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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT
INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number

811-05719

 

 

 

Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.

 

 

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

 

 

 

 

c/o The Dreyfus Corporation

200 Park Avenue

New York, New York  10166

 

 

(Address of principal executive offices)        (Zip code)

 

 

 

 

 

Bennett A. MacDougall, Esq.

200 Park Avenue

New York, New York  10166

 

 

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 

(212) 922-6400

 

 

Date of fiscal year end:

 

12/31

 

Date of reporting period:

06/31/16

 

             

 


 

 

FORM N-CSR

Item 1.       Reports to Stockholders.

                 


 

Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.

     

 

SEMIANNUAL REPORT

June 30, 2016

   
 

 

 

The views expressed in this report reflect those of the portfolio manager only through the end of the period covered and do not necessarily represent the views of Dreyfus or any other person in the Dreyfus organization. Any such views are subject to change at any time based upon market or other conditions and Dreyfus disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied on as investment advice and, because investment decisions for a Dreyfus fund are based on numerous factors, may not be relied on as an indication of trading intent on behalf of any Dreyfus fund.

 

Not FDIC-Insured • Not Bank-Guaranteed • May Lose Value

 

Contents

T H E F U N D

   

A Letter from the President

2

Discussion of Fund Performance

3

Understanding Your Fund’s Expenses

5

                                    Comparing Your Fund’s Expenses

 

With Those of Other Funds

5

Statement of Investments

6

Statement of Financial Futures

22

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

23

Statement of Operations

24

Statement of Changes in Net Assets

25

Financial Highlights

26

Notes to Financial Statements

28

                                    Information About the Renewal of

 

                                    The Fund’s Management and

 

Index Management Agreements

39

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N

 

Back Cover

 

       
 


Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.

 

The Fund

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Shareholder:

We are pleased to present this semiannual report for Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc., covering the six-month period from January 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016. For information about how the fund performed during the reporting period, as well as general market perspectives, we provide a Discussion of Fund Performance on the pages that follow.

Financial markets experienced heightened turbulence over the first half of 2016 when global economic challenges fueled dramatic swings in market sentiment. At the start of the year, investors reacted cautiously to an economic slowdown in China, sluggish growth in Europe, plummeting commodity prices, and rising short-term interest rates in the United States. These worries sparked sharp declines in U.S. and global equity markets, while high-quality bonds gained value as investors flocked to traditional safe havens.

Investor sentiment subsequently rebounded when U.S. monetary policymakers refrained from additional rate hikes, major central banks eased their monetary policies further, and commodity prices improved. Stocks rallied strongly during the spring, recouping earlier losses, and bonds continued to benefit from robust investor demand. Still, by June, uncertainty continued to dominate the capital markets amid worries about Great Britain’s exit from the European Union and disappointing job growth in the United States.

We remain encouraged by the resilience of the stock and bond markets, but we expect volatility to persist until global economic uncertainty abates. In addition, wide differences in underlying fundamental and technical influences across various asset classes, economic sectors, and regional markets suggest that selectivity may be an important determinant of investment success over the second half of 2016. As always, we encourage you to discuss the implications of our observations with your financial advisor.

Thank you for your continued confidence and support.

Sincerely,

J. Charles Cardona
President
The Dreyfus Corporation
July 15, 2016

2

 

DISCUSSION OF FUND PERFORMANCE

For the period of January 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016, as provided by Thomas J. Durante, CFA, Karen Q. Wong, CFA, and Richard A. Brown, CFA, Portfolio Managers

Market and Fund Performance Overview

For the six-month period ended June 30, 2016, Dreyfus Stock Index Fund’s Initial shares produced a total return of 3.71%, and its Service shares produced a total return of 3.58%.1 In comparison, the fund’s benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s® 500 Composite Stock Price Index (the “S&P 500 Index”), produced a total return of 3.82% for the same period.2,3

U.S. stocks posted moderately positive total returns, on average, over the first half of 2016, masking heightened market volatility. The differences in returns between the fund and the S&P 500 Index were primarily the result of transaction costs and operating expenses that are not reflected in the S&P 500 Index’s results.

The Fund’s Investment Approach

The fund seeks to match the total return of the S&P 500 Index by generally investing in all 500 stocks in the S&P 500 Index in proportion to their respective weighting. Often considered a proxy for the stock market in general, the S&P 500 Index is made up of 500 common stocks chosen to reflect the industries of the U.S. economy. Each stock is weighted by its market capitalization; that is, larger companies have greater representation in the S&P 500 Index than smaller ones. The fund also may use stock index futures as a substitute for the sale or purchase of securities.

Risk Aversion Dominated the U.S. Stock Market

Large-cap stocks generally proved volatile over the first half of 2016 as investors grew more averse to risks in light of concerns regarding several global economic headwinds. In January 2016, disappointing economic data and stock market turbulence in China sparked sharp declines in commodity prices, and investors grew concerned about the potential impact of China’s troubles on the United States. Moreover, investors worried that higher short-term interest rates from the Federal Reserve Board (the “Fed”) might weigh on the domestic economic recovery. Consequently, U.S. stocks fell precipitously at the start of the year.

The market’s slide continued into February, but relatively strong U.S. economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings helped trigger a rebound later in the month. The rally continued through the spring when the Fed refrained from implementing additional rate hikes, commodity prices rebounded, and foreign currencies strengthened against the U.S. dollar. Although a vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union introduced renewed market turmoil toward the end of June, U.S. markets bounced back quickly, enabling the S&P 500 Index to end the reporting period with a moderately positive total return.

Traditionally Defensive Sectors Led the Market’s Advance

Despite the S&P 500 Index’s positive total return over the first half of 2016, investors generally remained cautious in a market environment characterized by limited opportunities for earnings growth. Consequently, investors focused mainly on traditionally defensive and higher-yielding industry groups, while more growth-oriented areas remained out of favor.

The consumer staples sector proved to be the best-performing segment of the S&P 500 Index for the reporting period. Investors were attracted to the sector’s positive cash flows, predictable earnings, and high dividend yields. Food producers, tobacco companies, and household products

3

 

DISCUSSION OF FUND PERFORMANCE (continued)

sellers that had struggled in 2015 fared well over the first six months of 2016 after they reduced costs and achieved economies of scale through mergers and acquisitions. The energy sector rebounded strongly from previous weakness when oil and gas prices began to recover, helping to support gains among large, integrated energy producers. The dividend-paying utilities sector benefited from investors’ search for competitive levels of current income in a historically low interest-rate environment, and many electric utilities achieved higher revenues and earnings in the recovering U.S. economy.

The financials sector ranked as the worst-performing market sector for the reporting period. Banks’ profit margins were hurt by low short-term interest rates and narrowing yield differences along the bond market’s maturity spectrum. Furthermore, brokerage firms encountered lower trading volumes when many individual investors remained on the sidelines during a time of heightened market volatility. In the information technology sector, the mega-cap companies that led the stock market in 2015 gave back some of their previous gains when investors favored companies with higher dividend yields and lower levels of international exposure. Investors’ risk-averse investment postures also undermined the health care sector, where biotechnology developers were particularly hard hit by pricing pressures, and pharmaceutical companies struggled with slowing new-product pipelines and increased competition in the sale of generic drugs.

Replicating the Performance of the S&P 500 Index

Although we do not actively manage the fund’s investments in response to macroeconomic trends, we have been encouraged by the stock market’s resilience in the face of political uncertainty and persistent global economic headwinds. As always, we have continued to monitor the factors considered by the fund’s investment model in light of current market conditions.

July 15, 2016

Equities are subject generally to market, market sector, market liquidity, issuer, and investment style risks, among other factors, to varying degrees, all of which are more fully described in the fund’s prospectus.

The fund is only available as a funding vehicle under variable life insurance policies or variable annuity contracts issued by insurance companies. Individuals may not purchase shares of the fund directly. A variable annuity is an insurance contract issued by an insurance company that enables investors to accumulate assets on a tax-deferred basis for retirement or other long-term goals. The investment objective and policies of Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, made available through insurance products may be similar to other funds managed by Dreyfus. However, the investment results of the fund may be higher or lower than, and may not be comparable to, those of any other Dreyfus fund.

1 Total return includes reinvestment of dividends and any capital gains paid. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Share price and investment return fluctuate such that upon redemption, fund shares may be worth more or less than their original cost. The fund’s performance does not reflect the deduction of additional charges and expenses imposed in connection with investing in variable insurance contracts, which will reduce returns.

2 SOURCE: LIPPER INC. — Reflects reinvestment of dividends monthly and, where applicable, capital gain distributions. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Price Index is a widely accepted, unmanaged index of U.S. stock market performance. Investors cannot invest directly in any index.

3 “Standard & Poor’sÒ,” “S&PÒ,” “Standard & Poor’s 500Ô,”and “S&P 500Ò” are trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“Standard & Poor’s”) and have been licensed for use by the fund. The fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by Standard & Poor’s, and Standard & Poor’s does not make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the fund.

4

 

UNDERSTANDING YOUR FUND’S EXPENSES (Unaudited)

As a mutual fund investor, you pay ongoing expenses, such as management fees and other expenses. Using the information below, you can estimate how these expenses affect your investment and compare them with the expenses of other funds. You also may pay one-time transaction expenses, including sales charges (loads), redemption fees and expenses associated with variable annuity or insurance contracts, which are not shown in this section and would have resulted in higher total expenses. For more information, see your fund’s prospectus or talk to your financial adviser.

Review your fund’s expenses

The table below shows the expenses you would have paid on a $1,000 investment in Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc. from January 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016. It also shows how much a $1,000 investment would be worth at the close of the period, assuming actual returns and expenses.

           

Expenses and Value of a $1,000 Investment

   

assuming actual returns for the six months ended June 30, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

Service Shares

Expenses paid per $1,000

 

$ 1.37

$ 2.63

Ending value (after expenses)

 

$1,037.10

$1,035.80

COMPARING YOUR FUND’S EXPENSES
WITH THOSE OF OTHER FUNDS
(Unaudited)

Using the SEC’s method to compare expenses

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has established guidelines to help investors assess fund expenses. Per these guidelines, the table below shows your fund’s expenses based on a $1,000 investment, assuming a hypothetical 5% annualized return. You can use this information to compare the ongoing expenses (but not transaction expenses or total cost) of investing in the fund with those of other funds. All mutual fund shareholder reports will provide this information to help you make this comparison. Please note that you cannot use this information to estimate your actual ending account balance and expenses paid during the period.

