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Why invest in this Fund?

The fund seeks to maximize total return consisting of capital appreciation and current income. To pursue this goal, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in publicly-traded equity securities of companies principally engaged in the real estate sector. The fund normally invests in a global portfolio of equity securities of real estate companies, including REITs and real estate operating companies, with principal places of business located in, but not limited to, the developed markets of Europe, Australia, Asia and North America (including the United States).
Min. Class Investment
$1,000
Class Inception Date
12/29/06
Fund Assets
$309,952,620  As of  08/25/25
Class Assets
$8,319,293  As of  08/25/25
Portfolio Turnover Rate
47.81% As of fiscal year end  10/31/24
Morningstar Category
Global Real Estate
Benchmark
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index (Net)
Morningstar Overall Rating
Fund Holdings
104 As of 07/31/25

Morningstar Rating™ as of July 31, 2025 for the Class A class shares; other classes may have different performance characteristics. Overall rating for the Global Real Estate category. Fund ratings are out of 5 Stars: Overall 4 Stars (148 funds rated); 3 Yrs. 4 Stars (148 funds rated); 5 Yrs. 5 Stars (144 funds rated); 10 Yrs. 4 Stars (118 funds rated).

Portfolio Managers

  • Dean Frankel

    Dean Frankel

    Global Co-Head, Real Estate Securities, CenterSquare

    Managing Fund Since 2006

    Joined Firm in 1998

    Joined Industry in 1998

  • Todd E. Briddell

    Todd E. Briddell

    Portfolio Manager,

    Managing Fund Since 2013

    Joined Firm in 1993

    Joined Industry in 1991


Total Returns

Click here to see SALES CHARGE  Max Sales Charge:  5.75%  Front End Load
Average Annual
As of 07/31/25
Name 3 MO
07/31/25
YTD
07/31/25
1 YR 3 YRS 5 YRS 10 YRS Since Inception
BNY Mellon Developed Markets Real Estate Securities Fund
DRLAX
1.90 4.50 4.63 1.83 5.99 4.37 3.21
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index (Net)
2.22 4.83 3.63 0.51 4.28 2.70 -
Average Annual
As of 06/30/25
Name 3 MO
06/30/25
YTD
06/30/25
1 YR 3 YRS 5 YRS 10 YRS Since Inception
BNY Mellon Developed Markets Real Estate Securities Fund
DRLAX
4.68 5.95 13.21 4.92 6.95 4.85 3.30
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index (Net)
4.41 6.07 11.18 3.52 5.10 3.17 -

The performance data quotes represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Yield, share price and investment return fluctuate and an investor's shares may be worth more or less than original cost upon redemption. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Click above for month-end returns.

Reflects reinvestment of net dividends and, where applicable, capital gain distributions. The FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index (Net) is designed to track the performance of listed real estate companies and REITs worldwide. Investors cannot invest directly in any index.

Growth of $10,000 Investment

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Historical Performance

     

    Yearly Total Return

    Investment return fluctuates and past performance is no guarantee of future results.


    Prospectus Fee Table Expense Ratios

    As of  02/28/25 Fee Description Expense Ratio (%)
    Management Fee 0.95%
    Service Fee 0.25%
    Other Expenses 0.57%
    Total Expenses 1.77%
    Expenses Reimbursed 0.47%
    Net Expenses 1.30%
    Total Expenses is the total annual operating expense ratio for the fund, before any fee waivers or expense reimbursements. Net Expenses is the total annual operating expense ratio for the fund, after any applicable fee waivers or expense reimbursements. The Total Expenses, or Net Expenses (if including fee waivers or expense reimbursements) is the actual fund expense ratio applicable to investors.
    The fund's investment adviser, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc., has contractually agreed, until February 28, 2026, to waive receipt of its fees and/or assume the direct expenses of the fund so that the direct expenses of none of the fund's share classes (excluding Rule 12b-1 fees, shareholder services fees, taxes, interest expense, brokerage commissions, commitment fees on borrowings and extraordinary expenses) exceed 1.05%. On or after February 28, 2026, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. may terminate this expense limitation agreement at any time.

