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Mellon Investments Corporation

Pittsburgh, PASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 105764

Filed as MELLON INVESTMENTS CORPORATION

Mellon Investments Corporation is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Pittsburgh, PA, registered since 1983, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 18, 2026.

43 years
registered since 1983
$873,866,603,349
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Fixed fees and more
5
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Mellon Investments Corporation compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Mellon Investments Corporation reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; fixed fees (other than subscription fees); other. The amounts are in Item 5 of its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.

Where is Mellon Investments Corporation located?

Mellon Investments Corporation's principal office is in Pittsburgh, PA, according to its Form ADV; the October 2026 filing also lists 4 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Mellon Investments Corporation registered with the SEC or a state?

Mellon Investments Corporation is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1983. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 105764.

How much does Mellon Investments Corporation manage?

Mellon Investments Corporation reports $873,866,603,349 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 18, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Mellon Investments Corporation's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Mellon Investments Corporation: Regulatory assets under management: $355,246,308,729 in the October 2021 data and $873,866,603,349 in the October 2026 data, up 146%. Total employees: 509 in October 2021 and 98 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Mellon Investments Corporation serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (3,492); investment companies (176); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (106).

Which custodians does Mellon Investments Corporation use?

Mellon Investments Corporation's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Northern Trust Corporation, State Street Bank and Trust Company and The Bank of New York Mellon (affiliated with the firm) as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Mellon Investments Corporation report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 5 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.C(2) (SEC or CFTC finding of a violation), 11.C(5) (SEC or CFTC civil money penalty or cease-and-desist order), 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a violation), 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years), and 11.E(2) (self-regulatory organization's finding of a rule violation). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/105764

What changed in Mellon Investments Corporation's recent Form ADV filings?

In the October 2026 filing data: Added an office in San Francisco, CA. Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • A percentage of assets under your management
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
  • Other

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

See the firm's brochure (dated March 31, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$873,866,603,349

$873,866,603,349 as of October 2026, filing dated September 18, 2026.

Discretionary: $873,866,603,349.Non-discretionary: $0.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
High net worth individuals
Clients 3,492 Assets $19,626,445,530 (2%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 176 Assets $590,622,267,350 (68%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 6 Assets $28,634,686,666 (3%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 106 Assets $57,612,641,645 (7%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 26 Assets $5,122,884,554 (1%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 89 Assets $86,955,389,251 (10%)
Other investment advisers
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 6 Assets $1,849,316,988 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 15 Assets $75,460,175,696 (9%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 9 Assets $3,575,998,447 (0%)
Other
Clients 17 Assets $4,406,797,222 (1%)

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Also doing business as
BNY INVESTMENTS, BNY INVESTMENTS DREYFUS, BNY INVESTMENTS MELLON, DREYFUS, MELLON
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1983 (43 years)
Employees
Total: 98. Performing investment advisory functions: 61.
Wrap fee program participation
Yes.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
4 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing
Boston, MALake Mary, FLNew York, NYSan Francisco, CA
States registered or notice-filed
52 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

5 Reports 5 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 11.C(2) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of SEC or CFTC regulations or statutes?
  • 11.C(5) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever imposed a civil money penalty on the firm or an advisory affiliate, or ordered the firm or an advisory affiliate to cease and desist from an activity?
  • 11.D(2) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of investment-related regulations or statutes?
  • 11.D(4) In the past ten years, has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?
  • 11.E(2) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of its rules, other than a minor rule violation under a plan the SEC approved?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$355B 2021 $368B 2022 $619B 2023 $674B 2024 $764B 2025 $874B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$873,866,603,34998September 18, 2026
October 2025$763,691,686,710155July 31, 2025
October 2024$674,158,830,515146September 27, 2024
October 2023$619,390,248,152180September 29, 2023
October 2022$368,150,954,123145March 31, 2022
October 2021$355,246,308,729509September 30, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $355,246,308,729 in the October 2021 data and $873,866,603,349 in the October 2026 data, up 146%.

Total employees: 509 in October 2021 and 98 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months
  1. October 2026
    • Added an office in San Francisco, CA.
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. June 2026
    • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 5 yes answers, previously 6 (now no: 11.H(1)(c)).
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  3. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 67 to 61.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $763,691,686,710 to $873,866,603,349 (+14%).
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
dreyfus.commellon.com

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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