           

Expenses and Value of a $1,000 Investment

   

assuming a hypothetical 5% annualized return for the six months ended June 30, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

Service Shares

Expenses paid per $1,000

 

$ 1.36

$ 2.61

Ending value (after expenses)

 

$1,023.52

$1,022.28

Expenses are equal to the fund’s annualized expense ratio of .27% for Initial shares and .52% for Service shares, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 182/366 (to reflect the one-half year period).

5

 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS

June 30, 2016 (Unaudited)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1%

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Automobiles & Components - .9%

         

BorgWarner

 

25,623

 

756,391

 

Delphi Automotive

 

32,171

 

2,013,905

 

Ford Motor

 

447,773

 

5,628,507

 

General Motors

 

162,767

 

4,606,306

 

Goodyear Tire & Rubber

 

31,651

 

812,165

 

Harley-Davidson

 

21,896

a

991,889

 

Johnson Controls

 

73,358

 

3,246,825

 
       

18,055,988

 

Banks - 5.2%

         

Bank of America

 

1,181,791

 

15,682,367

 

BB&T

 

94,086

 

3,350,402

 

Citigroup

 

337,276

 

14,297,130

 

Citizens Financial Group

 

59,962

 

1,198,041

 

Comerica

 

20,407

 

839,340

 

Fifth Third Bancorp

 

90,986

 

1,600,444

 

Huntington Bancshares

 

89,435

 

799,549

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

419,046

 

26,039,518

 

KeyCorp

 

94,207

 

1,040,987

 

M&T Bank

 

18,806

 

2,223,433

 

People's United Financial

 

35,645

 

522,556

 

PNC Financial Services Group

 

57,835

 

4,707,191

 

Regions Financial

 

145,918

 

1,241,762

 

SunTrust Banks

 

58,424

 

2,400,058

 

U.S. Bancorp

 

187,426

 

7,558,891

 

Wells Fargo & Co.

 

530,261

 

25,097,253

 

Zions Bancorporation

 

21,151

 

531,525

 
       

109,130,447

 

Capital Goods - 7.4%

         

3M

 

69,608

 

12,189,753

 

Acuity Brands

 

5,005

 

1,241,040

 

Allegion

 

10,480

 

727,626

 

AMETEK

 

27,624

 

1,277,058

 

Boeing

 

68,908

 

8,949,082

 

Caterpillar

 

66,379

 

5,032,192

 

Cummins

 

18,244

 

2,051,355

 

Danaher

 

68,306

 

6,898,906

 

Deere & Co.

 

34,307

a

2,780,239

 

6

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Capital Goods - 7.4% (continued)

         

Dover

 

18,477

 

1,280,826

 

Eaton

 

52,744

 

3,150,399

 

Emerson Electric

 

73,637

 

3,840,906

 

Fastenal

 

32,915

a

1,461,097

 

Flowserve

 

15,903

 

718,339

 

Fluor

 

16,907

 

833,177

 

Fortune Brands Home & Security

 

15,791

 

915,404

 

General Dynamics

 

33,489

 

4,663,008

 

General Electric

 

1,056,183

 

33,248,641

 

Honeywell International

 

87,763

 

10,208,592

 

Illinois Tool Works

 

37,281

 

3,883,189

 

Ingersoll-Rand

 

29,415

 

1,873,147

 

Jacobs Engineering Group

 

14,827

b

738,533

 

L-3 Communications Holdings

 

8,941

 

1,311,555

 

Lockheed Martin

 

30,089

 

7,467,187

 

Masco

 

38,626

 

1,195,088

 

Northrop Grumman

 

20,779

 

4,618,756

 

PACCAR

 

39,422

 

2,044,819

 

Parker-Hannifin

 

15,664

 

1,692,495

 

Pentair

 

20,249

 

1,180,314

 

Quanta Services

 

18,454

b

426,656

 

Raytheon

 

34,294

 

4,662,269

 

Rockwell Automation

 

15,000

 

1,722,300

 

Rockwell Collins

 

15,188

 

1,293,106

 

Roper Technologies

 

11,525

 

1,965,704

 

Snap-on

 

6,382

 

1,007,207

 

Stanley Black & Decker

 

17,422

 

1,937,675

 

Textron

 

31,660

 

1,157,490

 

TransDigm Group

 

6,138

b

1,618,529

 

United Rentals

 

10,672

b

716,091

 

United Technologies

 

89,313

 

9,159,048

 

W.W. Grainger

 

6,697

a

1,521,893

 

Xylem

 

21,521

 

960,913

 
       

155,621,604

 

Commercial & Professional Services - .7%

         

Cintas

 

10,688

 

1,048,813

 

Dun & Bradstreet

 

3,839

 

467,744

 

Equifax

 

13,677

 

1,756,127

 

Nielsen Holdings

 

41,773

 

2,170,943

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Commercial & Professional Services - .7% (continued)

         

Pitney Bowes

 

22,559

 

401,550

 

Republic Services

 

28,105

 

1,442,068

 

Robert Half International

 

14,665

 

559,616

 

Stericycle

 

9,329

a,b

971,335

 

Tyco International

 

48,451

 

2,064,013

 

Verisk Analytics

 

17,523

b

1,420,765

 

Waste Management

 

48,001

 

3,181,026

 
       

15,484,000

 

Consumer Durables & Apparel - 1.4%

         

Coach

 

31,980

 

1,302,865

 

D.R. Horton

 

38,002

 

1,196,303

 

Garmin

 

13,945

 

591,547

 

Hanesbrands

 

45,718

 

1,148,893

 

Harman International Industries

 

7,735

 

555,528

 

Hasbro

 

12,343

 

1,036,689

 

Leggett & Platt

 

15,962

 

815,818

 

Lennar, Cl. A

 

20,524

 

946,156

 

Mattel

 

39,749

 

1,243,746

 

Michael Kors Holdings

 

20,599

b

1,019,239

 

Mohawk Industries

 

7,084

b

1,344,260

 

Newell Rubbermaid

 

52,376

 

2,543,902

 

NIKE, Cl. B

 

153,362

 

8,465,582

 

PulteGroup

 

38,244

 

745,376

 

PVH

 

9,118

 

859,189

 

Ralph Lauren

 

7,019

 

629,043

 

Under Armour, Cl. A

 

20,303

a,b

814,759

 

Under Armour, Cl. C

 

20,447

b

744,275

 

VF

 

38,974

 

2,396,511

 

Whirlpool

 

8,800

 

1,466,432

 
       

29,866,113

 

Consumer Services - 1.7%

         

Carnival

 

50,445

 

2,229,669

 

Chipotle Mexican Grill

 

3,478

a,b

1,400,799

 

Darden Restaurants

 

12,916

 

818,099

 

H&R Block

 

27,005

 

621,115

 

Marriott International, Cl. A

 

22,576

a

1,500,401

 

McDonald's

 

100,905

 

12,142,908

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises

 

19,147

 

1,285,721

 

Starbucks

 

168,108

 

9,602,329

 

8

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Consumer Services - 1.7% (continued)

         

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

 

19,697

c

1,456,593

 

Wyndham Worldwide

 

13,376

a

952,772

 

Wynn Resorts

 

9,128

 

827,362

 

Yum! Brands

 

46,819

 

3,882,231

 
       

36,719,999

 

Diversified Financials - 4.6%

         

Affiliated Managers Group

 

6,344

b

893,045

 

American Express

 

93,780

 

5,698,073

 

Ameriprise Financial

 

19,364

 

1,739,855

 

Bank of New York Mellon

 

123,144

 

4,784,144

 

Berkshire Hathaway, Cl. B

 

215,061

b

31,138,682

 

BlackRock

 

14,478

 

4,959,149

 

Capital One Financial

 

58,889

 

3,740,040

 

Charles Schwab

 

137,993

 

3,492,603

 

CME Group

 

38,854

 

3,784,380

 

Discover Financial Services

 

47,487

 

2,544,828

 

E*TRADE Financial

 

32,907

b

772,985

 

Franklin Resources

 

44,177

 

1,474,187

 

Goldman Sachs Group

 

44,377

 

6,593,535

 

Intercontinental Exchange

 

13,507

 

3,457,252

 

Invesco

 

47,976

 

1,225,307

 

Legg Mason

 

11,340

 

334,417

 

Leucadia National

 

37,276

 

645,993

 

Moody's

 

19,717

 

1,847,680

 

Morgan Stanley

 

172,663

 

4,485,785

 

Nasdaq

 

13,357

 

863,797

 

Navient

 

39,541

 

472,515

 

Northern Trust

 

24,502

 

1,623,503

 

S&P Global

 

30,994

 

3,324,416

 

State Street

 

46,013

 

2,481,021

 

Synchrony Financial

 

94,144

b

2,379,960

 

T. Rowe Price Group

 

28,648

 

2,090,445

 
       

96,847,597

 

Energy - 7.3%

         

Anadarko Petroleum

 

58,556

 

3,118,107

 

Apache

 

42,404

 

2,360,631

 

Baker Hughes

 

49,541

 

2,235,785

 

Cabot Oil & Gas

 

52,049

 

1,339,741

 

Chesapeake Energy

 

57,801

a,b

247,388

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Energy - 7.3% (continued)

         

Chevron

 

216,305

 

22,675,253

 

Cimarex Energy

 

10,526

 

1,255,962

 

Columbia Pipeline Group

 

43,681

 

1,113,429

 

Concho Resources

 

14,688

b

1,751,838

 

ConocoPhillips

 

142,106

 

6,195,822

 

Devon Energy

 

60,093

 

2,178,371

 

Diamond Offshore Drilling

 

8,439

a

205,321

 

EOG Resources

 

62,826

 

5,240,945

 

EQT

 

19,794

 

1,532,649

 

Exxon Mobil

 

475,924

 

44,613,116

 

FMC Technologies

 

26,683

b

711,636

 

Halliburton

 

98,027

 

4,439,643

 

Helmerich & Payne

 

11,994

a

805,157

 

Hess

 

30,159

 

1,812,556

 

Kinder Morgan

 

207,914

 

3,892,150

 

Marathon Oil

 

95,409

 

1,432,089

 

Marathon Petroleum

 

60,872

 

2,310,701

 

Murphy Oil

 

18,377

 

583,470

 

National Oilwell Varco

 

43,828

a

1,474,812

 

Newfield Exploration

 

22,413

b

990,206

 

Noble Energy

 

47,968

 

1,720,612

 

Occidental Petroleum

 

87,293

 

6,595,859

 

ONEOK

 

23,907

 

1,134,387

 

Phillips 66

 

54,280

a

4,306,575

 

Pioneer Natural Resources

 

18,571

 

2,808,121

 

Range Resources

 

19,349

 

834,716

 

Schlumberger

 

158,742

 

12,553,317

 

Southwestern Energy

 