    Sales Charge


    Portfolio Manager/Sub-Investment Adviser

    The fund's investment adviser is BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. (BNYIA). The fund's sub-adviser is CenterSquare Investment Management LLC. E. Todd Briddell and Dean Frankel are the fund's primary portfolio managers, positions they have held since June 2013 and December 2006, respectively. Mr. Briddell is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of CenterSquare. Mr. Frankel is a Managing Director and Global Head of Real Estate Securities for CenterSquare.

    Top Holdings

    As of 07/31/25

    Asset Allocation


        Daily Statistics

        As of 08/25/25 Name NAV Change 09/16/24  12 Month 
        High Nav
        04/08/25  12 Month 
        Low Nav
        YTD Return
        DRLAX
        $8.90
        -$0.05
        -0.56%
        $9.30 $7.53 8.75%

        Performance Metrics

        Overall Morningstar Rating


        MORNINGSTAR CATEGORY Global Real Estate


        Morningstar Rating™ as of 07/31/25 for the Class A shares; other classes may have different performance characteristics. Overall rating for the Global Real Estate. Fund ratings are out of 5 Stars: Overall 4 Stars (148 funds rated); 3 Yrs. 4 Stars (148 funds rated); 5 Yrs. 5 Stars (144 funds rated); 10 Yrs. 4 Stars (118 funds rated).
        The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or "star rating", is calculated for managed products with at least a 3-year history. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product's monthly excess performance (not including the effects of sales charges, loads and redemption fees if applicable), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. Managed products; including open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds; are considered a single population for comparative purposes. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3-, 5-,and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. © Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved. The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its content providers; (2) may not be copied or distributed; and (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete, or timely. Neither Morningstar nor its content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. The fund represents a single portfolio with multiple share classes that have different expense structures. Other share classes may have achieved different results.

        Lipper Rankings

        • 1 Year
          17 out of 126
        • 3 Year
          21 out of 123
        • 5 Year
          7 out of 118
        • 10 Year
          28 out of 96

        LIPPER CLASSIFICATION Global Real Estate Funds


        Lipper Category returns and rankings as of 07/31/25, are calculated by Lipper Inc., a Reuters Company, which is a nationally recognized organization that compares the performance of mutual funds with similar investment objectives. The Category returns represent the average performance of included funds, while rankings compare an individual fund's returns to those of the other funds in its category. Both are based on total return performance, with capital gains and dividends reinvested, with annual operating expenses deducted, but without including front or back-end sales charges. Rankings begin with the actual share class inception. Rankings are relative to a peer group and do not necessarily mean that the fund had high total returns. Rankings do not reflect sales loads

        Main Risks

        Equities are subject to market, market sector, market liquidity, issuer, and investment style risks to varying degrees.
        Investing in foreign denominated and/or domiciled securities involves special risks, including changes in currency exchange rates, political, economic, and social instability, limited company information, differing auditing and legal standards, and less market liquidity. These risks generally are greater with emerging market countries.
        Risks of investing in real estate securities are similar to those associated with direct investments in real estate, including falling property values due to increasing vacancies or declining rents resulting from economic, legal, political or technological developments, lack of liquidity, limited diversification and sensitivity to certain economic factors such as interest rate changes and market recessions.
        Real estate investment trusts are subject to risk, such as poor performance by the manager, adverse changes to tax laws or failure to qualify for tax-free pass-through of income.

        Risk Metrics

        As of  07/31/25  3-Year Trailing Standard Deviation Alpha Beta R-Squared Sharpe Ratio
        DRLAX
        18.96 -13.20 1.14 75.01 -0.07

        All risk metrics are provided by Morningstar. The index used in the calculations are determined by Morningstar which may not be the funds primary benchmark. The index Morningstar used for this analysis is MSCI ACWI Index.


        Alpha - Alpha is a measure of a security's or portfolio's excess return.

        Beta - Beta is a measure of a security’s or portfolio’s volatility, or systematic risk.

        R-Squared - R-squared is a statistical measure that represents the percentage of a fund’s or security’s movements that are explained by movements in a benchmark index.

        Sharpe Ratio - Sharpe ratio is a risk-adjusted measure that measures reward per unit of risk. The higher the Sharpe ratio, the better.

        Standard Deviation - Standard deviation is a statistical measure of the degree to which an individual portfolio return tends to vary from the mean, based on the entire population. The greater the degree of dispersion, the greater the degree of risk. In mutual funds, the standard deviation tells us how much the return on the fund is deviating from the expected normal returns.


