As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
December 14, 2017
Registration No. 333-515
811-07513
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM N-1A
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	/ X /
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Pre-Effective Amendment No.	/ /
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 272	/ X /
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/ X /
ACT OF 1940	----
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Amendment No. 273	/ X /
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PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
(617) 292-1000
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	It is proposed that this filing will become effective
	(check appropriate box)
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/ /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/X/	on November 30, 2017 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ /	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/ /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/ /	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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/ /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.
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If appropriate, check the following box:
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/ /	this post-effective amendment designates a new
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	ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
	PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
	One Post Office Square
	Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Name and address of agent for service)
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	Copy to:
	BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire
	ROPES & GRAY LLP
	1211 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, New York 10036
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This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam Low Volatility Equity Fund, Putnam Short Duration Income Fund, and Putnam Short Term Investment Fund series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST

Putnam Low Volatility Equity Fund

Putnam Short Duration Income Fund

Putnam Short Term Investment Fund

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 14^th day of December, 2017.

Putnam Funds Trust

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President,

Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

Signature Title

Jameson A. Baxter * Chair, Board of Trustees

Kenneth R. Leibler* Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

Robert L. Reynolds* President and Trustee

Jonathan S. Horwitz* Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

Janet C. Smith* Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer

Liaquat Ahamed* Trustee

Ravi Akhoury* Trustee

Barbara M. Baumann* Trustee

Katinka Domotorffy* Trustee

Catharine Bond Hill* Trustee

Paul L. Joskow* Trustee

Robert E. Patterson* Trustee

George Putnam, III* Trustee

Manoj P. Singh* Trustee

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact

December 14, 2017

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 269 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on October 27, 2017.