ITEM 77O

DREYFUS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS

CORE VALUE PORTFOLIO

On September 11, 2012, Core Value Portfolio, a series of Dreyfus Investment Portfolios (the "Fund"), purchased 2,650 shares of common stock issued by American International Group, Inc. (CUSIP No. 026874784) (the "Common Stock") at a purchase price of $32.50 per share including an underwriting discount of $0.121875 per share.  The Common Stock was purchased from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, a member of the underwriting syndicate of which BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, an affiliate of the Fund's investment adviser, was also a member.  BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC received no benefit in connection with the transaction.  The following is a list of the syndicate's members:

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated	The Williams Capital Group, L.P.
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.	Drexel Hamilton, LLC
Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Lebenthal & Co., LLC
Barclays Capital Inc.	Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.	Natixis Securities Americas LLC
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC	PNC Capital Markets LLC
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC	Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
RBS Securities Inc.	Atlantic Equities LLC
Standard Chartered Bank	Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC
CastleOak Securities, L.P.	Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC
ING Financial Markets LLC	Blaylock Robert Van, LLC
Loop Capital Markets LLC	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.	Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.
Nomura Securities International, Inc.	Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc.
Raymond James & Associates, Inc.	BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC
SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited	MFR Securities, Inc.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.	C.L. King & Associates, Inc.
RBC Capital Markets, LLC	Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.	Mischler Financial Group, Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC	Toussaint Capital Partners, LLC
UBS Securities LLC	SG Americas Securities, LLC
Piper Jaffray & Co.	UniCredit Capital Markets LLC
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC	Santander Investment Securities Inc.
Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc.

Accompanying this statement are materials presented to the Board of Trustees for the Fund, which ratified the purchase in compliance with the Fund's Rule 10f-3 Procedures at a Board meeting held on November 8, 2012.  These materials include additional information about the terms of the transaction.