        Dividend Schedule

        Declared
        Annually
        Distributed
        Annually
        Paid
        Annually
        Fiscal Year End
        Oct 31
        Annualized Distribution Rate
        %
        As of 
        Year Dividend ($) Capital Gains ($)
        2024 0.2015 0.0000
        2023 0.1941 0.0000
        2022 0.1187 0.4153
        2021 0.3021 0.5125
        2020 0.0731 0.0360
        2019 0.3722 0.6170
        2018 0.1951 0.1620
        2017 0.2234 0.1837
        2016 0.3702 0.0897
        2015 0.1730 0.2566

        There is no guarantee that the fund will distribute any level annually. Capital gains may be short-term, long-term, or both.

        Distributions History

        Record Date Ex-Dividend Date Payable Date Ordinary 
        Non-Qualified 
        Dividends
        Qualified 
        Dividends
        Non-Qualified 
        Short-Term 
        Capital Gain
        Qualified 
        Short-Term 
        Capital Gain
        Long-Term 
        Capital Gain
        Total 
        Distribution
        12/24/24 12/26/24 12/26/24 0.1515 0.0500 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.2015
        Record Date Ex-Dividend Date Payable Date Ordinary 
        Non-Qualified 
        Dividends
        Qualified 
        Dividends
        Non-Qualified 
        Short-Term 
        Capital Gain
        Qualified 
        Short-Term 
        Capital Gain
        Long-Term 
        Capital Gain
        Total 
        Distribution
        12/22/23 12/26/23 12/26/23 0.1186 0.0755 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.1941
        12/23/22 12/27/22 12/27/22 0.0218 0.0969 0.0000 0.0000 0.4153 0.5340
        12/27/21 12/28/21 12/28/21 0.2053 0.0968 0.0335 0.0158 0.4632 0.8146
        12/24/20 12/28/20 12/28/20 0.0175 0.0556 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0731
        03/23/20 03/24/20 03/24/20 0.0000 0.0000 0.0057 0.0000 0.0303 0.0360
        12/24/19 12/26/19 12/26/19 0.2888 0.0834 0.0721 0.0208 0.4892 0.9543
        03/18/19 03/19/19 03/19/19 0.0000 0.0000 0.0036 0.0000 0.0313 0.0349
        12/24/18 12/26/18 12/26/18 0.1563 0.0388 0.0158 0.0039 0.1099 0.3247
        03/19/18 03/20/18 03/20/18 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0324 0.0324
        12/22/17 12/26/17 12/26/17 0.1171 0.1063 0.0000 0.0000 0.1360 0.3594
        03/20/17 03/21/17 03/21/17 0.0000 0.0000 0.0025 0.0000 0.0452 0.0477
        12/23/16 12/27/16 12/27/16 0.3185 0.0517 0.0527 0.0086 0.0284 0.4599
        12/24/15 12/28/15 12/28/15 0.1325 0.0405 0.0078 0.0024 0.2464 0.4296
        12/24/14 12/26/14 12/26/14 0.1695 0.0425 0.0000 0.0000 0.0411 0.2531
        12/24/13 12/26/13 12/26/13 0.2062 0.0158 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.2220
        03/27/13 03/28/13 03/28/13 0.0190 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0190
        12/24/12 12/26/12 12/26/12 0.3862 0.0328 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.4190
        12/23/11 12/27/11 12/27/11 0.0880 0.0290 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.1170
        03/30/11 03/31/11 03/31/11 0.0310 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0310
        12/23/10 12/27/10 12/27/10 0.2473 0.0248 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.2721
        12/28/09 12/29/09 12/29/09 0.2399 0.0251 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.2650
        03/30/09 03/31/09 03/31/09 0.0130 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0130
        12/26/08 12/29/08 12/29/08 0.0348 0.0072 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0420
        09/10/08 09/11/08 09/11/08 0.0044 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0044
        06/19/08 06/20/08 06/20/08 0.0272 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0272
        03/19/08 03/20/08 03/20/08 0.0255 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0255
        12/20/07 12/21/07 12/21/07 0.0986 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0986
        09/19/07 09/20/07 09/20/07 0.0410 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0410
        06/19/07 06/20/07 06/20/07 0.0165 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0165
        03/20/07 03/21/07 03/21/07 0.0107 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0107
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