 294% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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294.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Index at the time of initial purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other small-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

In an effort to achieve its goal, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in small-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Manager commits a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

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

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index.

Performance Additional Market Index [Text]

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The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 17.39%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -26.43%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 14.01%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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14.01%

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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17.39%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2002

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.43%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 2000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(2.91%)

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5 Years

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2.09%

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10 Years

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4.48%

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Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(4.18%)

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5 Years

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0.15%

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10 Years

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5.62%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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1.11%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.47%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.58%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.28%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.30%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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132

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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412

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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713

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,607

Annual Return 2002

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(44.46%)

Annual Return 2003

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33.26%

Annual Return 2004

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16.20%

Annual Return 2005

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15.22%

Annual Return 2006

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7.98%

Annual Return 2007

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26.41%

Annual Return 2008

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(42.26%)

Annual Return 2009

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23.07%

Annual Return 2010

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20.57%

Annual Return 2011

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(1.40%)

1 Year

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(1.40%)

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5 Years

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1.32%

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10 Years

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1.34%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.40%)

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5 Years

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1.32%

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10 Years

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1.34%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(0.91%)

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5 Years

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1.13%

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10 Years

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1.15%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Investor Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.30% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Investor Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.30% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund | Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Trust Class
Management fees		1.24%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		none
Other expenses	[1]	0.33%
Total annual operating expenses		1.57%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Trust Class	160	496	855	1,867

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.  The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days' notice.  This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		1 Year	5 Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Trust Class	[1]	(11.67%)	(4.16%)	2.22%	Jun. 17, 2005
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(11.95%)	(5.27%)	1.15%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(7.47%)	(3.74%)	1.63%
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)	[1]	(11.73%)	(4.26%)	2.52%	Jun. 17, 2005

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[1] The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Trust Class, its performance typically would have been better than that of Trust Class. Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) | Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)

Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) Investor Class
Management fees	0.81%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.58%
Total annual operating expenses	1.39%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) Investor Class	142	440	761	1,669

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 118% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund’s strategy consists of using a bottom-up, fundamental research driven approach to identify stocks of companies that are trading below the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of their intrinsic value and that he believes have the potential for appreciation over time. The Portfolio Manager’s estimate of a company’s intrinsic value represents his view of the company’s true, long-term economic worth, which may be currently distorted by market inefficiencies. The intrinsic value estimate represents what the Portfolio Manager believes a company could be worth if it is acquired, if its profitability normalizes to its long-term average level, or if its valuation moves in line with those of its publicly traded peers.

The Portfolio Manager believes that while markets are often efficient, valuations of certain types of companies are often distorted by market inefficiencies, which can lead to attractive investment opportunities. The Portfolio Manager attempts to exploit recurring market inefficiencies among the following types of companies as the Portfolio Manager believes these types of companies are often misunderstood and mispriced by investors.

■ Complex Companies: These companies typically have multiple lines of business that are in different industries or sectors and/or that have different growth rates and profitability characteristics.

■ Cyclical Companies: These companies typically have ebbs and flows in their business depending on demand patterns for their products, the length of product cycles, or other transient factors.

■ Companies in a Period of Interrupted Growth: Typically, these are companies in attractive, high growth markets that have suffered what the Portfolio Manager believes is a temporary setback and/or are in transition to a more mature, lower growth business model that focuses more on current earnings than on rapid growth.

In seeking to identify potential investment opportunities, the Portfolio Manager performs an initial screening to identify those companies that have stock prices that are trailing the performance of the overall market and that he believes are attractive relative to current cash flows. Next, the Portfolio Manager establishes an estimate of a company’s intrinsic value. The Portfolio Manager will invest in a company based on its discount to his estimate of intrinsic value and his belief in its potential for appreciation over time. In addition, the Portfolio Manager may invest in anticipation of a catalyst that can be expected to close the value/price gap, such as a merger, restructuring, liquidation, spin-off, major management change, share repurchase, or capital reallocation. The Portfolio Manager will typically visit a company and interview its management team to help understand management’s incentives (such as equity ownership in the company and compensation plans), the merits of its strategic plan, and any other factors that have the potential to increase the value of the company’s stock.

