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BNY Mellon Small Cap Growth Fund

Fund Summary

Investment Objective

The fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and examples below.

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - BNY Mellon Small Cap Growth Fund		Class I	Class Y
Management fees		0.80%	0.80%
Administration fees		0.06%	0.06%
Miscellaneous other expenses		1.18%	0.97%
Total other expenses		1.24%	1.03%
Total annual fund operating expenses		2.04%	1.83%
Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement	[1]	(1.04%)	(0.83%)
Total annual fund operating expenses (after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement)		1.00%	1.00%

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 hold or 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. The one-year example and the first year of the three-, five- and ten-years examples are based on net operating expenses, which reflect the expense limitation agreement by BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - BNY Mellon Small Cap Growth Fund - USD ($)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class I	102	539	1,002	2,286
Class Y	102	495	913	2,080

Expense Example No Redemption - BNY Mellon Small Cap Growth Fund - USD ($)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class I	102	539	1,002	2,286
Class Y	102	495	913	2,080

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 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 fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund's portfolio turnover rate was 65.43% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategy

To pursue its goal, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of small-cap U.S. companies. The fund currently considers small-cap companies to be those companies with total market capitalizations that are equal to or less than the total market capitalization of the largest company included in the Russell 2000^® Growth Index (the Index), the fund's benchmark index. As of December 31, 2023, the market capitalization of the largest company in the Index was approximately $14.993 billion.

The fund's sub-adviser, Newton Investment Management North America, LLC, an affiliate of BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc., employs a growth-oriented investment style in managing the fund's portfolio, which means the sub-adviser seeks to identify those small-cap companies which are experiencing or are expected to experience rapid earnings or revenue growth. The sub-adviser focuses on high quality companies and individual stock selection, instead of trying to predict which industries or sectors will perform best, and selects stocks by:

● Using fundamental research to identify and follow companies considered to have attractive characteristics, such as strong business and competitive positions, solid cash flows and balance sheets, high quality management and high sustainable growth; and

● Investing in a company when the sub-adviser's research indicates that the company will experience accelerating revenues and expanding operating margins, which may lead to rising estimate trends and favorable earnings surprises.

The fund's investment strategy may lead it to emphasize certain sectors, such as information technology, communication services, health care, consumer discretionary and industrials.

The sub-adviser monitors the securities in the fund's portfolio, and will consider selling a security if the company's business momentum deteriorates or valuation becomes excessive. The fund also may sell a security if an event occurs that contradicts the sub-adviser's rationale for purchasing it for the fund, such as deterioration in the company's financial fundamentals. In addition, the fund may sell a security if better investment opportunities emerge elsewhere.

Principal Risks

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 I shares from year to year. The table compares the average annual total returns of the fund's shares to those of a broad measure of market performance. The fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Performance for each share class will vary due to differences in expenses. More recent performance information may be available at www.im.bnymellon.com.

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

Best Quarter
Q2, 2020: 42.14%
Worst Quarter
Q4, 2018: -21.96%

Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/23)

After-tax performance is shown only for Class I shares. After-tax performance of the fund's other share class will 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 the investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through U.S. tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares may be higher than returns before taxes or returns after taxes on distributions due to an assumed tax benefit from losses on a sale of the fund's shares at the end of the period.

Average Annual Returns - BNY Mellon Small Cap Growth Fund	Average Annual Returns, 1 Year	Average Annual Returns, 5 Years	Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Class I	11.70%	12.23%	9.24%
Class Y	11.73%	12.25%	9.26%
After Taxes on Distributions | Class I	11.70%	11.21%	5.64%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | Class I	6.93%	9.91%	6.07%
Russell 2000® Growth Index reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes	18.66%	9.22%	7.16%

[1] The fund's investment adviser, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc., has contractually agreed, until February 1, 2025, 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 taxes, interest expense, brokerage commissions, commitment fees on borrowings and extraordinary expenses) exceeds 1.00%. On or after February 1, 2025, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. may terminate this expense limitation agreement at any time.