DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND (Prospectus Summary) | DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND

Fund Summary

Investment Objective

The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation consistent with the preservation
of capital; 

current income is a secondary goal.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold
shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your
family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in certain
funds in the Dreyfus Family of Funds. More information about these and other
discounts is available from your financial professional and in the Shareholder
Guide section on page 8 of the Prospectus and in the How to Buy Shares section
on page 31 of the fund's Statement of Additional Information. Class A shares
bought without an initial sales charge as part of an investment of $1 million or
more may be charged a deferred sales charge of 1.00% if redeemed within one
year.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND	Class A	Class B	Class C	Class I
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	5.75%	none	none	none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a percentage of lower of purchase or sale price)	none	4.00%	1.00%	none

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND	Class A	Class B	Class C	Class I
Management fees	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) fees	none	0.75%	0.75%	none
Other expenses (including shareholder services fees)	0.51%	0.74%	0.49%	0.23%
Total annual fund operating expenses	1.26%	2.24%	1.99%	0.98%

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 DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND (USD $)	Expense Example, With Redemption, 1 Year	Expense Example, With Redemption, 3 Years	Expense Example, With Redemption, 5 Years	Expense Example, With Redemption, 10 Years
Class A	696	952	1,227	2,010
Class B	627	1,000	1,400	2,099
Class C	302	624	1,073	2,317
Class I	100	312	542	1,201

You would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares:

Expense Example, No Redemption DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND (USD $)	Expense Example, No Redemption, 1 Year	Expense Example, No Redemption, 3 Years	Expense Example, No Redemption, 5 Years	Expense Example, No Redemption, 10 Years
Class A	696	952	1,227	2,010
Class B	227	700	1,200	2,099
Class C	202	624	1,073	2,317
Class I	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 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 0.34%
of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategy

The fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in the common stock of
U.S. and foreign companies. The fund will normally invest at least 25% of its
assets in foreign companies and at least 25% of its assets in U.S. companies.
The fund focuses on "blue chip" multinational companies with total market values
of more than $5 billion. In choosing stocks, the fund first identifies economic
sectors that it believes will expand over the next three to five years or
longer. Using fundamental analysis, the fund then seeks companies within these
sectors that have demonstrated sustained patterns of profitability, strong
balance sheets, an expanding global presence and the potential to achieve
predictable, above-average earnings growth.

The fund also may invest in U.S. dollar-denominated American Depository Receipts
(ADRs).

The fund employs a "buy-and-hold" investment strategy, which is an investment
strategy characterized by a low portfolio turnover rate, which helps reduce the
fund's trading costs and minimizes tax liability by limiting the distribution of
capital gains.

Principal Risks

An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit. It is not insured or guaranteed
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government
agency. It is not a complete investment program. The fund's share price
fluctuates, sometimes dramatically, which means you could lose money.

o Risks of stock investing. Stocks generally fluctuate more in value than bonds
and may decline significantly over short time periods. There is the chance that
stock prices overall will decline because stock markets tend to move in cycles,
with periods of rising prices and falling prices. The market value of a stock
may decline due to general weakness in the stock market or because of factors
that affect the company or its particular industry.

o Foreign investment risk. Investments in foreign securities carry additional
risks, including exposure to currency fluctuations, less liquidity, less
developed or efficient trading markets, lack of comprehensive company
information, political instability and differing auditing and legal standards.
To the extent the fund invests in foreign securities, the fund's performance
will be influenced by political, social and economic factors affecting
investments in foreign companies.

o Market sector risk. The fund may significantly overweight or underweight
certain companies, industries or market sectors, which may cause the fund's
performance to be more or less sensitive to developments affecting those
companies, industries or sectors.

o Blue chip risk. By focusing on large capitalization, high quality stocks, the
fund may underperform funds that invest in the stocks of lower quality, smaller
capitalization companies during periods when the stocks of such companies are in
favor.

o ADR risk. ADRs may be subject to certain of the risks associated with direct
investments in the securities of foreign companies, such as currency risk,
political and economic risk and market risk, because their values depend on the
performance of the non-dollar denominated underlying foreign securities. Certain
countries may limit the ability to convert ADRs into the underlying foreign
securities and vice versa, which may cause the securities of the foreign company
to trade at a discount or premium to the market price of the related ADR.

Performance

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of
investing in the fund. 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 no guarantee of future results.
More recent performance information may be available at www.dreyfus.com.

The bar chart shows changes in the performance of the fund's Class A shares from
year to year. Sales charges, if any, are not reflected in the bar chart, and if
those charges were included, returns would have been less than those shown.

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

Best Quarter
Q3, 2009: 15.49%
Worst Quarter
Q3, 2002: -16.60%

After-tax performance is shown only for Class A shares. After-tax performance of
the fund's other share classes will vary. After-tax returns are calculated using
the historical highest individual federal marginal 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
tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement
accounts.

Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/10)

Average Annual Total Returns DREYFUS WORLDWIDE GROWTH FUND	Average Annual Returns, Label	Average Annual Returns, 1 Year	Average Annual Returns, 5 Years	Average Annual Returns, 10 Years	Average Annual Returns, Inception Date
Class A	Class A returns before taxes	5.44%	3.35%	1.87%	Jul. 15, 1993
Class B	Class B returns before taxes	6.79%	3.28%	2.00%	Jul. 15, 1993
Class C	Class C returns before taxes	10.10%	3.82%	1.74%	Jun. 21, 1995
Class I	Class I returns before taxes	12.26%	4.86%	2.78%	Mar. 04, 1996
After Taxes on Distributions Class A	Class A returns after taxes on distributions	4.80%	3.01%	1.64%	Jul. 15, 1993
After Taxes on Distributions and Sales Class A	Class A returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares	4.38%	2.86%	1.59%	Jul. 15, 1993
Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index	Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes	11.76%	2.43%	2.31%