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Dreyfus Class Prospectus | General Treasury Prime Money Market Fund
Fund Summary - General Treasury Prime Money Market Fund
Investment Objective

The fund seeks as high a level of current income as is consistent with the preservation of capital and maintenance of liquidity.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Dreyfus Class Prospectus
General Treasury Prime Money Market Fund
Dreyfus Class
Management fees 0.50%
Other expenses (including shareholder services fees) 0.11%
Total annual fund operating expenses 0.61%
Example

The Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Dreyfus Class Prospectus | General Treasury Prime Money Market Fund | Dreyfus Class | USD ($) 62 195 340 762
Principal Investment Strategy

As a money market fund, the fund is subject to the maturity, quality, liquidity and diversification requirements of Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which are designed to help money market funds maintain a stable share price of $1.00. To pursue its goal, the fund normally invests only in U.S. Treasury securities.

Principal Risks

An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government agency. You could lose money by investing in the fund. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. Neither The Dreyfus Corporation nor its affiliates has a legal obligation to provide financial support to the fund, and you should not expect that The Dreyfus Corporation or its affiliates will provide financial support to the fund at any time. The fund's yield will fluctuate as the short-term securities in its portfolio mature and the proceeds are reinvested in securities with different interest rates. The following are the principal risks that could reduce the fund's income level and/or share price:


· Interest rate risk. This risk refers to the decline in the prices of fixed-income securities that may accompany a rise in the overall level of interest rates. A sharp and unexpected rise in interest rates could cause a money market fund's share price to drop below a dollar. A low interest rate environment may prevent the fund from providing a positive yield or paying fund expenses out of fund assets and could impair the fund's ability to maintain a stable net asset value.


· Liquidity risk. When there is little or no active trading market for specific types of securities, it can become more difficult to sell the securities in a timely manner at or near their perceived value. In such a market, the value of such securities may fall dramatically, potentially impairing the fund's ability to maintain a stable net asset value, even during periods of declining interest rates.


· U.S. Treasury securities risk. A security backed by the U.S. Treasury or the full faith and credit of the United States is guaranteed only as to the timely payment of interest and principal when held to maturity, but the market prices for such securities are not guaranteed and will fluctuate.

Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the performance of the fund's Class A shares from year to year. The table shows the average annual total returns of the fund's Class A shares over time. The fund's past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. More recent performance information may be available at www.dreyfus.com.


Since the fund's Dreyfus Class shares are new, past performance information is not available for Dreyfus Class shares as of the date of this prospectus. Dreyfus Class shares would have had substantially similar annual returns as Class A shares because each share class is invested in the same portfolio of securities and the annual returns would have differed only to the extent that the classes do not have the same expenses.

Year-by-Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year (%) Class A
Bar Chart

Best Quarter
Q4, 2006: 1.06%


Worst Quarter
Q3, 2015: 0.00%


The total return of the fund's Class A shares for the first quarter of the fund's fiscal year (December 1, 2015 through February 29, 2016) was 0.00%.

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/15
Average Annual Returns
Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, 5 Years
Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Dreyfus Class Prospectus | General Treasury Prime Money Market Fund | Class A none none 0.88%

For the fund’s current yield, call toll free 1-800-DREYFUS (inside the U.S. only)