43,243

a,b

543,997

 

Spectra Energy

 

78,456

 

2,873,843

 

Tesoro

 

13,848

 

1,037,492

 

Transocean

 

38,142

a

453,508

 

Valero Energy

 

54,879

 

2,798,829

 

Williams

 

75,719

 

1,637,802

 
       

153,815,836

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.3%

         

Costco Wholesale

 

50,238

 

7,889,376

 

CVS Health

 

123,441

 

11,818,241

 

Kroger

 

111,370

 

4,097,302

 

Sysco

 

59,903

 

3,039,478

 

10

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.3% (continued)

         

Walgreens Boots Alliance

 

98,767

 

8,224,328

 

Wal-Mart Stores

 

175,528

 

12,817,055

 

Whole Foods Market

 

37,281

a

1,193,738

 
       

49,079,518

 

Food, Beverage & Tobacco - 6.0%

         

Altria Group

 

224,526

 

15,483,313

 

Archer-Daniels-Midland

 

68,888

 

2,954,606

 

Brown-Forman, Cl. B

 

12,109

 

1,207,994

 

Campbell Soup

 

20,104

 

1,337,519

 

Coca-Cola

 

446,868

 

20,256,526

 

ConAgra Foods

 

49,075

 

2,346,276

 

Constellation Brands, Cl. A

 

20,079

 

3,321,067

 

Dr. Pepper Snapple Group

 

21,537

 

2,081,120

 

General Mills

 

68,254

 

4,867,875

 

Hershey

 

16,187

 

1,837,063

 

Hormel Foods

 

31,550

 

1,154,730

 

J.M. Smucker

 

13,524

 

2,061,193

 

Kellogg

 

29,169

 

2,381,649

 

Kraft Heinz

 

68,365

 

6,048,935

 

McCormick & Co.

 

13,139

 

1,401,537

 

Mead Johnson Nutrition

 

21,408

 

1,942,776

 

Molson Coors Brewing, Cl. B

 

20,639

 

2,087,222

 

Mondelez International, Cl. A

 

178,316

 

8,115,161

 

Monster Beverage

 

16,220

b

2,606,716

 

PepsiCo

 

165,343

 

17,516,437

 

Philip Morris International

 

178,035

 

18,109,720

 

Reynolds American

 

94,184

 

5,079,343

 

Tyson Foods, Cl. A

 

33,580

 

2,242,808

 
       

126,441,586

 

Health Care Equipment & Services - 5.3%

         

Abbott Laboratories

 

169,644

 

6,668,706

 

Aetna

 

39,762

 

4,856,133

 

AmerisourceBergen

 

21,133

 

1,676,270

 

Anthem

 

30,170

 

3,962,528

 

Baxter International

 

63,355

 

2,864,913

 

Becton Dickinson & Co.

 

24,348

 

4,129,177

 

Boston Scientific

 

155,681

b

3,638,265

 

C.R. Bard

 

8,374

 

1,969,230

 

Cardinal Health

 

37,102

 

2,894,327

 

11

 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Health Care Equipment & Services - 5.3% (continued)

         

Centene

 

19,439

b

1,387,361

 

Cerner

 

34,826

b

2,040,804

 

Cigna

 

29,430

 

3,766,746

 

DaVita HealthCare Partners

 

19,141

b

1,479,982

 

DENTSPLY SIRONA

 

27,435

 

1,702,067

 

Edwards Lifesciences

 

24,503

b

2,443,684

 

Express Scripts Holding

 

73,278

b

5,554,472

 

HCA Holdings

 

35,009

b

2,696,043

 

Henry Schein

 

9,394

b

1,660,859

 

Hologic

 

28,226

b

976,620

 

Humana

 

16,802

 

3,022,344

 

Intuitive Surgical

 

4,367

b

2,888,377

 

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings

 

11,334

b

1,476,480

 

McKesson

 

25,854

 

4,825,649

 

Medtronic

 

160,749

 

13,948,191

 

Patterson

 

9,222

 

441,642

 

Quest Diagnostics

 

16,168

 

1,316,237

 

St. Jude Medical

 

32,606

 

2,543,268

 

Stryker

 

35,715

 

4,279,728

 

UnitedHealth Group

 

109,118

 

15,407,462

 

Universal Health Services, Cl. B

 

10,263

 

1,376,268

 

Varian Medical Systems

 

11,613

a,b

954,937

 

Zimmer Biomet Holdings

 

22,152

 

2,666,658

 
       

111,515,428

 

Household & Personal Products - 2.1%

         

Church & Dwight

 

14,918

 

1,534,913

 

Clorox

 

14,727

 

2,038,070

 

Colgate-Palmolive

 

102,483

 

7,501,756

 

Estee Lauder, Cl. A

 

24,952

 

2,271,131

 

Kimberly-Clark

 

41,171

 

5,660,189

 

Procter & Gamble

 

305,489

 

25,865,754

 
       

44,871,813

 

Insurance - 2.7%

         

Aflac

 

47,602

 

3,434,960

 

Allstate

 

43,041

 

3,010,718

 

American International Group

 

128,582

 

6,800,702

 

Aon

 

30,456

 

3,326,709

 

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

 

20,198

 

961,425

 

Assurant

 

7,939

 

685,215

 

12

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Insurance - 2.7% (continued)

         

Chubb

 

53,300

 

6,966,843

 

Cincinnati Financial

 

17,119

 

1,282,042

 

Hartford Financial Services Group

 

45,509

 

2,019,689

 

Lincoln National

 

29,104

 

1,128,362

 

Loews

 

30,753

 

1,263,641

 

Marsh & McLennan Cos.

 

59,453

 

4,070,152

 

MetLife

 

126,073

 

5,021,488

 

Principal Financial Group

 

30,470

 

1,252,622

 

Progressive

 

66,101

 

2,214,384

 

Prudential Financial

 

50,722

 

3,618,507

 

Torchmark

 

13,951

 

862,451

 

Travelers

 

33,804

 

4,024,028

 

Unum Group

 

27,763

 

882,586

 

Willis Towers Watson

 

15,637

 

1,943,835

 

XL Group

 

34,281

 

1,141,900

 
       

55,912,259

 

Materials - 2.8%

         

Air Products & Chemicals

 

22,158

 

3,147,322

 

Albemarle

 

10,293

 

816,338

 

Alcoa

 

147,770

 

1,369,828

 

Avery Dennison

 

9,745

 

728,439

 

Ball

 

19,019

 

1,374,884

 

CF Industries Holdings

 

27,459

 

661,762

 

Dow Chemical

 

128,111

 

6,368,398

 

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

 

99,817

 

6,468,142

 

Eastman Chemical

 

16,345

 

1,109,826

 

Ecolab

 

30,037

 

3,562,388

 

FMC

 

15,049

 

696,919

 

Freeport-McMoRan

 

142,506

a

1,587,517

 

International Flavors & Fragrances

 

9,047

 

1,140,555

 

International Paper

 

47,531

 

2,014,364

 

LyondellBasell Industries, Cl. A

 

39,610

 

2,947,776

 

Martin Marietta Materials

 

7,567

 

1,452,864

 

Monsanto

 

49,738

 

5,143,407

 

Mosaic

 

40,195

 

1,052,305

 

Newmont Mining

 

59,467

 

2,326,349

 

Nucor

 

36,295

 

1,793,336

 

Owens-Illinois

 

18,523

b

333,599

 

PPG Industries

 

30,597

 

3,186,678

 

13

 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Materials - 2.8% (continued)

         

Praxair

 

32,244

 

3,623,903

 

Sealed Air

 

22,529

 

1,035,658

 

Sherwin-Williams

 

9,229

 

2,710,280

 

Vulcan Materials

 

15,119

 

1,819,723

 

WestRock

 

29,686

 

1,153,876

 
       

59,626,436

 

Media - 2.7%

         

CBS, Cl. B

 

47,776

 

2,600,925

 

Comcast, Cl. A

 

277,985

 

18,121,842

 

Discovery Communications, Cl. A

 

17,165

b

433,073

 

Discovery Communications, Cl. C

 

27,420

b

653,967

 

Interpublic Group of Companies

 

46,836

 

1,081,912

 

News Corp., Cl. A

 

43,318

 

491,659

 

News Corp., Cl. B

 

11,939

 

139,328

 

Omnicom Group

 

27,618

 

2,250,591

 

Scripps Networks Interactive, Cl. A

 

11,148

a

694,186

 

TEGNA

 

25,180

 

583,421

 

Time Warner

 

91,041

 

6,695,155

 

Twenty-First Century Fox, Cl. A

 

128,285

 

3,470,109

 

Twenty-First Century Fox, Cl. B

 

48,741

 

1,328,192

 

Viacom, Cl. B

 

40,362

 

1,673,812

 

Walt Disney

 

171,721

 

16,797,748

 
       

57,015,920

 

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences - 9.2%

         

AbbVie

 

185,615

a

11,491,425

 

Agilent Technologies

 

38,030

 

1,687,011

 

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

 

25,386

b

2,964,069

 

Allergan

 

45,396

b

10,490,562

 

Amgen

 

86,215

 

13,117,612

 

Biogen

 

25,206

b

6,095,315

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb

 

190,842

 

14,036,429

 

Celgene

 

89,520

b

8,829,358

 

Eli Lilly & Co.

 

110,965

 

8,738,494

 

Endo International

 

22,725

b

354,283

 

Gilead Sciences

 

153,070

 

12,769,099

 

Illumina

 

16,786

b

2,356,419

 

Johnson & Johnson

 

315,488

 

38,268,694

 

Mallinckrodt

 

12,979

b

788,864

 

Merck & Co.