The Portfolio Manager establishes an intrinsic value for each security when it is purchased. Intrinsic values are updated quarterly or when the Portfolio Manager believes that market or company-specific events prompt a reassessment. A position in a particular security will be reduced or eliminated when the gap between its price and the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of its intrinsic value has narrowed or been eliminated or when other opportunities appear more attractive. Changes in management or corporate strategy may also result in the reduction or elimination of a position.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes may benefit from current market or economic trends.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies in anticipation of a catalyst carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses. Certain catalysts, such as companies emerging from, or restructuring as a result of, bankruptcy, carry additional risks and the securities of such companies may be more likely to lose value than the securities of more financially stable companies.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q3 ’09, 25.73%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -28.29%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.75%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(6.79%)	(0.66%)	5.94%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(6.86%)	(1.21%)	5.38%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(4.34%)	(0.63%)	5.14%
Russell Midcap Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.38%)	0.04%	7.67%
Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.55%)	1.41%	6.99%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2022-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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15.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market value of no more than $2 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has grown beyond $2 billion.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries.

The Portfolio Managers generally look for what they believe to be undervalued companies whose current market shares and balance sheets are strong. In addition, the Portfolio Managers tend to focus on companies whose financial strength is largely based on existing business lines rather than on projected growth. Factors in identifying these firms may include: above-average returns; an established market niche; circumstances that would make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market; the ability to finance their own growth; and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with small-cap stocks.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Managers commit a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 16.37%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.48%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 7.62%

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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7.62%

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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16.37%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.48%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(4.18%)

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5 Years

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0.15%

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10 Years

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5.62%

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Institutional Class

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.81%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.05%

Total annual operating expenses

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0.86%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.01%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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0.85%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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87

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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271

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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471

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,050

Annual Return 2002

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(2.74%)

Annual Return 2003

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32.00%

Annual Return 2004

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18.98%

Annual Return 2005

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16.61%

Annual Return 2006

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7.50%

Annual Return 2007

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22.12%

Annual Return 2008

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(32.67%)

Annual Return 2009

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26.54%

Annual Return 2010

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21.72%

Annual Return 2011

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4.88%

1 Year

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4.88%

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5 Years

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5.84%

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10 Years

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9.78%

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Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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4.30%

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5 Years

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5.03%

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10 Years

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9.13%

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Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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3.92%

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5 Years

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4.91%

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10 Years

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8.61%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Institutional Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 0.85% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Institutional Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 0.85% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund | Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund

Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund Trust Class
Management fees		1.25%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		0.10%
Other expenses		0.42%
Total annual operating expenses		1.77%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.37%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[1]	1.40%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund Trust Class	143	443	766	1,731

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 294% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Index at the time of initial purchase.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries.

The Portfolio Manager employs a disciplined investment strategy when selecting growth stocks. Using fundamental research and quantitative analysis, he looks for what he believes to be fast-growing companies with above-average sales and competitive returns on equity relative to their peers. In doing so, the Portfolio Manager analyzes such factors as: financial condition (such as debt to equity ratio); market share and competitive leadership of the company’s products; earnings growth relative to competitors; and market valuation in comparison to a stock’s own historical norms and the stocks of other small-cap companies.

At times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors that he believes will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

In an effort to achieve its goal, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in small-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Manager commits a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

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

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 17.43%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -26.48%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.86%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Small Cap Growth Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	(1.59%)	1.11%	1.21%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(1.59%)	1.11%	1.21%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(1.03%)	0.95%	1.04%
Russell 2000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(2.91%)	2.09%	4.48%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(4.18%)	0.15%	5.62%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Trust Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.40% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Trust Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.40% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Risk/Return:

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Risk/Return [Heading]

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Objective [Heading]

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2016-08-31

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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33.00%

Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text]

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"Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Description of Index” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

Bar Chart, Returns for Class Not Offered in Prospectus [Text]

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The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Class R3, its performance typically would have been better than that of Class R3.

