Dreyfus NY AMT-Free Municipal Bond Fund

 

Summary Prospectus

July 1, 2013

       
 

Class   Ticker

A   PSNYX
C   PNYCX
I   DNYIX

Y   DNYYX

Before you invest, you may want to review the fund's prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund's prospectus and other information about the fund, including the statement of additional information and most recent reports to shareholders, online at www.dreyfus.com/funddocuments . You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-DREYFUS (inside the U.S. only) or by sending an e-mail request to info@dreyfus.com . The fund's prospectus and statement of additional information, dated July 1, 2013 (each as revised or supplemented), are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus.

Investment Objective

The fund seeks to maximize current income exempt from federal, New York state and New York city income taxes to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital.

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 beginning on page 9 of this prospectus and in the How to Buy Shares section and the Additional Information About How to Buy Shares section beginning on page II-1 and page III-1, respectively, of the fund's Statement of Additional Information.

           

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

 
 

Class A

Class C

Class I

Class Y

 

Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases

(as a percentage of offering price)

4.50

none

none

none

 

Maximum contingent deferred sales charge (load)

(as a percentage of lower of purchase or sale price)

none*

1.00

none

none

 
           

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

   
 

Class A

Class C

Class I

Class Y

 

Management fees

.55

.55

.55

.55

 

Distribution (Rule 12b-1) fees

none

.75

none

none

 

Other expenses (including shareholder services fees)**

.36

.38

.13

.08

 

Total annual fund operating expenses

.91

1.68

.68

.63

 

 

* Class A shares bought without an initial sales charge as part of an investment of $1 million or more may be charged a contingent deferred sales charge of 1.00% if redeemed within one year.

** Other expenses for Class Y are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

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

   


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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:

         
 

1 Year

3 Years

5 Years

10 Years

Class A

$539

$727

$931

$1,519

Class C

$271

$530

$913

$1,987

Class I

$69

$218

$379

$847

Class Y

$64

$202

$351

$786

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

         

 

1 Year

3 Years

5 Years

10 Years

Class A

$539

$727

$931

$1,519

Class C

$171

$530

$913

$1,987

Class I

$69

$218

$379

$847

Class Y

$64

$202

$351

$786

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 9.96% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategy

To pursue its goal, the fund normally invests substantially all of its net assets in municipal bonds that provide income exempt from federal, New York state and New York city income taxes. The fund also seeks to provide income exempt from the federal alternative minimum tax. The fund invests at least 70% of its assets in municipal bonds rated, at the time of purchase, investment grade (i.e., Baa/BBB or higher) or the unrated equivalent as determined by The Dreyfus Corporation. For additional yield, the fund may invest up to 30% of its assets in municipal bonds rated below investment grade. The dollar-weighted average effective maturity of the fund's portfolio normally exceeds ten years, but the fund may invest without regard to maturity.

The portfolio managers focus on identifying undervalued sectors and securities. To select municipal bonds for the fund, the portfolio managers use fundamental credit analysis to estimate the relative value and attractiveness of various sectors and securities and actively trade among various sectors based on their apparent relative values.

Although the fund seeks to provide income exempt from federal, New York state and New York City income taxes, the fund may invest temporarily in taxable bonds and/or municipal bonds that pay income exempt only from federal income tax, including when the portfolio managers believe acceptable New York municipal bonds are not available for investment. During such periods, the fund may not achieve its investment objective.

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.

·   Municipal securities risk. The amount of public information available about municipal securities is generally less than that for corporate equities or bonds. Special factors, such as legislative changes, and state and local economic and business developments, may adversely affect the yield and/or value of the fund's investments in municipal securities. Other factors include the general conditions of the municipal securities market, the size of the particular offering, the maturity of the obligation and the rating of the issue. Changes in economic, business or political conditions relating to a particular municipal project, municipality, or state in which the fund invests may have an impact on the fund's share price.

·   State-specific risk . The fund is subject to the risk that New York's economy, and the revenues underlying its municipal obligations, may decline. Investing primarily in a single state makes the fund more sensitive to risks specific to the state and may magnify other risks.