 

317,425

 

18,286,854

 

14

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences - 9.2% (continued)

         

Mylan

 

48,961

b

2,117,074

 

PerkinElmer

 

12,404

 

650,218

 

Perrigo

 

16,466

 

1,492,972

 

Pfizer

 

696,042

 

24,507,639

 

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

 

8,918

b

3,114,433

 

Thermo Fisher Scientific

 

45,034

 

6,654,224

 

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

 

27,921

b

2,401,764

 

Waters

 

9,198

b

1,293,699

 

Zoetis

 

52,001

 

2,467,967

 
       

194,974,478

 

Real Estate - 3.2%

         

American Tower

 

48,435

c

5,502,700

 

Apartment Investment & Management, Cl. A

 

17,532

c

774,213

 

AvalonBay Communities

 

15,545

c

2,804,163

 

Boston Properties

 

17,257

c

2,276,198

 

CBRE Group, Cl. A

 

31,523

b,c

834,729

 

Crown Castle International

 

38,087

c

3,863,164

 

Digital Realty Trust

 

16,729

a,c

1,823,294

 

Equinix

 

7,966

c

3,088,657

 

Equity Residential

 

41,470

c

2,856,454

 

Essex Property Trust

 

7,377

c

1,682,620

 

Extra Space Storage

 

14,040

c

1,299,262

 

Federal Realty Investment Trust

 

7,898

c

1,307,514

 

General Growth Properties

 

66,192

c

1,973,845

 

HCP

 

53,576

a,c

1,895,519

 

Host Hotels & Resorts

 

85,205

c

1,381,173

 

Iron Mountain

 

27,561

c

1,097,755

 

Kimco Realty

 

48,232

c

1,513,520

 

Macerich

 

14,562

c

1,243,449

 

Prologis

 

59,529

c

2,919,302

 

Public Storage

 

16,909

c

4,321,771

 

Realty Income

 

29,544

a,c

2,049,172

 

Simon Property Group

 

35,229

c

7,641,170

 

SL Green Realty

 

11,246

c

1,197,362

 

UDR

 

29,778

c

1,099,404

 

Ventas

 

38,353

c

2,792,865

 

Vornado Realty Trust

 

20,081

c

2,010,510

 

Welltower

 

40,557

c

3,089,227

 

15

 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Real Estate - 3.2% (continued)

         

Weyerhaeuser

 

86,036

c

2,561,292

 
       

66,900,304

 

Retailing - 5.5%

         

Advance Auto Parts

 

8,258

 

1,334,741

 

Amazon.com

 

44,402

b

31,774,959

 

AutoNation

 

7,596

a,b

356,860

 

AutoZone

 

3,476

b

2,759,388

 

Bed Bath & Beyond

 

17,729

 

766,247

 

Best Buy

 

33,600

 

1,028,160

 

CarMax

 

22,470

a,b

1,101,704

 

Dollar General

 

32,643

 

3,068,442

 

Dollar Tree

 

26,794

b

2,525,067

 

Expedia

 

13,236

 

1,406,987

 

Foot Locker

 

15,694

 

860,973

 

Gap

 

26,948

a

571,837

 

Genuine Parts

 

17,443

 

1,766,104

 

Home Depot

 

142,917

 

18,249,072

 

Kohl's

 

22,557

 

855,361

 

L Brands

 

29,010

 

1,947,441

 

LKQ

 

35,009

b

1,109,785

 

Lowe's

 

101,856

 

8,063,940

 

Macy's

 

35,581

 

1,195,877

 

Netflix

 

48,561

b

4,442,360

 

Nordstrom

 

15,957

a

607,164

 

O'Reilly Automotive

 

11,128

b

3,016,801

 

Priceline Group

 

5,668

b

7,075,988

 

Ross Stores

 

46,395

 

2,630,133

 

Signet Jewelers

 

9,046

 

745,481

 

Staples

 

70,232

 

605,400

 

Target

 

67,715

 

4,727,861

 

The TJX Companies

 

76,361

 

5,897,360

 

Tiffany & Co.

 

12,990

a

787,714

 

Tractor Supply

 

15,157

 

1,382,015

 

TripAdvisor

 

12,406

a,b

797,706

 

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance

 

7,353

b

1,791,485

 

Urban Outfitters

 

10,574

b

290,785

 
       

115,541,198

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.8%

         

Analog Devices

 

35,658

 

2,019,669

 

16

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.8% (continued)

         

Applied Materials

 

125,374

 

3,005,215

 

Broadcom

 

42,493

 

6,603,412

 

First Solar

 

8,126

b

393,948

 

Intel

 

541,949

 

17,775,927

 

KLA-Tencor

 

17,801

 

1,303,923

 

Lam Research

 

17,752

a

1,492,233

 

Linear Technology

 

26,925

 

1,252,820

 

Microchip Technology

 

24,618

a

1,249,610

 

Micron Technology

 

122,883

b

1,690,870

 

NVIDIA

 

59,267

 

2,786,142

 

Qorvo

 

14,862

b

821,274

 

QUALCOMM

 

168,771

 

9,041,062

 

Skyworks Solutions

 

21,670

 

1,371,278

 

Texas Instruments

 

116,087

 

7,272,851

 

Xilinx

 

29,035

 

1,339,385

 
       

59,419,619

 

Software & Services - 11.9%

         

Accenture, Cl. A

 

71,766

 

8,130,370

 

Activision Blizzard

 

58,427

 

2,315,462

 

Adobe Systems

 

56,945

b

5,454,762

 

Akamai Technologies

 

20,267

b

1,133,533

 

Alliance Data Systems

 

7,035

b

1,378,297

 

Alphabet, Cl. A

 

33,703

b

23,711,072

 

Alphabet, Cl. C

 

33,970

b

23,510,637

 

Autodesk

 

26,261

b

1,421,771

 

Automatic Data Processing

 

53,133

 

4,881,329

 

CA

 

33,996

 

1,116,089

 

Citrix Systems

 

17,703

b

1,417,833

 

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Cl. A

 

68,621

b

3,927,866

 

CSRA

 

15,515

 

363,516

 

eBay

 

124,265

b

2,909,044

 

Electronic Arts

 

34,818

b

2,637,812

 

Facebook, Cl. A

 

265,292

b

30,317,570

 

Fidelity National Information Services

 

31,786

 

2,341,992

 

Fiserv

 

25,546

b

2,777,617

 

Global Payments

 

17,616

 

1,257,430

 

International Business Machines

 

101,127

 

15,349,056

 

Intuit

 

29,412

 

3,282,673

 

MasterCard, Cl. A

 

111,508

 

9,819,394

 

17

 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Software & Services - 11.9% (continued)

         

Microsoft

 

902,368

 

46,174,171

 

Oracle

 

357,436

 

14,629,856

 

Paychex

 

36,566

 

2,175,677

 

PayPal Holdings

 

126,366

 

4,613,623

 

Red Hat

 

20,430

b

1,483,218

 

salesforce.com

 

73,075

b

5,802,886

 

Symantec

 

70,773

 

1,453,677

 

Teradata

 

16,816

b

421,577

 

Total System Services

 

19,189

 

1,019,128

 

VeriSign

 

11,197

a,b

968,093

 

Visa, Cl. A

 

219,507

 

16,280,834

 

Western Union

 

57,798

 

1,108,566

 

Xerox

 

108,773

 

1,032,256

 

Yahoo!

 

99,486

b

3,736,694

 
       

250,355,381

 

Technology Hardware & Equipment - 4.9%

         

Amphenol, Cl. A

 

34,615

 

1,984,478

 

Apple

 

629,020

 

60,134,312

 

Cisco Systems

 

577,329

 

16,563,569

 

Corning

 

123,692

 

2,533,212

 

EMC

 

222,473

 

6,044,591

 

F5 Networks

 

7,954

b

905,483

 

FLIR Systems

 

15,520

 

480,344

 

Harris

 

13,815

 

1,152,724

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

 

191,091

 

3,491,233

 

HP

 

197,830

 

2,482,767

 

Juniper Networks

 

39,657

 

891,886

 

Motorola Solutions

 

17,954

 

1,184,425

 

NetApp

 

34,821

 

856,248

 

Seagate Technology

 

34,194

a

832,966

 

TE Connectivity

 

41,100

 

2,347,221

 

Western Digital

 

31,531

a

1,490,155

 
       

103,375,614

 

Telecommunication Services - 2.9%

         

AT&T

 

706,516

 

30,528,556

 

CenturyLink

 

62,913

 

1,825,106

 

Frontier Communications

 

129,129

a

637,897

 

Level 3 Communications

 

33,249

b

1,711,991

 

18

 

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Telecommunication Services - 2.9% (continued)

         

Verizon Communications

 

467,831

 

26,123,683

 
       

60,827,233

 

Transportation - 2.0%

         

Alaska Air Group

 

14,053

 

819,149

 

American Airlines Group

 

66,525

 

1,883,323

 

CH Robinson Worldwide

 

16,456

 

1,221,858

 

CSX

 

109,886

 

2,865,827

 

Delta Air Lines

 

89,987

 

3,278,226

 

Expeditors International of Washington

 

20,904

 

1,025,132

 

FedEx

 

28,724

 

4,359,729

 

J.B. Hunt Transport Services

 

10,387

 

840,620

 

Kansas City Southern

 

12,523

 

1,128,197

 

Norfolk Southern

 

34,300

 

2,919,959

 

Ryder System

 

5,732

 

350,454

 

Southwest Airlines

 

74,600

 

2,925,066

 

Union Pacific

 

96,854

 

8,450,512

 

United Continental Holdings

 

38,692

b

1,587,920

 

United Parcel Service, Cl. B

 

78,939

 

8,503,309

 
       

42,159,281

 

Utilities - 3.6%

         

AES

 

72,749

 

907,908

 

AGL Resources

 

13,585

 

896,202

 

Alliant Energy

 

20,878

 

828,857

 

Ameren

 

27,933

 

1,496,650

 

American Electric Power

 

56,071

 

3,930,016

 

American Water Works

 

20,416

 

1,725,356

 

CenterPoint Energy

 

50,611

 

1,214,664

 

CMS Energy

 

30,863

 

1,415,377

 

Consolidated Edison

 

34,881

 

2,805,828

 

Dominion Resources

 

70,667

 

5,507,079

 

DTE Energy

 

20,428

 

2,024,823

 

Duke Energy

 

79,052

 

6,781,871

 

Edison International

 

37,114

 

2,882,644

 

Entergy

 

20,837

 

1,695,090

 

Eversource Energy

 

35,457

 

2,123,874

 

Exelon

 

104,173

 

3,787,730

 

FirstEnergy

 

47,201

 

1,647,787

 

NextEra Energy

 

52,634

 

6,863,474

 

NiSource

 

34,869

 

924,726

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

           
 

Common Stocks - 99.1% (continued)

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Utilities - 3.6% (continued)

         

NRG Energy

 

38,144

 

571,779

 

PG&E

 

56,910

 

3,637,687

 

Pinnacle West Capital

 

12,756

 

1,034,001

 

PPL

 

76,207

 

2,876,814

 

Public Service Enterprise Group

 

57,675

 

2,688,232

 

SCANA

 

15,546

 

1,176,210

 

Sempra Energy

 

27,193

 

3,100,546

 

Southern

 

107,639

 

5,772,680

 

TECO Energy

 

25,843

 

714,301

 

WEC Energy Group

 

36,719

 

2,397,751

 

Xcel Energy

 

56,928

 

2,549,236

 
       

75,979,193

 

Total Common Stocks (cost $925,125,360)

     

2,089,536,845

 

Short-Term Investments - .1%

 

Principal Amount ($)

 

Value ($)

 

U.S. Treasury Bills

         

0.24%, 9/15/16
(cost $1,169,418)

 

1,170,000

d

1,169,516

 

Other Investment - 1.0%

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Registered Investment Company;

         

Dreyfus Institutional Preferred Plus Money Market Fund
(cost $21,980,937)

 

21,980,937

e

21,980,937

 

Investment of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned - .7%

         

Registered Investment Company;

         

Dreyfus Institutional Cash Advantage Fund, Institutional Shares
(cost $13,861,267)

 

13,861,267

e

13,861,267

 

Total Investments (cost $962,136,982)

 

100.9%

 

2,126,548,565

 

Liabilities, Less Cash and Receivables

 

(.9%)

 

(18,752,189)

 

Net Assets

 

100.0%

 

2,107,796,376

 

a Security, or portion thereof, on loan. At June 30, 2016, the value of the fund’s securities on loan was $48,178,577 and the value of the collateral held by the fund was $48,753,676, consisting of cash collateral of $13,861,267 and U.S. Government & Agency securities valued at $34,892,409.

b Non-income producing security.

c Investment in real estate investment trust.

d Held by or on behalf of a counterparty for open financial futures contracts.

e Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund.

