As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2012
Registration No. 333-515
811-07513
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
| THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | x | |||
| Pre-Effective Amendment No. | ¨ | |||
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 151 | x |
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
| THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | x | |||
| Amendment No. 152 (Check appropriate box or boxes) |
x |
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)
Registrants Telephone Number, including Area Code
(617) 292-1000
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
| ¨ | immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) |
| x | on September 30, 2012 pursuant to paragraph (b) |
| ¨ | 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) |
| ¨ | on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) |
| ¨ | 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) |
| ¨ | on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485. |
If appropriate, check the following box:
| ¨ | this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment. |
ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
One Post Office Square
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Name and address of agent for service)
Copy to:
JOHN W. GERSTMAYR, Esquire
ROPES & GRAY LLP
Prudential Tower
800 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02199-3600
This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrants Putnam Dynamic Asset Allocation Equity Fund and Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund series. Information contained in the Registrants Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, 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 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 19th day of October, 2012.
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, this Amendment to the Registration Statement of Putnam Funds Trust has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
| Signature | Title | |
| Jameson A. Baxter * | Chair, Board of Trustees | |
| Robert L. Reynolds* | President and Trustee | |
| Jonathan S. Horwitz* | Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison | |
| Steven D. Krichmar* | Vice President and Principal Financial Officer | |
| Janet C. Smith* | Vice President, Assistant Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer | |
| Liaquat Ahamed* | Trustee | |
| Ravi Akhoury* | Trustee | |
| Barbara M. Baumann* | Trustee | |
| Charles B. Curtis* | Trustee | |
| Robert J. Darretta* | Trustee | |
| Katinka Domotorffy* | Trustee | |
| John A. Hill* | Trustee | |
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| Paul L. Joskow* | Trustee | |
| Elizabeth T. Kennan* | Trustee | |
| Kenneth R. Leibler* | Trustee | |
| Robert E. Patterson* | Trustee | |
| George Putnam, III* | Trustee | |
| W. Thomas Stephens* | Trustee | |
By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact
October 19, 2012
*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed herewith.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
| XBRL Instance Document | Ex-101.ins | |
| XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document | Ex-101.sch | |
| XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document | Ex-101.cal | |
| XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase | Ex-101.lab | |
| XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document | Ex-101.pre | |
| XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase | Ex-101.def |
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