·   Interest rate risk. Prices of bonds tend to move inversely with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in rates will adversely affect bond prices and, accordingly, the fund's share price. The longer the effective maturity and duration of the fund's fixed-income portfolio, the more the fund's share price is likely to react to interest rates. For example, the market price of a fixed-

   

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income security with a duration of three years would be expected to decline 3% if interest rates rose 1%. Conversely, the market price of the same security would be expected to increase 3% if interest rates fell 1%.

·   Credit risk . Failure of an issuer to make timely interest or principal payments, or a decline or perception of a decline in the credit quality of a bond, can cause a bond's price to fall, potentially lowering the fund's share price. The lower a bond's credit rating, the greater the chance – in the rating agency's opinion – that the bond issuer will default or fail to meet its payment obligations. Although the fund invests primarily in investment grade bonds, the fund may invest to a limited extent in high yield bonds. High yield ("junk") bonds involve greater credit risk, including the risk of default, than investment grade bonds, and are considered predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer's ability to make principal and interest payments. The prices of high yield bonds can fall dramatically in response to bad news about the issuer or its industry, or the economy in general.

·   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 at or near their perceived value. In such a market, the value of such securities and the fund's share price may fall dramatically.

·   Non-diversification risk . The fund is non-diversified, which means that the fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers. Therefore, the fund's performance may be more vulnerable to changes in the market value of a single issuer or group of issuers and more susceptible to risks associated with a single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a diversified fund.

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 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. 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. More recent performance information may be available at www.dreyfus.com .

Since the fund's Class Y shares are new, past performance information is not available for Class Y shares as of the date of this prospectus. Class Y shares would have had substantially similar annual returns as Class A, C and I shares because each share class is invested in the same portfolio of securities and 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

Best Quarter
Q3, 2009: 7.81%

Worst Quarter
Q4, 2010: -4.80%

The year-to-date total return of the fund’s Class A shares as of March 31, 2013 was .34%

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 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 tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

The performance information for the fund's Class I shares for periods prior to December 15, 2008 reflects the performance of the fund's Class A shares. Such performance figures have not been adjusted to reflect applicable class fees and expenses.

   

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

Share Class (Inception Date)

1 Year

5 Years

10 Years

Class A (12/31/86) returns before taxes

1.55%

4.25%

3.74%

Class A returns after taxes on distributions

1.55%

4.25%

3.68%

Class A returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares

2.18%

4.18%

3.71%

Class C (9/11/95) returns before taxes

4.52%

4.43%

3.44%

Class I (12/15/08) returns before taxes

6.58%

5.38%

4.30%

Barclays Capital Municipal Bond Index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes

6.78%

5.91%

5.10%

Portfolio Management

The fund's investment adviser is The Dreyfus Corporation. Thomas Casey and David Belton are the fund's primary portfolio managers, positions they have held since December 2009. Mr. Casey is a senior portfolio manager for tax sensitive strategies at Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC (Standish), an affiliate of The Dreyfus Corporation, and Mr. Belton is the head of municipal bond research at Standish. Messrs. Casey and Belton are employees of The Dreyfus Corporation and Standish.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

In general, for each share class, other than Class Y, the fund's minimum initial investment is $1,000 and the minimum subsequent investment is $100. For Class Y shares, the minimum initial investment generally is $1,000,000, with no minimum subsequent investment. You may sell (redeem) your shares on any business day by calling 1-800-DREYFUS (inside the U.S. only) or by visiting www.dreyfus.com . If you invested in the fund through a third party, such as a bank, broker-dealer or financial adviser, you may mail your request to sell shares to Dreyfus Institutional Department, P.O. Box 9882, Providence, Rhode Island 02940-8082. If you invested directly through the fund, you may mail your request to sell shares to Dreyfus Shareholder Services, P.O. Box 9879, Providence, Rhode Island 02940-8079. If you are an Institutional Direct accountholder, you may redeem your shares only by written request. Please contact your BNY Mellon relationship manager for mailing instructions.

Tax Information

The fund anticipates that virtually all dividends paid by the fund will be exempt from federal, New York state and New York City income taxes. However, for federal tax purposes, certain distributions, such as distributions of short-term capital gains, are taxable as ordinary income, while long-term capital gains are taxable as capital gains.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase shares through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.

   

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