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Portfolio Summary (Unaudited)

Value (%)

Software & Services

11.9

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences

9.2

Capital Goods

7.4

Energy

7.3

Food, Beverage & Tobacco

6.0

Retailing

5.5

Health Care Equipment & Services

5.3

Banks

5.2

Technology Hardware & Equipment

4.9

Diversified Financials

4.6

Utilities

3.6

Real Estate

3.2

Telecommunication Services

2.9

Materials

2.8

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

2.8

Insurance

2.7

Media

2.7

Food & Staples Retailing

2.3

Household & Personal Products

2.1

Transportation

2.0

Short-Term/Money Market Investments

1.8

Consumer Services

1.7

Consumer Durables & Apparel

1.4

Automobiles & Components

.9

Commercial & Professional Services

.7

 

100.9

 Based on net assets.

See notes to financial statements.

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL FUTURES

June 30, 2016 (Unaudited)

           
 

Contracts

Market Value Covered by Contracts ($)

Expiration

Unrealized (Depreciation) at 06/30/2016 ($)

 
           

Financial Futures Long

         

Standard & Poor's 500 E-mini

242

25,291,420

September 2016

(59,104)

 

Gross Unrealized Depreciation

     

(59,104)

 

See notes to financial statements.

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

June 30, 2016 (Unaudited)

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost

 

Value

 

Assets ($):

 

 

 

 

Investments in securities—See Statement of Investments
(including securities on loan, valued at $48,178,577)—Note 1(b):

 

 

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

 

926,294,778

 

2,090,706,361

 

Affiliated issuers

 

35,842,204

 

35,842,204

 

Cash

 

 

 

 

1,101,187

 

Dividends, interest and securities lending income receivable

 

 

 

 

2,377,739

 

Receivable for futures variation margin—Note 4

 

 

 

 

291,411

 

Prepaid expenses

 

 

 

 

11,328

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,130,330,230

 

Liabilities ($):

 

 

 

 

Due to The Dreyfus Corporation and affiliates—Note 3(c)

 

 

 

 

466,252

 

Liability for securities on loan—Note 1(b)

 

 

 

 

13,861,267

 

Payable for shares of Common Stock redeemed

 

 

 

 

6,200,098

 

Payable for investment securities purchased

 

 

 

 

1,852,479

 

Accrued expenses

 

 

 

 

153,758

 

 

 

 

 

 

22,533,854

 

Net Assets ($)

 

 

2,107,796,376

 

Composition of Net Assets ($):

 

 

 

 

Paid-in capital

 

 

 

 

960,899,668

 

Accumulated undistributed investment income—net

 

 

 

 

1,051,342

 

Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments

 

 

 

 

(18,507,113)

 

Accumulated net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
on investments [including ($59,104) net unrealized
(depreciation) on financial futures]

 

 

 

 

1,164,352,479

 

Net Assets ($)

 

 

2,107,796,376

 

 

       

Net Asset Value Per Share

Initial Shares

Service Shares

 

Net Assets ($)

1,909,981,524

197,814,852

 

Shares Outstanding

44,431,687

4,596,252

 

Net Asset Value Per Share ($)

42.99

43.04

 

See notes to financial statements.

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Six Months Ended June 30, 2016 (Unaudited)

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Income ($):

 

 

 

 

Income:

 

 

 

 

Cash dividends:

 

 

 

 

Unaffiliated issuers

 

 

22,931,840

 

Affiliated issuers

 

 

29,294

 

Income from securities lending—Note 1(b)

 

 

72,947

 

Interest

 

 

1,471

 

Total Income

 

 

23,035,552

 

Expenses:

 

 

 

 

Management fee—Note 3(a)

 

 

2,483,417

 

Distribution fees—Note 3(b)

 

 

240,636

 

Directors’ fees and expenses—Note 3(d)

 

 

90,132

 

Prospectus and shareholders’ reports

 

 

56,094

 

Professional fees

 

 

53,654

 

Loan commitment fees—Note 2

 

 

9,420

 

Shareholder servicing costs—Note 3(c)

 

 

2,053

 

Registration fees

 

 

352

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

87,395

 

Total Expenses

 

 

3,023,153

 

Less—reduction in fees due to earnings credits—Note 3(c)

 

 

(30)

 

Net Expenses

 

 

3,023,123

 

Investment Income—Net

 

 

20,012,429

 

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments—Note 4 ($):

 

 

Net realized gain (loss) on investments

20,487,566

 

Net realized gain (loss) on financial futures

 

 

665,288

 

Net Realized Gain (Loss)

 

 

21,152,854

 

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments

 

 

33,694,818

 

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on financial futures

 

 

(23,983)

 

Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)

 

 

33,670,835

 

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments

 

 

54,823,689

 

Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

 

74,836,118

 

See notes to financial statements.

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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

                   
                   
                   

 

 

 

 

Six Months Ended
June 30, 2016 (Unaudited)

 

 

 

Year Ended
December 31, 2015

 

Operations ($):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment income—net

 

 

20,012,429

 

 

 

38,033,215

 

Net realized gain (loss) on investments

 

21,152,854

 

 

 

78,121,420

 

Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
on investments

 

33,670,835

 

 

 

(91,936,305)

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
Resulting from Operations

74,836,118

 

 

 

24,218,330

 

Dividends to Shareholders from ($):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment income—net:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

 

 

(19,561,818)

 

 

 

(34,900,712)

 

Service Shares

 

 

(1,796,284)

 

 

 

(3,321,783)

 

Net realized gain on investments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

 

 

(66,770,473)

 

 

 

(53,808,935)

 

Service Shares

 

 

(6,995,648)

 

 

 

(6,088,629)

 

Total Dividends

 

 

(95,124,223)

 

 

 

(98,120,059)

 

Capital Stock Transactions ($):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net proceeds from shares sold:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

 

 

91,950,461

 

 

 

213,837,562

 

Service Shares

 

 

10,320,047

 

 

 

12,117,429

 

Dividends reinvested:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

 

 

86,332,291

 

 

 

88,709,647

 

Service Shares

 

 

8,791,932

 

 

 

9,410,412

 

Cost of shares redeemed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

 

 

(130,778,135)

 

 

 

(310,357,317)

 

Service Shares

 

 

(22,269,746)

 

 

 

(45,945,352)

 

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
from Capital Stock Transactions

44,346,850

 

 

 

(32,227,619)

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

24,058,745

 

 

 

(106,129,348)

 

Net Assets ($):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of Period

 

 

2,083,737,631

 

 

 

2,189,866,979

 

End of Period

 

 

2,107,796,376

 

 

 

2,083,737,631

 

Undistributed investment income—net

1,051,342

 

 

 

2,397,015

 

Capital Share Transactions (Shares):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

 

 

2,189,654

 

 

 

4,841,013

 

Shares issued for dividends reinvested

 

 

2,042,323

 

 

 

2,036,868

 

Shares redeemed

 

 

(3,109,994)

 

 

 

(7,033,064)

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding

1,121,983

 

 

 

(155,183)

 

Service Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares sold

 

 

248,317

 

 

 

277,303

 

Shares issued for dividends reinvested

 

 

207,789

 

 

 

215,621

 

Shares redeemed

 

 

(530,224)

 

 

 

(1,030,819)

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding

(74,118)

 

 

 

(537,895)

 

                   

See notes to financial statements.

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The following tables describe the performance for each share class for the fiscal periods indicated. All information (except portfolio turnover rate) reflects financial results for a single fund share. Total return shows how much your investment in the fund would have increased (or decreased) during each period, assuming you had reinvested all dividends and distributions. The fund’s total returns do not reflect expenses associated with variable annuity or insurance contracts. These figures have been derived from the fund’s financial statements.

             
 

Six Months Ended
June 30, 2016
(Unaudited)

 
 

Year Ended December 31,

Initial Shares

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

Per Share Data ($):

           

Net asset value,
beginning of period

43.42

44.99

40.84

31.86

29.48

29.67

Investment Operations:

           

Investment income—neta

.42

.80

.74

.66

.63

.54

Net realized and
unrealized gain
(loss) on investments

1.15

(.32)

4.65

9.39

3.95

.02

Total from
Investment Operations

1.57

.48

5.39

10.05

4.58

.56

Distributions:

           

Dividends from
investment income—net

(.45)

(.81)

(.75)

(.68)

(.64)

(.55)

Dividends from net
realized gain
on investments

(1.55)

(1.24)

(.49)

(.39)

(1.56)

(.20)

Total Distributions

(2.00)

(2.05)

(1.24)

(1.07)

(2.20)

(.75)

Net asset value,
end of period

42.99

43.42

44.99

40.84

31.86

29.48

Total Return (%)

3.71b

1.11

13.42

32.02

15.74

1.88

Ratios/
Supplemental Data (%):

           

Ratio of total expenses
to average net assets

.27c

.27

.27

.29

.28

.27

Ratio of net expenses
to average net assets

.27c

.27

.27

.29

.28

.27

Ratio of net
investment income
to average net assets

2.00c

1.81

1.76

1.82

2.02

1.81

Portfolio Turnover Rate

2.27b

3.74

1.59

3.76

3.13

3.27

Net Assets,
end of period ($ x 1,000)

1,909,982

1,880,694

1,955,325

1,798,538

1,541,577

1,487,417

a Based on average shares outstanding.

b Not annualized.

c Annualized.

See notes to financial statements.