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.87%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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23.76%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.47%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.73%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(4.26%)

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Since Inception

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2.52%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Class R3

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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1.10%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.50%

Other expenses

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0.20%

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Total annual operating expenses

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1.80%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.04%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.76%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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179

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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554

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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963

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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2,105

Annual Return 2006

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23.22%

Annual Return 2007

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3.85%

Annual Return 2008

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(45.74%)

Annual Return 2009

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36.96%

Annual Return 2010

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18.64%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.67%)

1 Year

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(11.67%)

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5 Years

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(4.16%)

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Since Inception

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2.22%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Class R3 | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.95%)

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5 Years

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(5.27%)

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Since Inception

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1.15%

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Class R3 | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(7.47%)

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5 Years

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(3.74%)

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Since Inception

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1.63%

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[1] The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Class R3, its performance typically would have been better than that of Class R3. Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[3] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Class R3 so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.76% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2016 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Class R3 will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.76% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund | Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund

Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Investor Class
Management fees	0.74%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.14%
Total annual operating expenses	0.88%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Investor Class	90	281	488	1,084

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 171% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed companies whose stock prices are undervalued. The Portfolio Manager seeks to identify companies with catalysts that he believes have the potential to improve the companies’ earnings from depressed levels. Such catalysts may include: management changes, restructurings, new products, new services, or new markets. The Portfolio Manager may also look for other characteristics in a company, such as a strong market position relative to competitors, a high level of stock ownership among management, and a recent sharp decline in stock price that appears to be the result of a short-term market overreaction to negative news.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes are undervalued relative to their historical valuations.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies with potential catalysts carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses”.

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Prior to April 2, 2012, the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies. Its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 28.23%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -32.80%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.61%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	(11.27%)	(3.31%)	3.23%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	(11.33%)	(3.53%)	2.98%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	(7.24%)	(2.79%)	2.80%
Russell 1000 Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	0.39%	(2.64%)	3.89%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund | Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund

Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Trust Class
Management fees	0.88%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	0.10%
Other expenses	0.08%
Total annual operating expenses	1.06%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund Trust Class	108	337	585	1,294

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 171% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed companies whose stock prices are undervalued. The Portfolio Manager seeks to identify companies with catalysts that he believes have the potential to improve the companies’ earnings from depressed levels. Such catalysts may include: management changes, restructurings, new products, new services, or new markets. The Portfolio Manager may also look for other characteristics in a company, such as a strong market position relative to competitors, a high level of stock ownership among management, and a recent sharp decline in stock price that appears to be the result of a short-term market overreaction to negative news.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes are undervalued relative to their historical valuations.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies with potential catalysts carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses”.

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Prior to April 2, 2012, the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies. Its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 28.25%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -32.84%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.52%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Large Cap Value Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	(11.46%)	(3.50%)	3.06%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(11.49%)	(3.71%)	2.83%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(7.41%)	(2.94%)	2.65%
Russell 1000 Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	0.39%	(2.64%)	3.89%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) | Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)

Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) Trust Class
Management fees		0.95%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		0.10%
Other expenses		0.56%
Total annual operating expenses		1.61%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.36%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[1]	1.25%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund) Trust Class	127	397	686	1,562

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 118% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market capitalization within the market capitalization range of the Russell Midcap Value Index at the time of purchase.

The Fund’s strategy consists of using a bottom-up, fundamental research driven approach to identify stocks of companies that are trading below the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of their intrinsic value and that he believes have the potential for appreciation over time. The Portfolio Manager’s estimate of a company’s intrinsic value represents his view of the company’s true, long-term economic worth, which may be currently distorted by market inefficiencies. The intrinsic value estimate represents what the Portfolio Manager believes a company could be worth if it is acquired, if its profitability normalizes to its long-term average level, or if its valuation moves in line with those of its publicly traded peers.

The Portfolio Manager believes that while markets are often efficient, valuations of certain types of companies are often distorted by market inefficiencies, which can lead to attractive investment opportunities. The Portfolio Manager attempts to exploit recurring market inefficiencies among the following types of companies as the Portfolio Manager believes these types of companies are often misunderstood and mispriced by investors.

■ Complex Companies: These companies typically have multiple lines of business that are in different industries or sectors and/or that have different growth rates and profitability characteristics.

■ Cyclical Companies: These companies typically have ebbs and flows in their business depending on demand patterns for their products, the length of product cycles, or other transient factors.

■ Companies in a Period of Interrupted Growth: Typically, these are companies in attractive, high growth markets that have suffered what the Portfolio Manager believes is a temporary setback and/or are in transition to a more mature, lower growth business model that focuses more on current earnings than on rapid growth.

