Company Description
"The fund seeks to match the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe, Australasia, Far East Free Index ("MSCI EAFE Free Index"). To pursue this goal, the fund generally is fully invested in stocks included in the MSCI EAFE Index. The fund attempts to have a correlation between its performance and that of the MSCI EAFE Index of at least .95, before expenses. A correlation of 1.00 would mean that the fund and the MSCI EAFE Index were perfectly correlated."Fund Name
Dreyfus International Stock Index Fund
Target Index
MSCI EAFE
Index Description
“The MSCI EAFE Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East) is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the US & Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consists of the following 22 developed market country indices: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.”
Stocks/Bonds
Stocks
Share Weighted/Cap Weighted
Cap Weighted
Geographical Concentration of Index
Europe, Australasia, and Far East; top 10 countries in index (representing 86% of index) as of 5/29/09 (with index weight) as follows:
| Japan | 23.50% |
| United Kingdom | 21.10% |
| France | 10.60% |
| Germany | 8.10% |
| Switzerland | 7.60% |
| Spain | 4.30% |
| Italy | 3.60% |
| Hong Kong | 2.50% |
| Swede | 2.40% |
| Netherlands | 2.30% |
Market Cap Orientation of Index
Large and Mid Cap
Number of Constituents in Index
981
Market Cap of Constituents in Index
$8,337.8 Billion, as of 5/29/2009
Top 10 Constituents in Index
As of 5/29/2009:
- BP
- HSBC HOLDINGS
- NESTLE
- TOTAL
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
- VODAFONE GROUP
- ROCHE HOLDING GENUSS
- ROYAL DUTCH SHELL
- NOVARTIS
- BHP BILLITON LTD
Link for More Info on Index
Expense Ratio
0.61%
Other Fees & Loads
| Purchase Fee | None |
| Redemption Fee | None |
| Account Service Fee | None |
| Front End Sales Load | None |
| Back End Sales Load | None |
R Squared to Index
0.9948
Minimum Deposit
$2,500
Ticker(s)
DIISX
Top 10 Holdings
(13.28% of net total assets) as of 9/30/2011, with % of net total assets:
| Nestle | 2.05% |
| HSBC Holdings | 1.46% |
| Vodafone Group | 1.42% |
| Novartis | 1.40% |
| BP | 1.22% |
| Roche Holding | 1.21% |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 1.20% |
| BHP Billiton | 1.15% |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 1.15% |
| Toyota Motor | 1.02% |
Number of Constituents in Fund
951