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Six Months Ended
June 30, 2016
(Unaudited)

 
 

Year Ended December 31,

Service Shares

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

Per Share Data ($):

           

Net asset value,
beginning of period

43.47

45.03

40.89

31.90

29.51

29.70

Investment Operations:

           

Investment income—neta

.37

.69

.64

.57

.56

.47

Net realized and
unrealized gain
(loss) on investments

1.15

(.31)

4.63

9.40

3.96

.02

Total from
Investment Operations

1.52

.38

5.27

9.97

4.52

.49

Distributions:

           

Dividends from
investment income—net

(.40)

(.70)

(.64)

(.59)

(.57)

(.48)

Dividends from net
realized gain
on investments

(1.55)

(1.24)

(.49)

(.39)

(1.56)

(.20)

Total Distributions

(1.95)

(1.94)

(1.13)

(.98)

(2.13)

(.68)

Net asset value, end of period

43.04

43.47

45.03

40.89

31.90

29.51

Total Return (%)

3.58b

.86

13.10

31.71

15.47

1.62

Ratios/
Supplemental Data (%):

           

Ratio of total expenses
to average net assets

.52c

.52

.52

.54

.53

.52

Ratio of net expenses
to average net assets

.52c

.52

.52

.54

.53

.52

Ratio of net
investment income
to average net assets

1.75c

1.56

1.50

1.57

1.78

1.56

Portfolio Turnover Rate

2.27b

3.74

1.59

3.76

3.13

3.27

Net Assets,
end of period ($ x 1,000)

197,815

203,044

234,542

239,742

185,127

168,177

a Based on average shares outstanding.

b Not annualized.

c Annualized.

See notes to financial statements.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)

NOTE 1—Significant Accounting Policies:

Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc. (the “fund”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), as a non-diversified open-end management investment company. The fund is only offered to separate accounts established by insurance companies to fund variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies. The fund’s investment objective is to seek to match the total return of the Standard & Poor’s 500® Composite Stock Price Index. The Dreyfus Corporation (the “Manager” or “Dreyfus”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY Mellon”), serves as the fund’s investment adviser. Mellon Capital Management Corporation (“Mellon Capital”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of BNY Mellon, serves as the fund’s index manager.

MBSC Securities Corporation (the “Distributor”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dreyfus, is the distributor of the fund’s shares, which are sold without a sales charge. The fund is authorized to issue 400 million shares of $.001 par value Common Stock in each of the following classes of shares: Initial shares (250 million shares authorized) and Service shares (150 million shares authorized). Initial shares are subject to a Shareholder Services Plan fee and Service shares are subject to a Distribution Plan fee. Each class of shares has identical rights and privileges, except with respect to the Distribution Plan, Shareholder Services Plan and the expenses borne by each class, the allocation of certain transfer agency costs, and certain voting rights. Income, expenses (other than expenses attributable to a specific class), and realized and unrealized gains or losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. The fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

The fund enters into contracts that contain a variety of indemnifications. The fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown. The fund does not anticipate recognizing any loss related to these arrangements.

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(a) Portfolio valuation: The fair value of a financial instrument is the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (i.e., the exit price). GAAP establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs of valuation techniques used to measure fair value. This hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements).

Additionally, GAAP provides guidance on determining whether the volume and activity in a market has decreased significantly and whether such a decrease in activity results in transactions that are not orderly. GAAP requires enhanced disclosures around valuation inputs and techniques used during annual and interim periods.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s investments relating to fair value measurements. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. Valuation techniques used to value the fund’s investments are as follows:

Investments in securities are valued at the last sales price on the securities exchange or national securities market on which such securities are primarily traded. Securities listed on the National Market System for which market quotations are available are valued at the official closing price or, if there is no official closing price that day, at the last sales price. For open short positions, asked prices are used for valuation purposes. Bid price is used when no asked price is available. Registered investment companies that are not traded on an exchange are valued at their net asset value. All of the preceding securities are generally categorized within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

29

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

Securities not listed on an exchange or the national securities market, or securities for which there were no transactions, are valued at the average of the most recent bid and asked prices. U.S. Treasury Bills are valued at the mean price between quoted bid prices and asked prices by an independent pricing service (the “Service”) approved by the fund’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). These securities are generally categorized within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

The Service’s procedures are reviewed by Dreyfus under the general supervision of the Board.

Fair valuing of securities may be determined with the assistance of a pricing service using calculations based on indices of domestic securities and other appropriate indicators, such as prices of relevant American Depository Receipts and financial futures. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

When market quotations or official closing prices are not readily available, or are determined not to reflect accurately fair value, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded (for example, a foreign exchange or market), but before the fund calculates its net asset value, the fund may value these investments at fair value as determined in accordance with the procedures approved by the Board. Certain factors may be considered when fair valuing investments such as: fundamental analytical data, the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition, an evaluation of the forces that influence the market in which the securities are purchased and sold, and public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable issuers. These securities are either categorized within Level 2 or 3 of the fair value hierarchy depending on the relevant inputs used.

For restricted securities where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and are generally categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

Financial futures, which are traded on an exchange, are valued at the last sales price on the securities exchange on which such securities are primarily traded or at the last sales price on the national securities market on each business day and are generally categorized within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

The following is a summary of the inputs used as of June 30, 2016 in valuing the fund’s investments:

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Level 1 -
Unadjusted
Quoted Prices

Level 2 – Other
Significant
Observable
Inputs

Level 3 -
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs

Total

Assets ($)

       

Investment in Securities:

Equity Securities-
Domestic
Common Stocks

2,078,771,370

-

-

2,078,771,370

Equity Securities-
Foreign
Common Stocks

10,765,475

-

-

10,765,475

Mutual Funds

35,842,204

-

-

35,842,204

U.S. Treasury

-

1,169,516

-

1,169,516

Liabilities ($)

       

Other Financial Instruments:

Financial Futures††

(59,104)

-

-

(59,104)

 See Statement of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

†† Amount shown represents unrealized (depreciation) at period end.

At June 30, 2016, there were no transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy.

(b) Securities transactions and investment income: Securities transactions are recorded on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses from securities transactions are recorded on the identified cost basis. Dividend income is recognized on the ex-dividend date and interest income, including, where applicable, accretion of discount and amortization of premium on investments, is recognized on the accrual basis.

Pursuant to a securities lending agreement with The Bank of New York Mellon, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon and an affiliate of Dreyfus, the fund may lend securities to qualified institutions. It is the fund’s policy that, at origination, all loans are secured by collateral of at least 102% of the value of U.S. securities loaned and 105% of the value of foreign securities loaned. Collateral equivalent to at least 100% of the market value of securities on loan is maintained at all times. Collateral is either in the form of cash, which can be invested in certain money market mutual funds managed by Dreyfus, or U.S. Government and Agency securities. The fund is entitled to receive all dividends, interest and distributions on securities loaned, in addition to income earned as a result of the lending transaction. Should a borrower fail to return the securities in a timely manner, The Bank of New York Mellon is required to replace the securities for the benefit of the fund or credit the fund with the market value of the unreturned securities and is subrogated to the fund’s rights against the borrower and the collateral. Additionally, the contractual maturity of security lending transactions are on an overnight and continuous basis. During the period ended June 30, 2016, The Bank of New York Mellon

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earned $21,641 from lending portfolio securities, pursuant to the securities lending agreement.

(c) Affiliated issuers: Investments in other investment companies advised by Dreyfus are defined as “affiliated” under the Act. Investments in affiliated investment companies during the period ended June 30, 2016 were as follows:

           

Affiliated Investment Company

Value
12/31/2015 ($)

Purchases ($)

Sales ($)

Value
6/30/2016 ($)

Net
Assets (%)

Dreyfus Institutional Cash Advantage Fund, Institutional Shares

6,753,514

79,138,304

72,030,551

13,861,267

.7

Dreyfus Institutional Preferred Plus Money Market Fund

12,670,872

89,674,172

80,364,107

21,980,937

1.0

Total

19,424,386

168,812,476

152,394,658

35,842,204

1.7

(d) Dividends to shareholders: Dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Dividends from investment income-net are normally declared and paid quarterly. Dividends from net realized capital gains, if any, are normally declared and paid annually, but the fund may make distributions on a more frequent basis to comply with the distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). To the extent that net realized capital gains can be offset by capital loss carryovers, it is the policy of the fund not to distribute such gains. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.

(e) Federal income taxes: It is the policy of the fund to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company, if such qualification is in the best interests of its shareholders, by complying with the applicable provisions of the Code, and to make distributions of taxable income sufficient to relieve it from substantially all federal income and excise taxes.

As of and during the period ended June 30, 2016, the fund did not have any liabilities for any uncertain tax positions. The fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of Operations. During the period ended June 30, 2016, the fund did not incur any interest or penalties.

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Each tax year in the three-year period ended December 31, 2015 remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 was as follows: ordinary income $39,952,720 and long-term capital gains $58,167,339. The tax character of current year distributions will be determined at the end of the current fiscal year.

NOTE 2—Bank Lines of Credit:

The fund participates with other Dreyfus-managed funds in a $555 million unsecured credit facility led by Citibank, N.A. and a $300 million unsecured credit facility provided by The Bank of New York Mellon (each, a “Facility”), each to be utilized primarily for temporary or emergency purposes, including the financing of redemptions. Prior to January 11, 2016, the unsecured credit facility with Citibank, N.A. was $480 million. In connection therewith, the fund has agreed to pay its pro rata portion of commitment fees for each Facility. Interest is charged to the fund based on rates determined pursuant to the terms of the respective Facility at the time of borrowing. During the period ended June 30, 2016, the fund did not borrow under the Facilities.

NOTE 3—Management Fee, Index-Management Fee and Other Transactions with Affiliates:

(a) Pursuant to a management agreement (the “Agreement”) with Dreyfus, the management fee is computed at the annual rate of .245% of the value of the fund’s average daily net assets and is payable monthly.

Pursuant to an index-management agreement (the “Index Agreement”), Dreyfus has agreed to pay Mellon Capital a monthly index-management fee at the annual rate of .095% of the value of the fund’s average daily net assets. Pursuant to the Index Agreement, Mellon Capital pays the Custodian for its services to the fund.

(b) Under the Distribution Plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Act, Service shares pay the Distributor for distributing its shares, for servicing and/or maintaining Service shares’ shareholder accounts and for advertising and marketing for Service shares. The Distribution Plan provides for payments to be made at an annual rate of .25% of the value of the Service shares’ average daily net assets. The Distributor may make payments to Participating Insurance Companies and to brokers and dealers acting as principal underwriter for their variable insurance products. The fees payable under the Distribution Plan are payable without regard to

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

actual expenses incurred. During the period ended June 30, 2016, Service shares were charged $240,636 pursuant to the Distribution Plan.