In seeking to identify potential investment opportunities, the Portfolio Manager performs an initial screening to identify those companies that have stock prices that are trailing the performance of the overall market and that he believes are attractive relative to current cash flows. Next, the Portfolio Manager establishes an estimate of a company’s intrinsic value. The Portfolio Manager will invest in a company based on its discount to his estimate of intrinsic value and his belief in its potential for appreciation over time. In addition, the Portfolio Manager may invest in anticipation of a catalyst that can be expected to close the value/price gap, such as a merger, restructuring, liquidation, spin-off, major management change, share repurchase, or capital reallocation. The Portfolio Manager will typically visit a company and interview its management team to help understand management’s incentives (such as equity ownership in the company and compensation plans), the merits of its strategic plan, and any other factors that have the potential to increase the value of the company’s stock.

The Portfolio Manager establishes an intrinsic value for each security when it is purchased. Intrinsic values are updated quarterly or when the Portfolio Manager believes that market or company-specific events prompt a reassessment. A position in a particular security will be reduced or eliminated when the gap between its price and the Portfolio Manager’s estimate of its intrinsic value has narrowed or been eliminated or when other opportunities appear more attractive. Changes in management or corporate strategy may also result in the reduction or elimination of a position.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies, sectors and industries. However, at times, the Portfolio Manager may emphasize certain sectors or industries that he believes may benefit from current market or economic trends.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid-capitalization companies, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies in anticipation of a catalyst carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Fund may experience losses. Certain catalysts, such as companies emerging from, or restructuring as a result of, bankruptcy, carry additional risks and the securities of such companies may be more likely to lose value than the securities of more financially stable companies.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index and an additional index. The indices, which are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q3 ’09, 25.77%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -28.23%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.66%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Intrinsic Value Fund (Formerly Neuberger Berman Regency Fund)		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	(6.81%)	(0.70%)	5.89%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(6.88%)	(1.26%)	5.33%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(4.35%)	(0.67%)	5.09%
Russell Midcap Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.38%)	0.04%	7.67%
Russell Midcap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(1.55%)	1.41%	6.99%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Trust Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.25% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2022 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Trust Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.25% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] Returns would have been lower if NBM had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital;

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current income is a secondary goal.

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

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Portfolio Turnover

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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Expense Example

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goals, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in large-cap stocks prior to December 2002, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

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800-877-9700

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www.nb.com

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 18.36%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.36%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.25%

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

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Sep. 30, 2012

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12.25%

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Best quarter:

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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18.36%

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Worst quarter:

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.36%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.11%

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5 Years

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(0.25%)

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10 Years

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2.92%

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.77%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.15%

Total annual operating expenses

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0.92%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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94

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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293

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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509

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,131

Annual Return 2002

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(25.75%)

Annual Return 2003

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35.14%

Annual Return 2004

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16.06%

Annual Return 2005

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8.44%

Annual Return 2006

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13.48%

Annual Return 2007

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7.61%

Annual Return 2008

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(38.21%)

Annual Return 2009

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30.21%

Annual Return 2010

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19.51%

Annual Return 2011

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(2.94%)

1 Year

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(2.94%)

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5 Years

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0.09%

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10 Years

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3.71%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(3.04%)

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5 Years

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(0.71%)

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10 Years

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3.13%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.77%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(0.04%)

^[1]

10 Years

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3.13%

^[1]

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund | Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund

Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital;

current income is a secondary goal.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund Trust Class
Management fees	0.91%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	0.10%
Other expenses	0.08%
Total annual operating expenses	1.09%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund Trust Class	111	347	601	1,329

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goals, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing mainly in large-cap stocks prior to December 2002, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 18.18%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.38%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 12.02%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Guardian Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	(3.05%)	(0.08%)	3.54%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(3.17%)	(0.89%)	2.98%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(1.82%)	(0.18%)	2.99%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.11%	(0.25%)	2.92%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Focus Fund

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GOAL

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 96% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests in a concentrated portfolio, consisting mainly of common stocks of companies of any size that are selected using a fundamental, research driven approach.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund typically holds a limited number of stocks. Because of this, the Fund may at times be substantially over- and under-weighted in certain economic sectors.

