BNYM VIF:Appreciation Portfolio (Unaudited) As of date: 03/31/2021 Common Stocks

Identifier Security Description Shares Market Value ($) 002824100 Abbott Laboratories 83,775 10,039,596 00287Y109 AbbVie 27,450 2,970,639 00724F101 Adobe 14,675 6,976,055 009158106 Air Products & Chemicals 40,925 11,513,840 02079K107 Alphabet, Cl. C 10,869 22,483,939 02209S103 Altria Group 88,600 4,532,776 023135106 .com 7,925 24,520,584 037833100 Apple 223,075 27,248,611 B908F01 ASML Holding 17,750 10,958,140 053015103 Automatic Data Processing 14,165 2,669,678 09247X101 BlackRock 15,325 11,554,437 11133T103 Broadridge Financial Solutions 15,750 2,411,325 13645T100 Canadian Pacific Railway 17,725 6,722,915 166764100 Chevron 66,650 6,984,254 B3BQMF6 Chubb 13,700 2,164,189 191216100 Coca-Cola Company/The 154,750 8,156,873 20030N101 , Cl. A 178,665 9,667,563 518439104 Estee Lauder Companies/The, Cl. A 53,600 15,589,560 30231G102 Exxon Mobil 1 56 30303M102 Facebook, Cl. A 80,635 23,749,427 5253973 Hermes International 2,227 2,465,353 BD0Q558 IHS Markit 32,500 3,145,350 45866F104 Intercontinental Exchange 71,700 8,007,456 461202103 16,325 6,253,455 46120E602 7,400 5,468,156 46625H100 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 72,500 11,036,675 4061412 LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton 13,900 9,260,331 571903202 , Cl. A 30,500 4,517,355 574795100 Masimo 13,425 3,083,186 57636Q104 Mastercard, Cl. A 13,900 4,949,095 580135101 McDonald's 32,425 7,267,740 594918104 147,860 34,860,952 641069406 Nestle, ADR 61,300 6,835,563 654106103 NIKE, Cl. B 47,840 6,357,458 670100205 Novo Nordisk, ADR 104,825 7,067,302 68902V107 Otis Worldwide 22,225 1,521,301 713448108 PepsiCo 47,175 6,672,904 718172109 Philip Morris International 96,475 8,561,192 743315103 Progressive/The 90,575 8,659,876 75513E101 Raytheon Technologies 39,225 3,030,916 771195104 Roche Holding, ADR 103,600 4,202,016 78409V104 S&P Global 27,450 9,686,282 824348106 The Sherwin-Williams Company 8,100 5,977,881 882508104 89,475 16,909,880 907818108 Union Pacific 37,775 8,325,988 91324P102 UnitedHealth Group 30,000 11,162,100 92345Y106 , Cl. A 21,440 3,788,234 92826C839 Visa, Cl. A 78,250 16,567,873 254687106 Walt Disney Company/The 12,730 2,348,940

Other Investments

Identifier Security Description Shares Market Value ($) 26200T208 Dreyfus Institutional Preferred Government Plus 1,019,930 1,019,930 Money Market Fund

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