(c) Under the Shareholder Services Plan, Initial shares reimburse the Distributor at an amount not to exceed an annual rate of .25% of the value of its average daily net assets for certain allocated expenses with respect to servicing and/or maintaining Initial shares’ shareholder accounts. During the period ended June 30, 2016, Initial shares were charged $1,133 pursuant to the Shareholders Services Plan.

The fund has arrangements with the transfer agent and the custodian whereby the fund may receive earnings credits when positive cash balances are maintained, which are used to offset transfer agency and custody fees. For financial reporting purposes, the fund includes net earnings credits as an expense offset in the Statement of Operations.

The fund compensates Dreyfus Transfer, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dreyfus, under a transfer agency agreement for providing transfer agency and cash management services for the fund. The majority of transfer agency fees are comprised of amounts paid on a per account basis, while cash management fees are related to fund subscriptions and redemptions. During the period ended June 30, 2016, the fund was charged $798 for transfer agency services and $64 for cash management services. These fees are included in Shareholder servicing costs in the Statement of Operations. Cash management fees were partially offset by earnings credits of $30.

During the period ended June 30, 2016, the fund was charged $4,812 for services performed by the Chief Compliance Officer and his staff.

The components of “Due to The Dreyfus Corporation and affiliates” in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities consist of: management fees $420,893, Distribution Plan fees $40,264, Chief Compliance Officer fees $4,812 and transfer agency fees $283.

(d) Each Board member also serves as a Board member of other funds within the Dreyfus complex. Annual retainer fees and attendance fees are allocated to each fund based on net assets.

NOTE 4—Securities Transactions:

The aggregate amount of purchases and sales of investment securities, excluding short-term securities and financial futures, during the period ended June 30, 2016, amounted to $46,286,735 and $66,646,125, respectively.

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Derivatives: A derivative is a financial instrument whose performance is derived from the performance of another asset. Each type of derivative instrument that was held by the fund during the period ended June 30, 2016 is discussed below.

Financial Futures: In the normal course of pursuing its investment objective, the fund is exposed to market risk, including equity price risk, as a result of changes in value of underlying financial instruments. The fund invests in financial futures in order to manage its exposure to or protect against changes in the market. A financial futures contract represents a commitment for the future purchase or a sale of an asset at a specified date. Upon entering into such contracts, these investments require initial margin deposits with a counterparty, which consist of cash or cash equivalents. The amount of these deposits is determined by the exchange or Board of Trade on which the contract is traded and is subject to change. Accordingly, variation margin payments are received or made to reflect daily unrealized gains or losses which are recorded in the Statement of Operations. When the contracts are closed, the fund recognizes a realized gain or loss which is reflected in the Statement of Operations. There is minimal counterparty credit risk to the fund with financial futures since they are exchange traded, and the exchange guarantees the financial futures against default. Financial futures open at June 30, 2016 are set forth in the Statement of Financial Futures.

The following summarizes the average market value of derivatives outstanding during the period ended June 30, 2016:

     

 

 

Average Market Value ($)

Equity financial futures

 

21,934,846

     

At June 30, 2016, accumulated net unrealized appreciation on investments was $1,164,411,583, consisting of $1,213,286,101 gross unrealized appreciation and $48,874,518 gross unrealized depreciation.

At June 30, 2016, the cost of investments for federal income tax purposes was substantially the same as the cost for financial reporting purposes (see the Statement of Investments).

NOTE 5—Pending Legal Matters:

The fund and many other entities have been named as defendants in numerous pending litigations as a result of their participation in the leveraged buyout transaction (“LBO”) of the Tribune Company (“Tribune”). The cases allege that Tribune took on billions of dollars of debt in the LBO to purchase its own stock from shareholders at $34 per

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

share. The LBO was closed in a two-step transaction with shares being repurchased by Tribune in a tender offer in June 2007 and in a go private merger in December 2007. In 2008, approximately one year after the LBO was concluded, Tribune filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. Thereafter, in approximately June 2011, certain Tribune creditors filed dozens of complaints in various courts throughout the country alleging that the payments made to shareholders in the LBO were “fraudulent conveyances” under state and/or federal law, and that the shareholders must return the payments they received for their shares to satisfy the plaintiffs’ unpaid claims. These cases have been consolidated for coordinated pre-trial proceedings in a multi-district litigation in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York titled In re Tribune Company Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation (S.D.N.Y. Nos. 11-md-2296 and 12-mc-2296 (RJS) (“Tribune MDL”)). On March 27, 2013, the Tribune MDL was reassigned from Judge William H. Pauley to Judge Richard J. Sullivan. No explanation was given for the reassignment.

In addition, there was a case pending in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware brought by the Unsecured Creditors Committee of the Tribune Company that has since been transferred to the Tribune MDL (formerly The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Tribune Co. v. FitzSimons, et al., Bankr. D. Del. Adv. Pro. No. 10-54010 (KJC)) (“FitzSimons case”). The case was originally filed on November 1, 2010. In a Fourth Amended Complaint filed in November 2012, among other claims, the Creditors Committee sought recovery under the Bankruptcy Code for alleged “fraudulent conveyances” from more than 5,000 Tribune shareholders (“Shareholder Defendants”), including the fund, and a defendants’ class of all shareholders who tendered their Tribune stock in the LBO and received cash in exchange. There were 35 other counts in the Fourth Amended Complaint that did not relate to claims against Shareholder Defendants, but instead were brought against parties directly involved in approval or execution of the leveraged buyout. On January 10, 2013, pursuant to the Tribune bankruptcy plan, Mark S. Kirchner, as Litigation Trustee for the Tribune Litigation Trust, became the successor plaintiff to the Creditors Committee in this case. The case is now proceeding as: Mark S. Kirchner, as Litigation Trustee for the Tribune Litigation Trust v. FitzSimons, et al., S.D.N.Y. No. 12-cv-2652 (RJS). On August 1, 2013, the plaintiff filed a Fifth Amended Complaint with the Court. The Fifth Amended Complaint contains more detailed allegations regarding the steps Tribune took in consideration and execution of the LBO, but does not change the legal basis for the claim previously alleged against the Shareholder Defendants.

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On November 6, 2012, a motion to dismiss was filed in the Tribune MDL. Oral argument on the motion to dismiss was held on May 23, 2013. On September 23, 2013 Judge Sullivan granted the motion to dismiss on standing grounds, after rejecting defendants’ preemption arguments. By granting the motion, Judge Sullivan dismissed nearly 50 cases in the Tribune MDL. The fund was a defendant in at least one of the dismissed cases. The motion had no effect on the FitzSimons case, which had been stayed.

On September 30, 2013, plaintiffs appealed the motion to dismiss decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On October 28, 2013, certain defendants cross-appealed from Judge Sullivan’s decision, seeking review of the arguments that Judge Sullivan rejected in his decision. On March 29, 2016, the Second Circuit issued its decision on the appeal and cross-appeal. A panel of three judges unanimously affirmed the dismissal on the ground that the plaintiffs’ claims were preempted by section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code. On April 12, 2016, the plaintiffs/appellants filed a petition with the Second Circuit requesting rehearing of the appeal by the same panel of judges and/or rehearing en banc by all judges on the Second Circuit. As of July 13, 2016, the Second Circuit has not ruled on either request.

On November 11, 2013, Judge Sullivan entered Master Case Order No. 4 in the Tribune MDL. Master Case Order No. 4 addressed numerous procedural and administrative tasks for the cases that remain in the Tribune MDL, including the FitzSimons case. Pursuant to Master Case Order No. 4, the parties – through their executive committees and liaison counsel – attempted to negotiate a protocol for motions to dismiss and other procedural issues, and submitted rival proposals to the Court. On April 24, 2014 the Court entered an order setting a schedule for the first motions to dismiss in the FitzSimons case. Pursuant to that schedule, a “global” motion to dismiss the fraudulent transfer claim asserted against the Shareholder Defendants, which applies equally to all Shareholder Defendants including the fund, was filed on May 23, 2014. Plaintiffs’ response brief was filed on June 23, 2014, and the reply brief was filed on July 3, 2014. As of July 13, 2016, no date for oral argument has been scheduled. The Court also preserved Shareholder Defendants’ rights to file nineteen motions to dismiss enumerated in their proposal and motions pursuant to Rules 12(b)(2)-(5) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. If these various motions are necessary after the Court decides the global motion to dismiss, the Court will set further guidelines and briefing schedules.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

At this stage in the proceedings, it is not possible to assess with any reasonable certainty the probable outcomes of the pending litigations. Consequently, at this time, management is unable to estimate the possible loss that may result.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE RENEWAL OF THE FUND'S MANAGEMENT AND INDEX MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS (Unaudited)

At a meeting of the fund’s Board of Directors held on February 17-18, 2016, the Board considered the renewal of the fund’s Management Agreement pursuant to which Dreyfus provides the fund with investment advisory and administrative services (the “Agreement”) and the Index Management Agreement (together, the “Agreements”), pursuant to which Mellon Capital Management Corporation (the “Index Manager”) provides day-to-day management of the fund’s investments. The Board members, none of whom are “interested persons” (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) of the fund, were assisted in their review by independent legal counsel and met with counsel in executive session separate from the representatives of Dreyfus and the Index Manager. In considering the renewal of the Agreements, the Board considered all factors that it believed to be relevant, including those discussed below. The Board did not identify any one factor as dispositive, and each Board member may have attributed different weights to the factors considered.

Analysis of Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided to the Fund. The Board considered information provided to them at the meeting and in previous presentations from Dreyfus representatives regarding the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided to funds in the Dreyfus fund complex. Dreyfus provided the number of open accounts in the fund, the fund’s asset size and the allocation of fund assets among distribution channels. Dreyfus also had previously provided information regarding the diverse intermediary relationships and distribution channels of funds in the Dreyfus fund complex (such as retail direct or intermediary, in which intermediaries typically are paid by the fund and/or Dreyfus) and Dreyfus’ corresponding need for broad, deep, and diverse resources to be able to provide ongoing shareholder services to each intermediary or distribution channel, as applicable to the fund.

The Board also considered research support available to, and portfolio management capabilities of, the fund’s portfolio management personnel and that Dreyfus also provides oversight of day-to-day fund operations, including fund accounting and administration and assistance in meeting legal and regulatory requirements. The Board also considered Dreyfus’ extensive administrative, accounting and compliance infrastructures. The Board also considered portfolio management’s brokerage policies and practices (including policies and practices regarding soft dollars) and the standards applied in seeking best execution.