The Portfolio Managers, with the assistance of Neuberger Berman research analysts, look for what they believe to be undervalued companies. Factors in identifying these firms may include depressed valuations, above-average returns, an established market niche, and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with investing in a smaller number of stocks.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target valuation, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

Risk [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing 90% of its assets in no more than six economic sectors prior to December 17, 2007, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 33.98%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -31.93%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 17.61%

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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17.61%

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best quarter:

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2003

Highest Quarterly Return

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33.98%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2002

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(31.93%)

Performance Table Heading

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

Performance Table Closing [Text Block]

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.11%

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5 Years

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(0.25%)

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10 Years

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2.92%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.93%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.10%

Other expenses

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0.14%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.17%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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119

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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372

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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644

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,420

Annual Return 2002

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(36.48%)

Annual Return 2003

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64.58%

Annual Return 2004

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4.82%

Annual Return 2005

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(0.20%)

Annual Return 2006

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12.19%

Annual Return 2007

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6.35%

Annual Return 2008

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(40.80%)

Annual Return 2009

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28.84%

Annual Return 2010

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11.84%

Annual Return 2011

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(3.03%)

1 Year

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(3.03%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(2.53%)

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10 Years

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0.77%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(3.11%)

^[1]

5 Years

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(3.58%)

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10 Years

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(0.19%)

^[1]

Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.86%)

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5 Years

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(2.17%)

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10 Years

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0.66%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund | Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Class R3
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Class R3
Management fees		1.10%
Distribution (12b-1) fees		0.50%
Other expenses	[1]	0.20%
Total annual operating expenses		1.80%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement		0.04%
Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[2]	1.76%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund Class R3	179	554	963	2,105

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Description of Index” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund		1 Year	5 Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Class R3	[1]	(11.67%)	(4.16%)	2.22%	Jun. 17, 2005
After Taxes on Distributions Class R3	[1]	(11.95%)	(5.27%)	1.15%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Class R3	[1]	(7.47%)	(3.74%)	1.63%
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)	[1]	(11.73%)	(4.26%)	2.52%	Jun. 17, 2005

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[2] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Class R3 so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.76% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2016 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Class R3 will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.76% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

[1] The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Class R3, its performance typically would have been better than that of Class R3. Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in securities of companies that meet the Fund’s financial criteria and social policy.

Expense [Heading]

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

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Portfolio Turnover

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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28.00%

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies that meet the Fund’s social policy.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above-average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market. Among companies that meet these criteria, the Portfolio Managers look for those that show leadership in environmental concerns, and progressive workplace practices including diversity and community relations.

In addition, the Portfolio Managers typically look at a company’s record in public health and the nature of its products. The Portfolio Managers judge firms on their corporate citizenship overall, considering their accomplishments as well as their goals. While these judgments are inevitably subjective, the Fund endeavors to avoid companies that derive revenue from gambling or the production of alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or nuclear power. The Fund also does not invest in any company that derives its total revenue primarily from non-consumer sales to the military.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. As a socially responsive fund, the Fund is required by the federal securities laws to have a policy, which it cannot change without providing investors at least 60 days’ written notice, of investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities selected in accordance with its social policy. In practice, the Portfolio Managers’ current intention is to hold only equity securities selected in accordance with the Fund’s social investing policies. The 80% test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Social Investing Risk. The Fund’s social policy could cause the Fund to sell or avoid stocks that subsequently perform well. In addition, undervalued stocks that do not meet the social criteria could outperform those that do.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-366-6264

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 15.30%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.66%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 8.86%

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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8.86%

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Best quarter:

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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15.30%

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Worst quarter:

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(26.66%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]

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(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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2.11%

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5 Years

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(0.25%)

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10 Years

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2.92%

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Trust Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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0.88%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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0.10%

Other expenses

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0.08%

Total annual operating expenses

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1.06%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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108

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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337

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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585

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,294

Annual Return 2002

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(14.66%)

Annual Return 2003

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34.15%

Annual Return 2004

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13.35%

Annual Return 2005

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7.45%

Annual Return 2006

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14.21%

Annual Return 2007

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7.31%

Annual Return 2008

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(38.90%)

Annual Return 2009

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30.34%

Annual Return 2010

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22.56%

Annual Return 2011

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(3.05%)

1 Year

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(3.05%)

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5 Years

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0.31%

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10 Years

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4.92%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(3.14%)

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5 Years

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0.09%

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10 Years

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4.62%

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Trust Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(1.86%)

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5 Years

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0.24%

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10 Years

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4.24%

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[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman International Equity Fund

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GOAL

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The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies.

