Short Takes: Dreyfus Offers Five New Equity Funds

roots, Dreyfus Corp. has added five new retail stock mutual funds to its family of offerings. The funds are as follows: *Dreyfus Emerging Leaders invests principally in stocks issued by U.S. and foreign companies with market capitalizations below $750 million. *Dreyfus International Value seeks long-term capital growth through purchases of value-oriented foreign stocks, ranging from large to small capitalization companies. *Dreyfus Midcap Value - a portfolio that seeks to beat the Russell Midcap Index - invests in U.S. and foreign stocks with market capitalizations of between $400 million and $4 billion. *Dreyfus Aggressive Value invests in value-oriented stocks in the U.S. and abroad. *Dreyfus Aggressive Growth targets growth stock through the world. Two of the funds - Emerging Leaders and Midcap Value -will be managed by Boston Company Asset Management, the money management subsidiary of Mellon Bank Corp., Dreyfus's parent company.