Comparative Analysis of the Fund’s Performance and Management Fee and Expense Ratio. The Board reviewed reports prepared by Lipper, Inc.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE RENEWAL OF THE FUND'S MANAGEMENT AND INDEX MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

(“Lipper”), an independent provider of investment company data, which included information comparing (1) the fund’s performance with the performance of a group of comparable funds (the “Performance Group”) and with a broader group of funds (the “Performance Universe”), all for various periods ended December 31, 2015, and (2) the fund’s actual and contractual management fees and total expenses with those of a group of comparable funds (the “Expense Group”) and with a broader group of funds (the “Expense Universe”), the information for which was derived in part from fund financial statements available to Lipper as of the date of its analysis. Dreyfus previously had furnished the Board with a description of the methodology Lipper used to select the Performance Group and Performance Universe and the Expense Group and Expense Universe.

Dreyfus representatives stated that the usefulness of performance comparisons may be affected by a number of factors, including different investment limitations that may be applicable to the fund and comparison funds. The Board discussed the results of the comparisons and noted that the fund’s total return performance was above the Performance Group and Performance Universe medians for the various periods, except for the one-year period when the fund’s performance was at the Performance Group median, and ranked in the first quartile of the Performance Universe for the various periods, except for the one-year period. Dreyfus also provided a comparison of the fund’s calendar year total returns to the returns of the fund’s benchmark index.

The Board also reviewed the range of actual and contractual management fees and total expenses of the Expense Group and Expense Universe funds and discussed the results of the comparisons. The Board noted that the fund’s contractual management fee was below the Expense Group median, the fund’s actual management fee was above the Expense Group and Expense Universe medians and the fund’s total expenses were at the Expense Group median and below the Expense Universe median.

Dreyfus representatives reviewed with the Board the management or investment advisory fees (1) paid by funds advised or administered by Dreyfus that are in the same Lipper category as the fund and (2) paid to Dreyfus or the Dreyfus-affiliated primary employer of the fund’s primary portfolio manager(s) for advising any separate accounts and/or other types of client portfolios that are considered to have similar investment strategies and policies as the fund (the “Similar Clients”), and explained the nature of the Similar Clients. They discussed differences in fees paid and the relationship of the fees paid in light of any differences in the services provided and other relevant factors. The Board considered the relevance

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of the fee information provided for the Similar Clients to evaluate the appropriateness and reasonableness of the fund’s management fee.

The Board considered the fee to the Index Manager in relation to the fee paid to Dreyfus by the fund and the respective services provided by the Index Manager and Dreyfus. The Board also noted the Index Manager’s fee is paid by Dreyfus (out of its fee from the fund) and not the fund.

Analysis of Profitability and Economies of Scale. Dreyfus representatives reviewed the expenses allocated and profit received by Dreyfus and its affiliates and the resulting profitability percentage for managing the fund and the aggregate profitability percentage to Dreyfus and its affiliates for managing the funds in the Dreyfus fund complex, and the method used to determine the expenses and profit. The Board concluded that the profitability results were not unreasonable, given the services rendered and service levels provided by Dreyfus. The Board also had been provided with information prepared by an independent consulting firm regarding Dreyfus’ approach to allocating costs to, and determining the profitability of, individual funds and the entire Dreyfus fund complex. The consulting firm also had analyzed where any economies of scale might emerge in connection with the management of a fund.

The Board considered, on the advice of its counsel, the profitability analysis (1) as part of its evaluation of whether the fees under the Agreements bear a reasonable relationship to the mix of services provided by Dreyfus and the Index Manager, including the nature, extent and quality of such services, and (2) in light of the relevant circumstances for the fund and the extent to which economies of scale would be realized if the fund grows and whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale for the benefit of fund shareholders. Dreyfus representatives noted that a discussion of economies of scale is predicated on a fund having achieved a substantial size with increasing assets and that, if a fund’s assets had been stable or decreasing, the possibility that Dreyfus may have realized any economies of scale would be less. Since Dreyfus, and not the fund, pays the Index Manager pursuant to the Index Management Agreement, the Board did not consider the Index Manager’s profitability to be relevant to its deliberations. Dreyfus representatives also noted that, as a result of shared and allocated costs among funds in the Dreyfus fund complex, the extent of economies of scale could depend substantially on the level of assets in the complex as a whole, so that increases and decreases in complex-wide assets can affect potential economies of scale in a manner that is disproportionate to, or even in the opposite direction from, changes in the fund’s asset level. The Board also considered potential benefits to Dreyfus and the Index Manager from acting as investment adviser and

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE RENEWAL OF THE FUND'S MANAGEMENT AND INDEX MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

index manager, respectively, and noted the soft dollar arrangements in effect for trading the fund’s investments.

At the conclusion of these discussions, the Board agreed that it had been furnished with sufficient information to make an informed business decision with respect to the renewal of the Agreement. Based on the discussions and considerations as described above, the Board concluded and determined as follows.

· The Board concluded that the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by Dreyfus are adequate and appropriate.

· The Board was satisfied with the fund’s performance.

· The Board concluded that the fees paid to Dreyfus and the Index Manager were reasonable in light of the considerations described above.

· The Board determined that the economies of scale which may accrue to Dreyfus and its affiliates in connection with the management of the fund had been adequately considered by Dreyfus in connection with the fee rate charged to the fund pursuant to the Agreement and that, to the extent in the future it were determined that material economies of scale had not been shared with the fund, the Board would seek to have those economies of scale shared with the fund.

In evaluating the Agreements, the Board considered these conclusions and determinations and also relied on its previous knowledge, gained through meetings and other interactions with Dreyfus and its affiliates and the Index Manager, of the fund and the services provided to the fund by Dreyfus. The Board also relied on information received on a routine and regular basis throughout the year relating to the operations of the fund and the investment management and other services provided under the Agreements, including information on the investment performance of the fund in comparison to similar mutual funds and benchmark performance indices; general market outlook as applicable to the fund; and compliance reports. In addition, the Board’s consideration of the contractual fee arrangements for this fund had the benefit of a number of years of reviews of prior or similar agreements during which lengthy discussions took place between the Board and Dreyfus representatives. Certain aspects of the arrangements may receive greater scrutiny in some years than in others, and the Board’s conclusions may be based, in part, on their consideration of the same or similar arrangements in prior years. The Board determined to renew the Agreements.

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For More Information

Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.

200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166

Manager

The Dreyfus Corporation
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166

Index Fund Manager

Mellon Capital Management Corporation
500 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15258

Custodian

The Bank of New York Mellon
225 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10286

Transfer Agent &
Dividend Disbursing Agent

Dreyfus Transfer, Inc.
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166

Distributor

MBSC Securities Corporation
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166


Telephone 1-800-258-4260 or 1-800-258-4261

Mail The Dreyfus Family of Funds, 144 Glenn Curtiss Boulevard, Uniondale, NY 11556-0144 Attn: Institutional Services Department

E-mail Send your request to info@dreyfus.com

Internet Information can be viewed online or downloaded at www.dreyfus.com

The fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The fund’s Forms N-Q are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov and may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.

A description of the policies and procedures that the fund uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities, and information regarding how the fund voted these proxies for the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available at http://www.dreyfus.com and on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. The description of the policies and procedures is also available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-DREYFUS.

   

© 2016 MBSC Securities Corporation
0763SA0616

 


 

 

Item 2.       Code of Ethics.

                  Not applicable.

Item 3.       Audit Committee Financial Expert.

                  Not applicable.

Item 4.       Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

                  Not applicable.

Item 5.       Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

                  Not applicable.

Item 6.       Investments.

(a)              Not applicable.

Item 7.       Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

                  Not applicable.

Item 8.       Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 9.       Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Companies and Affiliated Purchasers.

                  Not applicable. 

Item 10.     Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

                  There have been no material changes to the procedures applicable to Item 10.

Item 11.     Controls and Procedures.

(a)        The Registrant's principal executive and principal financial officers have concluded, based on their evaluation of the Registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report, that the Registrant's disclosure controls and procedures are reasonably designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Registrant on Form N-CSR is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the required time periods and that information required to be disclosed by the Registrant in the reports that it files or submits on Form N-CSR is accumulated and communicated to the Registrant's management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.


 

(b)        There were no changes to the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

Item 12.     Exhibits.

(a)(1)   Not applicable.

(a)(2)   Certifications of principal executive and principal financial officers as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

(a)(3)   Not applicable.

(b)        Certification of principal executive and principal financial officers as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940.


 

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.

 

By:       /s/ Bradley J. Skapyak

            Bradley J. Skapyak

            President

 

Date:    August 11, 2016

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By:       /s/ Bradley J. Skapyak

             Bradley J. Skapyak

            President

 

Date:    August 11, 2016

 

By:       /s/ James Windels

            James Windels

            Treasurer

 

Date:    August 11, 2016

 

 


 

EXHIBIT INDEX

(a)(2)   Certifications of principal executive and principal financial officers as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940.  (EX-99.CERT)

(b)        Certification of principal executive and principal financial officers as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940.  (EX-99.906CERT)

 

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[EX-99.CERT]—Exhibit  (a)(2)

SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION

 

I, Bradley J. Skapyak, certify that:

1.  I have reviewed this report on Form N-CSR of Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.;

 

2.  Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.  Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, changes in net assets, and cash flows (if the financial statements are required to include a statement of cash flows) of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.  The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting;

5.  The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

                                                                                                By:       /s/ Bradley J. Skapyak

                                                                                    Bradley J. Skapyak

                                                                                    President

                                                                        Date:    August 11, 2016


 

SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION

I, James Windels, certify that:

1.  I have reviewed this report on Form N-CSR of Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.;

 

2.  Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.  Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, changes in net assets, and cash flows (if the financial statements are required to include a statement of cash flows) of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.  The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting;

5.  The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

                                                                                                By:       /s/ James Windels

                                                                                    James Windels

                                                                                    Treasurer

                                                                        Date:    August 11, 2016

 

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[EX-99.906CERT]

Exhibit (b)

 

 

SECTION 906 CERTIFICATIONS

            In connection with this report on Form N-CSR for the Registrant as furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Report"), the undersigned hereby certify, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

            (1)        the Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as applicable; and

 

            (2)        the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Registrant.

 

                                                                        By:       /s/ Bradley J. Skapyak

                                                                        Bradley J. Skapyak

                                                                                    President

 

                                                                        Date:    August 11, 2016

 

 

                                                                        By:       /s/ James Windels

                                                                                    James Windels

                                                                                    Treasurer

 

                                                                        Date:    August 11, 2016

 

 

 

This certificate is furnished pursuant to the requirements of Form N-CSR and shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

 

 

 

 

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