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FEES AND EXPENSES

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These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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2016-08-31

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Portfolio Turnover

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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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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33.00%

Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text]

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"Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

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The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Strategy [Heading]

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

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To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in foreign companies of any size, including companies in developed and emerging markets. The Fund defines a foreign company as one that is organized outside of the United States and conducts the majority of its business abroad.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many industries. Although the Fund has the flexibility to invest a significant portion of its assets in one country or region, it generally intends to remain well-diversified across countries and geographical regions.

In picking stocks, the Portfolio Manager looks for what he believes to be well-managed and profitable companies that show growth potential and whose stock prices are undervalued. Factors in identifying these firms may include strong fundamentals, such as attractive cash flows and balance sheets, as well as prices that are reasonable in light of projected returns. The Portfolio Manager also considers the outlooks for various countries and regions around the world, examining economic, market, social, and political conditions.

The Portfolio Manager follows a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.  The Fund will not change its strategy of normally investing at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days’ notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

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PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

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Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in international stock markets. The markets’ behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Foreign and Emerging Market Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Investing in emerging market countries involves risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in more developed foreign countries. Securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid than securities issued in foreign countries with more developed economies or markets.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Growth Stock Risk. Because the prices of most growth stocks are based on future expectations, these stocks tend to be more sensitive than value stocks to bad economic news and negative earnings surprises. Bad economic news or changing investor perceptions can negatively affect growth stocks across several industries and sectors simultaneously.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]

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The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

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PERFORMANCE

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The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

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The bar chart shows how the Fund's performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index.

Performance Availability Phone [Text]

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800-877-9700

Performance Availability Website Address [Text]

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www.nb.com

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results.

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YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

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Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 23.76%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’08, -23.47%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 13.87%

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The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Investor Class, its performance typically would have been better than that of Investor Class.

Year to Date Return, Label

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Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012:

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Sep. 30, 2012

Bar Chart, Year to Date Return

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13.87%

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Best quarter:

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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23.76%

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Worst quarter:

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Sep. 30, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(23.47%)

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

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(reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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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.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Performance Table Explanation after Tax Higher

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Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

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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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees or expenses)

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.73%)

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5 Years

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(4.26%)

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Since Inception

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2.52%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Investor Class

Risk/Return:

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

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none

Management fees

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1.10%

Distribution (12b-1) fees

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none

Other expenses

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0.49%

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Total annual operating expenses

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1.59%

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement

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(0.19%)

Total annual operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

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1.40%

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Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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143

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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443

Expense Example, with Redemption, 5 Years

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809

Expense Example, with Redemption, 10 Years

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1,838

Annual Return 2006

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23.22%

Annual Return 2007

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3.85%

Annual Return 2008

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(45.74%)

Annual Return 2009

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36.96%

Annual Return 2010

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18.64%

Annual Return 2011

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(11.67%)

1 Year

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(11.67%)

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5 Years

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(4.16%)

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Since Inception

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2.22%

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Inception Date

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Jun. 17, 2005

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.95%)

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5 Years

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(5.27%)

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Since Inception

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1.15%

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Investor Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(7.47%)

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5 Years

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(3.74%)

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Since Inception

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1.63%

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[1] The above performance is that of the Fund's Institutional Class. Because Institutional Class has lower expenses than Investor Class, its performance typically would have been better than that of Investor Class. Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

[2] "Other expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year; actual expenses may vary.

[3] Neuberger Berman Management LLC (NBM) has contractually undertaken to waive current payment of fees and/or reimburse certain expenses of Investor Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expense on short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) are limited to 1.40% of average net assets. This undertaking lasts until 8/31/2016 and may not be terminated during its term without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The Fund has agreed that Investor Class will repay NBM for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for that class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 1.40% of its average net assets. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which NBM incurred the expense.

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Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund | Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund

Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in securities of companies that meet the Fund’s financial criteria and social policy.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund Trust Class
Management fees	0.88%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	0.10%
Other expenses	0.08%
Total annual operating expenses	1.06%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund Trust Class	108	337	585	1,294

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests primarily in common stocks of mid- to large-capitalization companies that meet the Fund’s social policy.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing across many different industries.

