# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000053808
**File Stem:** 0001741773-25-002482
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 3498
**Document Hash:** b7ab216c7b8c86720a4ea6d549240b50
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001741773-25-002482.hdr.sgml**: 20250606

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001741773-25-002482

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 497

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250606

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250606

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20250606

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** BNY Mellon Investment Funds III
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000053808

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 042694144
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 497
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 033-43846
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251028995

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O BNY MELLON INVESTMENT ADVISER, INC.
- **STREET 2:** 240 GREENWICH STREET
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10286
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 2129226400

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O BNY MELLON INVESTMENT ADVISER, INC.
- **STREET 2:** 240 GREENWICH STREET
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10286

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** DREYFUS/LAUREL FUNDS TRUST
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20181030

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** DREYFUS LAUREL FUNDS TRUST
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19941122

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** LAUREL FUNDS TRUST
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19940202

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### BNY Mellon Global Equity Income Fund (Series ID: S000018029)

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|  |  |  |
|:---|:---|:---|
| Class Name | Ticker Symbol | Class ID   |
| Class A    | DEQAX         | C000049945 |
| Class C    | DEQCX         | C000049946 |
| Class I    | DQEIX         | C000049947 |
| Class Y    | DEQYX         | C000130468 |

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## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### BNY Mellon Global Equity Income Fund (Series ID: S000018029)

| Class ID   | Class Name   | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000049945 | Class A      | DEQAX           |
| C000049946 | Class C      | DEQCX           |
| C000049947 | Class I      | DQEIX           |
| C000130468 | Class Y      | DEQYX           |

June 6, 2025

#### BNY MELLON INVESTMENT FUNDS III

#### BNY Mellon Global Equity Income Fund

#### Supplement to Current Summary Prospectus and Prospectus
**The following information supersedes and replaces the information in the third paragraph in the sections "Portfolio Management" in the summary prospectus and "Fund Summary – Portfolio Management" in the prospectus:**

The fund is managed by a team of portfolio managers employed by NIM and NIMNA. The team members primarily responsible for managing the fund's portfolio are Jon Bell and Robert Hay. Messrs. Bell and Hay have each been a primary portfolio manager of the fund since March 2020. Messrs. Bell and Hay are investment managers for NIM's Global Equity Income strategy.

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#### The following information supersedes and replaces the information in the third paragraph in the section "Fund Details – Management – Sub-Adviser" in the prospectus:
The fund is managed by a team of portfolio managers employed by NIM and NIMNA. The team members primarily responsible for managing the fund's portfolio are Jon Bell and Robert Hay. Messrs. Bell and Hay have each been a primary portfolio manager of the fund since March 2020. Mr. Bell is an investment manager for the Global Equity Income strategy at NIM, which he joined in 1995. Mr. Hay is an investment manager for the Global Equity Income strategy at NIM, which he joined in 2000.

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