The Portfolio Managers employ a research driven and valuation sensitive approach to stock selection, with a long term perspective. They look for solid balance sheets, strong management teams with a track record of success, good cash flow and the prospect for above-average earnings growth. They seek to purchase the stock of businesses that they believe to be well positioned and undervalued by the market. Among companies that meet these criteria, the Portfolio Managers look for those that show leadership in environmental concerns, and progressive workplace practices including diversity and community relations.

In addition, the Portfolio Managers typically look at a company’s record in public health and the nature of its products. The Portfolio Managers judge firms on their corporate citizenship overall, considering their accomplishments as well as their goals. While these judgments are inevitably subjective, the Fund endeavors to avoid companies that derive revenue from gambling or the production of alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or nuclear power. The Fund also does not invest in any company that derives its total revenue primarily from non-consumer sales to the military.

Although the Fund invests primarily in domestic stocks, it may also invest in stocks of foreign companies.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so. As a socially responsive fund, the Fund is required by the federal securities laws to have a policy, which it cannot change without providing investors at least 60 days’ written notice, of investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities selected in accordance with its social policy. In practice, the Portfolio Managers’ current intention is to hold only equity securities selected in accordance with the Fund’s social investing policies. The 80% test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

Valuation Sensitive Investing. In addition to employing traditional value criteria – that is, looking for value among companies whose stock prices are below their historical average, based on earnings, cash flow, or other financial measures – the Portfolio Managers may buy a company’s shares if they look more fully priced based on Wall Street consensus estimates of earnings, but still inexpensive relative to their estimates. The Portfolio Managers look for these companies to rise in price as they outperform Wall Street’s expectations, because they believe some aspects of the business have not been fully appreciated or appropriately priced by other investors.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Social Investing Risk. The Fund’s social policy could cause the Fund to sell or avoid stocks that subsequently perform well. In addition, undervalued stocks that do not meet the social criteria could outperform those that do.

Mid- and Large-Cap Stock Risk. Compared to smaller companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Foreign Risk. Foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with comparable U.S. securities. Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards. As a result, foreign securities can fluctuate more widely in price, and may also be less liquid, than comparable U.S. securities. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. In addition, foreign markets can perform differently than the U.S. market. Following the market turmoil of 2008-2009, some national economies continue to show profound instability, which may in turn affect their international trading partners.

Currency Risk. Currency fluctuations could negatively impact investment gains or add to investment losses.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 15.30%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.66%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 8.86%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	(3.05%)	0.31%	4.92%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(3.14%)	0.09%	4.62%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(1.86%)	0.24%	4.24%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.11%	(0.25%)	2.92%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund | Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Investor Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment )

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Investor Class
Management fees	0.92%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	none
Other expenses	0.11%
Total annual operating expenses	1.03%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund Investor Class	105	328	569	1,259

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small-capitalization companies, which it defines as those with a total market value of no more than $2 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has grown beyond $2 billion.

The Fund seeks to reduce risk by diversifying among many companies and industries.

The Portfolio Managers generally look for what they believe to be undervalued companies whose current market shares and balance sheets are strong. In addition, the Portfolio Managers tend to focus on companies whose financial strength is largely based on existing business lines rather than on projected growth. Factors in identifying these firms may include: above-average returns; an established market niche; circumstances that would make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market; the ability to finance their own growth; and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with small-cap stocks.

At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target price, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

Small- and Mid-Cap Stock Risk. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to larger companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources. To the extent the Portfolio Managers commit a portion of the Fund’s assets to stocks of mid-cap companies, the Fund will be subject to their risks.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-877-9700 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’09, 16.30%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -26.55%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 7.50%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Investor Class	[1]	4.70%	5.61%	9.55%
After Taxes on Distributions Investor Class	[1]	3.92%	4.76%	8.88%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Investor Class	[1]	4.05%	4.71%	8.40%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	(4.18%)	0.15%	5.62%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.

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Neuberger Berman Focus Fund | Neuberger Berman Focus Fund

Neuberger Berman Focus Fund

GOAL

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

FEES AND EXPENSES

These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (USD $)	Neuberger Berman Focus Fund Trust Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses	Neuberger Berman Focus Fund Trust Class
Management fees	0.93%
Distribution (12b-1) fees	0.10%
Other expenses	0.14%
Total annual operating expenses	1.17%

Expense Example

The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.

Expense Example (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Neuberger Berman Focus Fund Trust Class	119	372	644	1,420

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 operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 96% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

To pursue its goal, the Fund invests in a concentrated portfolio, consisting mainly of common stocks of companies of any size that are selected using a fundamental, research driven approach.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund typically holds a limited number of stocks. Because of this, the Fund may at times be substantially over- and under-weighted in certain economic sectors.

The Portfolio Managers, with the assistance of Neuberger Berman research analysts, look for what they believe to be undervalued companies. Factors in identifying these firms may include depressed valuations, above-average returns, an established market niche, and sound future business prospects. This approach is designed to let the Fund benefit from potential increases in stock prices, while limiting the risks typically associated with investing in a smaller number of stocks.

The Portfolio Managers follow a disciplined selling strategy and may sell a stock when it reaches a target valuation, if a company’s business fails to perform as expected, or when other opportunities appear more attractive.

The Fund may change its goal without shareholder approval, although it does not currently intend to do so.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS

Most of the Fund’s performance depends on what happens in the stock market. The market’s behavior is unpredictable, particularly in the short term. There can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its goal.

The Fund is a mutual fund, not a bank deposit, and is not guaranteed or insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.

The following factors can significantly affect the Fund’s performance:

Market Volatility. Markets are volatile and values of individual securities and other instruments can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value. To the extent that the Fund sells a portfolio position before it reaches its market peak, it may miss out on opportunities for higher performance.

Issuer-Specific Risk. The value of an individual security or particular type of security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

The Fund’s portfolio may contain fewer securities than the portfolios of other mutual funds, which may increase the risk that the value of the Fund could go down because of the poor performance of one or a few investments.

Market Capitalization Risk. To the extent the Fund emphasizes small-, mid-, or large-cap stocks, it takes on the associated risks. Compared to small- and mid-cap companies, large-cap companies may be less responsive to changes and opportunities. At times, the stocks of larger companies may lag other types of stocks in performance. The stocks of small- and mid-cap companies are often more volatile and less liquid than the stocks of larger companies and may be more affected than other types of stocks by the underperformance of a sector or during market downturns. Compared to large-cap companies, small- and mid-cap companies may have a shorter history of operations, and may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources.

Value Stock Risk. Value stocks may remain undervalued during a given period or may not ever realize 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.

Sector Risk. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may move up and down more than the broader market. The several industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Recent Market Conditions. The financial crisis in the U.S. and many foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt and banking crises, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign, and in the net asset values of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. In addition, global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region might adversely impact issuers in a different country or region. The severity or duration of adverse economic conditions may also be affected by policy changes made by governments or quasi-governmental organizations. Because the situation is widespread and largely unprecedented, it may be unusually difficult to identify both risks and opportunities using past models of the interplay of market forces, or to predict the duration of these market conditions.

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 expense ratios for the current fiscal year to be higher than the expense information presented in “Fees and Expenses.”

PERFORMANCE

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year. The table next to the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad-based market index. The index, which is described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus, has characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy.

Because the Fund had a policy of investing 90% of its assets in no more than six economic sectors prior to December 17, 2007, its performance prior to that date might have been different if current policies had been in effect.

Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.

YEAR-BY-YEAR % RETURNS AS OF 12/31 EACH YEAR*

Best quarter: Q2 ’03, 33.98%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’02, -31.93%

Year-to-date performance as of 9/30/2012: 17.61%

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL % RETURNS AS OF 12/31/11*

Average Annual Returns Neuberger Berman Focus Fund		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Trust Class	[1]	(3.03%)	(2.53%)	0.77%
After Taxes on Distributions Trust Class	[1]	(3.11%)	(3.58%)	(0.19%)
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares Trust Class	[1]	(1.86%)	(2.17%)	0.66%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	[1]	2.11%	(0.25%)	2.92%

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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be higher than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss upon the sale of Fund shares.

[1] Returns would have been lower if Neuberger Berman Management LLC had not reimbursed certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.